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Jake
Gyllenhaal Gives Oscar Momento to Mother
2/16/06
Brokeback
Mountain star Jake Gyllenhaa is giving his Academy Award nominee
memento sweatshirt to his mother to make up for her own Oscar loss in
1989.
The star's mother, Naomi Foner, was nominated as Best Screenwriter for
Running on Empty, but didn't take home the award.
Gyllenhaal was nine-years-old when his mother was nominated for a
Golden Globe, as well as an Oscar, and remembers the nervous excitement of
watching the ceremonies.
He recalls, "I was watching The Globes clutching a pillow until
mom's name was called as the winner.
"When the Academy Awards came around, I clutched the same pillow,
but when her name wasn't called, I threw it across the floor."
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