Maggie Gyllenhaal -- Oscars 2010 Red Carpet

Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard arrive together at the 2010 Oscars held at Kodak Theatre on Sunday (March 7) in Hollywood.

The 32-year-old actress (in Dries Van Noten) received her first Oscar nomination for her role in Crazy Heart, playing a single mom who falls for an alcoholic country star. Asked if she expected all of the attention from this movie, she said, “You know, when I first read it, I knew somehow that this was something that I wanted to play, and usually when I have that feeling, it’s usually that I’m right — I needed to do that movie.”

“And this movie had a star over it. And if I think about what I aspire to, and what I like in movies, it’s to be in a movie like this,” Maggie told AMCtv.