Host: London is home to many of the nominees including Kate Winslet.

Kate Winslet: The phone rang, and it was my agent saying, 'Here we go again.' And we all started sort of screaming and rolling around on the floor, and Mia doing lots of screaming, and clapping, and not quite understanding what was going on, but, yes, there was lots of noise.

Kate Winslet talks to BBC News about her Oscar nomination.

BBC correspondent Rosie Millard catches up with Kate Winslet who was at home with Mia when she heard the news. Real Video Link.

Kate Winslet on her nomination (transcript).

Rosie Millard: She was at home today with her daughter when she heard the news.

Kate Winslet: I'm absolutely delighted. I'm really thrilled. There was lots of screaming and clapping and Mia sort of clapping and screaming and not quite knowing what was going on. So, I'm really really delighted and I'm particularly pleased for the film cause it just means that, you know -- hopefully, more people will go and see what is essentially a little British movie.

Rosie: It is this thing, isn't it? The Academy seems to sort of love British actors and it's - for you, it's the third time you've been nominated and -- they are obviously very fond of you.

Kate: Well, ummm. Ummm. Thanks. I don't know, I don't know... God knows why it happens, why people are nominated, but it's certainly thrilling to be nominated. and it's great to be in a category of such strong women this year, Ms. Dame Maggie Smith and Helen Mirren, just to be mentioned in the same breath with those two actresses is an honor in itself It just makes me proud really to be a Brit really I think when you're up against women like that.

Kate Winslet's comments from Daily Variety.

Three-time nominee Kate Winslet, previously honored for "Titanic" and "Sense and Sensibility," was far from blase about her latest nomination for supporting actress in biopic "Iris."

The British thesp told Daily Variety she is "surprised, overwhelmed, excited and delighted all at once." Winslet, who said supporting her co-star Judi Dench was the biggest honor of all, learned of her nomination while at home in London with her daughter and mother. "My agent called and said, 'Here we go again.'"

Kate Winslet talks briefly to USA Today.

She and her visiting mum were playing with Winslet's daughter, Mia, 1, at home in London when her agent called. "There was a lot of screaming, hugging and clapping. Mia was rolling around, thrilled that everyone was excited but didn't quite understand why."

Winslet was also thrilled that her co-stars Dench and Jim Broadbent were nominated: "I'd probably have thrown myself in the River Thames if they hadn't been. Their performances are so heartbreakingly brilliant."