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'Stranger' Plummer's Oscar hopes

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The Canadian-born actor Christopher Plummer has appeared in more than 100 films, most famously, of course, as Captain von Trapp in the Sound of Music. And yet, he's never received an Oscar nomination, until now. At the age of 80, he finds himself nominated for the first time, in the Best Supporting Actor category for playing Tolstoy in the film The Last Station. Arts correspondent Rebecca Jones talks to him about his latest role which has generated talk of an Oscar.

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