This is an older interview, but I hadn't known about it until now. Take a look if you're interested:
By Aaron Hillis on 12/04/2008
Why hasn't an esteemed actor like Alan Rickman ever been nominated for an Academy Award? (*He's got an indirect theory on that -- more on that later.) Whether your earliest memory of his screen work was his yippie-ki-yay mother of falls from a skyscraper in 1988's "Die Hard," as the Sheriff of Nottingham in 1991's "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves," or even as Professor Severus Snape in the "Harry Potter" adaptations, Rickman always brings the same British grace, charm and theatrically trained precision as if he were still in "Sense and Sensibility."
His latest is "Nobel Son," the second film this year he's co-starred in with Bill Pullman and Eliza Dushku for director Randall Miller and co-writer/co-producer Jody Savin; the first being "Bottle Shock." Rickman plays Eli Michaelson, a womanizing professor whose egomania reaches planetary proportions after he scores the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which sets off a kaleidoscopic thriller of hyperkinetic plot twists involving his dysfunctional family, a kidnapping and a life-long revenge scheme. Think early Danny Boyle or Guy Ritchie, and you'll be prepared for the breakneck speed and droll, nasty fun of "Nobel Son." Following the Gen Art Cinema Circle's New York premiere of "Nobel Son," just as the after-party was filling up, I sat with Rickman over tequila drinks to shoot the breeze about smart people and accolades that really mean something.
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Source: http://www.ifc.com/news/2008/12/alan-ric
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