Such sh!tty timing. Michelle Williams won a Golden Globe Award for her impressive portrayal of Marilyn Monroe in My Week With Marilyn and the talented star from Dawson's Creek is also nominated for an Academy Award. But Michelle doesn't play by Hollywood's rules. She lives in Brooklyn, she's fiercely private, she puts work before whoring herself out on every red carpet. Williams told E! News "I just want to go back to being a mom for a while."

Michelle says that even when she's working she still thinks about her daughter Matilda and "can’t wait to get back to her at the end of the day." She added: Raising my daughter is my absolute priority. Everything I do is to make Matilda’s world as happy and secure as possible." Williams just wrapped up Oz: The Great and Powerful, in which she plays Glinda the Good Witch. The film will be out next year.

Michelle is so adorable, and shy. Check out her awkward interview with Giuliana Rancic at the SAG Awards. Could Giuliana be flailing her arms any more than she already is? Could Michelle be any more uncomfortable talking about her daughter?

Michelle Williams on E!

With the 2012 Oscar ceremony just over a month away, the nominees were finally announced today. Martin Scorsese's first children's movie, Hugo, leads the pack with 11 nominations, while George Clooney's The Descendants and silent film The Artist also made strong showings.

In the acting department, Clooney and Brad Pitt will battle it out for the top prize, while young stars like Rooney Mara and Michelle Williams received nominations for best actress. It's the first nod for Mara and the third (!) for Williams. Someone give this girl an Oscar, already!

Check out the entire list of nominees below.

Best Picture
The Artist
The Descendants
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The Help
Hugo
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
The Tree of Life
War Horse

Take note, Lindsay Lohan: this is how you pretend to be Marilyn Monroe.

Michelle Williams - who won a Golden Globe on Sunday for her performance in My Week With Marilyn - is featured in the new issue of GQ and she surprises us not only with the hotness of her photo spread (see evidence below), but also with her candidness about her career, her family, and the death of her daughter's father, Heath Ledger.

"I felt like I was going crazy," Michelle told the mag. "It was too much - trying to deal with what had happened and trying to deal with what was at our doorstep. I just felt trapped... I can’t make it stop, I can’t make it go away." Heavy stuff, but the actress has persevered admirably, and now (unlike the rest of her former Dawson's Creek co-stars) her career is hotter than ever. We're telling you, Lindsay...you should be studying this girl's every move.

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Michelle Williams is still keeping the pixie haircut going, but she has dyed her hair strawberry blonde. The cute actress worked the red carpet at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, along with Charlize Theron, Mr. George Clooney and Brangelina.

Michelle won the Desert Palm Achievement Award for her work as Marilyn Monroe in My Week With Marilyn. I thought Michelle was fierce in it, which isn't surprising at all. She keeps getting better!

As far as her look goes, the top of her dress is gorge, but the bottom half of it is too big and should have been tailored. I'm liking the red hair on Ms. Williams. It works well with her pale skin and the new color is subtle, but noticeable.

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Michelle Williams seems like one of the sweetest actresses in Hollywood. The adorable star of My Week With Marilyn has find a unique way to honor her daughter Matilda's father, Heath Ledger. Michelle got a pixie haircut years ago and we're finally learning why.

Michelle told Elle: "What Matilda would love is for her mum to grow out the cropped hair, though that's unlikely to happen any time soon... I cut it for the one straight man who has ever liked short hair and I wear it in memorial of somebody who really loved it."

Williams says that she's "really grown into" her new look and she hasn't had long hair for five years.

Michelle's hotness was hidden when she had long hair. She has never looked better!

In the past month, Michelle Williams has been crazy-promoting My Week With Marilyn, looking like a total '50s bombshell the entire time. While dressing up like eternal sex symbol Marilyn Monroe provides ample enough eye candy, it’s nice to see her looking super-gorgeous as her. Michelle’s on the cover of the December issue of Elle UK and, though she mainly discusses playing Marilyn, she’s also sporting her pixie cut and still looks great!

On speaking to Marilyn’s ghost: While we were filming, something came out in the National Enquirer that a psychic had spoken to her and that she approved of what we were doing and she thought I was doing a really good job. So maybe she likes it!

On mastering Marilyn’s voice: I studied tapes. There’s really nothing that exists of her, that I could find anyway, that exists of her having a conversation with a friend…So there wasn’t a template that existed for her everyday vocal pattern, so at a certain point you have to make it imaginatively.

Michelle Williams says that she wanted to retreat instead of taking on the role of Marilyn Monroe, but because she's "a glutton for punishment," she decided to play the iconic star. Thus far it seems as though the challenge was worth it. Michelle's upcoming movie, My Week With Marilyn, has already received Oscar buzz and rave reviews.

Michelle said: “I guess I am a glutton for punishment because for some reason, I won’t let myself shrink from a challenge.”

There is always Oscar buzz for hyped up dramatic roles in blockbusters, or the little indie movies that could. I don't know if Michelle will get her hands on the coveted trophy, though. It's hard to win an Oscar, but if she continues to get nominated year after year, it should happen for her at some point.

Michelle Williams is already receiving Oscar buzz for her performance in the highly anticipated biopic, My Week With Marilyn. Based upon the trailer, Williams has Monroe's mannerisms down pat!

The film is based upon the book The Prince, the Showgirl and Me by Colin Clark. The book is told from the standpoint of Marilyn's assistant as she worked on the movie The Prince and the Showgirl, which was filmed in the UK in 1957. Michelle's new film is expected to hit theaters November 4th!

Michelle Williams was transformed into looking like Marilyn Monroe for her new film, My Week With Marilyn. We've seen images as Michelle Monroe before, but we have a few new ones. So what do you think?

Website Awards Daily, explains why  Ms. Monroe is so unique, it would be difficult for anyone to play her.

It’s impossible to capture what Marilyn had. There was never anyone like her and there never will be anyone like her," Awards Daily explained.

Michelle Williams reveals that the paparazzi began stalking her every step after Heath Ledger passed away and she thought of quitting acting. Williams says that quitting would make her sad, but she desperately wants her space and privacy.

"I often dream of quitting acting. Walking away and becoming a laundress or a sous chef or maybe writing other people’s love letters for a living. Clearly, I don’t like to be in charge."

The Oscar nominated actress sounds a bit pessimistic, or maybe she's just a realist, as she continues: "When you have options, anything is bearable. It’s when a situation is inescapable that it becomes hell. It seems to me that as soon as you get good at something, it is a sure sign that it is about to walk out of your life because it ceases to hold your mind and creative energy hostage.”

On the paparazzi: If it gets to the point where I can’t situate my life in a way that they stay away more, then I’ll drop a match on the thing. I’ll be sad. I like to act. It’s saved my life over and over again. It’s given me a sense of self-esteem, self-worth. I have this thing that I’m in love with–acting–and now it has this baggage.

I respect Michelle's realness and honesty. I think she's found a way to be an actress while still living a very private life. In other words, please don't quit Michelle!

Photos: Hobo Magazine