Miriam Margolyes and Alistair Nwachukwu in 'A Friend of Dorothy' EXCLUSIVE: "I'm just thrilled, chuffed to buggery is what I say," says Miriam Margolyes about A Friend of Dorothy scoring an Oscar nomination for Best Live Action Short Film. The film has struck a chord and Margolyes, while being self-deprecating and characteristically a little blue, is on good form when she chats to Deadline, alongside A Friend Of Dorothy co-star Stephen Fry and the film's writer-director Lee Knight, who tells us he is also working on a feature-length version of the short.