I personally think Nicole Kidman is an overrated actress who only plays characters who are icey and distant. I don't think she should have even been nominated for The Hours (or Moulin Rouge for that matter), but ah well. I'm obviously in the minority considering how popular she is.
I also don't think her singing is that great (in Moulin Rouge, you could barely hear her), but of course, that is what studios are far.
"I've got to get me out of here
This place is full of dirty old men
And the navigators and their mappy maps
And moldy heads and pissing on sugar cubes
While you stare at your books."