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By Meredith Goldstein GLOBE STAFF JANUARY 14, 2016

Actress Rachel McAdams wasn’t up for Thursday morning’s announcement of this year’s Oscar nominations — not because she’s too cool to care, but because she thought they were being announced on Friday.

“I had the day wrong. I was in a deep, deep sleep,” she told us. “I was half-asleep wondering why my publicist was calling me at 5:45. Then I saw every person who I had ever loved or knew had texted me. I thought there had been some catastrophic event in the world.”

McAdams is among the nominees for best supporting actress for the Boston film “Spotlight,” which follows The Boston Globe’s Spotlight team investigation of the Catholic Church abuse scandal. In the film she plays reporter Sacha Pfeiffer, who was a frequent visitor to the set. McAdams’s nomination is one of six for “Spotlight”;…