This Barbie is consuming lunch along with her fellow Oscar nominees.
The annual Academy Awards luncheon was held in Los Angeles on Monday, attended by 179 of this 12 months’s nominees,
Not each nominee was in a position to attend. The Colour Purple star Danielle Brooks, for instance, was unable to get away from filming Minecraft in New Zealand.
However there have been loads of different stars, outfits, poses and weird facial expressions to maintain us entertained. Listed below are 10 highlights:
1. A La La Land reunion
Once we wrote concerning the class photograph in 2017, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling had been each there as nominees for La La Land.
For anybody with a brief reminiscence, La La Land is the movie which received finest image, after which misplaced it once more 4 minutes later because of a mishap involving an envelope.
This 12 months, Gosling and Stone have are returning to the Academy Awards, however for various movies – nominated for Barbie and Poor Issues respectively.
Gosling wore a lilac swimsuit – doubtless meant as a refined reference to his finest picture-nominated movie.
2. Two nominees shaped a backbenchers membership
Actor Sterling Ok Brown and songwriter Diane Warren stood collectively within the again row – an applicable putting given each are conscious they’re unlikely to win their classes.
Final week, Brown advised Graham Norton: “I do know that I am not going to win, and I am completely tremendous with it. I am going to inform you – [fellow nominee] Robert Downey Jr goes to win. And he is extremely deserving, he is an unimaginable actor…I am simply completely satisfied to be within the room.”
We take our hats off to the This Is Us star for following the awards race so carefully and figuring out what his odds are within the supporting actor race.
However whereas Brown is a first-time nominee, Warren has been nominated a whopping 15 instances for finest authentic track – and by no means received. She in all probability will not this 12 months both, with What Was I Made For? by Billie Eilish the recent favorite.
3. Is that… Godzilla?
Takashi Yamazaki, one of many visible results workforce on Godzilla Minus One, introduced a plus one to the occasion – Godzillla himself.
4. DOG
Anyone who is aware of something concerning the historical past of cinema is aware of that the best performing efficiency in any movie ever was the canine on this 12 months’s finest image contender, Anatomy of a Fall.
Recognized within the movie as Snoop, the canine is in reality a border collie referred to as Messi who flew from France to attend the luncheon, together with coach Laura Martin Contini.
Messi was extraordinarily common with the actors on the occasion, together with Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper, who was photographed meeting the dog. “The Coop meets the Snoop,” learn the wonderful caption.
Sadly, Messi was not included within the class photograph – one thing we won’t perceive as he’s the goodest of excellent boys. We have now submitted a proper criticism to the Academy and can let you know the way it progresses.
5. Carey and Emily repped for the Brits
This 12 months’s performing nominations are somewhat brief on Brits – the one two are Oppenheimer’s Emily Blunt and Maestro’s Carey Mulligan.
It is price saying Irish stars have had one other massive 12 months – with Barry Keoghan, Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott all nominated at precursors together with the Golden Globes and Baftas.
Nevertheless, solely Blunt’s Irish co-star Cillian Murphy is recognised on the Oscars.
6. Save a seat for us within the entrance row will you please
If we had been within the Oscars class photograph – that is the row wherein we would ask everybody to budge up and make room, because the awards buzz wattage is phenomenal.
Christopher Nolan and Martin Scorsese, the administrators of Oppenheimer and Killers of the Flower Moon respectively, had been positioned shut collectively within the entrance row, between two purple scorching performing contenders.
Alongside them had been Lily Gladstone, a robust nominee for finest actress for her efficiency in Scorsese’s movie, and The Holdovers star Da’Vine Pleasure Randolph – who is nearly sure to win finest supporting actress.
7. Billie Eilish saved it informal
Billie Eilish is at all times a delight to see on the purple carpet – she constantly steals the highlight with attention-grabbing and revolutionary seems.
The Academy luncheon was no completely different, with Eilish turning heads because of her informal bandana, yellow jacket and tartan trousers which matched the outfit of her brother Finneas.
The pair are nominated in the very best authentic track class for What Was I Made For? – which has already scooped them a Grammy and a Golden Globe.
In truth, the prize might be the movie’s finest likelihood of an Oscar on the evening, with different movies reminiscent of Oppenheimer prone to dominate a number of of the key classes.
8. We want to be associates with this man
Within the absence of Messi the canine, it is fairly clear who stole the highlight on this 12 months’s class photograph.
To the suitable of the image is a person crossing his arms – a noticeable pose in an image the place most individuals simply look straight forward and smile.
The chap in query is in reality cinematographer Matthew Libatique – who’s nominated for his work on Bradley Cooper’s biopic of Leonard Bernstein, Maestro.
Libatique is so happy with his signature pose he additionally pulled it on the purple carpet beforehand – one thing we would do too if we had nails as fantastic as his.
9. Barbie was not snubbed
Barbie’s Margot Robbie has been a pleasure to comply with this awards season, carrying outfits that will make her on-screen character proud. She continued the theme within the Oscars class photograph.
Though Robbie and director Greta Gerwig missed out on nominations for finest actress and finest director respectively, each had been nonetheless current on the Academy Awards luncheon.
That is as a result of each are nominated in different classes – Robbie as a producer, and due to this fact a finest image nominee, and Gerwig in the very best tailored screenplay class.
10. If one thing is humorous please share it with the remainder of the category, all of us like a great joke
It takes greater than half an hour to get all of the nominees into place, as they’re referred to as up one after the other from their dinner tables.
However it takes a Herculean effort to ensure everyone is prepared for the precise second the image is taken. Inevitably, there may be at all times somebody who is not.
On this 12 months’s class photograph, we famous at the very least two individuals blinking on the precise second the digital camera was clicked, and due to this fact seem like they’re sleeping whereas standing up.
However probably the most eye-catching mishap got here from Anatomy of a Fall’s Arthur Harari, nominated for finest authentic screenplay alongside his spouse Justine Triet, who additionally directed the movie.
Harari was seen laughing as the image was being taken. It isn’t clear what made him crack up, however we guess Paul Giamatti had one thing to do with it.
The very best actor favorite, who’s seen standing to the suitable to Harrari, is understood for his sense of humour, having made a string of comedic, self-deprecating acceptance speeches all through awards season.
The Academy Awards 2024, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, happen in Los Angeles on 10 March.