With just a month to go until the Academy Awards, the nominees gathered for a giant “class photo.”
The photo took place during the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ annual luncheon for Oscar nominees, held Monday at the Beverly Hilton.
Although it appears that not every nominee was present, Deadline reported that a ‘majority’ of nominees were present.
Among the powerhouse nominees in attendance were Sterling K. Brown, Emma Stone, Paul Giamatti, Lily Gladstone, Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese, with the latter two directors shaking hands in a video shot before the photo was taken .
Other nominees in attendance include Celine Song, Cord Jefferson, Margot Robbie, Jeffrey Wright, Annette Bening, Colman Domingo, Ava DuVernay, Billie Eilish, Sandra Hüller, Bradley Cooper, Emily Blunt, Greta Gerwig, Cillian Murphy, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Christine Vachon, Ryan Gosling and Robert Downey Jr. just to name a few.
With just a month to go until the Academy Awards, nominees gathered for a giant ‘class photo’
Margot Robbie walks the red carpet at the Oscar luncheon
The Canadian 43-year-old (R) later feuded with three-time Oscar winner Steven Spielberg (L), who is again nominated for producing Maestro
The two films that took center stage in last summer’s box office showdown – Barbie and Oppenheimer – are both also firmly in the Oscar race.
Both Barbie and Oppenheimer have a chance to win the award for Best Film, Barbie has a chance to win eight Oscars, while Oppenheimer leads all contenders with no fewer than thirteen nominations.
Director Christopher Nolan’s magnum opus fell just short of the most nominations for a film in Oscar history, one shy of the record of fourteen set by La La Land, Titanic and All About Eve.
Oppenheimer will compete for four of the top five awards: Best Picture, Best Director (Nolan), Best Actor (Cillian Murphy) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Nolan).
The film will also compete for Best Supporting Actor (Robert Downey Jr.), Best Supporting Actress (Emily Blunt) and a slew of technical categories.
Barbie made more headlines for those not nominated, with fans expressing their disapproval of Margot Robbie’s Best Actress criticism, along with Greta Gerwig for Best Director.
However, Robbie was nominated for Best Picture for her work as a producer through her company LuckyChap Entertainment, and Gerwig was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay along with her co-writer and husband Noah Baumbach.
Ryan Gosling was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for playing Ken, along with America Ferrera for Best Supporting Actress for Gloria, who gave one of the film’s most stirring speeches.
The two films that took center stage in last summer’s box office showdown – Barbie and Oppenheimer – are both also firmly in the Oscar race
Both Barbie and Oppenheimer have a chance to win Best Picture, Barbie has a chance to win eight Oscars, while Oppenheimer leads all contenders with no fewer than thirteen nominations
Ryan Gosling was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for playing Ken, along with America Ferrera for Best Supporting Actress for Gloria, who gave one of the film’s most stirring speeches.
The list of ten films for best films is completed by American Fiction, Anatomy of a Fall, The Holdovers, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, Past Lives, Poor Things and The Zone of Interest.
Lily Gladstone also made history by becoming the first Indigenous actor to be nominated for Best Actress for her role in Killers of the Flower Moon.
Emma Stone also became only the second woman ever to be nominated for Best Actress and Best Picture for her role as producer in Poor Things.
The only other woman to receive this award was Frances McDormand, who won both Best Actress and Best Picture in 2021 for Nomadland.
Oscar Sunday airs live from the Dolby Theater in Hollywood on Sunday, March 10 on ABC.