Five days before Academy AwardsAlmost all the nominees gathered for a reception of cocktail, dinner and session in the class that served as an Oscar guidance.
The event on Tuesday night at the Academy Museum Museum was a substitute for annual Oscar lunch Usually, it is celebrated approximately one month before, but scrubbed due to forest fires in southern California.
With the vote and the determined winners, the contestants put themselves friends and the mood was cheerful. Best favorite actress Mikey Madison and Demi Moore hugged and talked. So did the best main actors Timothée Chalamet and Adrien Brody.
“Everyone says Oscar!” nominated for best actress Cynthia Erivo He shouted happily from the first row of the David Geffen Theater of the Museum, where the dozens of nominees sat for their group image.
Grouped in front with Eivo there were three nominees for the best cast actress: she “Wicked” cast partner Ariana GrandeMonica Barbaro from “A Complete Unknown” and Zoe Saldaña of “Emilia Perez” together with Madison, nominated for “Anora”. The five women stopped in a circle and spoke happy after the photo, and held the conversation while descending the stairs together for dinner.
On the back of the theater, a trio of nominees for the best actors sat together: Sebastian Stan of “The Apprentice”, Colman Domingo de “Sing Sing” and Brody, of “The Brutalist”.
After the photo was taken, the president of the Academy, Janet Yang, gave the presentation of guidance, reminding all that the 97 ° Academy Awards will take place on Sunday.
She greeted the nominees for the first time and acknowledged that there were also some with more than one.
Denis Villeneuve, director of “Dune: Part 2” and a nominated four times, raised his hand. Diane Warren, nominated for the best original song, Diane Warren.
Yang emphasized that forest fires made this year different and emphasized “the importance of the community and an atmosphere of support.”
But, he said, “the program, the great show, the Oscar show, you know what I am talking about, will continue, and we must simply honor talent, your talents, this year, since we have all year.”
She gave the annual, generally unsuccessful orientation, that acceptance speeches should be limited to 45 seconds, and made the class repeat the number to it. “Forty-five!” They shouted.
“It doesn’t seem much, but you can definitely get there,” he said. “What works best is to be sincere, humorous if you want, moving, inspiring, but brief.”
Then a lagging candidate appeared, and Grande shouted to the official photographer: “Are you ready to go again, Trevor?” And they give up the image.
When the big group separated, Chalamet greeted several reporters by name and hugged them.
It was a fun night for celebrities, but somehow it is an even bigger night, as will be Sunday, for most nominees, from short film animators to sound mixers, which are not famous faces or family names.
Here they were treated as the same with their companions on the list A. All were identified by the same black name labels.
Madison and Isabella RosselliniFor the best cast actress for “conclave”, each one used his while they stopped and spoke extensively during the reception of the cocktail. Many others participated in the conversation, including Moore, the director of “Anora” Sean Baker and the best nominated for the support actor Jeremy Strong of “The Amprentice”.
Rossellini and Madison took their phones and shared photos of dogs.
“Yes, you have like a farm!” Strong told Rossellini.
Samantha Quan, a best film nominated as a producer of “Anora” and Baker’s wife, asked Rossellini: “Do you have goats?”
“Oh yes,” Rossellini replied.
The director of “The Brutalist”, Brady Corbet, stopped to talk to women too, but put aside when they were asked to approach for a photo.
“I don’t want to get sick,” he said.
The outfit for the night was “cocktail” and the outfits ran the entire range. Madison, Grande and Moore wore night dresses. Rossellini wore a smoking jacket and a tie with a gold brooch. Fuerte wore a brown bomber jacket with running shoes. Chalamet used, if there is such a thing, a black, bright and formal version of a denim jacket and jeans, with a blingy gold chain around its neck.
The media members, the publicists, the partners and everyone else were finally told to keep aside while the nominees sat for an exclusive dinner for them.
The roll call that normally goes with the photo was omitted, so it was difficult and Karla Sofía Gascón, nominated for the best actress to “Emilia Perez”.
