This Barbie eats lunch together with her fellow Oscar nominees.
The annual Academy Awards luncheon was held on Monday in Los Angeles, attended by 179 of this 12 months's nominees.
Not all candidates had been capable of take part. Colour Purple star Danielle Brooks, for instance, couldn't 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 here are 10 highlights:
1. The La La Land reunion
After we wrote concerning the class picture in 2017, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling had been each nominated for La La Land.
For anybody with a brief reminiscence, La La Land is the film that received Finest Image, after which misplaced once more 4 minutes later, due to an incident involving an envelope.
This 12 months, Gosling and Stone return to the Academy Awards, however for various movies – nominated for Barbie and Poor Issues respectively.
Gosling wore a lilac swimsuit – in all probability meant as a refined reference to his Finest Image nominee.
2. Two nominees type a membership of backbenchers
Actor Sterling Okay Brown and songwriter Diane Warren sat collectively within the again row – a becoming seat as each are conscious they’re unlikely to win their classes.
Final week, Brown instructed Graham Norton: “I do know I'm not going to win, and I'm utterly superb with that. I'm telling you – [fellow nominee] Robert Downey Jr goes to win. And he's extremely well-deserved, he's an unbelievable actor… I'm joyful to be within the room.”
Hats off to the This Is Us star for following the awards race so intently and understanding what her chances are high within the supporting actor race.
However whereas Brown is a first-time nominee, Warren has been nominated 15 instances for finest unique track — and by no means received. It in all probability received't be this 12 months both, with What have they carried out? by Billie Eilish the recent favourite.
3. Is that this… Godzilla?
Takashi Yamazaki, one of many visible results workforce on Godzilla Minus One, introduced a plus one to the occasion – Godzilla himself.
4. DOGS
Anybody who is aware of something concerning the historical past of cinema is aware of that the best performing efficiency in any movie was the canine in the perfect candidate of the 12 months, Anatomy of a Fall.
Recognized within the movie as Snoop, the canine is the truth is a border collie named Messi who flew from France to attend the lunch, with the coach Laura Martin Contini.
Messi was extremely popular with actors on the occasion, together with Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper, who was photographed meeting the dog. “The Coop meets the Snoop,” reads the superb caption.
Sadly, Messi was not included within the class picture – one thing we are able to't perceive as a result of he’s the perfect of excellent boys. We’ve got lodged a proper grievance with the Academy and can let you understand how it goes.
5. Carey and Emily really feel sorry for the British
This 12 months's performing nominations are a bit quick on the British – the one two are Emily Blunt from Oppenheimer and Carey Mulligan from Maestro.
It's price saying that Irish stars have had one other huge 12 months – with Barry Keoghan, Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott all nominated at front-runners together with the Golden Globes and the Baftas.
Nevertheless, solely Blunt's Irish co-star Cillian Murphy is being acknowledged on the Oscars.
6. Save a seat for us within the entrance row should you like
If we had been within the class picture of the Oscars – that is the row through which we’d have requested everybody to maneuver and make room, because the energy of the thrill of the awards is phenomenal.
Christopher Nolan and Martin Scorsese, the administrators of Oppenheimer and Killers of the Flower Moon respectively, had been positioned subsequent to one another within the entrance row, between two scorching stage contenders.
Alongside them had been Lily Gladstone, a powerful contender for finest actress for her efficiency in Scorsese's movie, and The Holdovers star Da'Vine Pleasure Randolph – who is sort of sure to win finest supporting actress.
7. Billie Eilish saved it informal
Billie Eilish is at all times a pleasure to see on the pink carpet – she at all times steals the highlight with attention-grabbing and progressive appears to be like.
The Academy lunch was no totally different, with Eilish turning heads due to her informal bandana, yellow jacket and tartan trousers which matched her brother Finneas' outfit.
The pair are nominated in the perfect unique track class for What was I Made For? – which has already earned him a Grammy and a Golden Globe.
In reality, the award might be the movie's finest likelihood for an Oscar on the evening, with different movies like Oppenheimer more likely to dominate lots of the main classes.
8. We want to be buddies with this man
Within the absence of Messi the canine, it’s fairly clear that he stole the highlight on this 12 months's class picture.
To the correct of the image is a person crossing his arms – a exceptional place in an image the place most individuals look straight forward and smile.
The man in query is definitely cinematographer Matthew Libatique – who’s nominated for his work on Leonard Bernstein's Bradley Cooper biopic, Maestro.
Libatique is so pleased with her signature spot that she even pulled it out on the pink carpet forward of time — one thing we'd do even when we had nails as beautiful as hers.
9. Barbie was not snubbed
Barbie's Margot Robbie has been a pleasure to comply with this awards season, sporting outfits that can do her on-screen character proud. She continues the theme within the class picture of the Oscars.
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 luncheon.
That's as a result of each are nominated in different classes – Robbie as a producer, and due to this fact a candidate for the perfect movie, and Gerwig within the class of the perfect adaptation.
10. If one thing is humorous, please share it with the remainder of the category, all of us love a great joke
It takes greater than half an hour to get all of the candidates in place as they’re known as one after the other from their dinner tables.
Nevertheless it takes a Herculean effort to verify everybody is prepared for the precise second the picture is taken. Inevitably, there may be at all times somebody who isn't.
On this 12 months's class picture, we observed not less than two individuals blinking on the precise second the digital camera was clicked, and due to this fact look like sleeping whereas standing.
However probably the most eye-catching incident got here from Anatomy of a Fall's Arthur Harari, nominated for finest unique screenplay alongside his spouse Justine Triet, who additionally directed the movie.
Harari was seen laughing because the picture was taken. It's not clear what made him crack up, however it appears to be like like Paul Giamatti had one thing to do with it.
The very best actor favourite, seen to the correct of Harrari, is thought for his humorousness, having delivered a sequence of comical and self-deprecating acceptance speeches throughout awards season.
The 2024 Academy Awards, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, takes place in Los Angeles on March 10.
