Timothee Chalamet, the sun of” A Complete Unknown,” is up for an Oscar for best actor. Image: VALERIE MACON / AFP
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Oscars contenders gathered in Los Angeles on Tuesday for dinner and a few words of caution regarding the length of their popularity statements.
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Timothee Chalamet, the sun of” A Complete Unfamiliar,” is up for an Oscar for best actor. Image: VALERIE MACON / AFP
” How many hours do we have”?
” Forty-five”! shouted again Hollywood’s biggest actors, from Timothee Chalamet and Ariana Grande to Ralph Fiennes and Isabella Rossellini.
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The contenders for this year gathered in Los Angeles on Tuesday for an intimate dinner only five weeks before the Oscars, and they were given a few words of advice regarding the length of their popularity statements.
No one really wants Oscar victors to adhere to those strict guidelines, but Academy President Janet Yang has to at least consider.
” I feel like a schoolmarm”, joked Yang, as she graciously requested this year’s crop of film stars to keep their times in the spotlight “heartfelt, funny if you’d like, dramatic, encouraging, but brief”.
Hasty animate
As if to illustrate the challenge,” A Full Unfamiliar” director James Mangold arrived some minutes later for the quarterly nominees” class photo”, which had suddenly been taken, forcing a premature reshoot.
” It’s the Reader version”! quipped one star, as” Wicked” actors Grande and Cynthia Erivo sat politely, side-by-side and front-and-centre of the group, while” A Complete Unknown” star Chalamet chatted to” Anora” director Sean Baker in the back rows.
In a normal yr, the Academy holds a celebration, champagne-soaked dinner for nominations and invites hit in early February.
This time, it was scrapped in the midst of the devastating Los Angeles fire.
Alternatively, a smaller, scaled-back breakfast was held at the last moment, with Yang emphasizing” an environment of help for so many amongst us who are recovering from the fires that destroyed large swaths of Los Angeles”.
At the conclusion of the protracted campaign trail, the event gave nominees the chance to catch up and exchange stories.
‘ Wicked ‘ star Ariana Grande joined a Los Angeles photo shoot for this year’s crop of Oscar nominees © VALERIE MACON / AFP” Well, here we are”! said Mikey Madison, taking a brief break from chatting to Rossellini.
” I’ve never gone before” to the Oscars, she told AFP. ” I’m excited. We’ll see what happens”.
Demi Moore and Madison are the favorites to take home the best actress award for” The Substance,” where she portrays a sex worker in” Anora.”
Moore was concerned that she had not brought Pilaf, a tiny Chihuahua that had accompanied her to the Cannes film festival in May, with her.
” They were expecting her, I should have”! she told AFP.
Fiennes, twice an Oscar nominee in the 1990s without winning, praised a “great crop of movies this year”.
His twisty Vatican-set thriller” Conclave” now appears to be locked in a two-horse race for best picture, Hollywood’s ultimate accolade, with” Anora”.
British actor Fiennes admitted to having been flying back and forth across the Atlantic “quite a bit,” insisting the dinner was” good fun.”
The Oscar nominees ‘ repeated sentiments were relief that the campaigning marathon would soon be over, aside from the excitement for Sunday’s gala.
” What am I working on next? I’m working on sleeping for a week”, said” Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl” director Merlin Crossingham.
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