LOS ANGELES - Tom Cruise lived up to his billing as the “last true movie star” as nearly 200 of this year’s Oscar nominees gathered to celebrate – and size up their competition – at the Academy’s boozy annual luncheon on Monday. In a room packed with A-listers...
Academy voters this year handed out various nominations for box office smash hits such as Maverick, Avatar: The Way Of Water and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – raising hopes that Oscars TV audiences will pick up.
“What happened on stage was totally unacceptable. And the response from our organisation was inadequate,” she said. After lunch, the names of all 182 attending nominees, plus directors representing their countries in the international feature film category, were read out, and the nominees posed for the traditional, giant-sized “class photo”.
“We paid them a lot of money to do that,” joked best actress nominee Michelle Yeoh, describing the indie film’s giant success as “a dream come true”. “This is very different... This is like some version of the American dream. So many people dream about being here,” he said.
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