This year’s Academy Awards have been overshadowed by the #OscarsSoWhite controversy triggered by another year in which the acting nominees included no people of color. But at its annual Nominees Luncheon, held Monday at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, the Academy trained its spotlight on the nominees from all its 24 categories — setting the controversy aside for the day.
“This year, we all know there is an elephant in the room,” Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs said in her opening remarks, welcoming the nominees before lunch was served. “I have asked the elephant to leave. Today is all about your incredible work on the screen and behind the camera that has touched millions globally and earned you a place in Hollywood history.”
Jacob Tremblay, there to support his ‘Room’ co-star Brie Larson, took some snaps from inside Monday’s luncheon with Jennifer Lawrence (above) and Stallone (Photo: Jacob Tremblay/Instagram)
Eddie Redmayne, last year’s best actor winner for The Theory of Everything, who is nominated this year for The Danish Girl, echoed that thought, saying, “This is the first time we are really all in the same room together.”
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