The Academy Award nominees all gather for a luncheon just before the ceremony, and they take a giant group picture like a graduating class. This picture gets published all over the web, really as a “Where’s Waldo?” activity for all the actors. I always enjoy seeing the little Hollywood clicks and who gets left out or hangs out with a different crowd. It’s a fun picture to dissect, much further than the obvious Annette Bening sitting on Jeff Bridges’ lap front and center.
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Here are some of my favorite observations from the picture:
- Natalie Portman is REALLY pregnant.
- Christopher Nolan’s grin is creepy.
- James Franco is standing next to the Pixar guys.
- Amy Adams is up front but her co-stars from “The Fighter,” Mark Wahlberg and Melissa Leo, are way up top.
- Poor Hailee Steinfeld looks so alone up there…
- John Hawkes is so lost among the crowd.
- Colin Firth and Michelle Williams together … interesting.
- Why can’t we be friends – Jesse Eisenberg and Geoffrey Rush, despite being in the dueling Best Picture candidates, are right next to each other.
- The guy with the long, curvy beard in the bottom right SCARES ME.
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