12 things we spotted from Ariana Grande to Timothée Chalamet

Ariana Grande, Timothée Chalamet and Demi Moore had been among the many Oscar nominees who gathered in Los Angeles on Tuesday for the annual “class photograph”.

Forward of the Academy Awards on Sunday (2 March), the nominees from all classes had been invited to mingle over dinner and cocktails, as an eventful awards race reaches its conclusion.

The category photograph, a spotlight of the movie calendar, is often taken a lot earlier in awards season, on the nominees luncheon, however that occasion was cancelled this yr as a result of LA wildfires.

Listed here are 12 issues we noticed on this yr’s class photograph:

Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande have spent the previous couple of months crying, holding house and stroking one another’s fingers as they promoted the display screen adaptation of Depraved.

The 2 actresses have redefined the movie press tour in current weeks due to their absolute adoration for one another – an power they must recreate later this yr once they do all of it once more for the discharge of half two.

Earlier than the photograph was taken, as a substitute of claiming cheese, Erivo shouted: “Everybody say ‘Oscar nominee!'”

Final week, it was confirmed the pair will carry out a medley of songs from the movie in the course of the Oscars ceremony which is able to final a reported 10 minutes lengthy.

Depraved is the closest factor the Oscars have this yr to a field workplace smash within the form of final yr’s Barbie, they usually’ll be hoping the medley will recreate the power of Ryan Gosling’s viral efficiency of I am Simply Ken final yr.

We’re conscious the climate is getting hotter and the solar is rising earlier as we hurtle in direction of Spring, however we’re nonetheless all the time looking out for a vibrant cosy jumper and we have to examine the origin of this one as an pressing precedence.

The lady with the impeccable sweater choice within the class photograph is Maya Gnyp – a producer of I Am Prepared, Warden – which is nominated for finest documentary brief.

The movie follows Texas loss of life row inmate John Henry Ramire in his last days.

Becoming a member of Ariana and Cynthia on the entrance row had been fellow performing nominees Zoe Saldaña, Mikey Madison and Monica Barbaro.

Saldaña is sort of sure to win finest supporting actress for Emilia Pérez, having taken the trophy at a string of precursor occasions together with the Baftas, SAG Awards and Golden Globes.

Because of this, her fellow class nominees reminiscent of Barbaro, who performs Joan Baez in Bob Dylan biopic A Full Unknown, have needed to apply their finest “I am simply joyful to be nominated” faces this yr.

Madison, nevertheless, is a co-frontrunner in a good race for main actress. The Anora star is up towards Demi Moore for The Substance in a class seen as a lifeless warmth.

James Mangold, nominated this yr for A Full Unknown, is one in all Hollywood’s most revered and beloved administrators.

So why is he sitting on an aisle seat within the second-back row, away from all his buddies, wanting sheepish?

It is most likely as a result of he solely simply made the category photograph by the pores and skin of his tooth, arriving late to the event to an affectionate collective groan adopted by cheers from his fellow nominees.

Regardless of a distinguished Hollywood profession, Mangold is a first-time nominee in one of the best director class, as are his fellow nominees Coralie Fargeat, Sean Baker, Brady Corbet and Jacques Audiard.

In a yr the place disappointingly few of the celebs pulled humorous faces or made eye-catching hand gestures whereas the photograph was being taken, we applaud the workforce from Black Field Diaries for becoming a member of fingers and celebrating.

They’re the movie’s director Shiori Ito (second left), editor Ema Ryan Yamazaki (far proper) and producers Hanna Aqvilin and Eric Nyari.

The film, nominated within the documentary function class, examines a sexual assault investigation in Japan.

Sitting within the again row, so removed from the photographer that their faces are considerably blurry and out of focus, are three of the largest stars on this yr’s awards race.

Within the centre is The Substance star Demi Moore, nominated for enjoying an ageing aerobics teacher who takes a black-market drug to create a youthful, extra lovely model of herself.

She is joined on both facet by supporting actor nominees Man Pearce (left), who’s recognised for his function in The Brutalist, and Edward Norton, who’s nominated for enjoying Pete Seeger in A Full Unknown.

Additionally hanging out within the entrance row had been songwriter Bernie Taupin and singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile.

The pair are nominated in one of the best authentic track class for writing By no means Too Late, the title observe from Sir Elton John’s current documentary.

Sir Elton himself wasn’t there, nevertheless, regardless of co-writing the track with the pair.

It is seemingly he’ll attend the Oscars on Sunday, however he will not be singing his track because the Academy has carried out away with having the unique track nominees carry out in the course of the ceremony this yr.

As a substitute, Doja Cat, Lisa from Blackpink, Queen Latifah and Raye shall be among the many different performers in the course of the ceremony alongside the Depraved medley.

Timothée Chalamet joined his fellow nominees simply days after springing a shock win on the SAG Awards for A Full Unknown.

In his speech, the actor talked about his need to be “one of many greats” of Hollywood.

Nevertheless, the actor has not been campaigning as aggressively as frontrunner Adrien Brody, and for the category photograph, Chalamet took an aisle seat, leaned out and put his fist to his chest.

Seated simply in entrance of him are Anora’s director Sean Baker and his producer spouse Samantha Quan.

Including additional star energy to the blurry again row had been finest actor contenders Adrien Brody, Colman Domingo and Sebastian Stan.

Brody is the frontrunner to win, for his function within the Brutalist as a Hungarian architect who strikes to the US after World Conflict Two and is taken below the wing of a rich businessman.

Sing Sing star Domingo performs a jail inmate who joins a performing arts programme, whereas Stan is nominated for portraying a younger Donald Trump.

The Brits nominated within the performing classes this yr are The Brutalist’s Felicity Jones, Depraved’s Cynthia Erivo, and Conclave’s Ralph Fiennes.

The actor was on Fiennes type, sitting within the again row alongside Sing Sing’s John “Divine G” Whitfield.

Fiennes is unlikely to win finest actor, but when Conclave wins the highest Oscar, he’ll turn into the primary actor ever to have appeared in 4 finest image winners.

Understandably, not each nominee was obtainable to attend the dinner – finest supporting actor frontrunner Kieran Culkin was among the many stars lacking from the category photograph.

However others had been conspicuous by their absence, most notably Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón.

The actress is persona non grata in Hollywood in the mean time, after some historic tweets she posted resurfaced in current weeks, severely damaging the movie’s awards probabilities in lots of classes.

Nevertheless, it has been confirmed she is going to attend the Oscars ceremony itself on Sunday – though it stays to be seen if she is going to stroll the crimson carpet and sit together with her co-stars.

Sing Sing star Clarence Maclin was extensively thought of probably the most notable absence in one of the best supporting actor class this yr.

However he’s nonetheless nominated on the Oscars due to his story credit score on the movie, which implies he’s recognised in one of the best tailored screenplay class.

Maclin was one of many real-life inmates on the Sing Sing jail, after being sentenced to 17 years in jail for theft, aged 29, and was a member of the jail’s Rehabilitation By means of the Arts (RTA) programme.

Within the class photograph, Maclin, who performs a model of himself in Sing Sing, is both checking his watch or presumably about to sneeze.