The Oscar nominees luncheon is always a feel-good event where everyone in the room is still a winner, happy to see their category rivals and others, and the one time in a tense season where they can just lay back and have a great time.“For me this is just a fun thing to go to.
People talk about is it Will [Smith] or me or Andrew Garfield. It could be anyone, but I am just happy at this point to be invited to the party,” Denzel Washington told me Monday as he waited for his car after the luncheon for nominees of the 94th annual Academy Awards.
He also noted that the live music being spun by the DJ just made it all that much better as he practically danced up to get his photo taken with other nominees.You could tell in this room everyone was happy, and in fact every branch and every nominee here was treated absolutely equally — and neither Oscar show producer Will Packer or Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president David Rubin made any remarks about the controversy over pre-recording eight categories and presenting them in the hour before the ABC telecast, where they will be weaved in with some editing.This day was all about celebration, and after a miserable Covid year where the luncheon for the 93rd Oscars had to be canceled, this event was packed, most attendees maskless (but vaccinated and tested), and it felt like old times.
This is one of the best events of the year and the Academy pulled it off in style at the new venue in the Fairmont Century Plaza in Century City.Packer takes the prize for the liveliest comments I have ever seen at one of these lunches, coming off more like a stand-up comic than the person who has the weight of a sometimes bloated show on his hands. “Hey there’s Questlove over
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