2010 Oscar Nominees Luncheon photos

Posted on 02/15/10 121 Comments


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Directors and entire group photo after the cut. (via Alt Film Guide, thanks to Eric)


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120 Comments

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    Joschi says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 3:40pm

    the future winner is always in the middle :) at least on those pictures :)

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    Dirt says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 3:41pm

    clooney looks like a chick…im still jealous tho

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    JTag says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 3:44pm

    When they call out all the nominees and show their faces on the screen right before they announce the winner, it’s going to be like Kathryn Bigelow and her garden gnomes. The woman is gorgeous.

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    Ryan Adams says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 3:53pm

    JTag! ahaha!

    Even sadder: Moment in Spotlight FAIL

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    Amanda says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 4:02pm

    I love that Cameron is looking away in the class photo.

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    tnb says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 4:06pm

    Biggie (Bigelow) is looking sooo great I can’t believe that she’s almost in her 60s. such a beautiful and talented person!

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    Ryan Adams says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 4:11pm

    Regardless of Shankman’s insistence that all nominees are created equal, the Laws of Celebrity Physics create natural gravitational hotspots. Nevertheless, the guy in the top row far right is having more fun than anybody.

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    HaroldsMaude says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 4:15pm

    I love that
    a) Meryl Streep looks like she always does – like she’s having a great time,
    b) that Colin Firth is pretty damned dashing in the back row,
    c) that Tarantino looks like he’s being held up b/c he had a few too many martinis at the lunch
    and
    d) that the guy to left of Oscar looks like he’s goosing the statute

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    Steven says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 4:17pm

    Gabby and Carey have gotten to be good friends. That is the most surprising development of this Awards season. Who would have thought?

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    vagabond says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 4:17pm

    I want Vera Farmiga’s dress!

    And yes, Ryan: Mr. Smiley on the right is hilarious! Also love the guy holding up the paper-cutout head of (I assume) an absent nominee. Nicely done.

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    dela says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 4:20pm

    Lovely photos. Nice to see them all together.
    James Cameron looks old and Bigelow standing next to him isn’t helping his cause (simply gorgeous). He should definitely do something about that hair.

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    Erik 815 says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 4:22pm

    I’m not sure which is more inappropriate: Clooney, Firth, and Freeman with half their shirts unbuttoned, or Cameron with his turtleneck sweater. It’s a damn formal event!

    Anyway, I’m still disturbed with Cameron’s whole new long-haired, clean-shaven, politely smiling, somewhat tubby, turtleneck-sweater-wearing community college literature professor look.

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    Jim says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 4:23pm

    Carey and Maggie appear to be holding hands? Must be a Sarsgaard thing.

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    Chris Price says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 4:24pm

    Regarding the one dude who’s looking down and to the right and essentially obscuring his face behind the person in front of him: Intentional?

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    Jeli says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 4:25pm

    Gabby and Carey have gotten to be good friends. That is the most surprising development of this Awards season. Who would have thought?
    ===============================

    it melts my harsh heart, so adorable

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    daveinprogress says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 4:26pm

    Maybe it’s my middle aged eyes, but I cannot find Sandra in the big wide shot. Also is Helen Mirren in attendance?

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    Chris Price says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 4:26pm

    Regarding the dude who Ryan mentions whose face is obscured. Perhaps it was intentional?

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    Chris Price says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 4:27pm

    Why do my comments continue to be flagged as spam? Did I make somebody mad or something?

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    sacheen_littlefeather says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 4:28pm

    Are Gordon Willis and Lauren Bacall in the group shot?? I only see Roger Corman.

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    dela says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 4:31pm

    Interesting that Hollywood power players (Cameron, Clooney, Streep, Bullock) are huddled in one area.

    No Dame Mirren or Mo’Nique. :(

    Is that a ghost hand on the shoulder of the guy standing next to Lee Daniels?

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    Ryan Adams says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 4:31pm

    Sandra is eclipsed by Jeff Bridges. In more ways than one.

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    Joolz says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 4:38pm

    sacheen_littlefeather

    Ha! If they had a prize for best nick you’d deserve it.

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    Ryan Adams says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 4:39pm

    dela, how about the wraithlike hand behind Bridges’ head? Nosferatu!

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    daveinprogress says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 4:39pm

    Thanks Ryan – i had to blow her up (in the nicest possible way). Wonder if Mirren has repudiated the Oscar niceties knowing that she hasn’t got a snowball’s chance to win – or whether she is legitimately ‘on location’ or otherwise indisposed.

    Can’t recall the last time a nominee who was living was not in attendance on the big night. Will she come?

    Seems like Mr Bridges is the big man on campus right now!

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    guany says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 4:39pm

    I love how Gabby, Carey, Maggie, Vera, and Anna are all standing with each other.

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    guany says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 4:40pm

    daveinprogress,

    Dench didn’t come to the 2006 (in 2007) awards.

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    Anthony says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 4:41pm

    Something inside me wants to punch Jason Reitman in the face… Maybe it’s his shit-eating grin. I can’t stand him after his bitch-a-thon about wanting to be the only writer credited for Up in the Air since he probably knows his film (although very lovely and one of my favorites this year) doesn’t really stand a chance and his only award prospects would be for Adapted Screenplay. The big baby… He’s what? 16 years old? And has two directing nominations under his belt? A great feat truth be told, but he needs to make a few more movies to be considered one of the big boys (and not a one or two hit wonder).

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    Antoinette says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 4:46pm

    If I remember correctly Mr. Smiley is Ryan Bingham from the Crazy Heart song.

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    Ryan Adams says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 4:46pm

    Chris Price, I don’t see any of your comments in the spam filter. Has there been a problem often?

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    daveinprogress says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 4:47pm

    thanks Guany – i thought it would be one of the dames that wouldn’t make it. Dench was nominated so many times in the last decade! In the 70′s and 80′s it was more commonplace for there to be absent nomineed – not in the last decade though.

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    RichardA says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 4:48pm

    Is that Fisher Stevens? And for what?

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    bambi says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 4:48pm

    L`oreal should fire Pinto and hire Jason Reitman`s hair which is all natural wonder to behold. He`s such a cutie.

    Cameron looks like a disaster, lmao, and he doesn`t seem to care. Daniels is trying to squeeze Reitman`s moob and Reitman looks so happy about it. Shit, he hasn`t looked happier in a long time.

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    dela says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 4:48pm

    Ryan, now we know why we see those shocking upsets on Oscar night. Mysterious hands doing the devil’s work.

    guany, Dench had surgery so she wasn’t well enough to come in 2007.

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    Insomniac says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 4:49pm

    Can I just say… Jeremy Renner looks GORGEOUS. Damn.

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    dela says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 4:52pm

    OMG, just noticed Cameron is wearing jeans.

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    JTag says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 4:52pm

    Cameron looking away – does that man get any public appearance in Hollywood right?! So good with the geeks, so terrible with the in-crowd.

    And yeah, right, everyone is going to get cut off at 45 seconds. The applause for Bigelow is going to last 45 minutes. :-) She doesn’t say much, but she’s usually so breathless she takes a while to get her short speech out. No way they cut her off. That being said, her turn comes at the end of the show.

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    Anthony says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 4:52pm

    “Daniels is trying to squeeze Reitman`s moob and Reitman looks so happy about it.”

    LMFAO @ bambi

    I was thinking that James Cameron looks like he has to pee in the director’s photo, and is looking down at the puddle he finally made in the group photo.

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    m1 says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 4:53pm

    It’s as if the directors had some sort of restraining order put in after that group picture w/everyone on it.

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    Ryan Adams says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 4:54pm

    L`oreal should fire Pinto and hire Jason Reitman`s hair

    Bambi, do you mean L’oreal or Oleo?

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    Antoinette says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 4:57pm

    Oh no he didn’t. *giggles*

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    shawshank says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 5:01pm

    I heard 14 acting nominees were confirmed. So, the 6 that aren’t there:
    Monique
    Helen Mirren
    Tucci
    Plummer
    Penelope
    and Damon?
    are any of those 6 there?

    And is that Fisher Stevens in the front row? I’m going to imdb right now to figure out what he is nominated for.

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    bambi says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 5:03pm

    #39

    L`Oreal

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    shawshank says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 5:07pm

    Wow. Get ready for “Academy Award Winner Fisher Stevens.” He’s the producer of the cove and one of that films designated two nominees for Best Documentary.

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    Jack says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 5:08pm

    Lee Daniels is standing between Meryl Streep and an incredible handsome/cute man. Lucky him, also…

    Who’s that guy?

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    tmoves says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 5:22pm

    Wow, that Shankman/Mechanic speech was almost insulting.

    Judging by that applause, I’d say Maggie Gyllenhaal has a lot of love for her in that room!

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    Rob Y says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 5:28pm

    I love these pics. I may dislike a number of nominees, but this makes me appreciate the overall talent that goes into making films.

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    Kevin Klawitter says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 5:35pm

    What’s with that guy holding the head-on-a-stick on the upper left of the group pic?

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    Jun says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 5:41pm

    I think it’s hilarious how that one guy in the back is holding a cutout of Jon Landau’s (producer of Avatar) head. Up in the Air reference, anyone?

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    Afrika says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 5:43pm

    Meryl is a babe; she can still get it.

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    Kevin Klawitter says:
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 5:54pm

    @Jun
    Oh. That’s Jon Landau? Thanks.

    Also, recently posted on Jason Reitman’s twitter:

    “Last time I was in the Oscar class portrait my dad took a photo. This time we stood next to each other.”

    Awwwwwwwwwwwwww…

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