Eighteen of the twenty nominees in the acting categories were among more than one hundred and fifty Oscar nominees who got together at noon on Monday, at the Beverly Hilton when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored this year’s Oscar contenders at its annual Nominees Luncheon, reports film producer Bruce Edwin and publisher of The Hollywood Sentinel.
From the Best Actress and Actor categories all the nominees – Glenn Close, Viola Davis, Rooney Mara, Meryl Streep, Michelle Williams, Demi Bichir, George Clooney, Jean Dujardin, Gary Oldman and Brad Pitt reportedly attended. Kenneth Branagh, Jonah Hill, Nick Nolte, Max von Sydow, Berenice Bejo, Melissa McCarthy, Janet McTeer and Octavia Spencer represented the Supporting Actor and Actress categories. Three of the five nominees in the Directing category – Michel Hazanavicius, Alexander Payne and Martin Scorsese – also reportedly attend.
