With Hollywood’s biggest night just weeks away, some of the biggest stars gathered for the annual Oscars luncheon Monday — a pre-awards show gathering where the nominees mingle and pose for the iconic “Oscars Class Photo.”
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Bradley Cooper, Spike Lee and Mahershala Ali were among some of the fan-favorites to step out at the star-studded event held at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California.
At the #OscarsLunch nominees are seated at tables with nominees from other films and other categories so the full class of #Oscars nominees gets a chance to know each other better.
— The Academy (@TheAcademy) February 4, 2019
At the event, Lee chatted with “Good Morning America” about his Oscar-nominated film, “BlacKkKlansman,” saying that when they went into production they looked at it as just “another film.”
“I’ve been doing this for four decades,” he said. “I wasn’t thinking about Oscars … I mean we’re just trying to make the best movie.”
Danny Moloshok/Invision/APThe legendary filmmaker also shared his advice for people looking to break into the industry.
“Number one, if you wish to go into the industry, hopefully it will be [for] something that you love and not that you just want to make a lot of money because that is no guarantee,” Lee said. “Do what you love.”
Danny Moloshok/Invision/APAdam McKay, director of the Oscar-nominated film, “Vice,” shared with “GMA” his favorite part of working on the political biopic about former Vice President Dick Cheney.
“I love the mystery of this movie, trying to find out who Dick Cheney, and once you dig into Dick Cheney, Lynn Cheney, who they are, where do these people come from?” McKay said. “How did they change the course of American history?”
“The whole movie felt like an investigation,” he added.
Danny Moloshok/Invision/APGreg Cannom, who was also nominated for his work as a makeup artist on “Vice,” dished on how he transformed Christian Bale into Cheney, telling “GMA” it could at times take three to four hours just for the makeup.
“Christian Bale is fantastic to work with, so lucky to have gotten to work with him, and he had a lot to do with the makeup, designing it, he kept wanting certain things,” Cannom said. “None of us ever thought it was going to work, but luckily it worked where he looked pretty much a lot like Cheney.”
The Academy released an inspirational video on their Twitter page that they showed during the luncheon, of stars opening up backstage about what it feels like to win an Oscar from years past.
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