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On Monday, the nominees for the 86th Academy Awards posed for a group photo after the official Academy Nominees Luncheon at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. A few of them were famous movie stars, most of them were not, and many of them have had fascinating careers before this moment. Here's a deeper dive inside the room, and what you need to know about them for your Oscar party.
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1. Best Actress nominee Sandra Bullock was the second nominee to be placed in the risers, meaning she had to wait while everyone else was introduced, applauded, and put in order for this "class photo." Before the luncheon, she told the press that Gravity "wasn't supposed to be a big blockbuster film. It was supposed to be an avant-garde, esoteric film about loss."
2. Danish director Thomas Vinterberg is representing his film The Hunt, nominated for Best Foreign Language Film (and winner of several awards at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival). If the film wins, however, Vinterberg won't technically be the recipient of the statue — that goes to the country submitting the film, Denmark.
