“Nominations for the 97th Oscars were revealed Thursday morning and the major takeaway is this heralds the most wide-open awards race we have witnessed in years.”— Mike Fleming Jr, Patrick Hipes, deadline.com
“'Oppenheimer' was named best picture, while Christopher Nolan, Emma Stone, Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Da'Vine Joy Randolph and Billie Eilish & Finneas O'Connell are were among those taking home the gold.”— KIMBERLY NORDYKE, hollywoodreporter.com
“The Academy Award for Achievement in Casting will honor casting directors and will debut at the 98th ceremony celebrating 2025 films.”— Christian Holub , ew.com
“Meanwhile, the high-profile snubs included Leonardo DiCaprio and Greta Gerwig.”— KIMBERLY NORDYKE, HILARY LEWIS, hollywoodreporter.com
“Meanwhile, behind the camera, Nomadland's Chloé Zhao became the first woman of color nominated for a directing Oscar, not to mention the first woman to nab four Oscar nominations in a year.”— Dan Snierson , ew.com
“It was a weird year for cinema, but there were plenty of great films. It would be an honor to see these get a nod.”— The New York Times, nytimes.com
“Natalie Portman’s fashion choices always make a statement, but at this year’s Academy Awards the oscar-winning actor decided to use style to send a message about the state of Hollywood. Tonight, she stepped onto the red carpet at the Dolby Theatre Portman clad in a Maria Grazia Chiuri designed embro…”— Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, vogue.com
“Hair Love is an animated short film about an African American father who is trying to do his daughter's hair for the first time.”— LIBBY BERRY, BIANCA MARTIN, npr.org
“If the Oscars refuse to see women, some women may now refuse to watch the ceremony.”— Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, vogue.com
“The Academy Awards have a longstanding love affair with films about the magic of making movies.”— Cole Delbyck, huffpost.com
“The #1 movie in America was called Ass. And that's all it was for 90 minutes. It won eight Oscars that year, including best screenplay.”— Mike Judge, Etan Cohen, Narrator (voice), Earl Mann, imdb.com
“There is something about the anger and defensiveness provoked by this particular picture that makes reasonable disagreement unusually difficult.”— Justin Chang, latimes.com
“This could have been the best Academy Awards ever. Instead, there’s a good chance that Anne Hathaway and James Franco’s sad 2011 performance will be inching up the list.”— Anne Cohen, refinery29.com
“Did you just make a wardrobe change? This isn't the Oscars. You're not Whoopi.”— Steve Oedekerk, Rita, Wanda Sykes, imdb.com
“What I say to my gente [people] is to hang on, and to remember who they are, be proud of who they are, and keep talking. And keep complaining, and just don't ever — don't give up. That's always been my motto anyway. My motto has always been 'persevere' — perseverancia. And that's what we need to do.”— Rita Moreno, npr.org
“I had won two major awards for West Side Story — I had won the Oscar and a Golden Globe — and fully believing that I was going to get a lot of work from then on and everything was going to be just rosy. And the opposite happened — I couldn't get a job to save my life. There were a few offers, but th…”— Rita Moreno, npr.org
“Anybody who makes fun of me [for falling], I'm just gonna go, 'Yeah, and then I got touched by Hugh Jackman.'”— Jennifer Lawrence, ca.hellomagazine.com
“I stopped at Harvey Weinstein's party for a little bit, got my parents drunk, and then I left and went home.”— Jennifer Lawrence, youtube.com
“Adele was [at] the next table over. And I had such a high fever, and I felt like I couldn't move, and I saw Adele, and there was nobody in the way...And I just reached my arm out and went, 'Hi, uh—' [falls over] And my dad goes, 'What? Jen? What's the matter?' And I was like, 'Iwuzjustalkadele.'”— Jennifer Lawrence, youtu.be
“This isn't like an auction, right? You guys aren't going to take it away?”— Jennifer Lawrence, oscars.org