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The Oscar nominees luncheon is always a feel-good event where everyone in the room is still a winner, happy to see their category rivals and others, and the one time in a tense season where they can just lay back and have a great time.

LOS ANGELES -- The Oscar race may be heating up, but you wouldn’t know it to peek in on the nominees luncheon Monday in Los Angeles.Attendees packed into a ballroom at the Fairmont Century City for the annual luncheon, where nominees get to mingle and celebrate. It was a long awaited homecoming for many after a year away due to the pandemic.Before the lunch, nominees excitedly greeted one another.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeShowtime’s “Desus & Mero” is reverting back to a once-a-week schedule. The critically acclaimed late-night talker returns for Season 4 on Thursday, March 10 at 11 p.m. ET, with Oscar nominee Denzel Washington as the show’s first guest.Also new to the show is J.D.

2022 Oscars was officially released last week. And while the scope of awards season has changed pretty dramatically over the last few years, the talent and unique storytelling present in this year's pack of nominees is perhaps more impressive now than ever before. Leading the way for Oscar favorites is Netflix's which racked up12 total nominations including those in major categories like Best Picture, Best Director for Jane Campion, Best Actor for Benedict Cumberbatch, and supporting acting nods for Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smit-McPhee.

Much Ado About Nothing, Remember the Titans, and Devil in a Blue Dress. He’s your favorite actor’s favorite actor, counting his A Journal for Jordan lead Michael B. Jordan and fellow two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks as admirers.

COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent health and safety protocols.  With invitations having just started to go out this week for the always glamorous March 27 bash, Page Six is reporting that it will again take place at the Wallis Annenberg Center For The Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, only this time the venue will be reimagined as an 'open air space.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticThe Oscar campaign for “CODA” has touted the film as “history-making.” If you wanted to be a literal-minded curmudgeon about it, you could say that the history it’s talking about was already made — when Marlee Matlin, in 1986, became the first deaf performer to win an Academy Award for best actress, for her great, ardent, wounded performance in “Children of a Lesser God.” Matlin deserved to win (the other nominated actresses that year were Jane Fonda for “The Morning After,” Sissy Spacek for “Crimes of the Heart,” Kathleen Turner for “Peggy Sue Got Married,” and Sigourney Weaver for “Aliens,” which is the only one I’d put in Matlin’s league).Nevertheless, history works in waves. Sidney Poitier made history by becoming the first Black actor to be a Hollywood star, as well as the first to win an Academy Award for best actor (in 1963, for “Lilies of the Field”).

There were big at the 22nd Annual Black Reel Awards presented by idobi. Featuring 12 live awards and 5 honorees, along with the unveiling of a new statuette, and tributes to Black Cinema History.

Screen Actors Guild Awards, SAG-AFTRA minted a new class of winners.Honoring the best in film and television — as well as stunt people in both — this year's top nominees in TV are no surprise, with and leading the way with five apiece, including favored nods for Outstanding Ensemble.

2022 Oscars was officially released last week. And while the scope of awards season has changed pretty dramatically over the last few years, the talent and unique storytelling present in this year's pack of nominees is perhaps more impressive now than ever before. Leading the way for Oscar favorites is Netflix's which racked up12 total nominations including those in major categories like Best Picture, Best Director for Jane Campion, Best Actor for Benedict Cumberbatch, and supporting acting nods for Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smit-McPhee.

NAACP Image Awards has officially been kicked off! As usual, this year's ceremony honoring people of color across television, music, literature and film is preceded by a week-long celebration, with five nights of virtual awards leading up to Saturday's live telecast.Hosted by returning emcee and seven-time NAACP Image Awards winner Anthony Anderson, the ceremony will include Issa Rae, Kerry Washington, LL Cool J, Morgan Freeman, Questlove, Tiffany Haddish, Zendaya and more presenting awards, while Samuel L. Jackson accepts the NAACP Chairman's Award and Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project, receives the Social Justice Impact Award.The preceding non-televised nights will be hosted by actor and comedian Affion Crockett, with awards presented by Cory Hardrict, Demetrius Shipp Jr., Khleo Thomas, Lori Harvey, Wendy Raquel Robinson and more.

NAACP Image Awards is ready to dole out shiny new trophies to honor the trove of Black excellence that made 2021 so special. The annual awards show highlights the achievements of people of color across television, music, literature and film, and the promotion of social justice through their creative endeavors.This year's NAACP Image Awards class is even more of a star-studded list than ever, with nominations for everyone from Megan Thee Stallion to Jonathan Majors, Ariana DeBose, Marsai Martin, Denzel Washington and more.

th Century Studios.Downs is best known for her lead role as Charlotte on the Nickelodeon television series “Henry Danger” and for her role as Faith Sullivan in the 2013’s “The Best Man Holiday.” Downs is repped by Atlas Artists.Cravalho is best known for making her acting debut as the title character in 2016’s “Moana” opposite Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Her other credits include “Rise” for NBC, and “All Together Now” for Netflix.

After learning that ‘Belfast’ had been nominated in seven categories, he said: “It’s a long way from the streets of Belfast to the Academy Awards. “I think of my mother and father, and my grandparents – how proud they were to be Irish, how much this city meant to them. They would have been overwhelmed by this incredible honour – as am I.