At the 41st Oscar Nominees Luncheon, which was held at the Beverly Hilton’s International Ballroom on Monday
any remaining doubts about Tom Cruise’s status as Hollywood’s biggest movie star were put to rest for good.
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Cruise’s nomination for producing Top Gun: Maverick was his first appearance of the awards season.
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First-time nominees stood in line to meet Cruise, and he greeted them with a handshake, a selfie, and a smile worth a million dollars.
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Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani Nobel laureate who was there to support the documentary short nominee Stranger at the Gate, greeted him with great enthusiasm.
She might have been the most famous person in the room if she hadn’t been there. Both Guillermo del Toro, whose movie
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Pinocchio was nominated for best-animated feature, and Steven Spielberg, whose movie The Fabelmans was nominated
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The president of the Academy, Janet Yang, told the 186 nominees or, in the case of four people, the directors of international films that were nominated for an Oscar