2023 Oscar Winners, Competitors: What You Didn’t See on TV Sunday Night

LOS ANGELES — It’s during commercial breaks that Dolby Theater audiences really come alive on Oscar night.

Stars will happily play for cameras pointed in their faces during a global broadcast – they are actors, after all – but most of the time it seems like most people prefer to just talk to their fellow artists in a room.

The breaks can last forever for people watching the Oscars at home, but in Dolby they are never long enough as the stars on the ground floor abruptly end the call and rush back to their seats.

There is always turmoil at the start of the show as security, organizers and the loud voice of God try to coax attendees into their seats just in time for the live broadcast. Some barely made it, like The Last of Us and The Mandalorian star Pedro Pascal, whose handler begged to be let in because of his appearance in host Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue, while others, like Elizabeth Banks, seem to were close from the initial moments. During the first break, she was ushered into a room, passing supporting cast candidate Brian Tyree Henry, who had made his way to Cate Blanchett a few rows ahead.

A few minutes later, Henry was one of the first to jump to his feet to cheer for Ke Hui Quan, who won his category, when Quan’s co-star Michelle Yeoh wiped a tear from the front row. One person even backed the ending of Quan’s speech: Harry Shum Jr.

After the loss, Henry was in good spirits in the lobby. He walked towards Phoebe Waller Bridge and Martin McDonagh. He asked to be photographed from Waller Bridge, which McDonagh dutifully photographed.

Returning to the room as Jamie Lee Curtis stepped onto the stage to accept her supporting actress award, Cate Blanchett covered her mouth with her hands and laid prayerful hands on the newly anointed Oscar winner.

The audience was briefly disturbed by a puff of smoke rising in front of Curtis during her speech. But everyone breathed a sigh of relief realizing that this was just part of the next act, Sofia Carson’s performance.

During the next break, Blanchett approached Australian Nicole Kidman to give her a big hug, and Kidman later did the same with Austin Butler.

In front of the theater in the lobby, Miles Teller hung out at the bar with his wife, and Bill Nighy went to the bathroom for a little while. And on the other side of the room, director Rian Johnson had a laugh with Hugh Grant, who made a cameo appearance in his nominated film Bow of Glass: The Secret to Get Knives.

It was pretty chilly in the lobby, but at least some of it was layered: Rooney Mara wore a red coat over a dress, and Andrea Riseborough wore a black leather jacket over a pale pink dress she wore for the remainder of the ceremony. .

At the bar, Best Actor nominee Paul Mescal made some new friends for a few minutes. As they debated whether or not they should order tequila, a fan approached Mescal in line to ask for a photo.

“Can I take a selfie?” Mescal asked, taking the picture himself.

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A few feet away, Charlotte Wells, director of Mescal’s After the Sun, spent most of the ceremony in the lobby, sipping beer.

In another corner, Rooney Mara was chatting with her Women Talk co-star Jesse Buckley. And on a hard-to-reach couch, 84-year-old EO director Jerzy Skolimowski sat alone, snacking on the popcorn and trail mix available to guests.

In the ladies’ room, Yeoh and Sandra Oh walked hand in hand towards the exit, while Florence Pugh lingered a little. She needed a little help drying her hands in her voluminous dress.

“I’m dripping, I’m dripping,” she said with a laugh, stretching her arms out as far as she could in front of her.

Moments later at the bar, Pugh sat down next to Cara Delevingne, both with trains trailing behind them as they whispered to each other. Turning around to leave was not as easy as they might have expected.

“It takes about ten minutes to follow each other,” Pugh said.

As the night goes on, the lobby gets a little brighter as more and more winners come out with more and more Oscars in their hands, but it also gets a little less stellar as the night’s big names return to the room for the final categories.

Some, hungry after a long show, took advantage of the “snack boxes” under each seat with a pretzel, a bottle of water, and various types of cinema candy, from minty mints to raisins.

During one of the final breaks, Kerry Condon hugged Anywhere, All At Once directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert as they returned to the room with the Oscars for Best Original Screenplay in hand, with Michelle Williams stretching her legs a few feet away.

Michelle Yeoh was one of those who didn’t have time to return to her seat between winning the Best Actress award and when Harrison Ford announced Best Picture went to “Everything Everywhere”. So she stepped backstage to join her cast and crew at the microphone for the evening’s final awards.

Many prefer to stay for a while at the Dolby Theatre, but others can’t wait to go to the Governor’s Ball, Vanity Fair and various other events that journalists and photographers are not invited to. For stars on Oscar night, the show is often just the first stop.

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