The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Releases The ‘Class Of 2012′ Photo

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences held their annual Academy Award Nominees Luncheon in Beverly Hills, CA yesterday and you know what that means … group photo time! The Nominees Luncheon is the ONLY time when all of the year’s Academy Award nominees can be photographed together in one massive photo so it’s important for all of the nominees to attend. You may recall that we got to see our boy Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross in the Class of 2011 photo last year. Click below to see the Class of 2012 photo and check out all of this year’s Academy Award nominees at once.

Rejoice, everyone! The Academy has released the “class photo” from this year’s Oscar luncheon, the annual midday event that attempts to gather as many nominees as possible before the actual Oscar ceremony itself. Not everybody could make it (miss you, Kristen Wiig!), but the photo is still a great panorama of this year’s talent, as well as a blessedly un-Photoshopped document of stars awkwardly standing next to nerdy sound design guys on a perilous set of bleachers. In that way, it’s almost the opposite of those perfectly composited Vanity Fair covers that also come out around this time, and it gives us plenty to discuss.

To be honest, it’s hard to see all of great little things hidden in the photo when you look at it all at once … that is why sometimes you have to zoom in and take a closer look:

LOL! The funny face guy is my all-time fave, he rules. Click HERE to check out an interactive panoramic photo of the assembled Oscar nominees. Altho not everyone could attend, this is as close as we ever get to seeing all the noms all together all at once. It won’t be long now … very soon a select number of these folks will be awarded Academy Awards.

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