Jean Dujardin and George Clooney
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Jean Dujardin and George Clooney
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Best Actor Nominees – Clooney for Grandsons and Dujardin (who won) L the artist They became fast friends on the award circuit, which included lounging at the 2012 Oscars Nominee’s Luncheon. They’ll go on to work together in 2014. antiquities men, And Clooney recruited Dujardin for a 2022 Nespresso ad that continued the friendly competition they had during the Oscar race. Honorary Mention for Clooney’s Partner in Crime Awards goes to longtime BFF Brad Pitt, who was also nominated for Best Actor that year. Moneyball.
Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain
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Both stars won Golden Globe Awards at the start of the 2013 season, culminating in Chastain being nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award for his film. Zero Dark Thirty and Best Supporting Actress (and a win) for Hathaway’s Les Miserables. The two became close associates and repeat co-stars — a year later they appeared together in The interstellar, They recently wrapped up their psychological thriller Maternal instinct, in which the co-stars are also co-producers. Hathaway called Chastain my “dear friend, work wife, and all-around wonder” on Instagram when she complimented the star’s performance in Tammy Fay eyeswho also received the Oscar Chastain statuette for Best Actress in 2022.
Jared Leto and Lupita Nyong’o
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Before they both went on to win an Oscar, Leto Dallas Buyers Club and Nyong’o for 12 years a slaveThe duo developed a close relationship, with Leto even calling Nyong’o my “future ex-wife” in his speech at the 2014 Indie Spirits Awards. She told Net-a-Porter in 2019 that Leto was still on speed dial “because we were in it.” [Oscar campaign] Journey together and he hugs me a lot. There was an intimacy that arose out of that, which transcends dating rumors, transcends all of that.” They have never publicly dated but have been spotted catching up on events ever since.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet
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One of the most famous movie duos got back together, off screen, in 2016 when Winslet was honored for her role in Steve Jobs DiCaprio was on a journey to win his first Oscar yield. The two were put together throughout the awards show, and Winslet told the BBC at the time, “I feel very strongly that it might be Leo’s year. He’s my closest friend in the world and I couldn’t imagine not having him to support him.” And she backed him up, as Winslet was among the first to hug DiCaprio after his acceptance speech.
Rami Malek, Bradley Cooper, Melissa McCarthy, and Glenn Close
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There’s no competition between these couples, and they’re both nominated in the same categories at the 2019 show: McCarthy (can you forget me) and close (the wife) formed an interesting friendship in the Best Actress race, which included Close’s viral reaction to seeing McCarthy on the Oscars red carpet; bradley cooper (A star is born) and Rami Malek (Who won bohemian rhapsodyThey also became friends while facing each other in the Best Actor category. After Malik won, Cooper called him a “fantastic actor” in an interview Entertainment tonight.
Daniel Kaluuya (left), Timothée Chalamet, Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie and Saoirse Ronan.
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Chalamet and Kaluuya found common ground as the two superstars of 2018 – for their performances in the Call me by your name And Get out — as they teamed up at the same BAFTA events and Santa Barbara Film Festival before walking the Oscars red carpet together. And years ago Barbie Collaboration, Ruby (candidate I’m Tonya) kept close to Lady Bird Director Gerwig and star (and fellow Best Actress nominee) Ronan are all over the awards circuit. Robbie and Ronan appeared together on screen the same year Mary Queen of Scots.
Meryl Streep (left), Viola Davis, Emma Stone and Brie Larson
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Although Larson was the Best Actress Oscar winner in 2016 and Stone took the title in 2017, the two remained close throughout Stone’s tenure. La La Land ceremonies, where Larson often served as presenter and celebrated Stone’s Oscar win backstage. Also in that previous year doubt Co-stars Meryl Streep (arr Florence Foster Jenkins) and Viola Davis (Rt Fencesfor which she would win an Academy Award) at award events, including the Golden Globes, where Davis presented the Cecil B. DeMille Award to Streep, saying the star made her “proud to be an entertainer.”
Taika Waititi and Bong Joon Ho
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the parasite director f Jojo Rabbit The writer, director and star — who both went home with statuettes on Oscar night — are paired up for the 2020 season, with Waititi saying THR On the Oscars red carpet that year, of all the major award moments he had during a screening of his movie, “My favorite interaction was with director Bong. We always see each other in the same things.” He also quipped that when sharing a plane to travel between shows, Bong becomes “punk”: “You gotta see him when he gets up.”
Jamie Dornan and Andrew Garfield
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The two British stars began their careers together in Los Angeles circa 2008, and both found themselves on the award track in 2022 with Garfield’s Oscar-nominated performance as Jonathan Larson in Tag, tick, boom! and Dornan’s starring role in Best Picture Contestant Belfast — which led to a lot of kisses on the red carpet.
Ke Huy Quan and Brendan Fraser
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Co-stars in 1992 Encino Man reunited THRThe cast’s roundtable (with Frasier tearfully acknowledging to Quan, “We’re still here”) and we’ve since become each other’s biggest fans as Frasier picks up a nomination for Whale and Kwan L Everything everywhere at once. Quan told reporters backstage at the Critics Choice Awards that Fraser “gave me a big hug and put his arm on my shoulder” after catching up for the first time in 30 years in the midst of awards season.
This story first appeared in the March 8 issue of The Hollywood Reporter. Click here to subscribe.