America Ferrera, Lily Gladstone, Mark Ronson, Sterling K. Brown and more stars are reacting to their 2024 Oscar nominations. Brown shared how he found out about his nod for best supporting actor for 'American Fiction' on Instagram and Mark Ronson spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about his nomination for best original song with Andrew Wyatt for "I'm Just Ken" from 'Barbie.'
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00:00 America Ferreira, Lily Gladstone, Mark Ronson, Sterling K. Brown, and more stars are reacting to their 2024 Oscar nominations.
00:08 Brown shared how he found out about his nod for Best Supporting Actor for American Fiction.
00:13 The actor told his Instagram followers the story, starting with the fact he didn't charge his phone last night and woke up with a dead phone.
00:20 "I pick up the phone, I put it on the charger, phone charges, I'm getting breakfast ready for the kids to take them to school.
00:26 I think my wife may have said something first, I can't remember if she said something first or not, but then I go back to grab my phone,
00:33 and a brother has like 126 messages. And I'm like, 'How come I got so many damn messages on my phone?'
00:41 I got nominated for an Oscar. It's crazy."
00:48 Ronson spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about his nomination for Best Original Song with Andrew Wyatt for "I'm Just Ken" from Barbie,
00:54 and shared this about learning the news.
00:56 "I was actually on a plane, and I was just like, I suddenly got all this barrage of texts from people at the same time,
01:06 and I had a feeling it was something to do with the nomination.
01:10 My one-year-old daughter was sleeping right next to me on the plane, so I was just like, obviously holding it all inside,
01:18 but of course it was super exciting."
01:21 Meanwhile, the team behind "Anatomy of a Fall" posted these videos of their reactions to receiving two of their five nominations.
01:28 "Anatomy!"
01:32 Other Oscar nominees who shared videos of their live reactions to the announcement include the makers of "Godzilla -1,"
01:38 which received a nomination for Best Visual Effects,
01:44 and the team behind "Robot Dreams," which was nominated for Best Animated Feature.
01:48 "Godzilla!"
01:51 Gladstone revealed she was FaceTiming her parents when her Best Actress Oscar nomination for "Killers of the Flower Moon" was announced.
01:58 She told THR that during the announcement,
02:00 Gladstone also shared she's currently in Osage County, Oklahoma,
02:18 as she wanted to be on the Osage reservation in case the film was nominated,
02:22 so she could celebrate with the people who made the movie come to life.
02:25 She said,
02:26 And Ferreira, who received a Best Supporting Actress nod for her role in "Barbie," also told THR how she found out the news.
02:43 She said,
02:44 "I watched the announcement live in bed by myself because my husband was taking my kids to school and I was in shock.
02:49 For a moment I questioned whether I had imagined it, but then my phone started blowing up.
02:54 So I thought, 'Okay, I guess that really did happen.' It was utterly shocking and exciting.
02:59 Then my husband called me from the car screaming, and my kids were very confused and asking him to please stop screaming."
03:04 For the full list of this year's Oscar nominations and more nominee reactions, go to THR.com.
03:09 For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.
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