Oscars 2022: Guests will wear blue ribbons that say ‘with refugees’ at the Academy Awards in support of Ukraine
Every year Oscar guests seem to wear a ribbon or button to highlight a certain cause that stands out at the moment.
And this year it will be a blue ribbon in support of Ukraine as it endures a miserable war with Russia, according to Showbiz411.
The blue ribbon will be a loop with the hashtag #withrefugees on the side, it was claimed.
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Will she have it on? Oscar guests will wear a blue ribbon in support of Ukraine as it endures a miserable war with Russia, according to Showbiz411. Nicole Kidman is one of the nominees and may have it on; seen in February
Blue for 2022: The blue ribbon will be a loop with the hashtag #withrefugees on the side, it was claimed
The Oscars will air live from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET and in 200-plus territories around the world.
Among the presenters are Jennifer Garner, Lady Gaga, Mila Kunis, Uma Thurman, Serena Williams and Lily James.
Nominees include Will Smith, Kirsten Dunst, Kristen Stewart, Kenneth Branagh and Nicole Kidman, among others.
The ribbons are distributed by the UN Refugee Agency and an image was shared by UNHCR.
The agency have ‘put together this campaign for the celebrities and more to wear the ribbons to demonstrate the plight of refugees not only in the Ukraine, but for the 85 million that are displaced around the world,’ it was claimed by Leah Sydney at Showbiz411.
Another nominee: Kristen Stewart, seen on Saturday at a pre-Oscar dinner, might put on a blue ribbon
Anadil Hossain, who is the Principal Communications Advisor for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, put this outreach together with Social Impact Strategist Bonnie Abaunza.
Hossain said, ‘This notes that this year’s Oscar nominated films include some powerful stories centered on the themes of refugees, displacement, home and belonging — Encanto, Flee, Three Songs for Benazir, Belfast and Dune — at a time when the world is witnessing the largest refugee crisis since WW2.
‘Artists have been wanting to show their solidarity for Ukraine and we wanted to ask them to extend this support to the almost 84 million people forced to flee. Whenever. Wherever.
‘While the ribbons are a symbolic visible gesture, we saw this an opportunity to message around a wider understanding and awareness of this global humanitarian crisis – as the nominated films this year have done with great imagination and empathy.’
She did it: A blue and yellow ribbon has been worn by Millie Mackintosh at the EE British Academy Film Awards 2022 at Royal Albert Hall on March 13 in London
A blue and yellow ribbon has been worn by Millie Mackintosh at the EE British Academy Film Awards 2022 at Royal Albert Hall on March 13 in London.
And Jon Bernthal was wearing a blue and yellow ribbon to show support for Ukraine as he arrived at the 28th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Barker Hangar on Sunday, February 27 in Santa Monica, California.
Meanwhile, Sean Penn has threatened to publicly destroy his Oscars if Sunday’s ceremony doesn’t give a platform to Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky.
The 61-year-old star – who has Best Actor statuettes for his work on ‘Mystic River’ and ‘Milk’ – urged the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences to ensure the actor-turned-politician is given a moment to shine a spotlight on his war-torn country, and called on guests to ‘walk out’ of the show if it doesn’t happen.
Looking good: And Jon Bernthal was wearing a blue and yellow ribbon to show support for Ukraine as he arrived at the 28th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Barker Hangar on Sunday, February 27 in Santa Monica, California.
Speaking on CNN, he said: ‘If it turns out to be what is happening, I would encourage everyone involved, though it may be their moment, and I understand that, to celebrate their films, it is so much more importantly their moment to shine, and to protest and to boycott that Academy Awards. I myself, if it comes back to it, when I return, I will smelt mine in public.
‘I pray that’s not what happened. I pray there have not been arrogant people who consider themselves representatives of the greater good who have decided not to check in with leadership in Ukraine. So I’m going to hope that’s not what happened, and I hope everyone walks out if it is.’
Sean – who is currently in Warsaw, Poland, for safety reasons – is shooting a documentary for Vice about the conflict between Ukraine and Russia and met with Zelensky earlier this week.
Another time: A blue and yellow ribbon, tossed in by swimmers, floats in the ice water after a moment of silence for Ukraine during the Memphremagog Winter Swimming Festival in Newport, Vermont, on February 26
Amy Schumer – who will co-host the ceremony with Regina Hall and Wanda Sykes – previously admitted she thinks it would be a ‘great opportunity’ to use the Oscars’ global platform to share a message from the Ukraine President.
She said earlier this month: ‘I think there is definitely pressure in one way to be like, “This is a vacation, let people forget we just want to have this night.”
‘But it is like well we have so many eyes and ears on this show.
Penn’s move: Hollywood star and founder of CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort) Sean Penn holds a press conference at a building housing refugees from Ukraine after signing an agreement with authorities to help refugees from Ukraine on Friday in Rzeszow, Poland
‘I think it’s a great opportunity to at least comment on a couple of things. I have some jokes that kind of highlight the sort of current condition. I mean, there are so many awful things happening that it seems hard to focus on which one.
‘I actually pitched, I wanted to find a way to have Zelenskyy satellite in or make a tape or something just because there are so many eyes on the Oscars.
‘I am not afraid to go there, but it’s not me producing the Oscars.’
OSCARS 2022: NOMINATIONS
BEST PICTURE
Belfast (Focus Features)
Coda (Apple)
Don’t Look Up (Netflix)
Drive My Car (Janus Films/Sideshow)
Dune (Warner Bros)
King Richard (Warner Bros)
Licorice Pizza (MGM/United Artists Releasing)
Nightmare Alley (Searchlight Pictures)
The Power Of The Dog (Netflix)
West Side Story (20th Century Studios)
On the saddle: Power Of The Dog received several nominations including Best Picture
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Jessie Buckley – The Lost Daughter
Ariana DeBose – West Side Story
Judi Dench – Belfast
Kirsten Dunst- The Power Of The Dog
Aunjanue Ellis – King Richard
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Ciaran Hinds – Belfast
Troy Kotsur – Coda
Jesse Plemons – The Power Of The Dog
J.K Simonns – Being The Ricardos
Kodi Smitt-McPhee – The Power Of The Dog
COSTUME DESIGN
Cruella
Cyrano
Dune
Nightmare Alley
West Side Story
Jumping for joy: West Side Story was nominated for Best Costume Design
ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND
Belfast
Dune
No Time To Die
The Power Of The Dog
West Side Story
ORIGINAL SCORE
Don’t Look Up
Dune
Encanto
Parallel Mothers
The Power Of The Dog
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Coda
Drive My Car
Dune
The Lost Daughter
The Power Of The Dog
Loud and clear: Coda was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Belfast
Don’t Look Up
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
The Worst Person In The World
ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Affairs Of The Heart
Bestia
Box Ballet
Robin Robin
The Windshield Wiper
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
Ala Kachuu — Take and Run
The Dress
The Long Goodbye
On My Mind
Please Hold
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
Drive My Car
Flee
The Hand of God
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
The Worst Person in the World
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Dune
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Javier Bardem – Being the Ricardos
Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog
Andrew Garfield – tick, tick… BOOM!
Will Smith – King Richard
Denzel Washington – The Tragedy of Macbeth
Ace? Will Smith is nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role for King Richard
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Jessica Chastain – The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter
Penélope Cruz – Parallel Mothers
Nicole Kidman – Being the Ricardos
Kristen Stewart – Spencer
DIRECTING
Kenneth Branagh – Belfast
Paul Thomas Anderson – Licorice Pizza
Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi – Drive My Car
Steven Spielberg – West Side Story
At the helm: Jane Campion is nominated in the Best Director category for Power Of The Dog
FILM EDITING
Don’t Look Up
Dune
King Richard
The Power Of The Dog
tick, tick…BOOM!
MAKEUP AND HAIR STYLING
Coming 2 America
Cruella
Dune
The Eyes Of Tammy Faye
House Of Gucci
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Encanto
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells VS The Machine
Raya And The Lost Dragon
ORIGINAL SONG
Be Alive — Beyoncé Knowles-Carter & Darius Scott (King Richard)
Dos Oruguitas — Lin-Manuel Miranda (Encanto)
Down to Joy — Van Morrison (Belfast)
No Time to Die — Billie Eilish & Finneas O’Connell (No Time to Die)
Somehow You Do— Diane Warren (Four Good Days)
DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
Audible
Lead Me Home
The Queen of Basketball
Three Songs for Benazir
When We Were Bullies
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Ascension
Attica
Flee
Summer of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Writing with Fire
VISUAL EFFECTS
Dune
Free Guy
No Time To Die
Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Stunning: Dune earned nods in both the Best Visual Effects and Best Cinematography categories
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Dune
Nightmare Alley
The Power Of The Dog
Tragedy Of Macbeth
West Side Story
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