"West Facet Story" star Rachel Zegler could get her Oscars second in any case. The 20-year-old actor has been invited to be a presenter on the ceremony, in response to a report in The Hollywood Reporter.
The gesture got here two days after Zegler, who performs Maria, posted on social media that she had not been invited to the awards and can be rooting for "West Facet Story" from her sofa. The Steven Spielberg movie is nominated for seven Academy Awards, together with finest image, director and supporting actress for Ariana DeBose, who is predicted to win.
The put up drew lots of consideration on-line as many could not fathom why the lead of a finest image nominee would not have been invited to the ceremony or not less than been requested to current an award.
"I hope some final minute miracle happens and I can have fun our movie in individual however hey, that is the way it goes typically, I assume," Zegler wrote on Instagram Sunday. "Thanks for all of the shock and outrage -- I am upset, too. However that is OK. So happy with our film."
Greatest image nominees are allotted a sure variety of tickets by the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences, which the movie's studio then doles out as they see match. Presenters and particular person nominees get a pair of tickets. And different spots within the room go to the broadcaster, sponsors and academy members, who can enter a lottery.
Zegler just isn't nominated, however her subsequent massive function is as Snow White, which she is at the moment filming in London. Some puzzled why The Walt Disney Co., which owns Oscars broadcaster ABC, would not need their new Snow White there in some capability, like presenting or performing. Others noticed it as a missed alternative to have a rising younger Latina star represented on the present.
Russ Tamblyn, who performed Riff within the 1961 "West Facet Story" and is a voting member of the Academy, tweeted that it was the Academy's, "responsibility to seek out Rachel a seat on the Oscars.... Once they say illustration issues, that is what meaning. Please do proper by her."
Alec Baldwin tweeted that he would purchase Zegler two tickets to the present.
And "One Day at a Time" showrunner Gloria Calderon Kellett tweeted at ABC and the Academy, "How in regards to the uncommon time that Latine individuals have a film nominated for an OSCAR you invite the lead. Latine individuals are 18.5% of this nation. ENOUGH!"
Oscars tickets are at all times scorching commodities and this yr are much more restricted than standard due to efforts to take care of extra space between friends to assist forestall the unfold of COVID-19. Most Academy members have by no means gotten to attend.
And the outrage has solely intensified as increasingly more presenters with restricted connections to the nominated films or the film enterprise in any respect are introduced. On Monday, producers revealed that DJ Khaled, Tony Hawk, Kelly Slater and Shaun White would all be presenting awards on the present, which will likely be broadcast stay on ABC on Sunday beginning at 8pm ET.
Information of Zegler's invitation to current got here Tuesday afternoon. Zegler has but to remark and it's nonetheless unclear if she'll have the ability to attend on this brief discover and together with her Snow White manufacturing schedule.
Representatives for the Academy, Disney and Zegler didn't reply instantly to requests for remark.
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