Part of the fun of the annual Oscar nominees’ luncheon is seeing who’s talking to whom. Though she was a producer of the Oscar-nominated documentary short “Period. End of Sentence,” Berton primarily works as a high school English teacher, the sort of vocation that rarely leads to a Beverly Hills ballroom. “I’m used to students and white boards,” she said as the “Bohemian Rhapsody” star Rami Malek swanned past us. Though it’s been reported that the academy may relegate categories like Berton’s to commercial breaks and then edit those winners into a clip package shown later in the Oscar telecast, the nominees’ luncheon is more egalitarian.

Source: New York Times February 05, 2019 05:15 UTC