THE WHITE FACES OF HOLLYWOOD CONGREGATE

Picture Shows: (Left to Right)

Seated (L-R): Adam Benzine, Paul Massey, Michael Standish, Chris Jenkins, Randy Thom, Jason Smith, Josh Cooley, Maryann Brandon, Richard Williams, Patrick Vollrath, Ed Lachman, Mary Parent, David Acord, Anders Langland, Henry Hughes, Kristie Macosko Krieger, Tom Yellin Row 1 (L-R): Rosa Tran, Jacqueline West, Ed Guiney, Evgeny Afineevsky, Matthew Shumway, Amy Hobby, Jonas Rivera, Gregg Rudloff, Signe Byrge Sorensen, Love Larson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Courtney Marsh, Nomi Talisman, Mark Ruffalo, Diane Warren, Paco Delgado, Bryan Cranston, Jistin Wilkes, Blye Pagon Faust, Roger Guyett, Basil Khalil, Drew Kunin, Sian Grigg, Andrea Berloff, Row 2 (L-R):Adam Stockhausen, Tom McArdle, Keith Redmon, Damian Martin, Ale Abreu, Matthew Heineman, Matt Damon, Bernhard Henrich, Cameron Waldbauer, Alan Robert Murray, David White, Michael Schaefer, Stephen Mirrione, Adam McKay, Robert Pandini,Phyllis Nagy, Deniz Gamze Erguven, Nicole Grindle, Duncan Jarman, Saoirse Ronan, Hank Corwin, Micheal Sugar, Patrick Tubach, Frank A. Montaño, Rich McBride Row 3 (L-R) : Jon Taylor, Hamish Purdy, Matthew Wood, Lady Gaga, Oliver Tarney, Gabriel Osorio, Charlotte Rampling, Josh Singer, Serena Armitage, Lon Bender, Dan Hertzfeldt, David Darg, Arthur Max, Pato Escala, Laszlo Nemes, Andy Nelson, Eva von Bahr, Eric Dupont, Jack Fisk, J Ralph, Imogen Sutton, Thomas Newman, Finola Dwyer, Duke Johnson, Carter Burwell, Ciro Guera and guest, Jerry Franck, Stuart Wilson Row 4 (L-R) : Jimmy Napes, Joshua Oppenheimer, John Seale, Pete Docter, Marc Platt, Jonathan Herman, David Lang, Rooney Mara, Alicia Vikander, Leonardo DiCaprio, Alex Garland, Tom McCarthy, Sanjay Patel, Naji Abu Nowar, Alan Wenkus, Tobias Lindholm, Jennifer Lawrence, Meg LeFauve, Nicole Rocklin, Dee Hibbert-Jones, Benjamin Cleary, Konstantin Bronzit, Martin Hernandez, Steven Spielberg, Drew Goddard, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Sam Smith, Richard Stammers, James Gay-Rees, Asif Kapadia, Paul Norris Row 5 (L-R) : Ridley Scott, Christopher Scarabosio, Charlie Kaufman, Margaret Sixel, George Miller, The Weeknd, Emma Donoghue, Lenny Abrahamson, Liz Garbus, Mark Mangini, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Bryn Mooser, Matt Charman, Steve Golin, S. Leigh Savidge, Brie Larson, Jeremy Kleiner, Ronnie Del Carmen, Rena DeAngelo, Chris Duesterdiek, Sylvester Stallone, Sandy Powell, Emmanuel Lubezki, Roger Deakins, Eddie Redmayne, Charles Randolph, Rachel McAdams, Mary Jo Markey, Stephan Moccio and Jamie Oliver Donoughue. 

They are the honoured few who have been nominated for a famous golden statuette.

And on Monday the nominees for the 88th Academy Awards gathered together at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills for the annual Oscar lunch.

With the ceremony just under three weeks away, campaigning is now more serious than ever.

However the awards continue to be surrounded in controversy because of the uproar over the scarcity of black talent in the contest.