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Room's Brie Larson Reacts to Her First Oscar Nomination: "Holy S--t!" Brie Larson had a simple, but very real initial reaction when she heard her named being announced for an Oscar nomination for work in Room. "I thought, 'Holy s--t!'" she said, adding, "It's that mixed with a total flat line." She actually had just gotten home from a long day of work filming Kong: Skull Island in Australia. "It was a very physical day, a lot of climbing. I just climbed mountains all day today in the hot Australian sun so I was just exhausted," said Larson, 26. "So I was tired so I thought this is the perfect way to do it while your body is just really exhausted and you're kind of relaxed about it. "I didn't realize how strong my reaction would be," she continued. "My whole body was shaking. I started crying. It really was when they gave [Lenny Abrahamson] a best director nomination that I really lost it. He's so deserving of it. So well deserved and so exciting to see." Room follows the journey of a young woman (Larson) who has been held captive in a shed for several years with her five-year-old son (Jacob Tremblay). Larson's Kong co-stars, which include Samuel L. Jackson and Tom Hiddleston, were ready to help her celebrate as soon as the noms were announced. "I'm on a giant text chain with all the actors from the movie," she said. "There are like 14 of us on it and they all just flooded my phone and they said they were going to bang down my door with champagne. But it's 12:15 a.m. and I have to get up for work in the morning so it just doesn't seem reasonable to me. We'll do champagne another day." Lots of bubbly will be flowing when the Oscars are handed out on Sunday, Feb. 28, at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood and will be televised live on ABC at 7 p.m. ET. Chris Rock is set to host for the second time. On Sunday, Larson picked up a Golden Globe for her work in Room. After the show, she recorded an Instagram video for the Globes. "My favorite moment was after I went back to my table after winning a Golden Globe, Katy Perry had a round of In-N-Out burgers for everybody," she revealed. "Hot and fresh!" Larson told me after the Globe nominations were announced that she's "super into" jigsaw puzzles. "They help me stay relaxed," she said. And that's exactly why I gave her a jigsaw puzzle of a Room poster earlier this month at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. (Eonline)

Oscars 2016: Brie Larson, Alicia Vikander, Saoirse Ronan and More Nominees React. Never mind the powerball winning numbers -- these stars woke up to the best news of their careers. As the 2016 Oscar nominations were announced Thursday morning, A-list actors and Hollywood newcomers alike basked in the glory of joining the industry's elite group of acclaimed performers, some for the very first time. Golden Globe winner Brie Larson and SAG Award nominee Rachel McAdams were nominated for their first Oscars in the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress categories respectively, while two-time Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence collected her fourth nomination at just 25 years old. As highly expected, The Revenant's leading star and Golden Globe winner Leonardo DiCaprio collected his sixth nomination, officially commencing the office pool for whether or not he will finally win his first golden statue this year after decades in the industry. Larson, 26, was one of the first to react to the celebratory news, calling in to Today from Australia where she is currently shooting King Kong. "I am feeling incredible...I can't even believe it. I am just sitting here in complete and utter shock over all of this." she said. "I feel like I'm in a very bizarre Alice in Wonderland dream right now." "Just the nomination alone is so incredible...it's so cool," she added. "I feel like I get to join this cool club of people that I love." The Danish Girl's Vikander later called into the show, freshly awake from learning the news. "I just woke up and I was trying to look at the live thing and as soon as it came up for the Best Supporting Actress category, my wifi just went off and then I got a call and I was really nervous to pick it up," she admitted. Brooklyn's Ronan revealed the special person who broke the happy news to her. "I was asleep...My mom ran into me, tears streaming down her face so I knew it was either good news or bad news and it was the best news ever," she said during a phone call on the show. "We're delighted." (Eonline)

Tyler the Creator will also lend his voice to the R-rated animation. Sam Rockwell, Jeffrey Tambor and Steve Coogan are getting animated. They will lend their voices to the R-rated animation The Adventures of Drunky, along with Nina Arianda, Dave Attell and rapper Tyler The Creator. The supporting cast will include Abby Elliot, John Leguizamo, Jon Glaser, Jay Pharoah and Noel Wells. Rockwell will voice a barfly named Drunky who unwittingly becomes involved in a bet with divine powers that be, Satan (Coogan) and God (Tambor), and must travel through heaven and hell to save Earth and rescue the girl he loves. Aaron Augenblick directs The Adventures of Drunky from a screenplay written by Aaron Bergeron, with Lisa Thomas, Kris Wollinger, James Belfer and Daniel Shepard set to produce and Peter Lengyel and Adam Belfer acting as executive producers. "The Adventures of Drunky is everything I love about cartoons," says Augenblick. "It's hand drawn, surreal, and funny as hell." The Adventures of Drunky The film will be the first animated feature film ever produced in Brooklyn, NY. (Hollywood Reporter)

"Like the Rocky Mts. The higher u climb the whiter." Al Sharpton lit into Hollywood Thursday morning after this year's Oscar nominations were released and not a single African American was up for one of the 20 available slots in the four acting categories. This marks the second year with this result; the protest hashtag last year was #OscarsSoWhite. Sharpton criticized the industry for having a "fraudulent image of progressive and liberal politics and policies" and compared success in Tinseltown to climbing the Rocky Mountains: "The higher u climb the whiter." The Academy attempted to diversify membership, inviting 322 new members over the summer, which included Selma star David Oyelowo, British actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw, who appears in Concussion, and Compton director F. Gary Gray. Awards-caliber films focused on African American stories and performances included Compton, Beasts of No Nation, Will Smith in Concussion, Michael B. Jordan in Creed, Idris Elba in Beasts and Samuel L. Jackson in The Hateful Eight. (Hollywood Reporter)

Scientology doc 'Going Clear' and 'Furious 7' song "See You Again" were also notably left out of this year's nominations. While many Oscar hopefuls were celebrating on Thursday morning as this year's nominations were announced, other likely contenders were surprisingly left out. Although The Martian earned a number of nominations, including ones for best picture and best actor (Matt Damon), its director Ridley Scott was shockingly left out of the best director category. Damon had been pushing for the veteran filmmaker, who'd never won a best director Oscar, to win the award this year but he wasn't even nominated. Steven Spielberg was also left out of the best director nominees although his film, Bridge of Spies, was nominated in other categories. While the high-profile Steve Jobs film got nominations for stars Michael Fassbender and Kate Winslet, its screenplay, by Aaron Sorkin, wasn't nominated in the best adapted screenplay category despite the film being considered a frontrunner in that category. Sorkin also won the Golden Globe for best screenplay on Sunday. The Hateful Eight was also a surprising omission in a number of categories, including best picture, best director (Quentin Tarantino) and adapted screenplay. But the film was nominated for a number of other awards. Other snubs in the categories of best picture and director included Carol, Straight Outta Compton, Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Sicario -- all of which were considered likely nominees in one or both of those categories as recently as last week. Many of those films, however, did get other nominations, and The Force Awakens and Sicario are well represented in the technical categories. In the category of best documentary feature, arguably the most high-profile doc of the year was left out: Alex Gibney's Scientology expose Going Clear. Other likely documentary nominees that were left off the final list include Best of Enemies, He Named Me Malala, Listen to Me Marlon, Meruand Michael Moore's Where to Invade Next. Another shocking omission came in the category of best original song when frontrunner and Paul Walker tribute "See You Again," from Furious 7, failed to land a nomination. For the second year in a row, the Academy's voters selected all white actors in the acting categories, leaving out diverse, deserving hopefuls Benicio del Toro and Idris Elba (considered likely supporting actor nominees) as well as Will Smith and Michael B. Jordan (considered likely best actor nominees). Other notable acting snubs included Jacob Tremblay (left out of best actor for his role in Room), Michael Shannon (no best supporting actor nomination for his work in 99 Homes) and Helen Mirren, who didn't score either a best actress nomination for Woman in Goldnor a best supporting actress nomination for Trumbo. In the category of best animated film, two likely nominees -- The Good Dinosaur and The Peanuts Movie -- were left out. Also Beasts of No Nation and Concussion, considered likely nominees in a few categories, were completely shut out. (Hollywood Reporter)