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(From left to right) Jared Leto, Jennifer Lawrence, Channing Tatum, Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Kevin Spacey, Brad Pitt, Lupita Nyong’o, Angelina Jolie, Peter Nyong’o Jr. and Bradley Cooper pose for a selfie at the Oscar 2014 in Los Angeles.
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It’s been 10 years since Ellen Degeneres broke X (then still Twitter) by posting an instantly iconic message. selfie Full of top-notch actors during the 2014 Oscars telecast.
Degeneres managed to include Meryl Streep, Bradley Cooper, Jared Leto, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Jennifer Lawrence, Kevin Spacey, Lupita Nyong’o and Channing Tatum in the frame.
Revisiting this moment and the famous faces featured in it is a time capsule. Some of those photographed have been working steadily ever since. For others – like Spacey, who was fired from “House of Cards” in 2018 amid the #MeToo movement after facing sexual misconduct accusations – things have certainly changed.
Cooper, for example, has become an Oscar mainstay since his supporting actor nomination in 2014 for “American Hustle.” A decade later, he’s earned double-digit Oscar nominations and will return to next week’s Academy Awards as candidate for “Maestro,” a film he directed, produced and stars in.
Lawrence was also nominated for her performance in “American Hustle.” She earned another Oscar nomination the following year for her performance in “Joy” and since then she has appeared in a film every year. She too she became a mother by the way.
Leto won an Oscar that year for “Dallas Buyers Club,” as did Nyong’o for “12 Years a Slave.” Since then, Leto has alternated between roles in several blockbuster films, the 2022 miniseries “WeCrashed” and has stayed with his rock band 30 Seconds to Mars.
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Ellen DeGeneres at the final taping of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.”
At the time, Degeneres was still hosting her long-running daytime talk show “The Ellen Degeneres Show,” which aired its final episode in 2022 after 19 years.
Jolie and Pitt were still a couple at the time of the selfie. They got married that same year in an intimate ceremony at his castle in France, but since then divorced and they are in the middle of several legal battles. Pitt won an Oscar as supporting actor in 2020 for “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”
In 2014, Meryl Streep broke her own record when she earned her 18th Oscar nomination for “August: Osage County.” It’s a record that became Degeneres’ currency when she approached Streep to help her “break another record” for most retweets, sparked by her epic selfie.
streptococcus lost To Cate Blanchett that year, but the selfie ended up generating 2.7 million retweets and two million likes, and remains one of the most stellar images in pop culture to date.