Not able to make it to the annual all-star Oscars nominees luncheon, French filmmaker Agnes Varda, 89, sent along a collection of cardboard cutouts in her place along with her collaborator JR. Meryl Street, was left in a fit of giggles by the cheeky poses of the absent Agnes. Agnes and artist JR, 34, are nominated for Best Documentary Feature for the crowd-funded Faces Places, which won the prestigious l’œil d’or at the Cannes Film Festival. The film chronicles a road trip in which the two traveled around France in JR’s van, meeting ordinary people and telling their stories of small town life.
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Agnes’s cut outs with artist JR, were the talk of the day as the nominees gathered to congratulate each other during a glamorous lunch at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills.
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