THE OSCAR Special

2024 ACADEMY AWARDS

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AND THE 2024 NOMINEES ARE . . .

BEST Actress

CAREY MULLIGAN

AGE 38 FINE-TUNED For her third Oscar nod, the British Maestro star portrays composer Leonard Bernstein's wife in what's being called her "best performance ever" HEAD GAME Director and co-star Bradley Cooper turned up to ask Carey to play the role right after a heavy piece of set fell on her head while she was performing in a play and she had collapsed into tears.

"We had a kind of dramatic bonding moment," she joked FAMILY FIRST "I'm desperate to get back onstage, but missing bedtime is rough at their age," says the proud mom of three young children with her husband, musician Marcus Mumford, 37

ANNETTE BENING

AGE 65 SEAS THE DAY The Nyad star trained for a year to play Diana Nyad, who braved shark-infested waters to swim from Cuba to Florida at age 64 DULY NOTED With five nominations and no wins as of yet, Annette received her second nod for playing a lesbian character, as she did in 2010's The Kids Are All Right NEXT UP Married to Bugsy co-star Warren Beatty, 86, for 31 years, she'll switch to tennis to play a retired coach in the mystery series Apples Never Fall, based on Liane Moriarty's bestselling novel

SANDRA HULLER

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