Oscar Class of 2006

From Breitbart:

Chew on this: Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Will Smith and Penelope Cruz were just some of the 140 nominees chowing down Monday at the 26th annual Oscar Nominees Luncheon.

There were luminaries all around the International ballroom at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. "There are no power tables in this room," academy president Sid Ganis told the crowd, noting the luncheon's "relentlessly democratic" seating process. "This is a power room."

The contenders for the 79th Academy Awards celebrated their elite status together - cinematographers and costume designers, screenwriters and song writers, art directors and actors. They drank wine, broke bread, collected their nominee certificates and posed for the annual "class photo," all the honorees, side by side.

"Here in this room, all the nominees are equal," Ganis said.

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