Amanda Seyfried says it’s more fun backstage at the Oscars.
The 35-year-old star – who is up for the Best Supporting Actress prize at this year’s Academy Awards for her performance in Mank – finds it far more fun to ‘hang out’ in the green room, where she can enjoy some food and watch excited winners with their statuettes, rather than sit out front and watch the ceremony take place.
‘At the Oscars, if I’m giving an award out, I just hang out in the green room the entire ceremony, eat the food and watch people come in and out with their Oscars,’ the looker told Vogue.
I know where to party! Amanda Seyfried says it’s more fun backstage at the Oscars. Seen at the Academy Awards in 2013
Good times: The 35-year-old star – who is up for the Best Supporting Actress prize at this year’s Academy Awards for her performance in Mank – finds it far more fun to ‘hang out’ in the green room, where she can enjoy some food and watch excited winners with their statuettes, rather than sit out front and watch the ceremony take place
‘It’s not the sitting in the auditorium that’s fun, it’s backstage.’
Amanda has also opened up about who inspires her as an actress and she admits she is a huge fan of the late Judy Garland.
Asked her Hollywood icon, she said: ‘Judy Garland for ‘The Wizard of Oz’. Judy Garland because she was a singer. Judy Garland for every reason.’
And like many women of her generation, Amanda remembers falling for ‘Titanic’ actor Leonardo DiCaprio.
She said: ‘I was born in 85, so my childhood movie crush was Leo, obviously.’
I know the drill: ‘At the Oscars, if I’m giving an award out, I just hang out in the green room the entire ceremony, eat the food and watch people come in and out with their Oscars,’ the looker told Vogue. Seen in 2010
Only for VIPs, however: ‘It’s not the sitting in the auditorium that’s fun, it’s backstage,’ said the blonde beauty
Amanda won’t be able to sit backstage this year as she’s been nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for ‘Mank’, and she recently admitted she hoped the speculation tipping her for the nod would make casting directors look at her differently.
She said: ‘The Oscar conversation that’s happening is the first time it’s ever been discussed around my own performance in something.
‘Hopefully it’s making people in the industry think differently of me.’
Amanda has appeared in films such as ‘Mamma Mia’ and ‘Les Miserables’ and was determined to choose projects that kept her career moving.
Congrats! Seyfried landed her very first Oscar nomination this year for her role in Mank
Good job: The blonde beauty was singled out for her performance as Hollywood Golden Age actress Marion Davies in the 2020 film Mank; Davies seen in 1932
She explained: ‘I think you have to be really careful and really be deliberate about your choices when you want longevity. The priority for me was always that I just wanted to be working.
‘It was great when ‘Mamma Mia!’ came and shifted my career into a different gear. I got different opportunities. I got paid more and all that fun stuff.’
Amanda added: ‘But while I was doing that I was always looking for a home base. I was always gonna end up on a farm in upstate New York.’
Amanda Seyfried landed her very first Oscar nomination on Monday morning after making almost 40 films in under 20 years.
The blonde beauty was singled out for her performance as Hollywood Golden Age actress Marion Davies in the 2020 film Mank which also starred Gary Oldman and Lily Collins.
The actress is best known for the movies Les Miserables, Mama Mia! and its sequel as well as the 2004 hit film Mean Girls.
Looking back: Here the star is seen in costume as Marion, left, as she sits with friends
Amanda landed in the Best Actress in a Supporting Role category and will compete with Maria Bakalova for Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Glenn Close for Hillbilly Elegy, Olivia Colman for The Father and Youn Yuh-jung for Minari.
In December she told USA Today that getting Oscar buzz was new for her.
‘I haven’t experienced this kind of discussion surrounding me and my performance ever. I’ve always skated through reviews. I’ve had luck with not getting anything totally horrible said about my performance, but it’s always just been ‘Amanda Seyfried, who plays this character’ or, you know, ‘She was fine,” said the star.
‘This is definitely out of the norm for me. I just want to keep working and I want people to respect me.’
And she added she loved the role of Marion and how she fell for Hearst.
‘The relationship that Marion had with Hearst was very real. She had a genuine love for him. It’s hard for anybody to believe that that could be true because she was much younger and she was his mistress for years and years,’ Seyfried said. ‘There was such a sweetness and such a good bond between them that never broke.’
Mank led the Oscar nominations with 10 nods.
The movie – which centers around Herman J. Mankiewicz and how he penned the screenplay for Citizen Kane – has received a huge 10 nominations ahead of the upcoming ceremony on April 26.
Golden girl: Mank led the Oscar nominations with 10 nods. The movie – which centres around Herman J. Mankiewicz and how he penned the screenplay for Citizen Kane – has received a huge 10 nominations ahead of the upcoming ceremony on April 26
It includes coveted nods in the Best Picture category as well as Best Director for David Fincher, Best Actor for Gary Oldman and Best Supporting Actress for Seyfried.
The movie – which had a short cinema release before being made available on streaming service Netflix – also made a strong appearance in the design categories including Production Design, Makeup and Hairstylisting and Costume Design as well as technical categories such as Cinematography, Sound and Score.
The Academy Awards will take place on April 26 from different locations owing to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The actress is married to Thomas Sadoski. Seyfried and Sadoski, who exchanged vows in 2017, are parents to three-year-old daughter Nina and newborn son Thomas Jr.
The star shared in January while on The Kelly Clarkson show that she has not just dog Finn at home but several other animals.
Amanda has ducks, ponies, horses, donkeys, goats, chickens and a cat.
‘You just described them all like a family. You described them like the characters in a film,’ Clarkson exclaimed.
‘There should be a film made of them,’ Seyfried replied. ‘I should make that happen.’
Celebration: Seyfried took to her Instagram story on Monday to commemorate her Academy Award nomination for her performance in Mank
93rd Academy Awards: Who are the 2021 Oscar nominees?
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal
Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Anthony Hopkins – The Father
Gary Oldman – Mank
Steven Yeun – Minari
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Glenn Close – Hillbilly Elegy
Olivia Colman – The Father
Amanda Seyfried – Mank
Youn Yuh-jung – Minari
Best Director
Thomas Vinterberg – Another Round
David Fincher – Mank
Lee Isaac Chung – Minari
Chloé Zhao – Nomadland
Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman
Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Olivia Colman is up for her role in The Father
Best Music (Original Score)
Da 5 Bloods
Mank
Minari
News of the World
Soul
Best Animated Short Film
Burrow
Genius Loci
If Anything Happens I Love You
Opera
Yes-People
Best Live Action Short Film
Feeling Through
The Letter Room
The Present
Two Distant Strangers
White Eye
Best International Feature Film
Another Round
Better Days
Collective
The Man Who Sold His Skin
Quo Vadis, Aida?
Best Sound: Greyhound – a war film starring Tom Hanks – is up for the gong
Best Sound
Greyhound
Mank
News of the World
Soul
Sound of Metal
Best Production Design
The Father
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank
News of the World
Tenet
Best Cinematography
Judas and the Black Messiah
Mank
News of the World
Nomadland
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Emma
Hillbilly Elegy
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank
Pinocchio
Best Music (Original Song)
Fight for You – Judas and the Black Messiah
Hear My Voice – The Trial of the Chicago 7
Husavik – Eurovision Song Contest
Io Si (Seen) – The Life Ahead
Speak Now – One Night in Miami…
Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is vying for the award
Best Picture
The Father
Judas and the Black Messiah
Mank
Minari
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Best Picture: The Trial of the Chicago 7 is one of the eight films nominated
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Viola Davis – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Andra Day – The United States vs Billie Holiday
Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman
Frances McDormand – Nomadland
Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7
Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah
Leslie Odom, Jr. – One Night in Miami…
Paul Raci – Sound of Metal
Lakeith Stanfield – Judas and the Black Messiah
Best Animated Feature Film
Onward
Over the Moon
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
Soul
Wolfwalkers
Best Animated Feature Film: A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon is nominated
Best Costume Design
Emma
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank
Mulan
Pinnochio
Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
The Father
Nomadland
One Night in Miami…
The White Tiger
Best Writing (Original Screenplay)
Judas and the Black Messiah
Minari
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Best Documentary Feature
Collective
Crip Camp
The Mole Agent
My Octopus Teacher
Time
Best Writing (Original Screenplay): Judas and the Black Messiah is up for the gong
Best Documentary Short Subject
Colette
A Concerto Is a Conversation
Do Not Split
Hunger Ward
A Love Song for Latasha
Best Film Editing
The Father
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Best Visual Effects
Love and Monsters
The Midnight Sky
Mulan
The One and Only Ivan
Tenet
