Oscars 2018: What is going on with that Oscars luncheon photo?

This year's 'class photo' has been revealed

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Every year, the Oscar nominees get together for a lovely luncheon, coming together as equals to celebrate their cinematic accomplishments.

While the biggest stars — Matt Damon, Emma Stone, Leonardo DiCaprio — normally dominate the headlines following this ‘class photo’, this year was slightly different.

Agnes Varda, director of the French documentary Faces Places, managed to steal everyone’s attention by not showing up for the event.

Instead, co-director JR (a French photographer whose identity remains unconfirmed) brought along two cardboard cutouts of Varda, using one for the well-publicised photo.

Yes, that's not the real Varda — nor an awful photoshopped — but a cardboard cutout standing between JR and the Oscar-nominated director Greta Gerwig.

Multiple celebrities managed to take photographs with the two cutouts, including Guillermo Del Toro, nominated for The Shape of Water, and Call Me By Your Name's Timothee Chalamet.

Meanwhile, the Oscars race has been heating up, this year proving particularly difficult to guess who could take home the Best Picture award.

Read all the nominees here.