As many as a dozen Phila. suburb natives are up for an Academy Award this year, writes Alicia Vitarelli for 6abc.
At the recent 2022 Oscar Nominees Luncheon in Los Angeles, Jenkintown’s Bradley Cooper and Abington’s David Sirota saw each other for the first time since the 1980s, when they played East Abington Little League baseball. Both are up for an Academy Award this year.
“This was all happening in the middle of all this hubbub, but he (Bradley) said this took him all the way back to his childhood,” said Sirota.
Sirota is up for Best Original Screenplay for Don’t Look Up, which he wrote with Malvern’s Adam McKay. It is about two astronomers attempting to warn humanity (and their government) about an approaching comet that will destroy human civilization.
Cooper is nominated for Nightmare Alley, in which he plays a very talented carnie who finds himself on a strange adventure.
The Academy Awards will be televised on March 27, 2022.
Read more about local Montgomery County Oscar nominees like David Sirota and Bradley Cooper here on 6abc.
