I have Ryan Murphy calling me on the other line,” she told Vanity Fair moments after her first career Oscar nomination was announced. “I’ll have to call him right back.”

James Mangold, who was nominated for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for A Complete Unknown, told Variety, “I was in my house with no power [because of the L.A. wildfires], with my wife looking at a cellphone on a single bar of data watching an infinitesimally small telecast.”