Oscar Blue Ribbons: The Meaning Behind Why Stars Are Wearing Them At Hollywood’s Biggest Night

As host Jimmy Kimmel led the 95th Academy Awards connected Sunday, Mar. 12, fans noticed among the precocious fashion, an accessory emerged — a elemental bluish ribbon pin. Major stars including Oscar winning Pinocchio director Guillermo Del Toro and nominee/previous victor Cate Blanchett rocked the elemental pin. But what does it mean? Per Distractify, the pins, which person been seen astatine erstwhile amusement manufacture events, signify enactment for radical displaced astir the circular — refugees. The ribbon is simply a accidental to amusement solidarity with them, nary substance their state of origin.

Cate Blanchett (Jim Ruymen/UPI/Shutterstock)

According to the UN Refugee Agency, the pins are #WithRefugees ribbons, and they originated from a concern with their UNHCR Coalition. “The #WithRefugees Coalition is a almighty unit for good inspiring enactment successful solidarity with radical forced to fly each implicit the world,” their authoritative website explains. “The Coalition has a divers rank including universities, foundations, faith-based organizations, younker groups, businesses and NGOs. A bulk of its members bash not person exile enactment arsenic an explicit portion of their mandate but person taken steps to publically enactment the exile cause.”

The ribbons are a immense portion of that. “Importantly, the Coalition members showcase applicable ways of supporting refugees, particularly successful the fields of education, shelter, and employment,” the statement continues. “With its divers membership, the Coalition helps amplify a planetary connection of tolerance and inclusion.” Fans volition retrieve that Angelina Jolie  was prominently progressive with the enactment until precocious past twelvemonth arsenic a peculiar envoy.

Blue ribbons person been seen and noted astatine erstwhile events. Jamie Lee Curtis, who won Best Supporting Actress for her singular show successful Everything Everywhere All At Once noted during her quality astatine the BAFTAs successful February wherefore she was rocking the simple, small, bluish pin. “My person Cate Blanchett is asking radical to punctual america each successful the midst of each the play of shiny things that, of course, determination are unspeakable exile crises going connected each implicit the satellite everyplace each astatine once, and we request to bash our part,” she said astatine the time.

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