We all know that Oscar nominees get treated to incredible swag bags every year which are always filled with amazing things from luxurious trips to delectable snacks, to all kinds of must-have beauty and skincare. If you’ve ever wondered what’s actually included in these amazing gift bags, you’re in luck! We’ve got all the info on the over 50 gift items that Oscar nominees like Will Smith, Andrew Garfield, Denzel Washington, Jessica Chastain, Olivia Colman, Kristen Stewart, J.K. Simmons, Jesse Plemons, Ariana DeBose, Kirsten Dunst, Jane Campion and Steven Spielberg will be receiving this year.
Los Angeles-based entertainment marketing company, Distinctive Assets, created the “Everyone Wins” Nominee Gift Bags for 2022. This year, they put together a swag bag that’s sure to be a hit with recipients. After all, the gifts include plots of land in Scotland (and a title of Lord or Lady of Glencoe) from Highland Titles, the world’s first ever flavor wrapped popcorn kernels from Opopop which are sure to be delicious, and a deluxe skincare gift set from Byroe.
In addition to these stellar gifts, nominees will also receive vouchers for cosmetic procedures, personal training sessions, life coaching and so much more. Clearly, everyone’s going to go home a winner this Sunday night.
If you want to see what kind of gifts nominees will get this year, check out the 50-plus gift list below.
2022 Oscars Nominee Swag Bag
Highland Titles
Highland Titles was created to help conserve Scotland “one square foot at a time.” Nominees can become Lords and Ladies of Glencoe when they receive a gift sized plot of land that they can actually visit at any time.
An assortment of delicious Bahlsen Biscuits will also be included in this year’s swag bag. Their premium chocolate biscuits and wafers are sustainably sourced and crafted in Germany, and each pack comes with 10 biscuits for recipients to indulge in.
Byroe
Nominees will receive a carefully curated gift set from Byroe, which is a women-led skincare brand that uses their platform to give back and empower women. The nominee gift set includes best-sellers like the Bitter Green Essence Toner, the Tomato Serum, and the Salmon Cream.
Whipped Drinks
This kit contains everything you need to make the perfect whipped coffee at home in just 60 seconds.
Opopop
Opopop created the world’s first Flavor Wrapped Popcorn kernels where each kernel is individually “pre-wrapped” in flavor. Some of their most popular flavors include Fancy Butter, Cinnalicious, Maui Heat, and Lightly Salted, and nominees will get a chance to try these tasty treats.
After spending 22 years in their much-loved Tower Grove Heights three-story home, Sharon Derry and her husband, Michael Martin, decided it was time to move. “We loved our neighborhood, but our home was very vertical with lots of room, but also lots of stairs.”
“We were getting to an age when we were thinking about things like having a bathroom and a bedroom on the first floor, and those types of issues. We also realized we wanted to live in a different type of architecture,” she says.
The two loved the fairy-tale bungalows in the Southampton neighborhood, so Derry made a list of available properties for them to tour. Most of the houses they looked at had small rooms and too little space to accommodate their needs. Derry is an interior designer and an artist who kept a home studio; Martin, who is an art installer and a musician, has always had a recording studio at home. Although they talked about downsizing, they didn’t want to give up their studios.
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Then Derry found the house they would come to call home. “It sits on a corner, and though it faces other homes, there are some commercial buildings on the side. I didn’t think it would work, but I took a look and fell in love with it,” Derry says. “From the outside, it looks like a typical south side bungalow, but inside, the rooms were super-sized — twice as big as other house we’d looked at.
“When Michael and I looked at it together he said, ‘This house has got it going on. We could live in this space.’ So we bought it,” she says.
Both of them thought the house was an ugly duckling aesthetically, but they’d dealt with ugly before. With ingenuity, grit and DIY energy, they had turned their three-story turn-of-the-20th-century home into a beautiful swan. They would do the same with their bungalow.
“Michael and I sometimes give a room a ‘glow-up’ which is what we did with the vintage 1937 master bath. It was in rough shape,” Derry says. Instead of tearing out the tile floor and tile walls, Derry tackled the walls first, hand painting every inch of the badly yellowed grout on the wall tiles a light cream using an angled eyebrow makeup brush.
“Every one of those pieces in the basket weave tile floor was laid by hand. It didn’t come pre-set like they do now on 12-inch sheets. This is a craftsman era-house with everything that name implies, and we wanted to honor that,” she says.
To salvage the floor, she bought black grout, then over-grouted the floor using the edge of a credit card, carefully filling the spaces. “It was a game changer,” she says. “Then we painted and got rid of the Band-aid colored ceiling. My brother, who is a woodworker, built us a new medicine cabinet using an original door we found stored away, so the woodwork matches perfectly.”
Derry applied similar thinking to renovating the kitchen. “We got a bid from a remodeling company to do the job, which came in at $32,000, but they couldn’t start for 3 months,” she says.
She and Martin decided to have a go at it. “I told him we could try painting the cabinets, and if it didn’t work we’d be out $50 for the paint and our time,” she says. “We splurged on the quartz countertops and ran them up as a full-height backsplash. I bought beautiful Italian cabinet hardware, which is one of my best tips as an interior designer. Good hardware is an inexpensive way to elevate space or a piece of furniture.” The work came in at $12,000, saving them $20,000 in the process.
“My personal philosophy is that your home should be like the museum of you filled with things you love. I believe in working with furniture and objects people have in their homes, not doing a clean sweep and starting from scratch,” she says.
They hung art in all the rooms, much of it from local artists they knew. They melded their styles in the furnishings. Derry loves to mix and match eras and styles in furnishings, while Martin leans toward midcentury modern pieces.
“Our homes are not show rooms, they’re spaces that are meant to be lived in,” Derry says. “If my client needs a dog bed in the corner of their living room I am a firm believer in designing the space that works for their lifestyle. There is a way to do it. You can have a beautiful home and still serve all those masters.”
Sharon Derry and Michael Martin
Ages • Derry is 62, and Martin is 60.
Family • Derry and Martin live with Snowpea, a flame-point Siamese cat.
Occupations • Derry is an interior designer and artist. Martin is the gallery manager and art handler at the Greenberg Gallery. He is also a musician and an art installer with his own company, M2Art.(tncms-asset)a0093276-ba43-5e88-a7f5-46793efd103a[4](/tncms-asset)(tncms-asset)c9debe1d-7ae6-5730-bcda-ebb02062c6e1[5](/tncms-asset)(tncms-asset)20e3c6d0-46e5-5655-aafb-6195b69f7e23[6](/tncms-asset)(tncms-asset)a0093276-ba43-5e88-a7f5-46793efd103a[4](/tncms-asset)(tncms-asset)f779d7f2-b1b1-5b29-9720-7b1792da936e[8](/tncms-asset)(tncms-asset)e91fea1c-5748-580e-89ce-b9fd9cd4afca[9](/tncms-asset)(tncms-asset)fe6575d2-c9a8-5e98-a537-7bd0e0388cb9[10](/tncms-asset)(tncms-asset)f2ff5d14-1dae-5376-94de-bb2e33f0391e[11](/tncms-asset)
Photos: At Home with Sharon Derry and Michael Martin in the Southampton neighborhood
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