has revealed the Shakespearean good luck charm she is carrying in her handbag as she competes for the Best Actress Oscar at the Academy Awards on Sunday.
The Best Actress hopeful, 36, has been the toast of this year's awards season after earning critical acclaim for her role in Hamnet, where she plays a grief-stricken mother, Agnes.
But after dazzling photographers on the red carpet, she was asked what her favourite Shakespeare line was from Hamnet.
She replied: 'My favourite sonnet that I love, which a friend of mine messaged me and actually , in my handbag, put on a piece of tissue to put in my bag, is "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought, I summon up of things past".
This is the opening lines of Shakespeare's Sonnet 30, which explores themes of memory, regret, grief, and the restorative power of love.
The quote itself describes the act of sitting in quiet reflection and intentionally calling forth memories from the past.
Jessie Buckley has revealed the Shakespearean good luck charm she is carrying in her handbag as she competed for Best Actress Oscar at the Academy Awards on Sunday
But after dazzling photographers on the red carpet, she was asked what her favourite Shakespeare line was from Hamnet
While the "sessions" begin peacefully, they serve as a courtroom for the mind where the poet begins to mourn lost friends and past regrets, which ties in with her character as a grieving mother.
For the outing, Jessie put on a showstopping display in a custom Chanel red-and-pink satin gown.
The 98th are celebrating the best films of 2025, with the glitzy ceremony taking place at the Dolby Theatre in .
Conan O'Brien, 62, is returning to host the show for a second consecutive year after taking over the role from .
Ryan Coogler's Sinners leads the pack with a record-breaking 16 nominations, the most for any film in Academy Awards history.
The horror flick is one of the ten films up for Best Picture alongside Bugonia, F1, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value and Train Dreams.
Sinners star Michael B. Jordan faces a stacked Best Actor category, competing against fellow nominees (Marty Supreme), Leonardo (One Battle After Another), (Blue Moon), and Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent).
Set in 1930s , Sinners follows twin brothers (both played by Jordan) who return to their hometown only to face a supernatural evil.
She replied: 'My favourite sonnet that I love, which a friend of mine messaged me and actually Chanel, in my handbag, put on a piece of tissue to put in my bag, is "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought, I summon up remembrance of things past"
The Best Actor race is currently a dead heat. While Chalamet dominated the early season with wins at the Golden Globes and Critics' Choice Awards, the momentum shifted after Jordan won at the Actor Awards, formerly known as the SAG Awards.
Adding to the tension, the ceremony arrives on the heels of Chalamet's controversial comments about how 'no one cares' about ballet or opera, which sparked a wave of backlash from the arts community.
Based on the life of professional ping-pong player Marty Reisman, Josh Safdie's Marty Supreme stars Chalamet as a table tennis prodigy in 1950s New York whose ambition to become world champion jeopardizes his personal relationships.
Irish star Jessie Buckley is the frontrunner in the Best Actress category for her work in Hamnet. She faces a star-studded field including Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I would Kick You), Kate Hudson (Song Sung Blue), Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value), and Emma Stone (Bugonia).
Helmed by 2021's Best Director winner Chloe Zhao, Hamnet dives into the reimagined story of William Shakespeare's home life and how the death of his 11-year-old son provided the emotional blueprint for his masterpiece, Hamlet.
Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another earned 13 nominations.
Along with a Best Director nod, the film also nabbed a Best Actor mention for DiCaprio, and Supporting Actor nods for Benicio del Toro and Sean Penn.
The black comedy action-thriller follows a washed-up ex-revolutionary (DiCaprio) who is forced to come out from hiding to rescue his daughter, after she is targeted by his former nemesis, a corrupt military officer (Penn).
Aside from Penn and del Toro, the Best Supporting Actor category includes Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein), Delroy Lindo (Sinners) and Stellan Skarsgard (Sentimental Value).
