As much as a dozen Montgomery-county area natives are up for an Academy Award, 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 80s, where they played baseball on the East Abington Little League team in 1985, and 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, which is about two astronomers attempting to warn humanity (and their government) about an approaching comet that will destroy human civilization.

Cooper is nominated along with Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale for Production of Nightmare Alley, which is about a very talented carnie (Cooper) who finds himself on a very strange adventure.

The Academy Awards will be televised on March 27, 2022, honoring movies released in 2021.

Read more about local Montgomery County Oscar nominees like David Sirota and Bradley Cooper here on 6ABC.