“You Made It”: People Are Emotional Over Sebastian Stan’s Super Meaningful 11-Year-Old Instagram Post Following His Oscar Nomination

As of yesterday, Sebastian Stan is officially an Oscar nominee, with the 42-year-old star being nominated in the prestigious Best Actor category at the Academy Awards.

Sebastian plays President Donald Trump in the highly controversial film, which examines Trump’s life and career in the 1970s and 1980s.

So, The Apprentice being nominated at this year’s Oscars is a pretty big deal, but Sebastian faces stiff competition from his fellow nominees: Ralph Fiennes for Conclave, Timothée Chalamet for A Complete Unknown, Colman Domingo for Sing Sing, and Adrien Brody for The Brutalist.

And soon after news of Sebastian’s nomination was announced, one of his decade-old Instagram posts resurfaced online as his fans struggled to contain their pride for him.

In September 2014, Sebastian — who moved to New York from Romania when he was 12 — shared a photo from his high school yearbook that showed him as a baby being held by his mom.

Notably, the photo’s yearbook caption reads: “Most likely to be in the bathroom fixing his hair when he receives his first Oscar.”

“Well…yeah,” Sebastian simply captioned the post at the time, but his fans believe that the post has suddenly taken on a whole new meaning. 

Sharing a screenshot of it to X, a fan wrote: “seb posted this on his ig almost 11 years ago and i wanna word vomit so bad rn but i cant stop crying he deserves it so so much after years of being overlooked and pushing himself to the brink for every project. from a little kid from romania to an oscar nominee sebastian Stan.”

Sebastian himself has not acknowledged his 2014 Instagram post — or the yearbook premonition — but he did issue a statement after his nomination was announced, where he revealed that he was in his home country of Romania when he heard the news.

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