Vanity Fair: Oscar Night Sessions: A Decade of Portraits from the After-Party

by Radhika Jones, Mark Seliger (Photographer ), Alan Cumming

Ten years of luminous photographic portraits of Hollywood celebrities who attended the most exclusive and glamorous after-party of the year

For the past decade, photographer Mark Seliger has set up an elaborate pop-up studio inside the annual Vanity Fair after-party on Oscar night, producing exquisite portraits of Hollywood's A-list personalities in the immediate afterglow of cinema’s biggest event of the year. This book gathers the best of these portraits, along with a foreword by Vanity Fair editor in chief Radhika Jones and an afterword by actor Alan Cumming, who sheds light on what it’s like to be in front of Seliger’s lens on the night of nights. With some 200 portraits, featuring Oscar-winning actors, directors, and musicians, Hollywood power couples, and luminaries of all stripes, including Lady Gaga, Robert De Niro, Spike Lee, Regina King, Jessica Chastain, Taika Waititi, Timothée Chalamet, Donald Glover, and many more, this over-the-top volume will delight anyone interested in exquisite photography and Hollywood glamour.

Genres: Photography, Film, Nonfiction

285 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 14, 2023

Reviews

[Amanda Iman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gorgeous photos! I loved how you could really see some of the detailing of the dresses, shoes, etc in them. Alan Cummings Afterword was fantastic. I could hear him reading it in my head.

I only did 4 stars though, because some of the double page spreads felt like they could have been edited into a single page to make room for more photos. Example: Angelica Huston has a double and she's stunning in the photo, but one of the two pages is just a wall and a lamp...give me someone adoring staring at their Oscar on that page instead.

[Pam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fabulous portraits in lovely color

[Kyle Olson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Probably a 3.5/5 in reality. The pictures that are in here are 5-stars and this was a nice book with some fabulous portraits. BUT I wish they highlighted more of the Oscar photography.

[J.C. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Slightly disappointed because I thought this book was a collection of photographs from the super famous Vanity Fair Oscar Party, it's not. They were shot on a set in a controlled environment. I was looking forward to pictures of drunk celebrities, I didn't get it. Still good though.