Starlets Featured in 'Vanity Fair' Hollywood Issue

Every year, Vanity Fair ushers in Oscar season with its Hollywood Issue, and several times over the past decade-and-a-half or so, the issue has featured some of the industry's fastest rising young leading ladies. And this is one of those years.
Click to Enlarge Pictured above (and below), in alphabetical order, are Abbie Cornish, Rebecca Hall, Anna Kendrick, Carey Mulligan, Amanda Seyfried, Kristen Stewart, Emma Stone, Mia Wasikowska, and Evan Rachel Wood. Two of them will be Oscar nominees this year (actually in just a few hours) - Kendrick and Mulligan. Most of the others have some pretty serious chops, too, although I'm not exactly sure if that's why they're gracing the cover of this magazine. I mean, Gabby Sidibe is going to get an Oscar nomination, too. I'm not judging, merely pointing it out. Since we're on the subject of Vanity Fair, pick up the book Vanity Fair's Hollywood to see the magazine's great history of photographing celebrities. These photos are pretty bland by comparison to some of those. There are some real classics in that book. And here's an accompanying behind-the-scenes video of the photo shoot:

Comments

[Aryn Nation]

I think "the all White" issue this year looks bland on purpose. How else to highlight the sameness in looks, skin tone and features? Stepford wives anyone?

[S. Lee]

Man, this issue of Vanity Fair is even more racist than I am!