Your Ultimate Guide to the 2026 Oscars

Plus: Cast Your Vote With VF's Oscar Ballot

View in browser | Update preferences SUBSCRIBE FOR FULL ACCESS It's a wonderful night for Oscar—and for the VF Oscar Party, which this year has a brand-new home at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. As always, Vanity Fair is going all out for the occasion. (And we're not just talking about the matching gold gel manicures we got as a group on Saturday afternoon.) At 12 p.m. Eastern, we're launching an all-encompassing live blog that will follow Oscar Sunday from soup to nuts, bringing you exclusive analysis, commentary, and reporting from the scene both inside and outside the Dolby Theatre. We have staffers roving the red carpet, posting up by the bar, and rubbing elbows with stars at the ceremony as well as at VF's own Oscar-night watch-party dinner. We're also taking all our Oscar content out from behind a paywall to ensure you can read it to your heart's content. The fun really ramps up as soon as the last statuette is awarded: That's when the VF Oscar Party kicks in to high gear, welcoming the biggest names in entertainment and beyond to celebrate at LACMA. This year, the only writers and photographers inside the party will be VF's own—so if you want to know who was there and what they were wearing, you've come to the right (and only) place. Join us, won't you? HILLARY BUSIS, SENIOR EDITOR Why this ad? Your Ultimate Guide to the 2026 Oscars BY ERIN VANDERHOOF Everything you need to know about who is hosting, where to catch all the red-carpet glam, and how to watch tonight's ceremony. READ MORE Get more as a Vanity Fair subscriber Exclusive offer: Subscribe to get one month of Vanity Fair free START YOUR FREE TRIAL Hollywood's Biggest Night OSCARS 2026 Our Final Winner Predictions for Every Category BY VANITY FAIR Read on to see who Vanity Fair's experts think will take home some gold. READ MORE OSCARS 2026 The 11 Biggest Snubs and Surprises From This Year's Nominations BY REBECCA FORD AND JOHN ROSS From F1 zooming in to contention to Academy favorite Guillermo del Toro dropping off the best-director list, VF breaks down the biggest jaw-droppers from this year's nominations. READ MORE OSCARS 2026 Presenting This Year's Acting Nominees BY MAGGIE COUGHLAN AND LAUREN MARGIT JONES Timothée Chalamet. Wagner Moura. Kate Hudson. See the full list of the 2026 acting nominees. READ MORE Video Every 2026 Oscar Nominee Interview With VF BY VANITY FAIR If you can't get enough of the nominees, here's a roundup of every VF interview with this year's Academy Award contenders. READ MORE Why this ad? In Case You Missed It Your Last Call to Cast Your Vote With VF's Oscar Ballot Get your predictions in before the winners are announced at tonight's show. Who Will Be the Best-Dressed Star of the 2026 Awards Season? The votes show a tight race, but with tonight's ultimate showdown at the Academy Awards—and our very own postshow bash—it's still anyone's game. MORE FROM VANITY FAIR POLITICS BUSINESS HOLLYWOOD STYLE ROYALS CELEBRITY This e-mail was sent to you by VANITY FAIR. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2026. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.