The 2016 Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue is here, and the cover features a variety of acclaimed, stunning actresses across multiple generations, photographed by Annie Leibovitz. All five of this year’s best-actress Oscar nominees—Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett, Saoirse Ronan, Brie Larson, and Charlotte Rampling—are featured, in addition to icons like Jane Fonda, Helen Mirren, Viola Davis, and Diane Keaton, up-and-comers like Alicia Vikander and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Oscar winners Rachel Weisz and Lupita Nyong’o. See the cover image in high-res here.
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The Hollywood Issue includes additional intimate portraits of these stars from Annie Leibovitz and tributes to all of their careers written by James Wolcott. The new issue of Vanity Fair is available on newsstands in New York and Los Angeles, and on the iPhone, Kindle, and other devices, on Thursday, February 4, and nationally on Tuesday, February 9.
More from the Hollywood portfolio is available in the gallery below.
Photos: From Jennifer Lawrence to Lupita Nyong’o: Hollywood’s Fiercest Women Photographed by Annie Leibovitz
Photograph by Annie Leibovitz; Styled by Jessica Diehl.
JENNIFER LAWRENCE
18 films, including Joy and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 2 (2015); one Academy Award, one BAFTA.
With almost more life force than ought to be allowed, Jennifer Lawrence has seized the forefront as a dragonslayer with a goofy streak, a female Lancelot with a playful glint, capable of getting up to no good. It is this champagne tickle beneath her oval surface that has enabled her to scale from the rawboned resilience of
Winter’s Bone—the film that first put her in the firmament—to the rallying defiance of the
Hunger Games series and mutant agonistes of the
X-Men franchise without becoming an ennobled drag. Every emotion shines through her fresh and untinted. The creative threesome with writer-director David O. Russell and the never demure Bradley Cooper—
Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle (her tutorial on the dangers of the “science oven” belongs to the ages), and
Joy, where she mops up her fourth Oscar nomination at the infernally young age of 25—gave her room to carom and showcased the irrepressible side of her that makes her every red-carpet appearance and awards ceremony a potential Happening, especially if Amy Schumer is in on the caper.
