Very unfair to Trump!
Vanity Fair drastically reduced its Oscar party guest list, but the Trump administration did not participate in that list, Page Six has learned.
In the 1990s, the bash was Hollywood’s toughest door on Oscar night, and every face left behind the bar was guaranteed to be either a bona fide superstar or a top-notch executive from Tinseltown.
But as the years went by, this store became something of a victim of that myth, as more and more power players spent the year figuring out how they (or perhaps their clients) could get into this room in March.
But Vanity Fair’s new editor, Mark Guiducci, has gone back to the future, in the words of a former Oscar-winning film.
Sources say he cut the list by about 50 percent, simply to weed out the famous and powerful from the true A-list of movies. And we are told that the current White House is on the wrong track.
“No one from the Trump administration has been invited this year,” the official said frankly.
The scorn came after Guiducci, who took over as editor-in-chief of the magazine from Radhika Jones in June, made headlines for his surprising profile of White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, which included headshots of MAGA executives including J.D. Vance, Caroline Leavitt, Stephen Miller and Marco Rubio.
Apparently, we won’t see that article, Melania Trump breaking into Hollywood with her new documentary, or the Trump team clapping glasses with VF people on Oscar night.
Meanwhile, we hear that reporters (only a select few have been allowed inside in recent years) will be strictly barred from the red carpet outside, and will be banned from using social media. (Although that’s what they say about Vogue magazine’s Met Ball, and that rule has been respected with varying degrees of prudence over the years).
Jones’ predecessor, Graydon Carter, became editor of Vanity Fair in 1992 and launched the Oscar party in 1994.
The first guests were just 100, including Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Anjelica Huston, Prince, Robert De Niro, Anthony Hopkins, and, on the DC side, Nancy Reagan.
Since then, it has become an organization almost as big as the ceremony itself.
“While A-list names were still visible, they were increasingly sharing rooms with brand partners, media buyers, press and industry-adjacent plus-ones,” the source said.
That is not the case under Giudici, and it is said that you can only get in the door with a rare invitation or an Oscar statuette.
Despite his legendary feud with Carter, Trump and Melania attended in 2005 and 2011.
Nancy Pelosi and Kamala Harris have also attended in recent years.
This year, the party also changed its venue. It will be held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
