Celebrities’ First Oscar Appearances

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Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani

The talented husband-wife duo looked lucky in love at their first Oscar appearance. The two were nominated for best original screenplay for their work on The Big Sick in 2018.

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Mary J. Blige

The singer-turned-actress took the stage to perform the song "Mighty River" from Mudbound — the song which scored her two nominations — at her first Oscar appearance during the 90th annual awards show. Blige also made history as the first person ever to be nominated for a performance and original song in the same year for the same film.

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Kobe Bryant

The retired NBA star scored big at his first Oscars in 2018. Bryant took home the award for best animated short film for Dear Basketball.

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Sam Rockwell

He came — and conquered! The Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri star took home the award for best supporting actor at his first Oscars appearance in 2018.

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Daniel Kaluuya

The Get Out star shined in a gold tuxedo during his first appearance at the Oscars in 2018. Kaluuya was nominated for best actor for his role of Chris Washington in the horror film.

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Jordan Peele

A historic feat! It may have been the Get Out director's first time at the award show, but it was well worth the wait. Peele became the first African American screenwriter to win the award best original screenplay at the 2018 Oscars. He was also nominated for best director and best picture.

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Timothée Chalamet

The Call Me By Your Name actor became a fan favorite in 2018, and his work was not only noticed, but nominated. Chalamet's nomination for best actor made him the youngest nominee in that category in nearly 80 years.

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Tiffany Haddish

The Girls Trip actress has had a big year, and despite not receiving a nomination, she took the 2018 Oscars by storm when she hilariously presented the awards for animated and live action short films alongside Maya Rudolph.

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Ryan Gosling

The first time Ryan Gosling walked the Oscars red carpet in 2007, he was a Best Actor nominee for his role in the 2006 drama Half Nelson. Though he lost to Forest Whitaker, the night was extra memorable for another reason: His dates were his mom, Donna (right), and sister, Mandi!

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Michelle Williams

Nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Brokeback Mountain, Michelle Williams stunned at her 2006 Academy Awards debut in a canary Vera Wang number. 

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Viola Davis

There's no doubt, Viola Davis was a knockout on her first Oscars red carpet in 2009. The star, nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Doubt, wore a gold Reem Acra gown. 

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Amy Adams

What an arrival! For Amy Adams' 2006 Oscars debut, the star, nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category for Junebug, wore chocolate Carolina Herrera.

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Andrew Garfield

In 2011, the Social Network star wore Louis Vuitton at his first Oscars appearance. 

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Nicole Kidman

The way they were! A Valentino-clad Nicole Kidman strutted down the red carpet with then-husband Tom Cruise in 1991.  

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Natalie Portman

Nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Closer, Natalie Portman took the plunge in a gray tulle Lanvin stunner in 2005. 

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Alicia Vikander

The Danish Girl actress first graced the Oscars red carpet in 2013, when she wore a blue lace dress by Elie Saab Couture.

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Leonardo DiCaprio

Nominated for Best Supporting Actor in 1994, a dapper DiCaprio walked the red carpet on year after his nominated flick, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, hit theaters.

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Jennifer Lawrence

Nominated at age 20 for Winter's Bone, Lawrence — edged out for 2011's Best Actress trophy by Natalie Portman — stunned on the red carpet in Calvin Klein's figure-flattering crimson gown. Lawrence took home her first Academy Award two years later for Silver Linings Playbook.

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Eddie Redmayne

Redmayne got a ticket to the 2013 Oscars thanks to his role in Les Misérables. The British actor and his costars performed at the 85th Annual Academy Awards.

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Kate Winslet

The Titanic actress, who's been nominated seven times and won once, first attended the Oscars in 1996, celebrating her first nom for Sense and Sensibility. 

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Saoirse Ronan

The Irish actress donned a green lace Alberta Ferretti dress in 2008, when she received her first Oscar nomination for role in Atonement.

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Sylvester Stallone

The Rocky star posed with the film's producers at the 1977 Oscars, his first.

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Rachel McAdams

The Notebook actress hit the red carpet at her first Oscars in 2010 wearing a strapless Elie Saab Haute Couture gown with a watercolor print. (Lorraine Schwartz jewels and Sergio Rossi shoes completed the ensemble.)

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Mark Ruffalo

Ruffalo attended the Oscars for the first time in March 2001. With his pregnant wife Sunrise Coigney on his arm, the star walked the red carpet at L.A.'s Shrine Auditorium.

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Michael Fassbender

Fassbender brought his mom, Adele, to his first Oscars in 2014, when he was nominated for his role in 12 Years a Slave.

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Rooney Mara

Mara stunned in a white lace Givenchy Couture gown with a structured bodice in 2012, when she attended to celebrate her first nomination for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

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Bryan Cranston

The Breaking Bad star attended his first Academy Awards ceremony in 2013, with his wife, Robin Dearden, on his arm.

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Cate Blanchett

In 1997, the actress was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for Elizabeth, and although Blanchett lost out to Gwyneth Paltrow, she still stunned on the red carpet in John Galliano's embroidered gown. "Cate Blanchett stole the show on Oscar night," Vogue later declared, and "emerged all at once as a great beauty, as well as a phenomenal talent."

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Ben Affleck and Matt Damon

First time's the charm for Affleck, who celebrated his victory with fellow Oscar winner Damon, his Good Will Hunting costar and BFF, in 1998.

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Jennifer Jason Leigh

Leigh rocked a simple black dress with off-the-shoulder sleeves at the Academy Awards in 2006.

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Christian Bale

Bale, who scored his third Oscar nomination with 2015's The Big Short, first walked the Oscars red carpet in 2011. He went home with the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor that year.

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Charlotte Rampling

The English actress made her first Oscars appearance (alongside Anthony Hopkins) at the 1976 ceremony.

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Reese Witherspoon

The Oscar-winning star took home a statue after nabbing her first nomination for 2005's Walk the Line. Her first show was March 2002's 74th Annual Academy Awards, which she attended with then-husband Ryan Phillippe on her arm.

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Edward Norton

The celebrated actor was 1990s perfection at the 69th Annual Academy Awards in March 1997. Norton was nominated for Best Supporting Actor that year for his role in 1996's Primal Fear.

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Emma Stone

The stunning star hit the Oscars for the first time in February 2012. Stone presented with Ben Stiller at the 84th Annual Academy Awards after starring in Crazy, Stupid, Love and The Amazing Spider-Man.

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Ethan Hawke

Hawke strutted his stuff on the Academy Awards red carpet in March 2000 with his then-wife Uma Thurman by his side. He attended the 72nd Annual Oscars before ever being nominated, and went on to receive multiple honors.

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Robert Duvall

Veteran actor Duvall won an Oscar at the first awards ceremony he attended in 1984. Though he had been nominated multiple times in the years prior, the star took home the Best Actor honor at the 56th Annual Academy Awards.

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Keira Knightley

Following her appearance in Pride and Prejudice, Knightley attended 2006's 78th Annual Oscars, where she was nominated for Best Actress.

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Laura Dern

Dating Jeff Goldblum at the time, Dern made her Oscars debut at the 68th Annual Awards in March 1996. A few years prior, she was nominated at the 1992 Oscars for her role in Rambling Rose.

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Patricia Arquette

The Boyhood actress attended her first Oscars in 1996 on the arm of her then-husband Nicolas Cage. She supported Cage as he won the Best Actor award for Leaving Las Vegas.

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Benedict Cumberbatch

The British actor made his first Oscars appearance at March 2014's 86th Annual Academy Awards and kicked things off with a bang when he epically photobombed the members of U2.

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Steve Carell

Though Carell earned his first official acting credit in 1991, he didn't attend the Academy Awards until the 78th annual ceremony in March 2006. He walked the red carpet with his wife Nancy Walls by his side.

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Rosamund Pike

Before becoming a household name with her dramatic role in Gone Girl, Pike attended 2006's 78th Annual Oscars.

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Drew Barrymore

The star was only 8 years old when she attended the 1983 Academy Awards.

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Julianne Moore

The celebrated star, who is three quarters of the way to an EGOT, first hit the Oscars carpet in 1998. She went to the 70th Annual Academy Awards with her boyfriend at the time, director Bart Freundlich, who is now her husband.

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Marion Cotillard

French bombshell Cotillard won at the first Oscars she attended. The Oscar winner walked the red carpet at February 2008's 80th Annual Academy Awards before taking home Best Actress for La Vie en Rose.

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Bradley Cooper

Cooper, who presented at 2010's show with Gerard Butler, made a bold statement about the awards. "I don't want to win an Oscar," he said in 2013. "It would change nothing... Career-wise, right now, it's better that I don't win one. I don't want to win."

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Meryl Streep

Jack Lemmon and Cloris Leachman presented Streep with her first Oscar in 1979 for Kramer vs. Kramer. Since then, Streep has won a bevy of honors, including Academy Awards for 2012's The Iron Lady and 1983's Sophie's Choice.

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Oprah Winfrey

Winfrey attended the 58th annual awards in 1986 alongside Ghanaian actress Akosua Busia, who played Nettie in The Color Purple. Nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for The Color Purple, Winfrey (who played Sofia) was beat out for the honor by Anjelica Huston.

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Sandra Bullock

"It feels so otherworldly. It's not a competition. It gets turned into one in the outside world," Bullock (making her first appearance, announcing the award for Best Sound Effects Editing, in 1996) told The L.A. Times of nabbing a 2014 Best Actress nod for Gravity. "Honestly, I am beyond honored and happy. I don't need anything else. I already have the victory."

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Brad Pitt

Oscar winner Pitt, who took home the Best Picture award with his 12 Years a Slave team, went to the 1992 show with then-girlfriend Juliette Lewis.

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Quvenzhane Wallis

Clutching one of her beloved puppy purses, Beasts of the Southern Wild standout Wallis attended her first Academy Awards ceremony in 2013 in celebration of her Best Actress nomination.

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Matthew McConaughey

Alright, alright, alright! McConaughey, who took home a Best Actor Oscar at the 2014 Academy Awards for Dallas Buyers Club, posed at the 2003 ceremony.

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Tom Cruise

1989 was a big year for attendee Cruise, whose film Rain Man won Academy Awards for Best Picture and a Best Actor nod for costar Dustin Hoffman. Cruise has personally been nominated for three Oscars — for Born on the Fourth of July, Jerry Maguire and Magnolia — but has yet to add a trophy to his case, other than those won collectively.

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Halle Berry

Berry sported a purple sleeveless gown with embellished straps in 1996, six years before she made Oscar history as the first African-American woman to win the Best Actress Oscar for Monster's Ball.

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Julia Roberts

Pretty woman and her man! 1990 Oscar presenter and nominee Roberts attended the show on the arm of her then-fiance, Kiefer Sutherland. Though she nabbed a trophy for Pretty Woman, the year later took a sad turn when the couple called off their engagement.

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Anne Hathaway

Presenting the award for Best Costume Design, Hathaway — who went on to host the Academy Awards in 2011 — partied the night away post-show at Vanity Fair's bash in 2004.

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Angelina Jolie

The actress was only 10 years old when she attended the 1986 ceremony with her dad Jon Voight. In 1999, she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in Girl, Interrupted.

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Anna Paquin

The actress won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Piano at the 1994 ceremony when she was only 11 years old.

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Brooke Shields

The model-turned-actress was only 13 years old when she attended the 1979 ceremony.

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Jodie Foster

She was only 14 years old when she attended the 1977 Oscars. She since won two Academy Awards for Best Actress in 1988's The Accused and 1991's The Silence of the Lambs.

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Tatum O'Neal

The star won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Paper Moon at the 1974 ceremony when she was only 10 years old.

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Michael Jackson

The late singer was only 22 years old when he attended the 1981 Academy Awards with a 15-year-old Brooke Shields.