Very un-Fair to Mr. Trump!
Vanity Fair has slashed its Oscar party guest list, Page Six has learned — and the Trump administration hasn’t made the cut.
Back in the 1990s, the bash was the toughest door in Hollywood on Oscar night, ensuring that every last face at the bar was either a bona fide superstar or a top-tier Tinseltown executive.
But over the years its become something of a victim of its own mythology as more and more power-players spent their entire year figuring out how they (or more likely their client) could get in the room come March.
But we’re told that new Vanity Fair editor Mark Guiducci is, to quote a one-time Oscar winning movie, going back to the future.
Insiders says he’s cut the list by approximately 50 percent to weed out the merely famous and powerful from the true A-list of moviedom. And we’re told that the current White House is on the wrong side of the line.
“No Trump administration officials have been invited this year,” said an insider, bluntly.
The snub comes after Guiducci — who took over the editorship of the magazine from Radhika Jones in June — made a splash with a jaw-dropping profile of White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, which featured warts-and-all portraits of top MAGA officials including J.D. Vance, Karoline Leavitt, Stephen Miller and Marco Rubio.
Apparently neither that story nor Melania Trump’s entrée into Hollywood with her new documentary will see the Trump team clinking glasses with VF insiders on Oscar night.
Meanwhile, we hear that press (a select few of whom had been allowed a peek inside in recent years) will be strictly kept outside on the red carpet, and social media will not be permitted. (Although they said that about Vogue’s Met Ball, and that rule has been honored with varying degrees of scrupulousness over the years).
Jones’ predecessor, Graydon Carter, became the editor of Vanity Fair in 1992 and launched its Oscar party in 1994.
The first one had just 100 guests, including Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Anjelica Huston, Prince, Robert De Niro, Anthony Hopkins, and, on the D.C. side of things, Nancy Reagan.
Since then it’s become almost as big an institution as the ceremony itself.
“The A-list names still showed, but they increasingly shared the room with brand partners, media buyers, press and industry-adjacent plus ones,” said an insider.
Despite his legendary feud with Carter, Trump and Melania attended in 2005 and 2011.
Nancy Pelosi and Kamala Harris have both attended in recent years.
The party has also switch venues this year. It’ll be at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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