# @vanityfair on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-03-23T22:24:30.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Vanity Fair (@vanityfair) — https://gondola.cc/vanityfair

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Jean Pigozzi—or Johnny, to his friends—is no stranger to the Vanity Fair Oscar Party. By his count, he’s attended the event at least eight or nine times, not counting the many years he went to the legendary bash as a guest of Graydon Carter when it was just a dinner at Mortons. This year, the man-about-town was seated next to his old pal Carter at the dinner, amongst other compatriots.

“The dinner party was fun because I knew nearly everybody. There were 10 of us,” Pigozzi tells VF’s christress over the phone. “I was next to Anjelica [Huston], who I’ve known for 100 years. Mick [Jagger] I’ve known for 50 years. Graydon I’ve known for 30 years. It was really like having dinner with old friends.”

Many consider him the father of the celebrity selfie, after he had the wherewithal to turn his Leica camera around in 1974 to take a photo of himself and Faye Dunaway during his days as an undergrad at Harvard. Thankfully, Pigozzi broke out his famous camera for our party this year at LACMA.

While guests were encouraged to refrain from taking photographs—VF had plenty of photographers on site to take care of that—Pigozzi took literally hundreds over the course of the evening. (The grand total: 1700.) As he wandered the room, he made new friends, like Jon Batiste, and even served as a connector of sorts for the starry guest list, introducing the Grammy winner to his old friend Mick Jagger. “Bizarrely enough, they kind of knew each other, but had never met,” says Pigozzi. “They became instant friends and then you see there’s a picture of them dancing together.”

See more #VFOscars photography from jeanpigozzi at our link in bio.

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