Celebrities At Their Very First Oscars: From Meryl Streep To Margot Robbie

The 21-time Oscar nominee first attended the Academy Awards in 1979 when she was nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category for The Deer Hunter.

Drew Barrymore made her first Oscars red carpet appearance back in 1983 following the release of E.T., when she was just eight years old. The star attended with her mother, who wore a matching white fluffy stole for the occasion.

The actor received her first nomination in 1985 for her role as Celie in The Colour Purple.

In 1990, Roberts attended her first Oscars - for which she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in Steel Magnolias.

Arriving with then-husband Tom Cruise, Kidman first made an appearance in the early 1990s. In 2003, she won her first Oscar for The Hours.

Though she didn't win an Oscar until 1999, the star attended in 1994 and posed with film director James Ivory.

A 20-year-old DiCaprio attended the awards in 1994 when he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor award for What's Eating Gilbert Grape? This began a long few years of fan-fury as DiCaprio repeatedly lost out on an Oscar. That was until (five nominations later) he finally won for The Revenant in 2016.

Years before she and Denzel Washington became the first black actors to win the Best Actor and Best Actress Oscars at the same time (in 2002) Berry attended in the late Nineties.

A couple of years before Titanic swept the board when it came to Oscars nominations, Winslet was nominated for Sense and Sensibility. The English actor represented British fashion on the red carpet wearing a two-tone pink dress and cape by Vivienne Westwood.

The star attended her first Oscars in 1997, the same year she started to gain recognition thanks to her role as Selena in the biopic of the same name.

The Australian actor made her Oscars debut the same year she received her first nomination. Blanchett was up for Best Actress for her role as Queen Elizabeth I but was pipped to the post by Gwyneth Paltrow.

Years before Dakota Johnson attended the Oscars as an actor in her own right, she hit the red carpet with mother Melanie Griffith and stepfather Antonio Banderas for the 72nd Academy Awards in 2000.

Hot on the heels of her breakout role in Legally Blonde, Witherspoon attended the 2002 Oscars. Four years later she won the Best Actress award for Walk The Line.

The superstar's first Oscars were memorable for a whole host of reasons, from one of her first public appearances with Jay-Z to her red-carpet perfect Versace black dress to her performance at the show where she sang a medley of songs.

The Irish actor was just 13 when she first attended the Oscars after being nominated for the Supporting Actress category for her role in Atonement.

The Twilight star attended her very first Oscars in 2009, and has been a firm fixture on the red carpet ever since. It wasn't until 2022, however, that the actor received her first Academy Award nomination for her portrayal of Diana, Princess of Wales in Spencer.

The ELLE UK cover star first attended the Oscars with her father Lenny in 2010.

Lawrence first attended the Oscars - wearing a red Calvin Klein dress - after receiving her first nomination for Winter's Bone. She's since been nominated three more times and won in 2013 for Silver Lining's Playbook.

One of our favourite's on the red carpet, Emma Stone, wore this beautiful high-neck Giambattista Valli dress at her first Oscars in 2012.

Lady Gaga opted for a pale pink gown by Atelier Versace for her first Oscars red-carpet appearance, cutting a far more classic and low-key figure than we have come to expect in the years since.