Vanessa Hudgens Stuns In Classic Black & White Gown At 2023 Oscars: Photos

Vanessa Hudgens knew the duty for the 2023 Academy Awards connected Sunday, March 12 successful Los Angeles. The erstwhile High School Musical star, 34, looked unthinkable arsenic she rocked a achromatic and achromatic mermaid gown for the reddish carpet. With her raven tresses successful a bun, the histrion accessorized with a brace of diamond earrings, a matching necklace and fabulously painted nails!

Vanessa Hudgens stunned astatine the 2023 Oscars. (Chelsea Lauren/Shutterstock)

The prima had clip to program retired her astonishing ensemble arsenic she was tapped to big the “Countdown to the Oscars” pre-show airing up of the ceremony. Vanessa returned to the gig for the 2nd twelvemonth successful a row, with her co-hosts, Ashley Graham and Lilly Singh, taking it connected for the archetypal time. The pre-show programme included backstage sum and an insider position to the Academy’s subordinate viewing enactment taking spot successful New York City.

Last year, Vanessa sparkled successful a achromatic sequin Michael Kors formal portion co-hosting the pre-Oscars show, and her stylist, Jason Bolden, dished connected the star’s manner consciousness astatine the time. “With Vanessa, 90s reddish carpet dressing is ever a reference,” helium explained to People. “An effortless and chill attack to the reddish carpet.”

The 2023 Oscar quality was an absorbing infinitesimal successful Vanessa’s A-list life, arsenic she precocious got engaged to pro shot subordinate Cole Tucker, portion 1 of her ex-boyfriends, Austin Butler, was the red-carpet king astatine the Academy Awards, with his Best Actor information for Elvis. After Vanessa and Austin broke up successful 2019 aft nine years of dating, she started a romance with the Colorado Rockies’ prima athlete.

And quality was thy name: Vanessa Hudgens. (David Fisher/Shutterstock)

Both Vanessa and Austin look connected bully terms, however, arsenic they person some claimed the histrion was the 1 to propulsion the histrion to instrumentality connected the herculean task of playing icon Elvis Presley. “Last December, we were driving on and we were listening to Christmas music, and past an Elvis Presley Christmas opus came on,” Vanessa said during a 2019 quality connected Live with Kelly and Ryan. “He had conscionable dyed his hairsbreadth dark. He’s a earthy blond, and I was looking astatine him and helium was singing on and I was like, ‘Babe, you request to play Elvis.’”

The amusement of enactment came earlier their breakup, but with Austin still reasoning highly of his ex girlfriend, possibly determination volition beryllium a outcry retired during his Oscar acceptance speech! Fingers crossed!

Meanwhile, the 2023 Oscar ceremonial starts disconnected arsenic a historical nighttime adjacent earlier the archetypal grant is fixed out, arsenic a record-breaking fig of actors of Asian descent are up for this year’s apical awards! Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu and Hong Chau are each up for supporting-actor trophies, portion Michelle Yeoh has a motion for Best Actress. If Michelle wins, she volition beryllium the archetypal Asian histrion to bash so.

This twelvemonth besides marks the highest fig of Irish actors ever nominated! The Banshees of Inisherin secured acting nods for Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon and Barry Keoghan, while Paul Mescal is nominated for Aftersun.

Jimmy Kimmel is hosting the spectacle for the 3rd time, wherever Everything Everywhere All astatine Once leads with 11 nominations, arsenic The Banshees of Inisherin, and All Quiet connected the Western Front are tied for 2nd with 9 nominations each. The ceremonial begins astatine 8pm ET astatine the Dolby Theatre successful Los Angeles.

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