Vanity Fair Oscar Party: Hollywood's Big Ticket

Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper are just three Oscar nominees who will definitely score a ticket to Vanity Fair's annual Oscar Party, and ET's Nancy O'Dell is the only TV entertainment news journalist invited inside with Hollywood's biggest stars! Watch the video to see highlights from the last two decades of Tinseltown's hottest ticket.

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"If you bring home an Oscar you can pretty much bring whoever you want to the party," says Vanity Fair contributing editor Frank DiGiacomo, who has witnessed the elite party from both sides of the velvet rope. He says of the stars attending with their significant others over the years, "You can almost trace the history of contemporary Hollywood romance through the Vanity Fair party."

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Keep an eye out for footage of Brad Pitt with then-fiancee Gwyneth Paltrow and later with Jennifer Aniston; Angelina Jolie with her brother; Matt Damon with his mom; and the one celebrity who has been banned from the Vanity Fair Oscar Party!

Vanity Fair magazine is on stands Tuesday.