Anna Wintour and Anne Hathaway were quite the fashionable duo at the 2026 Oscars.

As the Vogue editorial director, 76, and the actress, 43, took the stage to present Best Costume Design and Best Makeup & Hairstyling at the 98th Academy Awards on Sunday, the two made references to Hathaway’s 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada.

Meryl Streep’s fictional character in the film, Runway magazine editor-in-chief Miranda Priestly, is widely understood to have been inspired by Wintour.

Anna Wintour and Anna Hathaway at the Oscars 2026.

Before revealing that Frankenstein’s Kate Hawley had won Best Costume Design, Hathaway asked Wintour, “Anna, just curious, what do you think of my dress tonight?”

“And the nominees are…,” Wintour deadpanned in response.

When it came time to introduce the nominees for the Best Makeup and Hairstyling Category, ultimately won again by Frankenstein, Hathaway asked Wintour if she would “like to read the nominees.”

“Thank you, Emily,” Wintour said, jokingly mistaking Hathaway for her Devil Wears Prada costar Emily Blunt, who plays an assistant named Emily.

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While presenting, Wintour kept on her signature sunglasses, which she’s long refused to take off in public, for most of the time onstage.

Devil Wears Prada 2 will star the returning Hathaway, Streep, Blunt, Stanley Tucci, Tracie Thoms and Tibor Feldman, plus Kenneth Branagh, Lucy Liu, Justin Theroux, B.J. Novak, Pauline Chalamet, Patrick Brammall, Caleb Hearon, Helen J. Shen and Conrad Ricamora. David Frankel and Aline Brosh McKenna have returned to direct and write the screenplay, respectively.

Anne Hathaway commanded attention for her smooth and radiantly youthful complexion as she hit the red carpet at the Oscars.

She has been busily promoting The Devil Wears Prada 2, the sequel to her classic 2006 comedy The Devil Wears Prada, which was based on a roman à clef by a former assistant to Dame Anna Wintour at Vogue.

In a full-circle moment, Hathaway took the stage that evening with the real Dame Anna, who jokingly offered a frosty appraisal of her Valentino dress onstage.

But for many viewers at home, it was Hathaway’s face that drew the most attention, sending social media into a tailspin of speculation.

‘What did Anne Hathaway do to her face and why,’ wondered a fan on X, formerly Twitter, where another wrote: ‘Anne Hathaway debuting her new face.’

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Anne Hathaway commanded attention for her smooth and radiantly youthful complexion as she hit the red carpet at the Oscars

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For many of the viewers at home, it was Hathaway’s face that pulled the most focus, sending social media into a tailspin of speculation

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In a full-circle The Devil Wears Prada moment, Hathaway took the stage that evening with Dame Anna Wintour, who jokingly offered a frosty appraisal of her dress sense onstage

One fan reacted to the sight of her by joking: ‘The new face of Anne Hathaway is the mixture of the face of the young Renee Zellweger and Katherine Heigl.’

‘I see the comments that Anne Hathaway looked Botoxed, and they’re probably right,’ theorized another, ‘but unlike most such cases she looked good and her face was expressive enough. She can cut back next time.’

‘Anne Hathaway looks like she has a permanent filter on her face like cool but also weird,’ tweeted another, then replied: ‘Oh it’s called a facelift lol.’

‘Has Anne Hathaway had plastic surgery?’ one flummoxed viewer wrote on X. ‘Her face looks weird. She was almost unrecognizable.’

Hathaway and Dame Anna were enlisted to present Best Costume Design, in a tip of the hat to the fashion-themed movie that serves as their connection.

After delivering a paean to the importance of clothes on film, Hathaway said: ‘One could argue that one’s wardrobe in real life is also key.’

Dame Anna’s face was a mask of inscrutability as Hathaway asked: ‘Does it make one appear elegant and attractive on, say, the most important night in Hollywood when, say, the most important people in fashion will be judging how one looks?’

As Hathaway turned to her, Dame Anna made her face even harder to read by putting on a pair of sunglasses, an accessory she has described in the past as ‘armor.’

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One fan reacted to the sight of her by joking: ‘The new face of Anne Hathaway is the mixture of the face of the young Renee Zellweger and Katherine Heigl’

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Hathaway and Dame Anna were enlisted to present Best Costume Design, in a tip of the hat to the fashion-themed movie that serves as their connection

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She has been busily promoting The Devil Wears Prada 2, the sequel to her 2006 comedy The Devil Wears Prada, which was based on a roman à clef by a former assistant to Dame Anna

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Hathaway, who won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress as Fantine in the 2012 movie of the musical Les Miserables, wore Valentino for her latest outing at the awards show

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‘Anna,’ asked Hathaway as Dame Anna avoided catching her eye and kept her face determinedly expressionless: ‘What do you think of my dress tonight?’

Dame Anna responded by leaning toward the microphone and saying, ‘And the nominees are,’ earning a huge laugh and a round of applause.

When the book The Devil Wears Prada was published in 2003, it set off a blizzard of gossip that its author, Lauren Weisberger, was writing about her former boss, who had employed her for less than a year.

In public, the real Dame Anna kept her cool, breezily remarking that she was ‘looking forward to reading the book’ to the New York Times.

However, one of her subordinates claimed to her unauthorized biographer, Jerry Oppenheimer, that the Vogue capo was ‘spitting fire’ behind the scenes and ‘felt she had been used and abused by Weisberger.’

When the movie came out three years later, Dame Anna leaned into the publicity and attended the New York City premiere wearing Prada.

Several years after the film’s release, Vogue’s global editorial director was asked in a CNN interview whether she regarded her ex-assistant’s novel as a ‘breach of trust.’

‘Well…,’ she replied with a weak laugh. ‘I think that she brought attention to fashion in a way that, you know, you can look at it in a negative way or a positive way. I choose to look at it in a positive way. In some ways, I think I should be grateful to her.’