Isabella Rossellini paid a refined tribute to the late David Lynch, donning blue velvet at Sunday’s Oscars as an homage to the 1986 movie.
2025 has been a tricky 12 months already for deaths in cinema. Most not too long ago we misplaced the likes of Gene Hackman and Michelle Trachtenberg, masking a large fanbase. However one that also stings is that of David Lynch, who died on January fifteenth. And whereas this 12 months’s In Memoriam phase of the Oscars did embrace Lynch, he additionally received one other great nod courtesy of Isabella Rossellini, who wore blue velvet in honor of the late director.
Isabella Rossellini — who was earned her first ever Oscar nomination for Conclave — paid tribute to David Lynch in a refined however not unnoticeable means, turning up on the Dolby Theatre in a Dolce & Gabbana costume fabricated from blue velvet, a beautiful nod to the movie of the identical title that she starred in for Lynch. (Rossellini completely deserved an Oscar nomination for that efficiency however that’s nothing to get hung up on now; however not less than Lynch received his second Greatest Director nod.)
Including to the Blue Velvet love, co-star Laura Dern was even seated subsequent to Isabella Rossellini and seen throughout the Greatest Supporting Actress presentation. Whereas the award would predictably go to Zoe Saldaña for Emilia Pérez, seeing Rossellini work in her personal tribute was actually one thing particular…though AMPAS actually ought to have finished extra for Lynch.
However it wasn’t simply David Lynch that Isabella Rossellini paid homage to. She additionally wore one other easter egg: the identical earrings that her mom Ingrid Bergman wore to the 1975 Academy Awards when she gained her personal Greatest Supporting Actress Oscar for Homicide on the Orient Categorical.
Isabella Rossellini — who dated David Lynch for a interval within the ‘80s and ‘90s — would only appear in one more of his films, 1990’s Wild at Coronary heart, whereas Laura Dern would star not simply in these movies but additionally Inland Empire and Twin Peaks: The Return. She would get her personal Greatest Supporting Actress Oscar for 2019’s Marriage Story, having beforehand misplaced for Rambling Rose and Wild.
All through his profession, David Lynch can be nominated for 4 Oscars: three for Greatest Director (The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive) and one for Greatest Tailored Screenplay (The Elephant Man). He can be given an honorary award in 2019.
