Oscar Nominees on Their First Red Carpets

The nominees for the 88th Academy Awards have been announced and the crop includes veteran stars with decades in the industry and rising Hollywood heavyweights who are becoming box office superstars. So who were all of these honorees before they became Oscar-nominated celebs? See the acclaimed actors years earlier on the first red carpets they ever walked, ahead.

With Buzz Aldrin at the September 1998 premiere of From the Earth to the Moon in Los Angeles.

At the premiere of School Ties in Los Angeles in September 1992.

At a press event in 1989.

At the 57th Berlin International Film Festival's Golden Bear Award Ceremony in February 2007.

At a party for The Goat Or, Who Is Sylvia? in London in April 2004.

At the Sydney Critics Awards in Australia in March 1994.

At the International Day Of The Child benefit in California in November 2001.

At the 15th Annual Movieguide Faith and Values Awards in 2007.

With director Terence Young at a casino opening in France in 1965.

At the 64th Annual Venice Film Festival in Italy in August 2007.

At the Empire of the Sun premiere in California in December 1987.

At the Star Trek: Nemesis world premiere in December 2002.

At the 25th Annual Los Angeles Film Critics Achievement Awards in California in January 2001.

At the Old Vic Theatre in London in February 2001.

At the New York Premiere of Rocky in November 1976.

At a screening for The Best Little Girl in the World in California in April 1981.

At a Sundance Film Festival party in Park City, Utah in January 2009.

At a party for The Notebook in March 2004.

At the 15th Busan International Film Festival in South Korea in October 2010.

At the 53rd Annual Golden Globe Awards in January 1996.