Vanity Fair UK - 11.2019

Contents Issue No. 711

Joaquin Phoenix wears a shirt and tie by Saint Laurent

by Anthony Vaccarello. Hair products by Kevin

Murphy. Grooming products by Beautycounter.

Grooming by David Cox. Set design by Marcs Goldberg.

Produced on location by Joy Asbury Productions.

Styled by Tom Guinness. Photographed exclusively

for V.F. by Ethan James Green in Beverly Hills.

For details, go to VF.com/credits.

On the
Cover

MONSTER HITS, INC.

How Pixar revived Disney (P. 130)

Features

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Fame & Phoenix

BY JOE HAGAN

PHOTOGRAPHS BY

ETHAN JAMES GREEN

Joaquin Phoenix went dark—very

dark—as the troubled comic-book

villain in Joker. It just might earn

him an Oscar.

136

142

112

Unsportsmanlike

Conduct

BY MAY JEONG

NFL owner Robert Kraft was charged

with soliciting a prostitute after

he visited a strip mall massage parlor.

Then the story got interesting.

106

$7.4B

Price paid for

Pixar in 2006

Disney’s animated

box office since then

$16.9B

$

10 VANITY FAIR NOVEMBER 2019

HASAN MINHAJ’S SUIT BY DIOR MEN; SHIRT BY LOUIS VUITTON MEN’S; WATCH BY ROLEX. EMILY WEISS’S CLOTHING BY ISABEL MARANT; SHOES BY JACQUEMUS; BRACELETS BY CARTIER ‘RIGHT’ AND SOPHIE BILLE BRAHE; RINGS BY MARLO LAZ ‘RIGHT’ AND SOPHIE BILLE BRAHE. FOR DETAILS, GO TO VF.COM/CREDITS