Abbie Cornish is featured in the seventh annual NY Times Great Performances Portfolio for 2010. The issue is a photographic celebration of the year’s best performances, and they have chosen actors who stunned and delighted us this past year. It was the February 21, 2010 issue.

Abbie who delighted critics with her performance in Bright Star is being honored with several young female ingenues like Carey Mulligan, Gabby Sidibe, Emily Blunt and more.

Abbie Cornish might have been snubbed of an Oscar nomination, but after the 82nd Annual Academy Awards, she attended the 2010 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Graydon Carter solo. She showed up in a gorgeous royal purple gown and her short hair still on showcase. Here is a peek of her look. I’ll have more coverage a little bit later.

Abbie Cornish turned heads last night sporting a stunning new look at the Kimberly Brooks’ “The Stylist Project” Exhibition hosted by Vanity Fair and Dior. Abbie is currently sharing the March cover of VF.

Cornish debuted a new straight, mid-neck bob hairstyle which she looks amazing with. She dawned a red belted Dior dress and black peeptoes for the event and sported think eyeliner and nude lips. She looks absolutely incredible!

E! News reports:

Cornish showed up around 7:30 p.m and avoided all interviews on the carpet while staying glued to her rep’s side the entire night—but she certainly didn’t avoid attention!

She was constantly smiling, laughing, sipping from a wine glass, posing for pics for a guest’s digital camera and showing off jewelry to her pals. She stayed until the party ended shortly after 9 p.m.

The March 2010 issue of Vanity Fair features Abbie Cornish alongside Kristen Stewart and Carey Mulligan on it’s cover. VF.com has released a sneak peek at the article and another striking image of the ladies from the shoot, plus an on set video and stills. Watch the video after the break.

The Cupid’s-bow lips, the downy-soft cheeks, the button nose: 27-year-old Abbie Cornish has those Ivory-soap-girl features we’re so familiar with, and yet hers is a face it’s hard to stop staring at—testament to the intelligence, vulnerability, and sensuality she brings to her characters. Her breakthrough for American audiences came with fellow Australian Heath Ledger, as a junkie in 2006’s Candy, free-falling from invincible heroin highs to soul-seizing anguish. Kimberly Peirce’s Stop-Loss saw her fleeing the law with Ryan Phillippe’s character. (Enter some real-life drama: Phillippe, then the husband of Reese Witherspoon, would soon become her boyfriend.) She may have been her loveliest in Jane Campion’s Bright Star, playing John Keats’s muse, the flirty and forthright Fanny Brawne.

Abbie Cornish attended a Calvin Klein Collection & Los Angeles Nomadic Division Event in support of L.A. Arts month and ALAC on Thursday, January 28, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. Her look was kept simple and chic, she wore a white dress with black heels.