{"id":593173,"date":"2026-04-19T06:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T06:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/593173\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T06:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T06:38:08","slug":"top-stars-scientists-gather-for-annual-breakthrough-prize-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/593173\/","title":{"rendered":"Top stars, scientists gather for annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"

A-listers came out for the annual \u201cOscars of science\u201d \u2014 the Breakthrough Prize ceremony <\/a>\u00a0\u2014 on Saturday night where stars and scientists aligned.<\/p>\n

Anne Hathaway, Robert Downey Jr., Zoe Saldana, Ben Affleck, Paris Hilton, Margot Robbie, Lionel Richie, Michelle Yeoh, Rob Lowe, John Legend, Chrissy Teigen, Jessica Chastain, Christina Aguilera, Gal Gadot, director Ron Howard and Olivia Wilde were among the A-list attendees walking the red carpet to celebrate the dazzling achievements of science\u2019s greatest minds.<\/p>\n

Hathaway and Wilde warmly embraced on the carpet while chatting with other attendees waiting to pose for photographers.<\/p>\n

Gigi Hadid was on the red carpet for the 12th Breakthrough Prize ceremony. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Olivia Wilde was among the A-list stars celebrating science. REUTERS<\/p>\n

Hilton \u2014 who was with her husband, Carter Reum \u2014 stopped to tell Page Six that she was looking forward to the evening and celebrating the winners.<\/p>\n

Also attending were stars including Naomi Watts and Billy Crudup, model Miranda Kerr and Snapchat billionaire Evan Spiegel, singer Jewel, Oscar Isaac, Lily Collins, Gigi Hadid, Edward Norton, Salma Hayek and her billionaire husband Fran\u00e7ois-Henri Pinault, rocker Adam Levine, director Darren Aronofsky, Michelle Williams and producer Brian Grazer, among many more.<\/p>\n

The Breakthrough Prize celebrates the research achievements<\/a> of the world\u2019s top scientists, and the gala awards more than $15 million in prizes annually. Each Breakthrough Prize is $3 million, and presented in the fields of Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics, and Mathematics.<\/p>\n

Michelle Yeoh told us she wanted to learn more about the origins of AI. Jordan Strauss\/Invision\/AP<\/p>\n

Anne Hathaway was among the A-listers at the event. REUTERS<\/p>\n

As for Yeoh, she told reporters she was inspired by the night\u2019s honored scientists and their service to mankind. The \u201cWicked\u201d star explained she was the most intrigued by artificial intelligence, and still had questions about how it evolved and where it will get us. (We trust she had a chance to ask one of her brainy tablemates.)<\/p>\n

\u201cHello\u201d hitmaker Richie recalled that he (briefly) pondered a life outside of music \u2014 telling reporters that if he could study any scientific topic, \u201cIt wouldn\u2019t be physics,\u201d he joked. \u201cI like plants. Lots of plants.\u201d<\/p>\n

Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates also made an appearance and smiled while making his way down the carpet at Santa Monica\u2019s Barker Hangar, while further tech moguls included Apple\u2019s Tim Cook and OpenAI\u2019s Sam Altman. <\/p>\n

Salma Hayek and Fran\u00e7ois-Henri Pinault walked the carpet together. Jordan Strauss\/Invision\/AP<\/p>\n

\u201cAvengers\u201d star Robert Downey Jr. attended with his producer wife Susan Downey. Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize<\/p>\n

Genius chess icon Magnus Carlsen was also spotted, as was Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAI president Greg Brockman, Waymo\u2019s Tekedra Mawakana, VC whiz Marc Andreessen and Dell CEO Michael Dell. <\/p>\n

\u201cWuthering Heights\u201d star Robbie made a low-key arrival with her husband, producer Tom Ackerley.<\/p>\n

Star couple Legend and Tiegen shut down the carpet by arriving fashionably late just in time for the VIP dinner.<\/p>\n

Christina Aguilera has been a regular at the awards. Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize<\/p>\n

Jewel shined at the gala. FilmMagic<\/p>\n

The Breakthrough Prize <\/a>was founded by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, Sergey Brin, Julia and Yuri Milner and Anne Wojcicki.<\/p>\n

Past attendees have included Katy Perry, Lauren S\u00e1nchez, Kate Hudson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Drew Barrymore, Lizzo,\u00a0Will.i.am, Alicia Keys, Jodie Foster and many more.<\/p>\n

Winners on Saturday night hailed from UC Berkeley, Stanford University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago, MIT, NYU, Columbia University, Oxford, Duke, Caltech, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A-listers came out for the annual \u201cOscars of science\u201d \u2014 the Breakthrough Prize ceremony \u00a0\u2014 on Saturday night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[23322,236,33167,88,1506,39919,50479,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-593173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-anne-hathaway","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-christina-aguilera","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-hollywood","13":"tag-margot-robbie","14":"tag-robert-downey-jr","15":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}