Beloved Actresses Are Back on Top

Strong, older women like Demi Moore and Pamela Anderson are having a major moment in Hollywood: Is it pure nostalgia, or something deeper?

- ISABEL MOHAN

The red carpet this awards season feels more like a high school reunion - so many big actresses who dominated Hollywood in the '90s and 2000s are back in the spotlight, and we are so here for it.

At 62, Demi Moore is finally being acknowledged for her work, picking up her first-ever Golden Globe for her incredible role in brilliantly gory "feminist horror" The Substance. (She was first nominated in 1991 - more than half her lifetime ago for Ghost). Even more impressive, she's the frontrunner to take home Best Actress at this year's Oscars on March 2.

Pamela Anderson, 57, who, like Moore, graced many men's magazine and, covers in her youth as the face of course, body of Baywatch, has also spent this awards season being widely celebrated for her role in The Last Showgirl. Meanwhile, Cameron Diaz's first movie in a decade, the appropriately titled Back in Action, has also seen her make her red carpet comeback at 52, winning the world over once more with her trademark sparkle and charisma after taking a time out to focus on her family.