ASME cover awards, finalist 2009: categorie sexiest cover:

Incomparable fashion photographer Patrick Demarchelier rendered Angelina Jolie at the pinnacle of her celebrity for the July cover of Vanity Fair. The image shows the usually private actress, United Nations Goodwill Ambassador, and then mother-to-be (of twins), exuding a smoldering sexiness and pregnant glow. Demarchelier said Angelina’s “lack of inhibition made the photo session extremely relaxed.” In recent online polls for Vanity Fair and Harper’s Bazaar, women voted overwhelmingly for Jolie as not only the sexiest woman alive, but the one they’d most like to emulate.