"I wanted to capture the moment it dawns on an Oscar winner that they've changed overnight – that they've just become a star.” – Terry O'Neill

The year was 1977, and Faye Dunaway was odds-on favourite to win the Academy Award for Best Actress for her astonishing performance in Network. Terry O’Neill, who was tasked with photographing the winner, was certain Dunaway had it clinched. He wanted to create an image of an Oscar winner that eschewed the standard formula. “I didn’t want the photo everyone else was doing: the actor holding the award, dazed. I wanted a photo of the morning after.”

Having recently struck up a friendship with Dunaway – a woman he would later marry – O’Neill convinced her to meet him early on the morning after the ceremony by the pool of the Beverly Hills Hotel, where he’d talked the poolboy into granting early access. “I told her all she had to do was bring the Oscar.”

As promised, Faye appeared at the break of dawn, having had barely a minute’s sleep. At her feet, O’Neill scattered the morning’s papers, which bore headlines of her victory. Faye reclined in the deckchair and placed her award on the table. With just a few snaps, an iconic image was born. Often imitated, ‘The Morning After’ is considered to be one of the defining images of Hollywood.