LOS ANGELES — The Hollywood Walk of Fame’s Class of 2026 will add Miley Cyrus, Timothée Chalamet and Deepika Padukone after the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce unveiled 35 new honorees, July 2, 2025. Chosen from hundreds of nominations and ratified by the Chamber’s board, the new class again shows how the Walk of Fame continues to blend established celebrity, awards momentum and international visibility into one of entertainment’s most public honors.
Hollywood Walk of Fame 2026 class spans five entertainment categories
According to the official Class of 2026 announcement, the motion picture lineup includes Emily Blunt, Demi Moore, Rami Malek, Rachel McAdams, Stanley Tucci and Padukone alongside Chalamet, while Cyrus joins a recording slate that also features Josh Groban, Angélique Kidjo and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. Peter Roth, chairman of the selection committee, said the honorees had made “significant contributions to the world of entertainment.”
The Los Angeles Times reported that this year’s class covered five active categories — motion pictures, television, recording, live theater/live performance and sports entertainment — with no radio honoree named in the 2026 slate. That detail makes this year’s rollout slightly narrower in format, but not in star power.
Cyrus moved quickly to mark the moment. In a reaction published after the announcement, she recalled late-night walks on Hollywood Boulevard with her father as a child and said receiving her own star now “feels like a dream.”
Why Miley Cyrus, Timothée Chalamet and Deepika Padukone stand out
Part of the reason the headline trio feels so strong is that each arrives here from a different lane. Cyrus enters the class after a year in which she was named the youngest Disney Legend, a reminder that her career has kept stretching far beyond the child-star origins that first made her famous.
Chalamet, meanwhile, reaches the Walk of Fame with fresh awards-season heat. Earlier in 2025, the Associated Press covered his SAG Awards best actor win, a moment that sharpened the sense that he is entering this honor in the middle of a major career upswing.
For Padukone, the recognition lands like the long arc of an international career push. Back in 2017, The Indian Express wrote about her excitement and nerves ahead of her Hollywood debut in “xXx: The Return of Xander Cage.” Nearly a decade later, her place in the 2026 class gives that crossover journey one of Hollywood’s most visible institutional markers.
What happens next after Hollywood Walk of Fame 2026
The July 2025 announcement did not include ceremony dates, and the scheduling process typically stretches well beyond the reveal itself. As the Walk of Fame’s nomination FAQ explains, recipients have up to two years to schedule their ceremonies, while sponsors cover an $85,000 fee tied to installation, inauguration and long-term maintenance of the star.
That gap between selection and unveiling is part of what keeps each class announcement feeling like both a reward and a forecast. In the case of Cyrus, Chalamet and Padukone, the Class of 2026 does more than honor what they have already done; it signals which names the industry expects to keep shaping the culture well beyond a single season of headlines.
