Tag Archives: Oscars

One More from the Oscars: Gabourey Sidibe

This is what I’m talking about when I say “Looks gorgeous” and “Looks like she feels gorgeous”:

2010 Red Carpet: Arrivals photos – The 82nd Annual Academy Awards® on Yahoo! Movies.

More Oscars awesomeness: Winslet, Streep

Hell, there’s only like three of us reading this, right?  So sorry, you other two, I’m just going to keep putting up new posts.  Because there’s so much fun to point out. For instance: Kate Winslett. When was the last time Kate Winslet showed up dressed badly to something? The answer seems like never, because she keeps wearing things like this:

It’s simple, it’s elegant, and she looks gorgeous in it. My two big criteria for judgment on Oscars clothing are, “Does it make the person look gorgeous?” and “Does it make them look like they <i>feel</i> gorgeous?” This dress accomplishes both with what looks like no effort at all.  (I’m sure there’s great effort involved. Huge, painful effort. But it doesn’t look like she’s holding her breath or hasn’t snacked all day. Kudos).

Let’s talk, also, about how to wear white. I think there’s a terrible danger involved for women in wearing white to any formal event. You can end up looking like you’ve lost your way en route to stand on someone’s wedding cake, like poor J-Lo:

Or, you could wear white when the rest of your age class is wearing red, and end up looking elegant and sophisticated:

Then again, Meryl Streep can make anything seem filled with gravitas, I guess (except for Mamma Mia).

Finally, remind me, what film was Kristen Stewart in?

Let me ask you a question: DO YOU WANT TO BE IN VAMPIRE FILMS FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE? This dress says yes.

2010 Red Carpet: Arrivals photos – The 82nd Annual Academy Awards® on Yahoo! Movies.

So this is what you wear to win an Oscar

It’s sparkly, sure, and that lipstick is… something, but I actually think Sandra Bullock is quite effectively pulling off a look that not enough Academy Awards attendees try for: Looking Like a Grown-Up.

It’s classy, with that woven not-revealing-but-oh-you-think-it’s-revealing top half that adds a little sass, a little awareness that it’s a big night and she’s beautiful. She’s got small but certainly expensive accessories.  She’s probably hiding enormous expensive shoes under there (and with a dress that length — why?), but overall, I give this two thumbs up.

She wasn’t playing a subtle character in “The Blind Side,” so this outfit is perfect.  It’s not so far divorced from her performance that we forget it; it’s not so far divorced from what we expect to see her in that we forget her, either.

2010 Red Carpet: Arrivals photos – The 82nd Annual Academy Awards® on Yahoo! Movies.

People I like on the Red Carpet.

Well, here are some people I like:

Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard, who could show up in paper bags (but never would) and still win my heart:

And Jeremy Renner, who is still the quirky diner-owning cop from “The Unusuals” to me, even if he’s still a little boy to his mom and rocking this suit:

Homina.

via People I like on the Red Carpet..

Oscar dresses, 2.

Here’s the caption: Detail of actress Deborah Ann Woll’s dress is seen as she poses on the red carpet at the 82nd Academy Awards in Hollywood March 7, 2010. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson.

Uh-huh.� That’s exactly what Lucas Jackson was focused on when he took this shot, and I’m sure interest in dress design got it posted to Yahoo.

The full dress:

Apparently she’s on “True Blood.”

via Yahoo!.