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Best and Worst Dresses at the 2016 Oscars

Most of the Oscar dresses left us a little  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  (so much so that Nicole and I could only find four dresses each for our Best list). But our worst list? Gurl, brew a pot of tea and settle in because we have *thoughts*.

BEST

Jen: Not everyone’s going to like Cate Blanchett’s green Armani. It’s a risk, and that’s why we love her. It’s a bit too “fashion-y” for my personal taste, but she’s the only one who could make it work – and she does.
Nicole: She’s on trend with green but the seafoam stands out. I agree that Cate is one of the few who could wear this without it overpowering.

 

Nicole: Finally, Saoirse Ronan. It’s about damn time! At least someone in the Best Actress category dressed like a goddamn winner. This dress follows the classic Calvin silhouette but looks like liquid emeralds on Saoirse.
Jen: I’m so happy about this one! She’s sexy, she’s representing Ireland with the colour, and she’s being age-appropriately playful with the mismatched earrings and killer back.

 

Jen: It’s so hard to pull off red on a red carpet, but Charlize Theron is killing it in Dior. I’m not sure I would have agreed to the giant boob grazing necklace, but she’s making it work.
Nicole: It’s simple, sexy and everything we would expect from Charlize.

 

Nicole: When I saw Naomi Watts hit the red carpet in her Armani Prive dress I thought two things: 1. Wowza, that’s hot; she nailed the dress, the Bulgari necklace and the slash of red lipstick. 2. Jen’s gonna want to be buried in that dress.
Jen: You know me too well! Sometimes we play the “what designer would we choose for a red carpet if we inexplicably became famous?”, and Armani Prive is always at the top of my list. This dress perfectly exemplifies why.

 

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Jen: Tina Fey always plays it safe and classy, and this dress is no different but that doesn’t make it any less lovely. Another plus: she totally beat Reese Witherspoon in the strapless purple dress contest!
Nicole: Tina’s last few red carpets have been sexier and more confident than usual and this gown fits that new style really well.

 

Nicole: Margot Robbie looks like a gorgeous Oscar statue in her snakeskin print Tom Ford gown. Her loose, tussled hair is on trend and that clutch is to die for (birthday gift idea!?).
Jen: I was a little ‘meh’ on this one. Yeah, the dress is slinky and the long sleeves are a nice change of pace, but she couldn’t have run a brush through her hair?

 

Jen: I think Mindy Kaling’s Elizabeth Kennedy dress is incredibly flattering and the blue almost gives it the illusion of a cape, making it one of my favourite showings from her ever.
Nicole: I generally love Mindy for her colour and brilliant style but this was too sedate for me.

 

Nicole: I’m so very relieved to see Kate Winslet in a new style after endless red carpets in what felt like the same dress over and over. This Ralph Lauren custom is flattering to Kate’s curves and the liquid material is sexier than we’re used to on her. It’s a great departure for her.
Jen: You like this one way more than I do. In some angles it looks like liquid sex, but in others it looks like a garbage bag.

 

WORST

Nicole: Well, I didn’t have great hopes for Brie Larson‘s dress and as such was not disappointed. Her blue Gucci gown was actually terrific right up until just past her stunning belt and then the weird fluttery bits made it a miss.
Jen: I had huge hopes, so I’m crushed. I love the colour, but she lost me at the terrible length and the weird pleated, ruffled skirt. Her makeup is on point, though.

 

Jen: God, I was praying for Rachel McAdams to kill it tonight and I got so hopeful when I first got a glimpse of the colour, but then I saw the wrinkles and puckered seams and now I’m totally bummed out.
Nicole: She had a great season and I’m sad it ended with this dress as it just didn’t show her at her best.

 

Nicole: Man, there were some broke-ass dresses tonight. It felt like Alicia Vikander was on a roll with her last Louis Vuitton but this lemony disaster was infuriating. How do you end up in this dress as a nominee on the Oscar red carpet? How?
Jen: The yellow is a decent colour but I want to cut off the hem, bury it in a deep, deep hole and salt the earth.

 

Jen: The bodice on Julianne Moore’s boring black Chanel dress looks boxy and is separating her breasts in a weird way.
Nicole: Can you imagine if Julianne had worn Margot Robbie’s Tom Ford dress instead?

 

Nicole: I’ve HAD IT with these dresses that look all daring with their mega cut outs and sexy skin-baring designs, then we get close up and it’s just another figure skating dress. I’m talking about you, Olivia Wilde. If you’re going to wear that Valentino dress, get some double sided tape and go J-Lo style.
Jen: Yup, can suspender dresses just be over already?

 

Jen: I’m so bored by Jennifer Garner’s dress. This should have been her big post-divorce coming out moment, but she played it safe in a black Versace dress I feel like I’ve seen on her before. Bless her heart.
Nicole: This is not a phoenix dress. Too bad, she could’ve really lit it up.

 

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Nicole: I’m so bored, so tired of Rooney Mara‘s nude coloured dresses. Her Givenchy looks too similar to her McQueen dress from the Golden Globes. Yawn.
Jen: It looks like she’s wearing a doily. Also, this girl does not need any help seeming severe, so her tight hairstyle isn’t doing her any favours.

 

Jen: This is Star Wars actress Daisy Ridley’s very first Oscar red carpet, and she chooses to celebrate by wearing a blah Chanel dress with a weird floaty dust ruffle? And if that weren’t bad enough, her shoes. Dear lord, her shoes!
Nicole: Oh man, so many beautiful options and this is where we end up? I honestly could’ve slept through this.

 

Nicole: Really, Lady Gaga? You had the choice of five gowns and that’s what you chose? After a run of really beautiful ensembles, I’m bummed that she ended up in this white Brandon Maxwell pantdress on the carpet that matters most.
Jen: My eyes haven’t even taken in the pants part of it yet because I can’t tear them away from the ill-fitting chest area. It looks like she has boob pockets!

 

Jen: I love Amy Poehler so much that she could basically wear a curtain and I’d still be crushing on her. But damn, I wish she hadn’t tried to test that theory.
Nicole: What the what, Poehler?! A caftan? Unacceptable.

Want more red carpet coverage? Check out our thoughts on the Golden Globes and SAG Awards.

 

Oscars 2015: Best and Worst Dressed on the Red Carpet

Nicole and I may be in different provinces right now, but that didn’t stop us from IM’ing all night about the hits and (mostly) misses on the Oscar red carpet. Here’s our picks for the 5 best and worst looks of the night:

BEST

Jen: When Scarlett Johansson finally showed up in this killer green Versace dress amid the sea of pale gowns, I tweeted “this is the red carpet equivalent of a mic drop.” The colour is stunning, the cut is unbelievably flattering (the fact that she had a baby four months ago breaks my brain), and the shaved hair is Thunderdome chic. This is without a doubt my favourite look of the entire night.
Nicole: I’m super not sold on the necklace but she is radiant against all the white dresses and that fit… wowza.

Nicole: I did not imagine that Laura Dern would be on my best dressed list but her silver dress by Alberta Ferretti looks like a suit of armor and it’s stunning.  The fit is perfect and the flowing back of the dress contrasts with the tough front. It’s much more interesting than I’d expect to see on this red carpet!
Jen: Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised by this dress too, especially the view from the back. It’s fierce and sexy.

Jen: Gone Girl’s Rosamund Pike is another rare star to make a break from the pale gowns and wow us with a colour. This stunning Givenchy fits beautifully and hugs her in all the right places. (She also just had a baby, which is beyond depressing.)
Nicole: This is THE dress of the night for me and a great do-over after  the disappointing dress at the Golden Globes. The contrasting textures really flatter her curves and the corset top is gorgeous.

Nicole: Dakota Johnson is in a simple red column dress and if it not for the gorgeous shoulder detail this St. Laurent wouldn’t be a standout. The slash of red lipstick is perfect and the whole ensemble shines against her pale skin.
Jen: You liked this one a lot more than I did. It’s ok, but this is her big moment, and I really wish she’d went for it in a much bigger/bolder way.

Jen: Mark your calendar! I’m including Lady Gaga on a best dressed list! Sure, some of it is due to the fact that it was slim pickings on the Oscar red carpet this year, but it’s hard to ignore the beauty of this custom Azzedine Alaïa dress. Even her hideous dishwashing gloves couldn’t overpower it.
Nicole: Okay, so it’s a white dress in a sea of white dresses but wow, this is beautiful.  The architectural shape still flatters Gaga when it could easily overwhelm anyone else.

WORST

Nicole: It’s heartbreaking really, the Dior Couture dress that Marion Cotillard is wearing looks pretty (if too loose) from the front but falls apart when you see the back with tons of volume and a weird black strip. This reminds me of the Jennifer Lawrence Dior from last year, which also wasn’t super flattering and had weird volume issues.
Jen: Agreed. I was almost going to give this one a pass for quirkiness when I saw it from the front, and then she turned around and showed off the bustle. Hard pass!

Jen: It’s not that there were a lot of terrible dresses on this year’s Oscar red carpet. That would have at least kept things interesting. Instead, we got a lot of ‘meh’ dresses — disappointing gowns that failed to elicit any meaningful reaction at all. We were bored to tears by Reese Witherspoon’s black and white Tom Ford (way too similar to what’s she’s worn in the past), Cate Blanchett’s basic black Margiela dress, Julianne Moore’s unflattering Chanel couture, Emma Stone’s old lady Elie Saab, Zoe Saldana’s Versace with its bad straps, Sienna Miller’s unremarkable Oscar de la Renta, and Keira Knightley’s Valentino, which makes her look like she rushed to the carpet from a high school production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Nicole: SIGH. So much white.  I had such high hopes for Julianne as she was really strong throughout the season and Emma Stone makes such beautiful choices but it was just underwhelming. I was going to comment on Keira Knightly but my mother just reminded me that if I can’t say anything nice…
Jen: This is why you shouldn’t watch award shows when visiting home. Not saying anything nice is the WHOLE POINT.

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Nicole: While I’m certainly not surprised by Felicity Jones’s boring prom dress, I am shocked that it’s Alexander McQueen.  The bodice is lovely and fits beautifully and then it poofs out into an overwhelming skirt. I sound like an old lady, but she has such a great figure and she’s so young; I wish she’d embrace a more adventurous style!
Jen: Though the colour was a bit underwhelming, I really liked the bodice. But wow, she was completely swallowed up by that skirt, which is a shame.

Jen: As a pale lady, I know the rules of dressing for alabaster complexions. Nicole Kidman does too so why is she breaking all of them in this Louis Vuitton gown. It’s too pale, too sparkly, too ill-fitting. And dear lord, why the belt? Why?! She looks like a bowling pin.
Nicole: I actually like the belt.  I just would like to see the belt on a much less boring dress.

Nicole: When Lupita Nyong’o stepped onto the red carpet (holding her own umbrella, no less) all I could see was the very top of her white pearl custom Calvin Klein dress and I thought… this could be great.  But I couldn’t get over the awkward pearl in the middle and in the end it just comes across as too much.  Maybe if they’d used fewer than 6,000 pearls?
Jen: Remember when she KILLED it all award season last year? What’s happened? This is her latest misstep, and it’s a biggie. It looks like she’s wearing a bunch of old lady necklaces that somehow melded into a dress in a freak accident.

Oscar After-Parties, Scarlett Johansson’s Pregnancy and More

-We’ve recapped the Oscar fashions and the Oscar winners, so now let’s move on to the good stuff: the after-parties! A bunch of stars changed after the show, and their party gowns were a million times better than what they wore on the red carpet (Anne Hathaway, Kristen Bell and Anna Kendrick, in particular).

-In other Oscar after-party fashion news, I adored Evan Rachel Wood’s dress. Olivia Munn, on the other hand, looked like she was sentenced to boob jail. I don’t hate Jennifer Lawrence‘s Tom Ford dress, though I think Matthew McConaughey’s mom did glittery mosaic best.

-There are some great shots from Vanity Fair’s portrait studio that was set up at their party. Josh Jackson and Diane Kruger are smokin’ (his suit!), as are Mindy Kaling and B.J. Novak.

–Sean Penn and Charlize Theron were in full makeout mode at Madonna’s Oscar bash.

–Bill Murray, Paul Rudd and Adam Scott helped Amy Poehler do an ill-advised handstand at the Vanity Fair shindig, proving that drunk celebrities are just like us!

–Karen O is coming thisclose to spilling her drink on Amy Adams‘ dress in this photo.

-Girls star Allison Williams showed off her new engagement ring at the Vanity Fair bash (which thankfully took attention away from her terrible bubblegum dress, which is giving me eye diabetes).

-Oh, to be a fly on the wall during this Chris Hemsworth and Channing Tatum convo.

–Justin Bieber made his opinion of Selena Gomez’s Oscar party dress known.

–Orlando Bloom interrupted Miranda Kerr’s Oscar party interview to ask his estranged wife how she was doing, which wasn’t awkward at all.

-An idiot E! reporter asked Mindy Kalling “what color” guys she likes. Her surprised gasp/laugh was awesome.

-Here are the best photobombs of the night. Pretending to steal someone’s trophy was also a big photo trend.

-The entire world is shipping co-presenters Emma Watson and Joseph Gordon-Levitt right now.

-The more I see Bradley Cooper‘s girlfriend, the more I think she looks like she could be his daughter.

-I’m not sure I agree, but here’s a pretty compelling argument why Jared Leto shouldn’t have won last night.

–Ellen‘s pizza delivery guy was a norm, and now he’s famous.

-This is great: Will Smith recognized a cameraman on the red carpet last night from his Fresh Prince days.

-Before they ate pizza and jumped into Ellen‘s selfie at the Oscars, Angelina Jolie grabbed Brad Pitt’s butt at the Spirit Awards. I’m loving this new, playful Brang.

–Jimmy Kimmel made meme-into-movie gold on his post-Oscar special.

–Scarlett Johansson sure knows how to bury the lede. During all the Oscar hoopla, news surfaced that she’s pregnant with her first child.

-In other baby news, Gwen Stefani welcomed her third son.

-This new clip from Orphan Black gives us what we really want: Alison!

–George Lopez was arrested for public intoxication in Windsor, Ont.

-Us Weekly is the latest magazine to sign on to Kristen Bell’s boycott of pap photos of children. Interestingly, they made sure to point out that they’d still be running “cooperative photo shoots.” So basically any time you see a photo of kids in these publications going forward, they’ve been staged. This is going to be fun!

–Oprah and Snoop kissed and made up at a party this weekend.

-While I am not looking forward to the 50 Shades of Grey movie, I am looking forward to Jamie Dornan being on the press tour. He was adorable on the Graham Norton Show (and he was sitting next to the equally adorable Aaron Paul! This clip is melting my brain).

–Chris Brown has been ordered to stay in rehab for two more months after being diagnosed with bi-polar disorder and PTSD. Funny, I feel like I have PTSD from reading the police report following his Rihanna beatdown.

-Was Jim Parsons‘ episode of SNL the show’s worst in a decade?

-Here’s the first two minutes of the Veronica Mars movie, which serves a recap of the show for newbs.