Oscars 2014 Cate Blanchett: Oscars Most Invigorating Acceptance I know that’s saying a lot, especially given Lupita Nyong’o’s acceptance and how oft-repeated that phrase is going to be. But the speech was fresh and original from the second sentence: “You’re too old to be standing” and proceeds from there. She says the honour is By Duana • Mar 03, 2014 04:24 pm
Oscars 2014 Sally Hawkins: Oscars Best Dressed (Duana) Here we go. Is this the one that’s gonna be a fight? This was my favourite dress of all of them last night. It felt new and different and fresh. It felt like it was trying something. It’s a really neat and forward-looking dress, and if it’s By Duana • Mar 03, 2014 03:47 pm
Oscars 2014 Elizabeth Banks: Confounding Almost Oscar Last year around this time, after we’d chosen our best and worst dressed and were typing away, we found Elizabeth Banks at the Vanity Fair party. And she looked like this. I wished she could have been my best dressed but she didn’t attend the ceremony. Well, the By Duana • Mar 03, 2014 03:31 pm
Oscars 2014 Jared Leto: Oscars Best Man (Duana) So here we are. Jared Leto won, and he is my Best Man. My 15-year-old self is looking at me askance. See, I was as big a fan of My So-Called Life as anyone, but Jordan Catalano did not make me squee. He scared me. He seemed angry and sad. By Duana • Mar 03, 2014 03:09 pm
Oscars 2014 Sandra Bullock: Most Confusing Oscar Outfit Let’s review the facts about Sandra Bullock. She’s absolute box office gold. She’s kind of fun and funny and, even more than my beloved Julia, she’s one of the boys about the whole "we’re chill about the fact that we’re super rich making By Duana • Mar 03, 2014 01:59 pm
Oscars 2014 Julia Roberts: Oscar Memory Loss It’s time. There was no "Who’s Natalie", but my woman still delivered some serious love, and it’s time to address it. Get comfy. First of all, the dress was not my thing. Bored now. I get that Julia slides herself firmly into the "classics& By Duana • Mar 03, 2014 01:31 pm
Oscars 2014 Jennifer Lawrence: Brewing Oscar Backlash It’s starting. Oooh, is it starting? When Jennifer Lawrence appeared on the red carpet in red, a colour she’d worn at the Oscars before, people sighed on Twitter. When she tripped, like she did last year, people snarked, “Oh, here we go again”. It’s begun. When she By Duana • Mar 03, 2014 11:47 am
Oscars 2014 Leonardo DiCaprio: Worst Oscar Sport My favourite line in August: Osage County never made any of the highlight reels because of profanity, but I love to run around saying it anyway: “Eat the fish, bitch!” Similarly, Lainey has been storming around all night going “Take the goddamn pizza, Leo!” And this is his biggest problem. By Duana • Mar 03, 2014 10:39 am
Oscars 2014 Emma Watson: Not Oscars Best Dressed I look at Emma Watson, with the whole of Hollywood spread out before her, and I think that while she might not get the most interesting jobs, and she might not be doing the most risqué work, and she probably is filling her schedule with movies that are good but By Duana • Mar 03, 2014 09:52 am
Oscars 2014 Meryl Streep: Oscars Most Grace So, in today’s unpopular opinion, I hate grace. I hate that it’s the first trait we apply to women who don’t scream their sexiness out all over the place. I hate that it’s used as a synonym for “pretty and polite and thin” but it’s By Duana • Mar 03, 2014 08:49 am
Oscars 2014 Kerry Washington: Oscar Wrinkles Whenever one of my friends starts to get all anxiety about what to wear to a party, I always tell them to remember that at 99% of social gatherings, all that matters is what you look like from the chest up. Parties are so crowded that the slightly too-big pants By Duana • Mar 03, 2014 07:51 am
Style Pharrell: Best All-Around Steeze Pharrell, you beautiful creature, you. You are the embodiment of exactly what it’s supposed to be to be a celebrity. You show up to places, and you are pleased as hell with your accomplished-yet-relaxed-appearing life, and you wear still more compelling-yet-not-serious stuff, and you’re also – almost incidentally – phenomenally By Duana • Mar 03, 2014 07:11 am
Oscars 2014 Viola Davis: Best Oscar First Arrival Thankless. It’s thankless to be first on the carpet. Firstly, you know that your reps put you out there as an early bargaining chip. They need someone recognizable and reliable but not too exciting to arrive early so that nobody turns off the TV. So you’re the anchor, By Duana • Mar 03, 2014 06:28 am
Oscars 2014 Daniel Day Lewis: Best Oscar Accent It’s not just the accent, of course. It’s that shiny silver hair and the lilt in the voice and the grin. Right now I’m having a bit of a hard time, because even though I know him in my bones to be Irish, it turns out he By Duana • Mar 03, 2014 06:16 am
Oscars 2014 Joseph Gordon-Levitt: Best Oscar Grin We know he's on a hot streak right now. We know he's really coming into his own creatively. That he's more in demand than ever. His status as one of the chosen people was cemented by the fact that he was asked to appear By Duana • Mar 03, 2014 05:36 am
Oscars 2014 Olivia Wilde: Best Oscar Pregnancy (Duana) It ain’t easy, OK? It’s not easy to get out there when you’re that big and pregnant and wear something that’s supposed to be an approximation of “glam”. But you do it because you’re Olivia Wilde. But what if you f-ck yourself over? What if By Duana • Mar 03, 2014 04:53 am
