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
Oscars 2014 Zac Efron & Kellan Lutz: Oscar lightweights One of my favourite things to say is that “the Academy doesn’t let riffraff onto its red carpet” which is why I didn’t believe for a minute that Rob Ford would actually be coming to the Oscars. And then Kellan Lutz showed up. Thing is, I’m not By Lainey • Mar 03, 2014 07:41 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 Reese’s Oscar party cleave When’s the last time you remember seeing this much cleavage from Reese Witherspoon? Have you ever seen a side breast from Reese Witherspoon? If I were her, and after 3 children, I’d be showing side breast too. Have we found ourselves at the beginning of a Reese Witherspoon By Lainey • Mar 03, 2014 06:47 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 Penelope Cruz: Oscars Most Disappointing At every event, there’s someone who wastes her potential. Almost everyone wasted their potential this year but I feel like Penelope Cruz wastes it more often than not. I mean, she’s capable of the spectacular. And what we get is too often pastels and feathers. Or a hybrid By Lainey • Mar 03, 2014 06:22 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 Benedict Cumberbatch: Internet Famous at the Oscars One of our producers had a seat in the bleachers this year, taking pictures and Instagram video as part of our social media team. This is the text she sent me around noon: “I’m sitting with the MiniVan Majority.” When Benedict Cumberbatch arrived, no one in her section of By Lainey • Mar 03, 2014 06:03 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 Jennifer Garner: Worst Oscar Shoes According to what the Academy’s volunteers were doing at rehearsal on Saturday, Jennifer Garner, an official presenter, was supposed to walk with Ben Affleck. There were two people with their names clearly marked pretending to be the Afflecks on the red carpet. Garner ended up coming alone, as you By Lainey • Mar 03, 2014 05:26 am
Oscars 2014 Elsa Pataky: Best Oscar Pregnancy (Lainey) I’m surprised too. Because you know how I feel about Elie Saab: same, same, same, boring, same, same, same. But maybe this is where Elie Saab excels: maternity wear? It’s a good colour on her. And I’ve decided I can only tolerate a nude underlay if it’ By Lainey • Mar 03, 2014 05:18 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
Oscars 2014 Lady Gaga: Oscars Most Unwelcome For someone who claims to exist purely for the fans, Lady Gaga wasn’t so much about the fans at the Oscars. The Academy sets up several sections of bleachers along the red carpet where fans can scream at their favourite stars. The call time for the fans is around By Lainey • Mar 03, 2014 04:45 am
Oscars 2014 Bette Midler & Idina Menzel: Oscars Underwhelming Iconic Songs So, okay. Let us start with the Divine Miss M, who was self-effacing on the red carpet and then rather well-dressed in vertical stripes during her performance. Even though coming at the end of the In Memoriam segment can be a tricky place to be, Bette knows that that song By Duana • Mar 03, 2014 04:25 am
Oscars 2014 Pink: Best Oscars Red Dress Vocalist Overheard in our hotel room just before the lights came up on Pink: “I hope she’s not on silks”. This prompted a chorus of “right?” and smartasses trying to outsmart one another… but then she started to sing and it all fell away. Why have I been looking at By Duana • Mar 03, 2014 04:12 am
Oscars 2014 Oscar Replacement: Chris Evans for Andrew Garfield On Saturday before the Oscars, the Academy makes the red carpet available to entertainment crews rehearsing live shows for the next day. That would include ABC, the official US broadcaster, hosted by Tyson Beckford who, holy sh-t, looks great but doesn’t think all that great, and E! with Ryan By Lainey • Mar 03, 2014 03:35 am
