We don’t know if it was the violent nature of many of this year’s Oscar-nominated films, but a slew of Hollywood’s hottest stars had a bloody good time on the very, very red carpet as crimson couture ruled the day.
Hollywood.com got a gander at all of the glorious glamour girls as they sashayed down the world’s most stellar runway on their way in to the 80th Annual Academy Awards, and we’ve made our picks for the style stars who took home the trophies for the best dressed, as well as a few who might be demanding a recount.
Hollywood.com’s Most Haute Hottie: Heidi Klum
Heidi was scarlet letter-perfect in a red silk taffeta gown created especially for her curvaceous frame by John Galliano, and even though it had no sleeves the supermodel could have worn her heart on them. “I’m wearing this color because it’s for a cause,” Heidi told us on the arrivals line. “I’m going to auction if off after I wear it tonight” to raise awareness for Diet Coke’s Red Dress Campaign, given away on mycokerewards.com to benefit women’s heart health. Heidi herself designed the complimentary ruby earrings, and she insisted her staggering ‘do served a secret purpose: “I have snacks stored up here!” And of course, she couldn’t resist a signature touch, even if only hubby Seal (in dashing Dior) would see it: “I’m wearing a little Victoria’s Secret thong underneath.”[PAGEBREAK]
Hollywood.com’s Ravishing Runner-Up: Katherine Heigl
Here’s hoping that Katherine didn’t have to sort through 27 Dresses to find her Oscar night number, but even if she did she found the right one. Her crimson silk georgette Escada column gown with slim-fitting draped bodice captured the Old Hollywood glam that has become her trademark, but the daring one-shoulder design gave it a modern edge as well. She completed the look with Ryan Ryan jewels and Jimmy Choo shoes and clutch, and a glowing makeup palette by Chanel.[PAGEBREAK]
Put It Out with the Rest of The Garbage Bags: Tilda Swinton
With her carrot top locks Tilda got in on at least some of the red trend, but the only way to add any dazzle to her drab Hefty bag ensemble – a black washed silk satin draped evening gown by Alber Elbaz for Lanvin – was to accessorize with Oscar (lucky for her). Still, she insisted she was comfortable, claiming “I feel like I’m in my pajamas” – the rest of us just fell asleep from boredom.[PAGEBREAK]
Most Stylish Sig Os: George Clooney and Sarah Larson
Unlike her beau George’s performance in Michael Clayton, Sarah’s blue strapless beaded gown with embroidered pink flowers motif by Valentino drew mixed reviews, but trust us, it was prettier in person than it photographed – and when you have the world’s most maybe-soon-to-be uneligible bachelor in impeccable Armani on your arm all night, you can’t help but get a favorable verdict.[PAGEBREAK]
Style Score: Renee Zellweger
Renee was rockin’ it like Roxie Hart, stepping out in a shimmering strapless hand-embroidered silver lace gown from Carolina Herrera, along with silver shoes and a pair of dazzling diamond broaches by Cartier. When we remarked that she had a bit of a showgirl sheen going on, she agreed: “I do!” [PAGEBREAK]
Style Score: Jessica Alba
Whoa, Mama! We’ve never seen the third trimester look this good. Jessica’s deep purple empire-waisted Marchesa gown – revamped from the designer’s impending collection to adorn her expectant silhouette with the feathered bodice perhaps symbolizing her nesting phase – was perfectly paired with carats from Cartier. “It’s so feminine and so beautiful and timeless and so elegant,” she gushed to us. “It’s comfortable in its unpure way, so it leaves room for the belly.” The only thing that gave Jessica pregnant pause, she admitted, was a lack of sensible shoes for her shape.[PAGEBREAK].
Style Score: Marion Cotillard
With her film La Vie en Rose, it would’ve been all too predictable if Marion posed in the pink, but her style victory was as unpredictable and welcome as her Oscar win in a detailed custom-made halter dress by the ever avant-garde Jean Paul Gaultier. She layered on Chopard’s champagne diamond briolette necklace with light and dark brown diamond bead necklaces and a square cut brilliant cut yellow diamond ring, and capped her French vanilla couture with a brunette-tressed Veronica Lake look created by hairstylist Robert Vetica of Frederick Fekkai.[PAGEBREAK]
Style Score: Anne Hathaway
With her chestnut locks drawn back in a sleek ponytail, Anne looked anything but devilish in her resplendent one-shouldered, draped Marchesa gown, using its flowered accent to draw attention to her creamy clavicle. And dangling near that alabaster neck of hers were over $10 million in diamond earrings from Harry Winston.[PAGEBREAK]
Style Bore: Ellen Page
Indie chick? Check. Indie chic? Not so fast. Juno by now Ellen’s not a girly-girl in the fashion department, but she really flopped with her faux flapper style in a vintage black Jean Louis Scherrer dress and a 19th-century natural pearl and rock crystal rondelle Fred Leighton chain.[PAGEBREAK]
Style Score: Miley Cyrus
Holy Hannah! Nothing says “all grown up” like racy red, and teen queen Miley made everyone smiley in her cap-sleeved Valentino chiffon gown with bow detail on the back, Mary Norton clutch, Dior makeup and a curly ponytail. “It was the brightest thing I could find, the one that will make the biggest statement, I think,” Miley told us. She was equally proud of her colorful, oversized Neil Lane ring. “Once again it’s just big and bright, which is always my favorite.”[PAGEBREAK]
Style Score: Keri Russell
Keri made a felicitous choice when she picked her strapless champagne organza bustier Nina Ricci evening dress, and the Waitress cutie pie cooked up Enough-Diamonds-to-Choke-A-Horse pie with H.Stern’s $300,000 vintage floral necklace taken from the private vault of Hans Stern, with more than 405 Marquis Diamonds totaling more than 46 Carats and $200,000 floral diamond earrings.[PAGEBREAK]
Style Score: Amy Adams
Consider Amy Enchanted: “I’m just over the moon with it,” she said of her titanic-trained emerald green strapless Proenza Schouler gown made of double-sided silk. And what would a princess be if she wasn’t dripping in Fred Leighton .[PAGEBREAK]
Style Score: Jennifer Garner
Props out to super-stylist Rachel Zoe for fitting the ever-fit Mrs. Affleck into this jet black silk taffeta Oscar de la Renta fishtail gown, an art deco-era necklace with 61 carats of diamonds from Van Cleef & Arpels and a discreet Roger Vivier clutch. If only that deeply parted updo didn’t detract from Jen’s Chanel enhanced cheekbones, we’d be SURE Ben isn’t going to run off with Jimmy Kimmel.[PAGEBREAK]
Style Score: Saoirse Ronan
There’s nothing to Atone for here: 13-year-old Saoirse Ronan looks elegant and age-appropriate in a gracious green gown by Italian designer Alberta Ferretti. “I wanted green because I’m Irish,” Saoirse explained, “and we had this stylist who’s a genius, and she just got our fittings from the movie I’m working on in New Zealand and made the dress. I don’t know how she did it. It’s really comfy!”[PAGEBREAK]
Style Score: Cate Blanchett
Special delivery: Flush with impending motherhood, it’s impossible to believe Cate could ever convincingly portray a man, especially in her deep blue satin Dries Van Noten gown, Lorraine Schwartz jewels and a Roger Vivier clutch.[PAGEBREAK]
Style Bore: Diablo Cody
A former exotic dancer who’s reinvented herself as a Oscar-winning screenwriter, Diablo had one foot back on the stripper pole in this Flintstones-Gone-Bad leopard print silk chiffon gown with jeweled detail from Dior by John Galliano. At least she opted for gold flats over Lucite sky-highs – OR the diamond-drenched million-buck Stuart Weitzmans she was offered and refused. “It was the silliest thing,” she said. “Nobody asked me, nobody talked to me, it was just this crate in the room with my name on it. I was like, what the hell? So, no, these are regular shoes.”[PAGEBREAK]
Style Score: Kristin Chenoweth
“Very Cinderella” is how Kristin described her upscale but uber-sexy black and rose Armani Privé gown with (understatement ahead) sweetheart neckline – and if Cinderella looked like that we wouldn’t kick her out of bed for eating pumpkins. The operatic diva hit an even higher note by Fred Leighton diamond hair clips and a Tiffany cuff she had her own designs on. “I’m going to pull a Sharon Stone and just walk home with it tonight,” she giggled.[PAGEBREAK]
Style Score: Cameron Diaz
“I put it on and felt like I was wearing nothing,” cooed the Diaz-ling doll of her pale pink Dior gown by John Galliano, and we decided that even nothing should be so lucky to look this good. Also next to nothing: her minimal makeup, offset by plenty of Bvlgari bling, including platinum earrings with a pair radiant cut diamonds, pink diamonds and 24 pear-shaped diamonds, and a white gold ring with one round brilliant cut diamond round brilliant cut diamonds and diamond pavé.[PAGEBREAK]
Style Bore: Helen Mirren
God save the Queen! “I had three gowns to choose from, and I wanted a warm, but dramatic dress,” Helen told us on the carpet, but it was the wrong kind of drama. Her nearly regal red Georges Chakra gown was dethroned by the silly Swarovski crystal sleeves. [PAGEBREAK]
Style Score: Penelope Cruz
Penelope’s beau Javier Bardem might want to pour some Chigurh on the sweetly stylish star when he spied her in a Chanel Haute Couture navy blue organza feather-embroidered gown designed especially for her by no less than Karl Lagerfeld himself, capped with Chanel Beaute’s color palette and claret-colored diamond drop earrings a fancy shaped diamond bracelet and a marquise-cut diamond ring.
