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The oscar frocks: Jennifer Hudson wins it for me.

106 replies

DrNortherner · 28/02/2011 07:15

Here

Jennifer Hudson looks amazing. I know she has lost loads of weight but has she had work done too? Her boobs look tres perky......

Jennifer Lawrence's dress is dull dull dull.

Pen Cruz looks gorgeous too. Halle - sure we've seen it all before - style rut?

Cate Blanchett (she is so beautiful it is not true) love the skirt of her frock, not sure about the top, and those yellow flashes? Nearly gave me a migraine. DRess is a lovely colour though.

Reece looks cute as always, HBC a horror as always and Sharon Stone looks like Cruella du Ville.

What do you think?

OP posts:
DrRichandNimble · 28/02/2011 17:34

when i grow up i want to be as elegant and beautiful as Helen Mirren. I adore her style and her confidence.

BendyBob · 28/02/2011 17:53

Blimey I hadn't seen the back of Cate's dress Shock - lordy how awful. I'm sticking with the 'toilet seat up' description for the front. Seriously, how could anyone design something so awful??

EdgarAleNPie · 28/02/2011 18:49

cate blanchett gaining on rhea durham now that ihave seen the back of that abominaTION - WHY YELLOW ??

FellatioNelson · 28/02/2011 19:28

ooh I love these threads! I've been so looking forward to this! Trouble is, you need a spreadsheet to remember them all and keeping posting on each one. Right I'm going in, and I shall not look at any other opinions until I've had my say. Tehn we'll see if we concur.

ifancyashandy · 28/02/2011 19:35

I adore Cate Blanchet's dress.

Scarlett J looks a mess and I usually think she looks amazing.

Penelope Cruz looks beautiful but her dress is meh.

Matthew McC's lady looks absolutely stunning. Amazing gown.

FellatioNelson · 28/02/2011 19:52

OK.

Jennifer Hudson - fab-u-lous. gret colour on her and knowckout dress.

Anne Hathaway - too small chested to suit the style, and those bizarre rosettes and bulges are not good.

Jennifer Lawrence - dull

Penny Cruz - meh. A bit middle aged

Sandra Bullock - gorgeous, and so brave to not wear any necklace - all that bare alabaster flesh is stunning against the red.

Hilary Swank - s'alright I s'pose.

Halle - a bit frou frou but not a horror.

Gwynnie. Hmmm. Not sure. a bit severe and not terribly flattering?

Michelle W. Frumpy McFrump

Celine - Roll of clingfilm

Natalie Portman - drop dead gorgeous, and I love that aubergine colour

Scarlett - Perfection as always, not keen on the mussed up hair though. She does old-school glamour better than anyone - she should stick to it.

Mia Kunis - v.v. unusual colour, that pale blue, not an easy colour at all, but she nails it and the dress is really really pretty.

Cate. Don't like. Too much like a star wars film set costume for me. I do love her though. So serene.

Amy Adams - meh

Florence Welch - very gothic and uber trendy, which suits her style, but the colour is dreadful on her. She looks like a corpse in a shroud. A nice frilly shroud.Grin

HBC - nice dress - Westwood again? Her hair looks like she's been dragged backward through a hedge as usual, but at least she took the silly sunglasses off this time. Shes' bonkers. You've got to love her. Typically British, like Florence, just bonkers. The yanks must HmmShock when our lot pitch up on the red carpet.

Sharon Stone - Shoulder feathers or hip knot. Not both. And hair too severe for her age. She needs softness now, as fabulous as she is.

Reece - boring.

FellatioNelson · 28/02/2011 19:54

Oh, god, forgot Mandy Moore. Is she auditioning for a Christmas pantomime fairy? horrid. Just horrid.

FellatioNelson · 28/02/2011 19:55

I meant Fairy Godmother. It's too frumpy to be a fairy.

darleneconnor · 28/02/2011 19:58

I liked reece witherspoon, i love the monochrome look and at least it was differebt from everyone else.

Dont like the nude look, too plain and bridal. Loved the reds.

Wish natalie portman had made more of her bump, she looked like she was trying to hide it.

Sharon stone looked great for her age but the make up was too harsh.

Worsed dressed goes to madonna, whi forgot her skirt. I expected hbc to be a contender but she was dressed surprisingly normally.

darleneconnor · 28/02/2011 19:59

I liked reece witherspoon, i love the monochrome look and at least it was differebt from everyone else.

Dont like the nude look, too plain and bridal. Loved the reds.

Wish natalie portman had made more of her bump, she looked like she was trying to hide it.

Sharon stone looked great for her age but the make up was too harsh.

Worsed dressed goes to madonna, whi forgot her skirt. I expected hbc to be a contender but she was dressed surprisingly normally.

FellatioNelson · 28/02/2011 20:08

Quote of the day goes to whoever it was up-thread who said of Hilary Swank: 'It needs something with a head much closer to it.' Shock Priceless.

I appear to me in a minority of two on Scarlett. Praps I'm just so used to her being fabulous that I am blind to reason. Confused

That link to the pic of Colin Firths wife at the BAFTAS in the midnight blue is a vision from heaven. She's not even famous and she blows then all out of the water.

I seem to be missing a bit of the link - no Madge, no Mirren, no Nicole. I'm going back in....

FellatioNelson · 28/02/2011 20:09

With Reece, I'm usually the biggest champion of plain, simple, monochrome, etc, but I just can't help finding that a tad dull.

CaveMum · 28/02/2011 20:11

Fellatio - Madonna

FellatioNelson · 28/02/2011 20:14

Where are you all getting Nicole and Helen M and Madge from then? Confused they aren't on the OP's link.

noddyholder · 28/02/2011 20:15

Where are the pictures?I think I saw taylor swift in a short gold dress v nice.

gregssausageroll · 28/02/2011 20:17

The only person that I thought wow you look lovely is Helen Mirren.

I don't like Jen Hudson's boobs in that frock, Reese witherspoon looks too much like Sandra Bullock a few years ago. Didn't like Sandra Bullock on Anne Hathaway.

Some have posted that Penelope Cruz didn't look great but she has only just had a baby so she's forgiven!

If you google 2011 oscar photos they will come up.

noddyholder · 28/02/2011 20:19

I think celine dion looked terrible like an old skinny bride.Penelope cruz and natalie portman are stunning as is helen mirren.

ifancyashandy · 28/02/2011 20:23

Helen Mirren looks fantastic till the ankles - dress is slightly too long / wide at the bottom and makes her look like she has no feet.

Could just be the angle of the photo though!

I thought Reese W looked fab too.

But Madonna Shock!! My eyes!!!

AintMissBeehiving · 28/02/2011 20:27

I thought Helen Mirren looked AMAZING in VW. I want to look like her when I grow up. Smile

FellatioNelson · 28/02/2011 20:49

Am forced to google Helen Mirren and Madonna now, as no-one has given me a link.

But I've never seen HM look anything other than utterly stunning. In fact when I saw her waxwork in Madame Tussauds she was so beautiful and had THE MOST INCREDIBLE DRESS on, that I'm surprised the security guards didn't have to my prise me off her and hose me down in a cold shower.

AintMissBeehiving · 28/02/2011 20:59

Helen M looking fab

FellatioNelson · 28/02/2011 21:04

Ok, seen Helen Mirren. Beautiful. Nothing to do with the Oscars, but look at this scroll down to Halle in the raspberry lace. Doesn't she look fab? What a frock.

EdgarAleNPie · 28/02/2011 21:33

ok

Worst Dressed

Madonna
Cate Blanchett
Rhea Durham

any more?

CaveMum · 28/02/2011 22:16

Oi Fellatio, I put up a link to Madonna at 20:11!

I have to say I wasn't a fan of Michelle Williams' dress. Nothing wrong with it per se, but it didn't scream "red carpet" to me.

CaveMum · 28/02/2011 22:20

Hailee Steinfeld looked very sweet and appropriate for a 14yo (take note Lourdes!)