Oscar Glamorama

To gear us up for the 81st Annual Academy Awards on Sunday night, let’s take a trip down memory lane and check out all the best of the best glamorous and blinged up ladies working it majorly on the red carpet over the years at the Oscars.

You will notice some of their faces have changed over time but hey, its Hollywood and a girl’s got to be able to give good red carpet if they want to survive and be noticed because let’s face it a successful gown is all one needs these days to get noticed by a top director.

These are some of our faves:

Julianne Moore (Oscars 03) - Four time Oscar nominee Julianne Moore wears gorgeous emerald YSL on the red carpet perfectly complimenting her auburn hair. Our absolute favourite.

Michelle Williams (Oscars 06) – This saffron yellow Vera Wang gown looks superb on Michelle matched with bright red lips. A dazzling look but she gets away with it.

Reese Witherspoon (Oscars 07) - Reese Witherspoon is just stunning in aubergine layered Nina Ricci by Olivier Theyskens.

Angelina Jolie (Oscars 04) - Angelina Jolie in sexy white satin Marc Bouwer, say no more.

Cate Blanchett (Oscars 99) - Cate turns up not once but twice in our gallery and we could have gone for a third. John Galliano’s back-embroidered butterfly-decorated gown is just amazing and Cate has consistently been a true style leader over the years.

Gwyneth Paltrow (Oscars 07) – With straight ironed locks and beautifully pleated apricot tulle-and-chiffon Zac Posen gown, we can forgive Gwyneth for past misdemeanours.

Bjork (Oscars 01) – Dead swan dress obliterates the compettion. Nuff said.

Looking forward to bitching about all the new gowns and faces on the red carpet Sunday night.

Check back for a recap.

Gwyneth Paltrow Is So Not Cheesy

No way. She is class personified. You got that.

That is why at last Sunday’s Grammy Awards, she deemed it “cheesy” to walk down the red carpet with her husband and Coldplay front man, Chris Martin, opting to go solo. She told Fox News, “It’s cheesy. I mean, who wants to live like that?”

Oh the haughtiness, the fact she is totally above it. Brangelina; lovers of red carpet must be distressed by her comments.

But do we really believe her cheese?

Could it have anything to do with the fact that Martin doesn’t ever want to be seen with his wife in public and frankly this is something she cannot stand.

Here she is, a beautiful woman with a yoga toned body to boot and her husband doesn’t want to be seen with her. That’s gotta hurt.

Gwyneth strikes me as a pampered princess who always got her way before she met Martin. Then she got married and things changed.

So what’s a girl to do?

Well, Gwynnie had a good chat with herself and got into some serious self loving. She said “You be strong girl, you get yourself off that spoiled ass and you sashay down that red carpet like you own it and you dress yourself in the most sexiest, outrageous clothes and everyone is going to love you and worship at your feet.”

So far all Gwynnie has managed to extract from her public is a few raised eyebrows at her choice of outfits, but it takes time to gather worshippers and she is dedicated to assemble a group of sycophants so she can run back to her hubby and scream, you fool, look how much the world adores me.