Stylish Dish: Red Carpet Dish - Academy Awards 2011

If you are like me, you watch the Academy Awards because you really like movies and you LOVE fashion. Not many of us real people have an occasion to throw on a floor length sparkly number and cruise down a red carpet. So, we live vicariously through the actors, actresses, cinematographers, directors, and other “industry” people who get to attend these events.

And, if you are like my family, we all throw in our two cents about who looks fabulous and who looks fugulous. (Although, in Hollywood, what doesn’t look good could quite possibly be spectacular at the local grocery store so take the critics with a grain of salt.)

My top 5 are below (in no particular order)

Michelle Williams looks so beautiful and classic here. She reminds me of Mia Faorrow in Rosemary’s baby, in a good way. It reminded me of the gorgeous yellow Vera Wang she wore a few years back which I had to include because it remains one of my all time favorites.

Hats off to you Sandra Bullock! You look great – take that Jesse and Kat. I do, however, wish you put on makeup besides lipstick. Looking a little peekid to me

What can we say about Jennifer Hudson? She looks amazing! That color is gorgeous on her, I am surely too pale for that color.

Mila Kunis shines again! When she presented I wasn’t too crazy about the little lace panels that peek out at the top but in full length view this dress is divine.

When choosing my favorite sparkly number I went back and forth between Halle Berry and Mandy Moore. Halle is just too beautiful, it is unfair --and I loved Tangled, so Mandy you take the prize in my book.

The host Anne Hathaway wore something like 8 different dresses (and hair styles!) My two favorites were the ones below. (Surprise! I loved the one shoulder – I am obsessed with one shoulder tops and dresses.)

My cousin who watched with me (we have a family party) was not as interested in Anne’s dresses as her sparkly shoes that she wore with the Lanvin tuxedo. She was drooling over them and oohing and ahhhing. I asked her where one would possibly wear them and she promptly repied New Years Eve and Vegas Baby! There you have it!

After much googling, I finally found a photo of the much fawned over shoes. They are, apparently, Brian Atwood custom black satin “Fiona” pumps with 8,000 hand-applied Swarovski Crystals. Wow.