Today is the day! It’s time for red carpets, teary speeches, and bets lost and won. We are live-blogging the Oscars tonight to cheer on our favorites and dish about the absurdities.
Starting at 7 p.m. (EST) tonight, Sunday, February 24, we’ll be watching the 85th Annual Academy Awards, hosted by Seth MacFarlane. As our Alexandra MacAaron noted, “the good news for female audiences of a certain age lay in the Best Supporting Actress category, where two actresses over the age of 60 were named, and the average age of the nominees is nearly 50.” The average age is 50! Well, that’s right up our alley.
Join us and cheer along. Click on our “Oscar Central” post, scroll down, and comment. We welcome your opinions—as short or long as you like. Comments will be screened before we post them, and our online chats are famously civil (if a little catty sometimes about fashion). Feel free to share links and photos—and Tweets @womensvoices, too! (Here’s how it went at last year’s Oscar night.)
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Charlize: how well she put the enormous value of a costume designer and her honest humility about what others do for her in terms of dress, hair, etc. She is more beautiful for her attitude.
Anyone else feel like some of Jennifer L.’s distinctiveness got muted by all that tulle?
Chris: that’s a step forward re voting online.
More power to the short-haired girls. I’m too lazy- long hair is easier!
Chris: re Google movie mash-up: give us one
Nicole and Charlize — both gorgeous — won Oscars when they let themselves look ugly onscreen. Anne Hathaway tonight?
My mom and I were just talking about how pretty Charlize is with the short hair. (Any guesses about how we both wear ours?)
Nicole Kidman’s metallic dress was a nice departure from all the monochromatic ensembles. Charlize Theron always looks elegant, but even she has trouble pulling off the peplum.
Charlize Theron, an Ode to White + Simplicity. Wow. Definitely one of our favorites so far.
Toni – This year Oscar votes happened online. I wonder if the choices will differ from last year’s geriatric set.
A slideahow of ALL the red-carpet looks: http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/02/oscars-2013-academy-awards-red-carpet-celebrities.html
The Academy makeup sounds like a very conservative political party. How much Hollywood politics goes into The Academy
choices? Should we trust them more than other award deciders?
Male actors have it so easy come Oscar time- they really have to TRY to look bad on the red carpet. Who doesn’t look good in a tux?
OK, let’s get relevant with a Google movie mash-up?
I was speaking of the color blue of Reese’s dress, but I also support racial diversity.
Uh-oh. Apparently Reese didn’t get the metallic dress memo. 🙁
Hurray for color! I love Reese’s gown. 🙂
Just so we’re informed: “The median age of an Academy VOTER is 62. They are 94% Caucasian and 77% male.” Source: Women’s Media Center
Ha! Another reason to love Jennifer Lawrence!
Also on Twitter, from @TheAdvocateMag: Jennifer Lawrence hit the Oscars red carpet and said, “I’m starving! Is there food here?”
Hi Phillygirl! I agree. GCB wasn’t afraid to offend people — and consequently offended a lot of people.
Alex, I just tweeted your line about Quvenzhane- it’s too cool!
I thought Chenowith was hysterical in GCB! I was sorry to see it go- that show nailed satire.
Lots of metallic gowns this year.
Catherine Zeta Jones is fabulous at 43!
Chenoweth is really good at the one of the most difficult jobs in live entertainment.
Catherine Zeta Jones always looks great. I love the pattern of the beadwork- it’s a true work of art.
Zoe Saldana’s tribute to another phenomenal woman is important- Nina Simone, who she plays in upcoming biopic. Lovely to see a young generation of actresses paying homage to those that paved the way.
Jennifer Lawrence, you are the future
Quvenzhane is WOW! Such presence and good humor, no visible shakes, just excitement and poise. And the bag! All the girls will want one. I loved her as Hush Puppy, maybe the best performance of the year, saw it on the airplane and it was hard to see detail. must again.
And yeah, Quvenzhane’s awesome. If they’d nominated her for Supporting, I think she’d have a statue for sure.
“American Werewolf in Paris?”
Meanwhile, for a kind of heady discussion of the Academy’s woman problem: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/soraya-chemaly/women-oscar-nominations_b_2743739.html?utm_hp_ref=tw
Completely agree, Chris!
Is it just me, or is everyone on the sparkly dress bandwagon? I know it’s the Oscars, but it feels a bit like everyone is a disco ball.
Yeah, that director was one of many rooked.
How much do we all LOVE Quvenzhane, ladies?
A moment to look forward to: The incomparable Jane Fonda will be presenting later. She dazzles in yellow tonight!
Winter’s Bone was an incredible movie. With a lot of talented women behind the camera too!
Kerry Washington is one of the folks I’m hoping for, even though I never saw Django.
Yes, Jessica’s dress is amazing, channeling Marilyn!. But I look at her and think I do not want to see your movie and I really hope Jennifer Lawrence will win. Have wanted since I saw her in WINTER’S BONE. A fine actress.
Chastain is definitely a class act. She just finished a run on Broadway starring in “The Heiress.”
Love Jessica Chastain’s dress. I thought, “mermaid!”
Kristen Chenoweth must be wearing VERY high heels!
I love Kristin Chenoweth.And so good to see Robin Roberts so well.
Happy to see Robin Roberts there!
Kerry Washington=Goddess
Amanda Seyfried looks exquisite! I can’t wait to find out who she is wearing. I would guess Marchessa. Will see!
“A great year for women in film is just a great year for film.”-Jessica Chastain
25 minutes and counting to our Live – Blog!! Fashion & Hollywood here we come!