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Okay, so here are my thoughts ... my thoughts ... on the Hots and Nots and Just Plain Awfuls at the Oscars. What did you think?  VERY BEST Teyana Taylor is what looked like fur but turned out to be feathers or fringe. No one else looked quite as regal or edgy or fun.  BEST clockwise from top left Ava DuVernay took wing in this glamourous gown in midnight blue. Those shoulder wings looked like she was about to take flight. Nicole Kidman in pale pink feathers and jewels looked the very essence of Pretty in Pink. The feathered peplum and the feathered fringe fluttered as she walked, or glided, down the Wunmi Mosaku was nine months pregnant at the Oscars and she glowed in this green jeweled dress; pure elegance. Rose Byrne brought the class to the carpet in this simple flowered gown with minimal jewelry and a simple hair style; as any Oscar nominee should.  GOOD clockwise from top left Amy Madigan looked fun and playful in this fringed jacket and she had every right; her last Oscar nomination was forty years ago! Audry Nuna looked regal in this gold-plated, full skirted dress; she played almost evil looking and rocked it. Emma Stone always looks really good, if not sometimes very simple; this is a classy, elegant look without all the bells and whistles of some other women. Kathy Bates proved you can be a woman of a certain age and look utterly gorgeous; from the hair to the neckline to the jeweled bodice and the full skirt she was a queen. Renate Reinsve is Simply Red; at first I was annoyed because I was getting red sheet wrapped around the body, but the more I saw it, I loved the simplicity in the sea of ball gowns and feathers and sequins. Jessie Buckley floated down the carpet and up the stairs to collect her Oscar; I loved the red banded top and the flowing pink skirt. Demi Moore is the yin to Nicole’s yang; I loved the feathers but hated the feathers nearly covered her recently constructed 2026 face. Chase Infiniti is someone I don’t know but I love the lilac ruffles falling from her side. I like her hair, but maybe something different for this dress.  MEH clockwise from top left Anne Hathaway looks like she was pulling a Rose Byrne dress but on sale; too many flowers cheap and the look and the black gloves? Seriously. Bella Thorne was giving 60’s Ann-Margaret—Google her kids—but the gown looked old on her; she should have gone more youthful and fun. GOOP in a stiff column dress to match her stiff face; I have never seen a more dour look at the Oscars, especially in white. Melissa McCarthy has been looking fabulous lately and this sequined number did the trick; but then why wear a long-sleeved black T underneath it? Priyanka Chopra-Jonas is a mess; the bodice seemed ill-fitting and kind of lumpy and the skirt looks like it belongs to another dress. But the black shoes? Oh Hell No. Ginnifer Goodwin gives me grieving widow in the dress combined with Let’s ride the slide childishness of the hair. Mismatch. Felicity Jones got swallowed up in this yellow mess; it gives her now shape and there seemed to be far too many embellishments and flounces and ruffles. Ejae is someone I don’t know and I liked this dress at first, but when I saw this picture the sash around her waist made it appear as if she was wearing a white knee-length slip underneath it and now I cannot unsee it.  BAD clockwise from top left Barbie Ferreira in a ball gown. A.Ball.Gown. I thought they were over, especially in that 80s blue, and yet what made it even worse was, as she posed on the carpet she kept bending over to display The Girls. Nope, we don’t do that here. Elle Fanning in a ball gown too, though she always wears the Cinderella fantasy look and it’s getting old and so is Elle, Bring some edge, girl before you’re the seventy-year-old actress in Disney Princess drag. Sigourney Weaver should take notes from Kathy Bates; women of a certain age don’t need to be completely covered up in sequined sofa fabrics unless she’s making a play for JD Vance? Kristin Wiig is either way too avant-garde or way too simple, or way too drab. Drab won this year with a tank top and a floor-length hostess skirt.  WTF... Pick Your Worst clockwise from top left Auli’i Cravalho looks like her breasts are cannons and she’s ready to go to Iran and fight; plus the skirt seems extra full in the front. Chloe Zhao is the Angel of Doom; how else do you explain this mess. Isabel Zuaa took last year’s trend of having shoulder straps slightly above the shoulders and raised it by about a foot; it’s like she’s the Incredible Shrinking woman in the dress. Odessa A'zion does her own styling; ‘nuff said about that. I will give her props for having a voice but maybe she shouldn’t always listen to it. Misty Copeland is one of the most beautiful women in the world, and yet this dress with the over-sized almost Talking Heads looking black bolero jacket with ruffles is senseless. Maybe, as a retired ballet dancer she missed the tutu?  MEN VERY BEST Michael B. Jordan could show up in sweats and ratty t-shirt still look fabulous but he chose this sleek and modern take on a tuxedo that closed at the neck. I love the buttons and the chain detail and I could eat him with a spoon.  VERY GOOD clockwise from top left Shaboozy; I just wanna sit next to him and watch him smile. And smile he did in this modern take of an older tuxedo look. The white tie and the hint of white in the shoe and the jewelry sealed the deal! Jeremy Pope chose the modern white double-breasted tuxedo jacket with a black shirt coiled around his neck; he looked just p[lain cool and hot. Ryan Coogler chose a simple black tuxedo with a white bow tie and the perfect sleek pocket square. He looked regal and handsome. Adrien Brody; I have always crushed on Adrien Brody and he served it up at the Oscars in this all-black tuxedo with a jeweled pocket square of his own; tall and dreamy.  GOOD clockwise from top left Chase Stokes looked luscious in a velvet jacket with no tie and sleek black pants. Grrrrrr. Lewis Pullman kinda went safe in a simple man’s suit and tie but he pulled it off; effortless. Miles Caton played the color drenched card and wore the same color from head to toe; it was elegant and classy. Pedro Pascale was hot without the weather in this crisp white shirt with ruffled sleeves and a floral detail above the pocket. Few men could this off but Pedro isn’t like other men, he’s got edge. Joe Alwyn looked simple and elegant in a black tuxedo but the tie was a nice choice; not a bow-tie or a necktie but a simple blousy tie. Kieran Culkin is classic yet modern in a burgundy jacket over black shirt and tie and pants; like many of the men, he bejeweled the lapel for some pizzazz.  MEH clockwise from top left Damson Idris looks good, and hot and new, but the jacket just seems too long and too heavy for a hot night; he gets props, though, for designing his own jewelry and lapel pin. Felix Kammerer is a little too casual for the Oscars. I like the color but the rolled-up sleeves are too retro not cool retro. Paul Mescal; goddess I adore him, but he seems to be wearing an outfit similar to Joe Alwyn’s but it seems ill-fitting and uncomfortable. But Paul gets a pass because he’s Paul. Wagner Moura was one of the Hot Men at the Oscars but that white buttoned up shirt with no tie looked like he forgot to finish dressing. An all-black look would have been much better. Jacob Elordi gets points for being a tall drink or water and rocking a porn stache, but his look seems old school, emphasis on the old and I cannot forgive his shoes. Hudson Mills—one of the stars of Heated Rivalry—looks nice enough though he’s got a smug face and that takes points off, but what really annoyed me was that he was trying to sell the accessories; he held his arm at his waist to show off the watch. This isn’t Home Shopping, Hudson.  WTF left to right Kevin O’Leary—I do not know him—but he looked like a professional wrestler who showed up at the wrong event. Spike Lee. First off, the look isn’t bad except for the big purse but the way he’s standing looks like he either has to go to the bathroom or just did.  WORST Timothée Chalamet. Where to begin … his smug little scamp attitude, the all-white milk man look that screams Garanimals For Tiny Actors; the stance; the sunglasses. It all makes it clear that Timothée thinks he’s It but he’s not. |
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
Oscar Fashion ... From Teyana to Timothée
Monday, March 16, 2026
Oscarvations
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Well another year and another Oscarvations. And while I haven’t seen a lot of the films, I’ve seen some, and I am mostly here for the spectacle and drama and surprise and humor … and the Hot Men so let’s dig in … My first thought was Conan O’Brien, seriously? I mean, he’s funny enough, but there’s no edge; he mostly Dad jokes and some self-deprecating humor. Now, that isn’t to say he didn’t get some good ones in and those I will share throughout this post like … “F1 did so well they’re thinking of doing a sequel called Caps Lock.” 
And then onstage he did a whole “thing” about him winning an Oscar, with The Pope blessing him and him blessing the Pope, and a hawk delivering his Oscar while Josh Groban sang. It could have been cut and we would have shaved 5 minutes off the show. “I’m the last human host of the Academy Awards.”   “Last year when I hosted Los Angeles was on fire. This year everything’s great!”Then came a live version of the juke joint scene from Sinners, which I loved that was followed by scenes from Marty Supreme AKA The Ping Pong Movie and the appearance in the orchestra pit of The Timothy Chalamet Bum Drum. I kind of wish they had really paddled that smug little actor instead of the fake butt. “Sinners director Ryan Coogler says he declined becoming a voting member of the Academy because he doesn’t like judging his peers. But the rest of you pricks are fine with that.”   Conan appears with a leaf blower …. Why … and then introduces Matt Barry, the announcer for the show, who is doing his job from London … again why? “Security is tight. I’m told there are threats from both the opera and ballet communities.”   “I was in a movie with Rose Byrne. It’s hard to act in a scene with someone you have an enormous crush on but did an admirable job.”  Conan does a bit about making movies that continually have to remind the viewer what the film is about because our attention spans have disappeared.    “An alternate Oscars is being hosted by Kid Rock. It’s just down the street at Dave and Buster’s”  During the In Memoriam Rachel McAdams paid a touching tribute to the late Diane Keaton with whom she co-starred in The Family Stone, honoring her as a "legend with no end" and "a woman who wore so many hats." Literally. And then Barbra Streisand talked about the late Robert Redford then sang a snippet of The Way We Were Conan then offers up the Academy’s plan to reach younger viewers: When you’re hosting the Oscars and lokenuinely trying to rizz up the young demographic by going brain-rot modem and even though you’re uncoded with a bunch of famepilled NPCS you’re still S-Tier level aura farming. Six-Seven. “Yes, that’s a message young people will see watching broadcast television.” And old people like me will see and say, What the …. Sigourney Weaver and HOT MAN Pedro Pascal … Sigourney talks aliens and the downright adorable Grogu AKA Baby Yoda, sitting in the audience with Kate Hudson; Sigourney shrieks her famous line from Alien: “Get away from him you bitch.”   “Conan went outside and inadvertently exposed his face to the sun and was incinerated so I will be finishing out the rest of the program.” Would that it was true because he goes one … “You know there are some countries whose leaders don’t support free speech though I am not at liberty to say which. Let’s just leave it at North Korea and CBS. Fortunately for us there is an international community of filmmakers dedicated to telling the truth, oftentimes at great risk. There are films that teach us, that call out injustice, inspire us to take action, and there are also documentaries where you walk around the White House trying on shoes.” 
I needed a bit more of that. And Kimmel. “Fun fact, Brad Pitt and I are the same age. I was told this by my wife with tears streaming down her face.”  Maya Rudolph, Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Rose Byrne and Ellie Kemper celebrate the 15th anniversary of Bridesmaids and each read notes from members of the audience … Rose Byrne’s is from Leonardo DiCaprio asking her to stop looking at him because it makes him nervous and Rose admits to starting because she thought he was someone else … snap …and then present BEST SCORE to Sinners’ Ludwig Goransson, quite the hottie and then ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND to F1 and Gareth John, Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary Rizzo & Juan Peralta. “Hamnet and Bugonia sound like off-brand lunchmeat.”       “Mama what’s up? … I stand here because of the people who came before me … Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Jamie Foxx, Forest Whitaker … thank you everybody in this room that had something to do with my success.”  “Thank you to the incredible women that I stand beside, I am inspired by your art and your heart and I wanna work with every single one of you and to my parents for teaching us to dream and carve from your own passion. It’s Mother’s Day in the UK today and I dedicate this to the beautiful chaos of a mother’s heart.”  So, there you have it., good bits, bad bits, funny, bits and a lot of HOT MEN like ...  What did you think? |
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