Fashion Police at the 2009 Oscars: Jessica Biel in Prada

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  Popular opinion at the moment seems to say that Jessica Biel was the winner of the Worst Dressed award at the 2009 Oscars. The Fashion Police Jury will remain out until we've finished looking at ALL the evidence, but what we will say is that the words "Incredible Marshmallow Woman" sprang into our heads when we looked at this Prada dress, so it's not looking good for Jessica, who also decided to go with strangely stringy looking hair. Not one of our favourites so far.

Fashion Police at the 2009 Oscars: Freida Pinto in John Galliano

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  Fighting crimes of fashion doesn’t leave us with a lot of spare time to watch movies, so we only managed to catch Slumdog Millionaire about a week ago, just in time to develop a serious girl-crush on Freida Pinto in time for the Oscars. She’s beautiful in the movie, and also beautiful in this blue dress by John Galliano, but we don’t think the fit is quite right around the waist – a bit of pulling in would’ve been more flattering to Freida’s lovely figure, although she earns Fashion Police points for choosing a colour that wasn’t white (or something similarly pale).

Fashion Police at the 2009 Oscars: Evan Rachel Wood in Elie Saab

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  Now that she’s started to give up on being Dita Von Teese’s Mini Me (or has toned down the attempt, at least) Evan Rachel Wood has started to earn her own fashion stripes, and we think she’s going a pretty good job of it in this strapless Elie Saab dress, which is the perfect colour for her pale skin. Loving the red hair, too (but then, we would..)

Fashion Police at the 2009 Oscars: Heidi Klum & Seal

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  OK: it's Heidi Klum at the Oscars, it's RM by Roland Mouret, it's a striking, asymmetric shape, and it's an fabulous, dramatic red. So why isn't this quite working for us? Is it just that the Oscars isn't really a "flash yer thighs" kinda ceremony, and Heidi's getting her legs out a little more than is perhaps necessary? No, we don't think so, but while we don't hate this look, we still can't quite put our fingers on why we don't love it, either. Your suggestions welcome.

On another note: don't you always feel sorry for men at awards ceremony? Seal, for instance, looks as handsome as ever here, but he looks just like Seal at any other awards ceremony. It must suck to have to always go for a suit and miss out on all of the fabulous choices we women get…

Fashion Police at the 2009 Oscars: Anne Hathaway in Armani Prive

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  Excuse us for just a moment while we snatch back the "Best Actress in a White Dress" award from Sarah Jessica Parker and give it Anne Hathaway instead. Although, actually, hers is more "silver". Hmm, maybe we could give them both an award? Oh, we don't know: you decide who was best dressed, all we'll say is that while Anne Hathaway may not have won Best Actress, she certainly looked beautiful in this gorgeous Armani Prive dress. We approve…

Fashion Police at the 2009 Oscars: Sarah Jessica Parker in Dior Haute Couture

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  And the winner of the "Best Actress in a White Dress" award (trust us, that totally should have been a category) goes to …. Sarah Jessica Parker! Or we think so, anyway, but then, it IS Dior Haute Couture, and that's almost guaranteed to get a thumbs-up from The Fashion Police. In fact, we'd have loved to have gotten married in this gown. Ah well, next time…

Edit: we've just realised that this dress is actually a very pale green rather than the white we supposed it to be at first glance. Now we like it even MORE.

Fashion Police at the 2009 Oscars: Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt

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  Well, it could've been worse, given Angelina Jolie's past form on the red carpet, but it also could've been a little more interesting than this nice-but-dull black Elie Saab gown. Just once, we'd love to see Angelina really play up her stunning good looks, rather than trying to play them down, in an absolute show-stopper of a dress. Just once, Angie, for us?

Brad, meanwhile, is still working the "little beard" look.

Fashion Police at the 2009 Oscars: Jennifer Aniston in Valentino

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  Another white, sparkly dress, this time worn by Jennifer Aniston and designed by Valentino. As much as we love Jen, we'd have to say this was our least favourite of last night's plethora of white dresses, but hey, at least Jennifer looks like she's enjoying herself..