Cate Blanchett accepting the Academy Award for best actress.
Cate, 44, who looked stunning in a heavily-embellished Armani gown, triumphed in a tough category, beating Sandra Bullock (Gravity), Amy Adams (American Hustle), Judi Dench (Philomena) and veteran Meryl Streep (August: Osage County).
“This award means a great deal in a year of extraordinary performances by women,” she said in her acceptance speech. “This proves movies about women are not niche – they can be very popular and they can make money!”
Cate also controversially thanked Blue Jasmine’s director Woody Allen, who has been accused of child molestation by his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow.
It is Cate’s second Oscar – she won the best supporting actress award in 2004 for her role in The Aviator and was nominated in best actress category in 1998 for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth I in Elizabeth.
Cate wasn’t the only big Aussie winner on the night – Catherine Martin won two Oscars, taking her total tally to four, breaking the record for the most Academy Awards won by an Australian.
Catherine was recognised in the costume design and production design categories for her work on husband Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby. She also won two awards for Moulin Rouge in 2002.
This takes her past fellow Aussie costume designer Orry-Kelly, who previously held the record with wins for An American in Paris, Les Girls and Some Like It Hot in the 1950s.
In her acceptance speech, Catherine thanked her creative and sewing team and her director husband.
“He makes it all possible,” she said. “He dreams the dream.”
Catherine Martin accepting her Oscar for costume design.
Catherine took home the golden statues for costume and production design for her work on her husband Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby.
She has now won four Oscars, after winning two for her work on Moulin Rouge in 2002.
This takes her past fellow Aussie costume designer Orry-Kelly, who previously held the record with wins for An American in Paris, Les Girls and Some Like It Hot in the 1950s.
In her acceptance speeches, Catherine thanked her creative and sewing team, her children, and her director husband.
“He makes it all possible,” she said. “He dreams the dream.”
Catherine was also nominated for Romeo + Juliet and Australia.
They may not look natural, but these stars clearly think they’ve hit a winner with these poses.
Depending on whether they want to maximise or minimise, slim or accentuate, celebrities have particular red carpet poses that they return to again and again.
The leg-out pose is probably the most common, and Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Lopez take it to its full potential while Lea Michele relies on it more often but less exaggeratedly.
As facial expressions go, Keira Knightley is in a constant pout while Megan Fox keeps her lips slightly apart as if she’s on the cover of a men’s magazine.
It’s Hollywood’s night of nights – the 86th annual Academy Awards, and the stars did not disappoint on the red carpet.
Best actress nominee Cate Blanchett looked stunning in a nude embellished Armani gown, while last year’s winner Jennifer Lawrence dazzled in a red Dior dress.
Sandra Bullock and Amy Adams looked lovely in navy while newcomer Lupita Nyong’o chose a lighter blue for her ethereal frock.
Here are some of the best – and worst – outfits from the 2014 Oscars red carpet.
Amy Adams, Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Lawrence, Angelina Jolie and Sandra Bullock.
Prince Andrew is dating George Clooney’s on-again off-again girlfriend of seven years, Croatian model Monika Jakisic.
Jakisic, 33, known as “the Croatian Sensation” and whose Wikipedia page stipulates in capital letters that she is a “supermodel”, has progressed from the closest thing to royalty in the United States to the Duke of York.
The Duke and the model were spotted at an intimate table at Italian restaurant Cecconi’s on Mayfair in London, celebrating the Duke’s 54thbirthday.
An eye witness has said, “They sat next to each other at an intimate table by the front of the restaurant and were cuddling up to each other.
“Andrew was making Monika laugh and kissing her hand.
“Monika gave him a birthday card and the server brought out a white birthday cake for dessert.”
The couple were spotted again two days later at The Arts Club in Mayfair, where he had his arms wrapped around Monika. An onlooker has said there was no mistaking their relationship status. “It was obvious they are a couple, they looked like two lovebirds!”
The Royal Family has finally confirmed Prince George will be travelling Down Under with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and released an itinerary for the trip.
The royal couple revealed they simply could not be away from their first born “so far and for so long” in a statement made by Prince William’s private secretary, Miguel Head.
“It’s a tremendously exciting visit and I can tell you Their Royal Highnesses are looking forward to it immensely,” he said at a media briefing at Kensington Palace.
Prince George will be just under eight months old when the trip takes place but he will not be making formal public appearances with his parents. Instead, Catherine will be hiring a full-time nanny to accompany them.
There will be two occasions, once in New Zealand and again in the Northern Territory, where the royal couple will make overnight trips without Prince George.
“One or two engagements across the three weeks have been identified as times when the Duke and Duchess might take Prince George along, too,” Miguel Head explained.
“But, George being just a little over eight-months-old by the time they travel, I’m sure you will appreciate that the couple will have to make a final decision on those moments much closer to the time.
“The Duke and Duchess are content enough to know that he will be with them in the two countries.”
As whispers reach a dull roar that Jennifer Aniston’s engagement to Justin Theroux has hit the skids, she’s already seeking solace in another man, who just so happens to be her sizzling ex Gerard Butler.
Our sources close to both Jen and the hunky Scottish actor confirm the former flames, who met when they co-starred in romantic comedy The Bounty Hunter, have shared dinner and drink dates to “play catch-up”.
Grant Hackett’s hasty departure to the US for rehab has come at the worst possible time for the fallen swim star.
As graphic images emerged of the dazed Olympian stumbling near-naked through a Melbourne casino lobby on February 22, Grant and his ex-wife Candice Alley were embroiled in a bitter dispute over his access to the kids.
The welfare of their 4-year-old twins Charlize and Jagger was a major sticking point for the beleaguered couple, who split in 2012 after five years of marriage.
Insiders now believe any hope he had of unsupervised visits to the children has been quashed by his bizarre behaviour in Melbourne.
Read more about Grant’s breakdown in this week’s issue of Woman’s Day, on sale Monday, March 3, 2014.
This year, it pains us to say, the fabulous Meryl Streep forgot both her fashion sense and lipstick and we are penning an open letter to Pharrell Williams’ shorts. That’s right — shorts.
So much black and grey walked down the red carpet this year we thought we were watching The Artist again. Thanks must got to Lupita Nyong’o and Jeniffer Lawrence for lifting the colour palette.
Here is a wrap up of the fashion fails on the Academy Awards red carpet for 2014 that comes with the disclaimer: Please don’t hate us for dissing Liza Minnelli.
Click through for the blah, boring and just plain bad.
Oscars red carpet fails
Baby pink and black are far too Charlotte York for 2014.
She has sparkled for the last two years but we were underwhelmed by this choice.
Emma, stop trying to be Meryl.
Even if you’re only seen from the waist up, Pharrell, Ange and Brad already did his’n’hers tuxedos.
This is a bit vampy for our blonde bombshell Margot Robbie.
Thank you Liza for injecting some colour into a very dull awards, but not this, never this.
The Angelina Jolie leg and the non-colour just make for a disastrous choice.
Goldie Hawn, please see a hairdresser immediately.
The general consensus is that this dress must be on backwards…
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