Not in the save-the-world sense, silly. Plenty of actresses owned the red carpet in green hues. From sage to dark emerald to bottle green, the new hue should prove to be a big hit with prom-dress manufacturers for the coming season. Amy Adams famously wore a dark green Proenza Schouler gown a few years ago and drew raves. This time red carpet regulars like Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angelina Jolie, as well as young guns like Mila Kunis and Elizabeth Moss, worked it in the night’s biggest trend.
Angeline Jolie
B: Jaded in Versace.
C: Why am I bored?
Natalie Portman
B: Maybe her Best Actress win is blinding her to the fact that she’s wearing my grandmother’s tablecloth.
C: She still thinks she’s Nina!
Mila Kunis
B: The Black Swan star is a goddess in green.
C: Somewhere Natalie is green with envy.
B: She hopped on the Boring Express way before the Globes with her sweet ruffles. Wake us up when she tries something without a pleat.
C: The cheesiest actress ever!
Anne Hathaway
B: This is what happens when you move out of your comfort zone of tasteful, princessy gowns — you actually look hot.
C: See what doing a sexy movie does to you?
Sandra Bullock
B: The hair is a little Kiera Knightley circa five years ago, but I’m liking the dress.
C: There is something disturbing about the shade of purple she chose. It’s like Barney goes to Vegas.
Halle Berry
B: Girlfriend must’ve wandered in from the underwear department by mistake. Honey, putting some tulle over your Spanx doesn’t make it a gown.
C: This dress has midlife crisis written all over it.
Claire Danes
B: Makes everyone in ruffles and froufrou look like overbaked meringues. Lea Michelle, start taking notes!
C: She walks in beauty.
Michelle Williams
B: The flower child schtick is a little wilted.
C: Ease up on the granola.
Nicole Kidman
B: Her tailored gown can’t disguise the woman’s happiness. Kidman is glowing.
C: If only her face could move like her gorgeous silk dress.
Eva Longoria
B: I know she’s mourning her marriage but this black widow ensemble is a bit much.
C: Tony Parker cheated, he didn’t die.
Olivia Wilde
B: We like a princess gown as much as the next girl who grew up on Disney movies but at least the Tron star knows that this glittery incarnation does the genre justice.
C: She waves her hot Hollywood flag!
January Jones
B: If the Mad Men star wanted to prove that she was more than the angry housewife role she plays on the hit show, this dress is one way to prove it. I keep wanting to root for Jones, who likes to take risks on the red carpet, but instead I’m more afraid that one brisk breeze will part her fringed dress and show off more than her acting chops.
C: What is up with that headband? It’s distracting the eye from her rather provocative dress.
Leighton Meester
B: Her Missoni campaign did wonders for her red carpet apparel. Not a bad showing, Meester.
C: Finally she shows who the real Gossip Girl breakout star is. Kind of hard to forget her misdemeanors in red carpet past.
Helena Bonham Carter
B: What would an awards show be without a crazily-attired Bonham-Carter? The Tim Burton muse wears her eccentricity well, down to her mismatched heels.
C: She’s the Bjork of cinema. I love her for just waving her crazy flag.
B: She’s gone from plain old cheesy to campy Cher territory. Careful, girl. Nobody can out-Cher Cher on the red carpet.
C: She looks better clean than Drrrty.
Scarlett Johansson
B: There’s only one way to celebrate a divorce to a lame dude like Ryan Reynolds and that’s to rock the red carpet in glitter. But maybe next time we can skip the wind tunnel updo, yes?
C: When Sandra Bullock wears something more exciting than Scar Jo, it truly is a bombshell.
Julianne Moore
B: Liking the Lanvin.
C: Always a winner! Her hair is her best accessory.
Annette Bening
B: There’s plenty to like in the actress’s ensemble. Even her messy hair and drug store-style spectacles prove charming when mixed with Bening’s effortless glamour.
C: She’s kind of too off-kilter for the event.
Helen Mirren
B: Still hotter than the actresses half her age, the actress really knows how to work that cleavage.
C: How does she ace it every time?
Megan Fox
B: The sexpot schtick gets a little tiring. I’d like to see her in something a little less sexy. At this rate, she could show up in pasties and a thong and I’d still be bored.
C: Scarjo drugstore version.
Gabourey Sidibe
B: The vintage-inspired gown does wonders for the Precious actress — and now regular on the Laura Linney show, The Big C — who tends to get dressed in frumpy, unflattering dresses. Kudos to Sidibe and her team for picking something cute and bright.
C: She’s no wallflower! Truly precious.
Heidi Klum
B: Did she wander in from a beach party or something? The dress is great... for a night out in the club, not so much the Golden Globes.
C: Auf wiederseheen.
Emma Stone
B: The Easy A actress must’ve been trying to channel Barbie in this nude dress because she looks about as sexless — and genital-free — as the Mattell doll.
C: No one is perfect. Stone should have worked her hotness, not play it down.
Tilda Swinton
B: Nobody does it better.
C: She is Love.
Tina Fey
B: This dress doesn’t hurt my eyes. One small step for Fey, one giant step for red carpet followers.
C: It’s getting there...