In between the Golden Globes and Oscars, the Screen Actors Guild serves as a kind of self-correcting measure for celebs’ red carpet performance, where the most egregious crimes against fashion are remedied. Celebs who flubbed at the Globes go in another direction entirely, hoping to find the path least likely to direct them to a Fashion Don’t come Oscars. Tina Fey, after her Mary Poppins turn at the Globes for example, showed up in a matronly gown that could best be described as forgettable, while some celebs proved true to form (Kate Hudson, Penelope Cruz) and turned up in vixenish frocks that had us yawning.
Sandra Bullock
BEA LEDESMA: Bullock’s gearing up for the Winter Olympics with this McQueen dress that’s figure skater on top and all business on the bottom.
CELINE LOPEZ: OMG.
Tina Fey
B: What your mom would wear to your graduation.
C: Don’t fight the hot, Tina!
Carey Mulligan
BEA: All these tasteful Lanvin gowns are almost sickening. Where’s your over-the-top cleavage? Your shoulda-thought-twice-before-wearing-it diamond tiara? Too much good taste isn’t always a good thing. Just ask Mariah.
CELINE: An Education in style
Diane Kruger
B: Kudos to Kruger for experimenting with color. Her mustard frock perfectly sets off the ketchup-colored carpet.
C: A subtle fashion maven.
Drew Barrymore
B: Girlfriend has been on a winning streak lately, earning a Golden Globe and now a SAG award for Grey Gardens. Good thing her dress looks like a hankie. She knows where to wipe after a good cry onstage.
C: This is a reason to be blue. The dress itself is okay in a debutante-on-lithium kind of way. However, the Smurf blue just ruins it.
Marion Cotillard
B: Is she starring in the remake of Showgirls?
C: The fact she looks like one of my exes (a boy) makes her odd in my eyes already. The tranny dress does not help matters.
Meryl Streep
B: She always has fun on the red carpet — and it shows.
C: A serious actress who doesn’t take herself seriously.
Christina Hendricks
B: Is it so hard to find the right dress to celebrate the Mad Men star’s Rubenesque figure? Oh, I forgot. This is Hollywood. Anything over a size four is considered plus size.
C: She is a present in the right wrapping material.
Lea Michele
B: Finally! After that boring debutante De la Renta dress from the Globes, Michele lets loose with this sexy number. We like.
C: Hot in a hot-mermaid-that-works kind of way.
Anna Paquin
B: More MTV than SAG. Gotta give her props for rocking Alexander McQueen though.
C: Too casual for the red carpet. I mean I know some of you are too cool for it, but this just leaves a lukewarm taste.
Helen Mirren
B: She even makes shawls — the cornerstone of every grandmother’s outfit — look hot.
C: GMILF
Mindy Kaling
B: This is the first time The Office cutie has gone sexy on the red carpet and it’s, strange as it sounds, her most decent attempt.
C: The Contempo Casuals award of the night. It’s like prom night in 1995.
Toni Collette
B: Tiers of sadness
C: Makeup is gorgeous but that maxi-dress is not working.
B: The robot can do boho! Who knew she had it in her to take such a risk? Too bad it didn't pan out.
C: A slightly better version of Toni Collette’s.
Kate Hudson
B: It screams prom. And not, “Oh, you look so awesome and young, like you just came from prom,” but more “Mom, what are you doing in my prom dress? And why are you drunk!?”
C: It looks like a Dynasty remake. The new Krystle Carrington!
Penelope Cruz
B: This look is so tired, it popped an Alaxan and went to bed. Even Cruz’s hot bod can’t save her from her blah dress choices.
C: The hemline is awkward and so is she.