Red dresses were a favorite ….

At the 80th annual Academy Awards, the red carpet gave glamour-starved Hollywood watchers what they’ve been waiting out the writers’ strike for - elegance and star-shine.

Helen Mirrren

Red, red, red was all anyone was talking about. It was Hathaway’s choice and also that of Katherine Heigl, Helen Mirren, Heidi Klum, Miley Ray Cyrus, Ruby Dee - the list goes on.

There were, of course, other colors sashaying into the Kodak Theatre, but all any fashionista noticed was the redder than red.

Ruby Dee

“I liked the ladies in red,” said stylist Phillip Bloch. “It looked really bright and strong.”

The other colors suffered beside it.

Bloch dismissed the poor souls who opted for the safety of black as “blah.” “Little black blah, blah, blah dresses,” he said.

More news of red.

What do you wear on a date with George Clooney on the most glamorous night in Hollywood?

Oh, Sarah Larson, not that.

Clooney’s girlfriend — a native of Kent, Wash. — showed up on the red carpet wearing what appeared to be Monet’s “Water Lilies.” But when you’ve got Clooney on your arm, does it matter? You’ve already won.

On Oscar night, winners flashed gold statuettes but red ruled the carpet. Dresses were strapless, sweeping and safe — but some newcomers kept things lively. “Juno” screenwriter Diablo Cody wore a leopard-print halter, best-actress winner Marion Cotillard looked like a white mermaid in Jean Paul Gaultier and was Saoirse Ronan, the 13-year-old nominee for “Atonement,” wearing her nightgown? It was past her bedtime.

Faye Dunaway dressed as Oscar. But she’s Faye Dunaway; she can do as she pleases.

Katherine Heigl

The fashion masses dressed to match the red carpet: Heidi Klum, in an apparent tribute to Queen Elizabeth and/or Dracula; Anne Hathaway, stunning in a draped, asymmetrical crimson gown; and Miley Cyrus looking all grown-up in a cherry-red gown. You know if Hannah Montana is doing it, all the cool kids are.

Heidi Klum

Miley Cyrus

Read much more on NY Mag and Catwalk Queen. Find many more photographs on Style.

The AP has just released the complete list of the 2008 Oscar Winners. We were disappointed that the renown 83-year-old Ruby Dee did not receive the Best Supporting Actress Oscar. Her first time nomination was glaringly overdue. Watch an excerpt of her engaging performance in “American Gangster” right here.

The incomparable Ruby Dee in “American Gangster.”

Complete list of winners at the 80th annual Academy Awards, presented Sunday night at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles:

Best Motion Picture: “No Country for Old Men.”

Lead Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, “There Will Be Blood.”

Lead Actress: Marion Cotillard, “La Vie en Rose.”

Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem, “No Country for Old Men.”

Supporting Actress: Tilda Swinton, “Michael Clayton.”

Director: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, “No Country for Old Men.”

Foreign Language Film: “The Counterfeiters,” Austria.

Adapted Screenplay: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, “No Country for Old Men.”

Original Screenplay: Diablo Cody, “Juno.”

Animated Feature Film: “Ratatouille.”

Art Direction: “Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.”

Cinematography: “There Will Be Blood.”

Sound Mixing: “The Bourne Ultimatum.”

Sound Editing: “The Bourne Ultimatum.”

Original Score: “Atonement,” Dario Marianelli.

Original Song: “Falling Slowly” from “Once,” Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova.

Costume: “Elizabeth: The Golden Age.”

Documentary Feature: “Taxi to the Dark Side.”

Documentary Short Subject: “Freeheld.”

Film Editing: “The Bourne Ultimatum.”

Makeup: “La Vie en Rose.”

Animated Short Film: “Peter & the Wolf.”

Live Action Short Film: “Le Mozart des Pickpockets (`The Mozart of Pickpockets’).”

Visual Effects: “The Golden Compass.”

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Academy Award winners previously announced this year:

Honorary and technical Oscars: Robert Boyle; Eastman Kodak Co.; David A. Grafton.

Will this Presidential campaign be remembered as the Xerox campaign? Will Xerox sales soar? Has Shallow Nation just done some product placement for Batman: The Dark Knight 2008?

Hillary Rodham Clinton accused presidential rival Barack Obama of political plagiarism Thursday night, but drew boos from a Democratic debate audience when she ridiculed him as the candidate of “change you can Xerox.”

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Clinton went into the debate needing a change in the course of the campaign, and waited patiently for an opening to try to diminish her rival, seated inches away on the stage. “I think you can tell from the first 45 minutes Senator Obama and I have a lot in common,” she said.

Barely pausing for breath, she went on to say there were differences.

First, she said she had seen a supporter of Obama interviewed on television recently, and unable to name a single accomplishment the Illinois senator had on his record.

“Words are important and words matter but actions speak louder than words,” she said.

Obama agreed with that, then noted that Clinton lately had been urging voters to turn against him by saying, “let’s get real.”

“And the implication is that the people who’ve been voting for me or are involved in my campaign are somehow delusional,” Obama said.

Clinton also raised Obama’s use in his campaign speeches of words first uttered by his friend, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick.

“If your candidacy is going to be about words then they should be your own words,” she said. “…Lifting whole passages from someone else’s speeches is not change you can believe in, it’s change you can Xerox.”

The debate audience booed.

Obama said the entire controversy was evidence of a “silly season” that the public finds dispiriting. Besides, he said of his speeches at one point, “I’ve got to admit, some of them are pretty good.”

Here is the original video of the “Change You Can Xerox” statement from the February 21, 2008 Democratic Debate.



Here is a compilation video of Hilary Clinton doing some xeroxing of her own.



UPDATE: Daniel W. Drezner has uncovered other incidents of Hillary Clinton at the Xerox machine.

Hillary Clinton, later on in the same debate: “You know, the hits I’ve taken in life are nothing compared to what goes on every single day in the lives of people across our country.”

Jack Stanton speech, in Primary Colors (New York: Random House, 1996), p. 162: “Y’know, I’ve taken some hits in this campaign. It hasn’t been easy for me, or my family. It hasn’t been fair, but it hasn’t been anything compared to the hits a lot of you take every day.”