Along with the daytime Emmy Award nominations, the MTV Movie Award nominations were announced today. Jeez! You’d think they could pick separate days! But, in any event, “The Hangover” got 6 nods, one more than “Avatar.” Only in the world of MTV is that even possible – and says a lot about the cable channel’s viewership! “Twilight: New Moon” also got 5 noms, while “The Proposal” and the latest “Harry Potter” got 4. Sandra Bullock actually got 2 nominations herself – for best comic performance in “The Proposal” and best dramatic performance in “The Blind Side.” So that probably means she’s going to win ONE of these, if not both. Surely, MTV will do whatever it has to do to get her there – since she hasn’t had a public appearance since the Oscars and the Jesse James scandal. It would certainly do a lot for the ratings. Kristen Stewart has been nominated in a plethora of categories – best Global Superstar (what the HELL does this mean?), and best kiss for both “Twilight” – AND for her kiss with Dakota Fanning in “The Runaways.” Let’s hope the young star can manage to wear something femmy and not boyish, and maybe even – smile. And wear makeup. No – we’re asking too much here. We’d be happy with one of those. And it looks like Betty White will be showing up at the MTV Movie Awards, too. Talk about a Global Superstar! There’s even talk now that she might host next year’s Oscars. Her MTV nomination is in a category called “Best WTF Moment” for “The Proposal.” We have a strong gut feeling she’s going to win – and that she’ll probably get the biggest applause of anyone there – even Rob Pattinson and Taylor Lautner.

This Friday March 5th, Judith Leiber handbags – the chic bejewelled little bags that often are worn by Globes and Oscars attendees – will give one CRAZY shopping event! It’s billed as “100 Judith Leiber Handbags Exclusively Prices at $100 100% of proceeds donated to charity.” It’s at their Beverly Hills store at 220 N. Rodeo (near Wilshire) on Friday March 5 from 3pm to 5pm, and if you are in the first hundred people to show up with a hundred bucks, you will get a handbag worth something like two thousand dollars!! All the proceeds will go to charity, which makes it even better. Yes, these bags are PRICEY, and are classic, and so worth having in your collection, to come out on the most special evenings of your life. There will be champagne, tea and cute bites – but you must RSVP to Jessica@companyagenda.com or at 212 533 6530. This is just too rare and amazing to miss!

The Cesars are the equivalent of the French Oscars, and while the French certainly have their own style of movies they love (for instance, Clint Eastwood’s “Gran Torino,” released in France in 2009, won best film over “Avatar”), they have their own style of dress at awards shows. Check out French actress/singer Charlotte Gainsbourg’s messy hair with her lowkey Balenciaga dress at the the Cesars on Sunday in Paris. Marion Cotillard, arguably France’s biggest movie star right now, wore a black strapless dress with her hair pulled back – and basta! She’s been dressed much more glamourously and elaborately in the States. “Inglourious Basterd’s” Melanie Laurent even wore leather pants for a total rocker look at the Cesars – wow, would THAT not work on a red carpet in the States outside of the MTV Awards! And Vanessa Paradis, who’s starring in the new Rouge Coco Chanel lipstick campaign, looks pretty in a gold cocktail dress and her hair down – but her look seems very low maintenance. Oh, well – vive la Fremch style, as Paris fall fashion week 2010 kicks off!!!

The NAACP Awards were held on Friday night at the Shrine – yes, ANOTHER awards show, people! and an important one! – and Sandra Bullock honored the late Alexander McQueen (whom she wore to the SAG Awards, shortly before his untimely death) by wearing one of the late designers most exquisite creations ever: a chiffon black gown, off the shoulder, with net decolletage, a shorter front and longer sweeping back, with cherry blossoms and hummingbirds on the body and skirt. It reminds us of our favorite John Galliano gown of all time – the black one with birds on it that Cate Blanchett wore to the Oscars the year of “Shakespeare in Love,” when she told us she was “having a fashion orgasm.” Sandra’s gown is pretty orgasmic too – and SO beautifully appropriate to a gorgeous woman who’s (hard to believe) 45. We LOVE that Sandra, who’s slim and beautiful and could wear anything, dresses in such a ladylike age appropriate way. She hides a bit of arm here, shows only so much leg – so demure and chic. It only serves to make her sexier. We also love the black Sergio Rossi pumps with it, her cobalt VBH clutch – playing against color and kind of matching with her husband’s arm tattoos.
Meanwhile, as we get closer to the Oscars and seeing what the chic Ms. Bullock wears – she admits she’s nervous and therefore, chowing down on chocolate. “The amount of chocolate I have eaten in the last two weeks is ridiculous,” said the Blind Side star. “It’s kind of counterproductive to fitting into the tiny dress for the Oscar, but I can’t help it.” We doubt it will show – doesn’t this chick have a trainer? It sure looks that way! Anyway, it will be all about the speach – that’s how sure we are she’s going to snag the big Gold One.

Kimberly Brooks is a Venice based painter here in L.A., and her subjects are always female inspired – whether they are herself, mothers, female figures from the forties or sixties. She herself is a lover of both vintage and designer clothing, has great style – but she’s also from a highly intellectual Northern California family, and she’s got lots of interesting ideas and takes on fashion and the idea of “the fashion community.”
So her new show of paintings, which opens Saturday night February 27 at the Taylor de Cordoba Gallery from 6pm to 9pm on LaCienega near Venice Blvd, is about her current fixation and look at the world of stylists. That job title is something that’s ubiquitously heard during this Oscar week in LA, in fact, throughout awards season – and Brooks was inspired to paint some of the more prominently well known ones (Rachel Zoe) to some more under the radar, but just as major – Andrea Lieberman, who now designs the clothing line ALC, “Mad Men” costume designer Janie Bryant, Cate Blanchett’s stylist Elizabeth Stewart and Decades’ store owner Cameron Silver. They all styled themselves for their photo shoots for these paintings, but they also style their identities. Not only did Brooks attempt to capture their sculpted looks, but also their essence and body language. Celeb stylists Arianne Phillips and Jeanne Yang are also part of the exhibition.
And if this opening won’t be bang up enough for the fashion flock in Hollywood Sat night, Dior and Vanity Fair are throwing Kimberly Brooks a private party on Monday night at Lead Apron Gallery on Melrose – which will probably be a bit more NY and Oscary. But the Taylor de Cordoba party IS open to the public. Good luck finding parking!

The 12th annual Costume Designers Guild Awards were held last night (Feb 25) at the Beverly Hilton, in this awards show gridlock of shows this week. Parker Posey hosted, and names as big and credible as Rob Marshall, Emily Blunt and Anna Kendrick all turned out – all very turned out, of course. The big tv costume guild awards went to Janie Bryant for “Mad Men” – no surprises there, the show has the best costumes EVER of any tv show – and Lou Eyrich for “Glee.” Catherine Marie Thomas, the costumer for HBO’s “Grey Gardens,” picked up the prize for the best tv movie costumes – and they were. The films where the costumes were lauded were “Crazy Heart” (hmmm . . . wasn’t that all dusty jeans and print blouses on Maggie?), “The Young Victoria” (its costumer, British Sandy Powell, is a true genius), and “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.”
Meanwhile, the way the actresses who turned up dressed was so ALL OVER THE MAP, it’s like they were all going to a different awards show. “Up in the Air’s” Anna Kendrick blew it, fashion-wise, for the first time this season. She’s done all these lovely chic little organza whimsical dresses – and this event, she looked like she was going to her own wedding with the “Real Housewives of Atlanta” as her bridesmaids – in curled hair extentions and a white lace Elie Saab gown with a train. She even looks heavy in this tight tight size 2 gown – and she’s not heavy. Meanwhile, Anna Paquin continued her run of wearing colorful minis and tough girl shoes to an awards show red carpet, something she caught heat for at the SAG Awards (in a wild Alexander McQueen mini, that was cool as hell – but wrong for the SAGS) – this multi color print was by Marios Schwab from fall 2009. It’s a cute dress and not at all inappropriate for THIS event, which is less formal than SAGS or GLOBES. Kristen Bell look chic in a chunky gold beaded cocktail sheath with a deep v in front – very flattering with her blondeness. Emily Blunt was the real grown up in the group, in a washed out blue, black and white dress with fun back detail and shoulder detail – very fashiony and right for costume designers to admire and fawn over. And Minka Kelly just looked god-awful in this fleshtone corset gown that looks like it’s straight out of Frederick’s of Hollywood. She wasn’t dressing for Derek Jeter here – but for costumers!!!!

Last year, when she nailed every single awards show anywhere for “The Reader,” Kate Winslet wore mostly dark blue or purple gowns by YSL or Narciso Rodriguez – and looked chic and lovely. To the BAFTAS, she wore her hair down and donned a black Stella McCartney – British as well – gown with lace insets, that is very sexy and slinky, and she does look a little less curvy than the last time we saw her. Check out that high slit going up the leg – oh, mama. In any case, Kate will be an Oscar presenter because she won last year, and we assume she will keep the palette dark – which works on her – and the silhouette simple, but maybe, like at the BAFTAS, show a little skin!

What is up with THIS?
Audrey Tatou was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Actress for her work in “Coco Before Chanel” – this is her only nomination, as her name didn’t turn up for the Globes or the SAGS. And wouldn’t we expect her to be wearing Chanel to promote the movie and her nomination in London? Sure, she looks amazing in this rose pink off the shoulder Lanvin with the puffed sleeves – it’s very sweet. And we LOVE how she accessorized with red clutch and shoes – so rose-colored-glasses. But wouldn’t Karl Lagerfeld dress her? WHY isn’t she wearing Chanel? We deduce that there is something wrong with this picture, and that we will get to the bottom of this.

Carey Mulligan is definitely one popular lady in her native Great Britain these days. She won the BAFTA Award in London
on Sunday for “best actress” for “An Education” – beating out both Meryl Streep and Sandra Bullock, who keep winning stateside. She also beat Audrey Tatou, another popular European actress, from “Coco Before Chanel.” But the newly blonde Ms. Mulligan – and we have to assume that’s for a movie – REALLY won big in the fashion arena. While she’s been downplaying it to the Globes and the SAGS in chic little numbers, she went FULL ON in this two tone black and white print gown by Vionnet, SO gorgeous. It’s rather overwhelming on a small person, but she looks incredible nonetheless. We love a bi-level dress, and a black and white print is incredible. Chic, chic, chic! The jewelry is vintage Fred Leighton.