Beyonce Knowles’ Grammys red carpet dress was such a snooze. She wore this black Proenza Schouler which looked like a million other dresses, and it even looked like gowns Beyonce has worn before on other red carpets. I sort of give Beyonce some credit though: she’s won a bajillion Grammys (and she won three more last night, making her total Grammy haul 20), and it really felt like she was there as an already established icon, like she doesn’t have to try-hard and attention-grab and all of that (coughMadonna). When she won one of her Grammys last night, she did thank the most important people in the universe: “I’d like to say thank you to my Beyhive. Thank you guys for riding so hard.” They do ride hard.

Beyonce was saved for the next-to-last performance of the evening, singing “Take My Hand, Precious Lord.” It’s an old Civil Rights Movement song and Bey did it well. But I think she got schedule-blocked by producers who decided to put on f—king AC/DC on the opening. How much better would it have been if THIS had been the opening?

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One last thing – Beyonce and Jay-Z’s faces as they thought Kanye West was going KANYE all over Beck’s win last night. It was everything.

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Let me start off with something nice about Madonna: her new face looks pretty good. I was genuinely worried because Madge hasn’t wanted us to see her new face in candid photos, and even on the Grammys red carpet last night, she was still wearing some netted hat to cover up some of her work. But we got a better look at her face and it moves and everything. Granted, she’s had MAJOR work done to her face and body over the past year or so, but it’s quality work, so good for her, I guess. Her girls look very new as well.

Madonna wore this Givenchy on the red carpet, and she wore Givenchy for her performance too. Ugh. None of the outfits were cute and she already did the matador thing like 20 years ago. Is Madge recycling? Perhaps. Madge also had a NSFW surprise with her red carpet outfit once you saw her from behind – go here to see the NSFW photo.

So, let’s talk about Madge’s whole vibe last night, starting with the red carpet interview with Ryan Seacrest. As she was talking, only Diplo was paying attention, because Nas looked SO embarrassed. Everything about Madonna just seemed like “Look at me, I’m so young and ageless and I’m hip like all the kidz!!!” But what really made her seem flat-out OLD was her performance of her new single, “Living For Love.”

I actually laughed out loud whenever Madonna tried to “dance”. Her poor backup dancers, you guys. They were just throwing her around and trying to make it look like she was so flexible. And she wasn’t. She was moving so gingerly, like she was afraid she would break something (a very real possibility). I just want to ask her: what’s so wrong with just accepting your age? Is it really that horrible? There’s nothing so aging as trying so desperately to cling to one’s youth.

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— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) February 9, 2015

Last night’s Grammy Awards were all over the place. Around 10 pm, I really just stopped caring completely and I think the producers made a major mistake with how they scheduled the performances. There was a weird hour-long gap where no awards were being passed out and all of the performances were trying to lull me into a deep sleep. Bedhead, CB and I all thought this year’s Grammys were such a snoozefest, but we’re still going to power through. Just know, this isn’t a comprehensive recap of everything that happened and every performance. These are just highlights of some of what I found interesting/bad/cool. You can see the full list of 2015 Grammy winners here.

*PRINCE. Prince is everything. He wore a shiny, glittering orange ensemble and he brought shade and realness. EVERYTHING. He said: “Albums… remember those? Albums still matter. Like books and black lives, albums still matter.”

*AC/DC. They were part of the pseudo-cold open performance. I was not into it. No offense, but I thought this would have been better later in the evening, not for the opening. It just makes the Grammys seem really dated (which they are, but I thought they were trying to skew younger?).

*Madonna. We really need to talk about Madonna’s performance. On one side, I feel like we should support her because she’s an icon and it sucks to age and we all fight it as best we can. But on the other side, I feel like it has gotten flat-out ridiculous. She was moving so gingerly, I knew she was worried about falling and breaking something (a hip?). She’s lost the ability to properly dance, so her dancers just threw her around. And the whole staging for that performance was supposed to be “bullfighter” or matador-realness but it just ended up looking demonic, like this was on that tape during True Detective, you know? We’ll discuss this further in a separate post.

*Sam Smith. He won Best New Artist, Best Pop Vocal Album, Song of the Year, Record of the Year. I liked Sam’s duet with Mary J. Blige on “Stay With Me” but I was actually hoping for a performance of “I’m Not the Only One,” which I think is a stronger song. When he won Record of the Year, he thanked the man who broke his heart because it turned out really well for him. Classic Adele Move.

*Beck. I’ll be honest, I didn’t even pay any attention to Beck’s new album or take his nominations that seriously, but he ended up taking home some major awards, like Album of the Year. He beat out Beyonce for that award and Kanye almost went FULL KANYE. I think Beck would have enjoyed that and he seemed to want Kanye to come up there. Later, in the post-Grammy interviews, Kanye did say that Beck should turn over his Grammy to Beyonce and when they told Beck about it, he sort of agreed, saying that he thought Bey was going to win. Beck also said he was thrilled that Kanye was going to stage crash his Grammy win: “I was just so excited he was coming up. He deserves to be on stage as much as anybody. How many great records has he put out in the last five years right?… I still love him and think he’s genius. I aspire to do what he does.” Aw. Beck is classy.

*Tom Jones & Jessie J duet on “You Lost That Loving Feeling.” I really, really wished they had done “What’s New Pussycat?” Just because that song is awesome.

*Pharrell Williams. He won Best Pop Solo Performance. He also performed a version of “Happy” that was like a performance art piece. It got SO DARK. But then it went “Happy.” He also did a tribute to “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” with the dancers in black hoodies.

*Paul McCartney & Ed Sheeran. He didn’t win anything and I wasn’t into his performance but that’s just because I don’t like his sappy, too-earnest song. But I was SO into ELO singing “Evil Woman.” It felt like everyone else (especially Paul McCartney) was into it too.

*Hozier. The Hozier/Annie Lennox performance of “Take Me To Church” and “I Put A Spell On You” was amazing. Easily my favorite performance of the night.

*Brooke Axtell & Katy Perry. It started with an introduction by President Obama, who drew attention to domestic violence, sexual assault and rape. Then Brooke Axtell, a domestic violence survivor and activist, took the stage for a spoken word piece about what she had survived and how every woman deserves to be loved and not assaulted, that violence is never love. Then Katy Perry sang “By the Grace of God.” You can read more about Axtell here. #ItsOnUs

*Rihanna, Kanye West and Paul McCartney’s performance of their song was blah. I don’t get why people like the song because I kind of think it sucks.

*Beyonce. By the time her performance rolled around – she was the next-to-last of the night – I was already so tired, I could barely concentrate. I will say this… her performance, and Common and John Legend’s performance, probably should have opened the show. No joke. Bey also won some Grammys, just not any of the big ones.

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Benedict Cumberbatch and Sophie Hunter attended last night’s BAFTAs together, of course. Even though Sophie skipped THREE pre-BAFTA events with Bendy, I figured she would attend the BAFTAs and I was right. And once again, Bendy LOST! Not only that, but The Imitation Game was completely shut out of every award. Bendy lost Best Actor to Eddie Redmayne. And once again, Redmayne seems like he’s going to take home the Oscar in what was supposed to be Bendy’s big buzzed-about year. So, did Bendy’s Forever Oscar Campaign end up blowing up in his face? Or did the campaign not even matter? I’m not sure.

Shockingly, Sophie did not wear A) floral or B) Erdem. Floral Erdem gowns had been her go-to look for several events in a row, but at the BAFTAs she went with a Maison Margiela dress by John Galliano. That’s sort of controversial because to some fashion people, Galliano is still persona non grata following his anti-Semitic rants several years ago. I think most people have forgiven him though. Anyway, I liked this on her. The dress itself is a lovely maternity look. My only complaint was the hair… I think she has side bangs and she was trying to change it up and whatever happened, it made her look older.

Anyway… Bendy and Sophie looked loved up. He gazed at her lovingly on the red carpet several times. The mean, conspiracy theorist part of me thinks that it is all a show, that if he convinces us maybe he’ll convince himself. But the optimist in me says that he genuinely loves her and cares about her. I don’t know.

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Tom Hiddleston was a presenter at last night’s BAFTAs. He wore Alexander McQueen SS15. Attractive. I’m not crazy about his hair these days, but I can live with it. I have to say, just judging from the red carpet photos and the red carpet live stream I watched, Hiddles didn’t seem to have the WHOA impact of Benedict Cumberbatch. But then again, Hiddles was just a presenter and Hiddles has been MIA for much of the past year. I’m sure it will be different when Hiddles is at the BAFTAs next year as a nominee (??). Anyway, he did get cute when he talked about Marvel and bringing Loki back:

Very cute. I’m pretty sure Hiddles came to the event without a date as well. Whatever was or was not happening with whatever woman is probably over because Hiddles works too much. So Hiddles got to hang out with friends and party like a bro. He even got to spend time with Mark Ruffalo!

Arch enemies, best friends.

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And I’m also including some photos of some of the other hot guys at the event, like Luke Evans, Ethan Hawke, Henry Cavill, Ralph Fiennes, David Beckham and Mark Strong.

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This is what worried me. This is what was keeping me up at night (not really) about Julianne Moore’s style leading up to the Oscars. Thus far, she’s been hitting it out of the park. She’s been wearing good-to-great looks at every major event. And it’s been no coincidence that in all of those events, Julianne hadn’t worn anything by Tom Ford. Don’t get me wrong, I love Tom Ford’s designs and I think he’s a genius. And he’s friends with Julianne in real life, and she often calls him her “favorite designer.” But he almost always makes her look bad. I don’t know what it is. Anyway, she wore this red Tom Ford to the BAFTAs last night. It’s a sophisticated look, and by that I mean she sort of looks like a dominatrix. I don’t hate it, but now I’m so worried that she’s going to wear Tom Ford at the Oscars and it’s going to be SO BAD. PS… Julianne won last night but that’s not shocking.

Dianna Agron in red Lanvin. This is a pretty dress, in a pretty color, on a pretty girl. Is it groundbreaking? Not really. But if she wants to become a bigger Fashion Girl, I’m okay with that.

Patricia Arquette in Pamella Roland. Patricia won the BAFTA for Best Supporting. Something nice: this is an absolutely gorgeous color in general and on her specifically. Not so nice: Patricia cannot pick out clothes to flatter her figure at all.

Lea Seydoux and Monica Belucci, the two new “Bond Girls” attended the BAFTAs together. Everyone loves Lea’s mustard-yellow cut-out Prada gown but I wasn’t crazy about it. I think the cut-outs were too much, but from the neck up, she was FLAWLESS. Like, she was a young Deneuve. Monica’s black gown was Azzedine Alaia. Too much black on the carpet!

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Rosamund Pike has started to impress me with the sheer fact that she’s an utter style omnivore. She has not repeated a designer at any major event during the awards season, and she’s sprinkled in designers from America, Britain, Italy and France. At last night’s BAFTAs, she went with a simple Roland Mouret gown in black. While the gown isn’t “Look at me, look at me!!” I still like it. Mostly because it’s the prettiest and most flattering thing she’s worn in months.

Dame Kristin Scott Thomas (yes, she’s a Dame now!) wore this vintage 1948 Balmain haute couture gown. I mean, it’s a beautiful dress. And I love that she wore honest-to-God vintage. But this black dress doesn’t stand out at all.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw in Prada. This is the unfortunate “signature” of Prada gowns, and how I knew this was a Prada gown before I even saw the ID: terrible, horrible, borderline obscene darting on the bust. Remember Anne Hathaway’s Prada gown at the Oscars a few years ago? And all anyone could talk about was her #DartFail? Yeah. That happened with poor Gugu in this dress too. If Prada could design a dress bust worth a damn, this would actually be one of my favorite looks of the night.

Here’s Sam Claflin and his wife Laura Haddock. She’s wearing a princessy Ashi Couture gown. People on Twitter loved it, but I found it underwhelming. I’m sure I would have loved it on Lupita, but Lupita would have worn it differently, you know?

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Keira Knightley’s husband James Righton has been by her side throughout the awards season. It’s sort of sweet – I thought she was marrying some hipster rocker, but it turns out that he can wear a nice tuxedo and fulfill his arm candy destiny. These are some photos of Keira and James at last night’s BAFTAs. Sigh… I dislike her Giambattista Valli dress. I mean, I’ve been giving her a pass for the most part because she’s pregnant and it’s obviously thrown off her style mojo, but I think we just have to make our peace with the fact that Keira has worn a series of really terrible clothes throughout this awards season. It’s not her – she’s lovely. But the clothes suck. This Giambattista Valli looks like a poorly designed party dress, and it’s not right for the BAFTAs.

Here are some photos of Keira and James at Saturday night’s pre-BAFTA reception at Kensington Palace. Keira wore Chanel Resort 2015. Something nice… I like the colors. Something not so nice… LOOK AT THE DUST RUFFLE HEM.

And here’s Reese Witherspoon, flying solo at the BAFTAs and the Kensington Palace event. At the BAFTAs, Reese wore this rather gorgeous purple Stella McCartney gown. It really suits her and she looks great. I totally don’t have any complaints about this look at all.

At the KP event, Reese wore Chanel. I don’t care for the sleeves/shoulders on this dress, and her hair wasn’t that great.

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Natalie Dormer attended the BAFTAs last night in theatrical fashion. She knows how to work almost any dress, and this Sophia Kah number is no exception. The dress is lovely on its own with a royal blue top and black lace skirt with a slight train. Sadly, the gloves kind of ruin the effect. They’re fussy, cheap-looking, and distracting. Can we thank Amal Clooney for the resurrected glove trend? Nat’s gloves may have been better in a solid blue instead of lace. I also think her hair would have been magical in sweeping waves. She wore Yoko London jewels.

Nat rocked a color-blocked Roksanda jumpsuit to the pre-BAFTAs nominee party. This is a cool jumpsuit, and not everyone can pull off orange. The asymmetrical slash of color really pops. I’m also including photos of Nat in a swooshy black dress at a fundraising dinner.

Hayley Atwell‘s little black BAFTAs dress fell into the mesh trap so popular with lovely ladies this season. She has a wonderful figure, and the side cutouts intend to provide an optical illusion. This mesh is counterproductive and not flattering, IMO. I’m including a photo of Hayley’s big blue coat and weird patterned pants at a pre-BAFTA event.

Michael Keaton brought bitchy realness to support his Birdman nomination. I so badly want him to win the Oscar, but it’s probably not his year. He looked very handsome though.

Edward Norton, who was nominated for Birdman too, attended with wife Shauna Robertson. I don’t have an ID on her dress, but it looks Elie Saab-ish.

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Felicity Jones actually brought some style drama to last night’s BAFTAs. After too many milquetoast appearances, at least she wore something interesting, right? This is a SS13 Dior Couture. My initial thought was… imagine how much more sophisticated this would have looked without the flower appliques on the crotch/skirt. She would have easily been the best dressed woman with just some editing by Dior. Instead, we only have Felicity in a dress that’s mostly good. I really hope she’s ramping up to something amazing for the Oscars.

And here’s Felicity’s on-screen husband Eddie Redmayne with his wife Hannah. Eddie looks dapper and dorky all at once, and Hannah… well, I think Hannah is a pretty woman, but I don’t understand why she always looks so “undone” at major events. I’m not asking for a face full of makeup, but maybe some lipstick? Hannah’s dress is Valentino

James McAvoy and his wife Anne-Marie Duff. They are perfect and adorable together. Even though I hate her dress.

Alice Eve in black velvet. She was actually one of the few ladies that chose a warm-looking dress. #AllTheVelvet

And finally, Amy Adams. Some say this white gown in Lanvin, some say Stella McCartney. This isn’t my favorite look of the night or my favorite look on Amy, but it’s fine. It’s inoffensive.

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