Its An Honor Just to be Nominated!

Almost like being there, no?

It’s Oscar Night! The night where either spirits will soar or be dashed to the floor! The 79th Oscars Awards Show airs tonight on ABC at 5:00 pm Pacific Time/8:00 Eastern Time).

All eyes will focus on the swath of red carpet flowing from the famous Kodak Theater entrance tonight to a countless convoy of limos and hybrid vehicles as stars glide into the theater amid a human wave of paparazzi, reporters, fans, PET activists and wannabes. As a style watcher of course, I’ll be watching too, but from the comfort of my couch.

Serious Oscar chic from recent years.

From left to right: Minnie Driver, Heather Graham, Jodie Foster, Halle Berry

This year’s nominees will be wearing their best designer gowns, custom and RTW, their best poker faces, and enough diamonds to feed a starving third world country for the next ten years. Oscar night is just as important for D&G, Versace, Cavalli, Gucci, and the names roll on.

Not just the designer gowns, Harry Winston, known as the jeweler to the stars and Michael Katz of Beverly Hills, are perennial favorites for providing beautiful, jaw-dropping pieces for actresses strolling the red carpet also. In 1999, Whoopi Goldberg, hosted the 1999 Oscars broke the record for wearing the most diamonds wearing $41 million of Harry Winston jewels, the most worn by any person at the Oscars.

And then there’s the $500,000 Diamond Dream shoe created by Stuart Weitzman.

Anika Noni Rose, star of Dream Girls will be strutting her stuff in the most expensive shoes to stroll the carpet tonight. This eye-popping shoe is a silver stiletto heel with more than 30 ctw of 1,420 individual brilliant cut Kwiat diamonds set in platinum.

Back to the Oscars…

Some strong contenders this year for best motion picture of the year:

Little Miss Sunshine...........The Departed......................The Queen

Best Actor in a Leading Role:

Ryan Gosling................Forrest Whitaker.........Leonardo DiCaprio

Peter O'Toole..................Will Smith

Best Actress in a Leading Role:

Meryl Streep.................Penelope Cruz..............Helen Mirrin

Judy Dench..................Kate Winslet

and the winner is...