Ali G and Olivia Wilde

Her face is so articulate here. It's screaming, "shut up shut up shut up shut up this isn't about you."

Look, I don't mean to be a total buzzkill about this, and I am on record as finding 90% of Sasha Baron Cohen's oeuvre to be tiresome. But having your movie nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars is the culmination of a lifelong dream for a LOT of people, and a lot of hard work, and making its clip at the Oscars the footnote to the resurrection of a hackneyed comedy bit is self-absorbed and super lame. Room was never going to win. At least let it have its moment instead of stealing it for yourself.

Olivia Wilde in Valentino

With that out of my system, I have to note that I also hate this dress. It's like a pinafore gone mad.

Olivia Wilde in Valentino

I DO kind of like the way these look like perfectly pleated angels wings. I just wish the front were...you know. THERE.

Olivia Wilde in Valentino

From here, it looks like she's chosen to wear the paper fans that schoolchildren make when the A/C isn't working during social studies.

Oscars Fug Carpet: Olivia Wilde in Valentino

I did not like this dress on her -- at all -- but I did like how completely aggravated Olivia Wilde looked as she was forced to stand in silence next to Sasha Baron Cohen as Ali G, while he introduced two serious and heartfelt movies about women's lives with a glib and unfunny routine that was primarily about how terrifically amusing he finds himself. I do not know who made the decision that ALI G should introduce Room -- possibly Sasha Baron Cohen himself -- but it was a huge and, frankly insulting, misstep. I cannot believe the Oscars producers didn't have two women introduce those movies, but at the very freaking least, could you not have asked someone with a little more gravitas to introduce a film that encompasses such complex emotional moments as Room does? Or, does it just not matter? After all, it's just about a woman and a little kid, a mother and child. Who cares? Send in the clowns. [Photos: Getty, Fame/Flynet]