Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban

As for the dress, my first reaction was, "Hot damn, Nicole Kidman is back on top. She looks awesome." I also want to say bravo to her -- everyone always acts like she's the veteran old guard and Naomi Watts is her naive first-timer BFF who can't handle the scene, so that's what they ask her about; it got to where Nicole, very nicely, stuck up for Naomi by telling an interviewer that in fact Naomi has been nominated before and been working really hard and kicking ass for a while now and they're basically right on each other's level. She handled it very well.

Nicole Kidman

Back to the dress: It was right here where I started to have reservations. Does that middle bit look like she's being unwrapped? Or peeled? Or surgically opened? I mean, we should all be so lucky as to have glittery innards, but still.

Nicole Kidman

Up close, you can see it's just beads, which from afar give the whole peeling impression (at least to me). But I do wonder about the merits of a giant splat on your belly. I love most of the dress, and I suppose if a drunk sequined bat wanted to leave its sparkly mark by crashing into my midsection, I would give it an audience. But could this have been better executed? I wonder.

Nicole Kidman

However, that train could not have been better. It's GORGEOUS. I love it so much. I want it in my life. I'm married but I'm pretty sure the man-wife will let me date it without suing for divorce and full custody.

Oscars Fug or Fab: Nicole Kidman

A friend of mine once attended a kids' music class that Nicole and Keith came to with their first daughter. And everyone was afraid of making them feel observed or uncomfortable, so in an effort to counteract that, the people went too far in the other direction and thus nobody talked to them the whole time -- which ended up being even more awkward because apparently they seemed really nice but also sort of shy. All of which is to say, I guess, that I hope these two are as happy with each other as they look, so they can be nice-yet-shy together for all eternity and never have to worry about whether other people talk to them. [Photos: Getty]