The Palm Springs Film Festival started last night with their annual awards gala. I genuinely enjoy covering the Palm Springs Film Festival stuff – all of the celebrities make their way to Palm Springs to be honored in somewhat low-key ways ahead of the Golden Globes (this Sunday!). They do Q&A sessions, screenings and roundtable interviews and generally, Palm Springs seems like one of the nicer stops on an actor’s Oscar campaign. Anyway, these are some photos from last night’s awards gala, which was well-attended with A-listers and Oscar campaigners.
First off, we have Nicole Kidman in this Dior gown. She’s so pale, and she loves pale clothes. Which irritates me a little bit. I think I would have liked this gown better on someone with different coloring (and someone with a face that is less jacked, frankly). There’s also a rumor going around the Aussie tabloids that Nicole and Keith Urban had some kind of huge fight on the red carpet of the Sydney premiere of Lion, and it’s notable (to me) that Keith was not in attendance last night. Nicole is almost certainly going to get an Oscar nomination (for supporting actress) for Lion. I hope Dev Patel gets nominated too.
Natalie Portman also wore Dior… this is a perfectly nice maternity gown. It makes me wonder if Dior was saving their best maternity looks for Portman, and poor Marion Cotillard had to fend for herself.
Ruth Negga in Valentino Spring 2017. She’s beautiful and I’m okay with this gown. She’s been wearing a lot of Valentino during her campaign and I’m not sure that’s the best collaboration for her.
Amy Adams in Altuzarra Pre-Fall 2017. I liked this from a distance but looking closer at the gown sort of ruins it.
Janelle Monáe in Jenny Packham Spring 2017. This doesn’t look like Packham to me, but it’s pretty. She’s really pretty too.
Kirsten Dunst in a custom Ralph & Russo gown. I think this is really beautiful.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
Excepting Nicole TBH Everyone looks really really pretty and glamorous
Yep
They are all truly lovely, especially Nicole. The dresses are so fantastic.
Nicole is starting to look more and more like a character in whatever happened to baby jane. It’s that dead blonde hair and sausage curls. Her red corkscrew/coily hair was so cool when she was younger.
Janelle, Ruth and Kirsten look amazing.
In 2/3 of the photos, she looks like a transgender woman. What in the ever loving hell has she done to her face???
Nicole’s face looks jacked in a different way than it was previously jacked. She’s moved on to yet another bad surgeon?
Natalie is breathtaking.
Poor Nicole 🙁
poor nicole is right…who knew Ed Hardy made RC gowns?…
I’m underwhelmed by Natalie’s gown.
Nicole is, well, almost taxidermied at this point. I bet she subsist on 4 almonds, 2 grapes and a five second lick of a tuna steak per day. I hope she’s not fighting with Keith. They look like twins now, and twins should never be apart. Also, those meetings at the shared plastic surgeon would be AWKWARD.
Janelle Monae is dressed like Janelle Monae, she’s like Dita – all the black and white and red blends after awhile.
Negga is again in something that does not do her sparkle justice. I get that she is trying, and it’s almost a win.
That Dunst gown though. Beautiful. The colour, the cut, the fabric. Love it. Nicole should have worn this instead of Angelina’s wedding gown re-purposed.
@ detritus
Your comment made me laugh – “taxidermied” and “shared plastic surgeon”… So true…
LOL @ taxidermied!
OMG! You, detritus, are hysterical!
TLo is right about Kidman, she looks so much better in dark clothes. This dress is also too young for her. She needs to lose the whimsy.
Dunst looks great.
Kirsten Dunst looks gorgeous. The outfit, hair, etc. really complement her.
Ruth Negga is too beautiful to be wearing such a bad outfit. It makes her look like she’s wearing frilly boy shorts or bloomers.
It’s just…her face…so distracting from everything else. She’s got such delicate features to begin with that any little “treatment” just throws it all off. I know the dress is pale and she’s pale but it’s her MO and it’s a safe choice for her. The dress is very pretty.
Wow I really like everyone but NK here. Janelle Monae looks amazing. Is it weird that I’m getting FKA Twigs vibes from her look? Maybe the hair ? Idk but she looks fantastic.
Kirsten always knocks it out of the park on the red carpet, I just love all her fashion choices.
I know I criticized Janelle’s black and white fixation before but I have to admit it totally works here and the accessories are to die for.
Why does Nicole insist on wearing hair styles and gowns more suitable for a woman half her age?
I love Nicole and she has the most interesting filmography among actresses of her generation. But if she gets an Oscar nom for Lion, it will be too Sandra bullock/Michelle Pfeifer for me. Enough with white savior heroines.
Janelle knocks it out of the park!
Nicole’s dress is too young for her — she’s not this ethereal ingénue anymore.
Nicole has thinner lips, smaller face, eyebrows down. She looks great, like an older Nicole. I love the gown on her. Keith has a career. They guy is busy. He’s not at everything with her. Maybe he stayed home with the kids, and she flew in and out.
Everyone looks really lovely.
It is funny how Natalie is pregnant in both of her Awards seasons. I just looked some of her old gowns from that year.
From face on, Nicole looks pretty I think. From the side, her face terribly, terribly wrong. It’s like her jaw has been extended back past her ear.
What in the name of Dudley Do-right of the Mounties has she done to her chin?????
I honestly went “that’s a really bad wax statue of Taylor Swift”, which just doubles the ick factor for me.
Nice new boobs, Kiki!
I don’t care for Nicole’s styling, but everyone else looks really lovely.
Kiki dress is the perfect shade of blue gray to complement her coloring. This dress looks effortless, comfortable and appropriate but still movie star quality. Nice décolletage!
Agreed, the slate blue sure brings out her eyes which appear to be a perfect match to the dress. I wonder if it was done on purpose. It’s lovely.
Sorry. Duplicate comment.
This is the least jacked up that Nicole has looked in a long time. She is close to 50 now, and you can actually see it in her skin -she no longer has the extremely white look of her youth. Which is fine, we should all look past the color of our fellow women’s skin, whether light or dark, and see the beauty within. All of these women appear beautiful on the red carpet.
If ever a gal in her thirties needed a warning about not buggering about with her face too much despite mounting societal pressure, Nicole is it. She must’ve started very subtley years ago and after 20 years of tinkering I defy any woman to not look jacked. It catches up eventually regardless of how good the surgeon is. And if they’re bad? Even faster. So sad. (see also: Madge.)
Kiki and Janelle looks both stunning! I would have loved Amy Adams’ dress with a black top but alas like that it’s just fug.