Posts By Sabrina Rojas Weiss

January 10th, 2013 | 3:05 pm by Sabrina Rojas Weiss (@shalapitcher)

Jennifer Aniston’s Leather Dress Vs. Kanye West’s Leather Skirt: Who Wears It Better?

Jennifer Aniston's leather dress at the People's Choice Award rivals Kanye West 121212 kilt

The People’s Choice Awards are certainly a thing you enjoy in the moment, not an event whose results you discuss in depth the next day — but one item from last night’s show seems to have piqued the curiosity of viewers: the bouncy leather dress Jennifer Aniston wore onstage to accept another Favorite Comedic Actress award. The Christian Dior look was unusually playful for Jen, maybe symbolic of the happy place the engaged actress finds herself in these days.

This is the second time a leather outfit has caught the Internet’s attention after the fact — the first, of course being the black leather Givenchy skirt, or kilt if you want to quibble, that Kanye West wore onstage at the 12.12.12. benefit for Sandy relief last month.

So here’s a question for you, will either of these trends make it past curiosity and into your closet? Vote, and watch Kanye and his stylist discuss his pleats in the video below.


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January 10th, 2013 | 12:59 pm by Sabrina Rojas Weiss (@shalapitcher)

Quvenzhane Wallis: 7 Reasons To Love The Youngest Best Actress Oscar Nominee

Quvenzhale Wallis is the youngest nominee for a Best Actress Oscar

“In a million years, when kids go to school, they gonna know: Once there was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her daddy in the Bathtub,” Quvenzhane Wallis says at the beginning of Beasts at the Southern Wild. And now, we hope kids a million years from now will also know that once there was a Quvenzhane Wallis, and at 9 years old, she was the youngest person to receive a Best Actress Oscar nomination. If you’ve seen her breathtaking performance as the fierce young girl living in the untamed swamps of Louisiana, you probably aren’t surprised by her nomination. That’s not the only reason to love her, though. Here are seven more:

1. The girl knows how to accessorize. Especially with her signature animal purses:

2. She’s not gonna compromise on that name for your sake. It’s pronounced Kwe-VAWN-zhan-ay, by the way. Her mother, Qulyndreia, told Deadline that the name is a combination of her own name, Quvenzhane’s father’s name, Venjie, and the Swahili word for fairy.
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January 10th, 2013 | 10:30 am by Sabrina Rojas Weiss (@shalapitcher)

Oscar’s Biggest Surprises: Snubs For Ben Affleck, Kudos For Beasts

Ben Affleck and Katherine Bigelow weren't nominated for Directing Oscars, but Beasts of the Southern Wild's helmer was.

First, the good news: 2012 was a really good year for movies. Now the bad: That means no matter who got an Oscar nomination this morning, there were bound to be a bunch of disappointed, but really deserving and talented, folks in Hollywood. Maybe they’ll take the relieved attitude this year’s host Seth MacFarlane suggested before making the announcements: “You can stop doing interviews where you pretend you had such a great time making the movie.”

The biggest snubs we saw were in the director category, where dark horse candidates Michael Haneke (Amour) and Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild) edged out favorites Ben Affleck (Argo), Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty), Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained) and Tom Hooper (Les Miserables) — all of which were also nominated for Best Picture.

“No Best Director or Best Actor for Argo. Really? Even though it got a Best Picture nomination?” Deadline’s Dominic Patten wrote. Read more…

January 10th, 2013 | 9:23 am by Sabrina Rojas Weiss (@shalapitcher)

Oscar Nominations: Lincoln, Life Of Pi, Silver Linings Playbook, Django Unchained Lead The Pack

Django Unchained, Silver Linings Playlist, Life of Pi and Lincoln lead the Oscar nominations

Seth MacFarlane and Emma Stone announced the 85th Academy Awards nominations this morning, and absolutely no one should be surprised that a movie directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and based on the life of one of the most universally admired people on the planet garnered the most nods. Lincoln garnered 12 nominations, including Best Picture, directing, acting and supporting actors (Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones) — really they owe it all to the beard, don’t they? Life of Pi, Silver Linings Playbook and Django Unchained followed in the nod count. We’ll get to the surprising snubs in a minute, but first, take a look at the full nominations list and marvel along with Emma that every single one of the supporting actor nominees has won an award before:

Best Picture
Amour
Argo
Beasts Of The Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Misérables
Life Of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty

Actor In A Leading Role
Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Hugh Jackman, Les Misérables
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Denzel Washington, Flight

Actress In A Leading Role
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts Of The Southern Wild
Naomi Watts, The Impossible
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January 9th, 2013 | 11:44 pm by Sabrina Rojas Weiss (@shalapitcher)

Taylor Swift, Julianne Hough And Our 10 Favorite Looks From The People’s Choice Awards

Taylor Swift, Julianne Hough and Rachael Leigh Cook at the People's Choice Awards

The categories and winners for the People’s Choice Awards are always all over the place — those crystal trophies went to everything from The Hunger Games to Castle to The Wanted tonight — and appropriately enough, the red carpet was just as eclectic, in a really good way most of the time. Some stars, like Julianne Hough and Kaley Cuoco went for short and flirty. Rumer Willis went for sparkly as hell, while Taylor Swift opted for an edgier white that reminded us of something Katharine Hepburn would have rocked back in the day. We welcomed the return of Rachael Leigh Cook to the awards-show circuit, and she wowed us in a beautiful, floor-length blue gown. In the gentlemen’s department, we were digging the different (but still quite respectable) suits on Giancarlo Esposito and Eddie Redmayne. And last but not least, we cannot get enough of Chloe Grace Moretz’s daring red carpet looks — no one can wear neon like a 15-year-old!

[Photos: Getty Images]

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Lea Michele’s People’s Choice Awards Dress: Do We Like It?

January 9th, 2013 | 11:02 pm by Sabrina Rojas Weiss (@shalapitcher)

Olivia Munn, Monica Potter & More People’s Choice Awards Looks We Just Don’t Love

Olivia Munn, Monica Potter, Erinn Hayes at the People's Choice Awards

Thankfully, for our eyes, no one showed up to the People’s Choice Awards in anything downright hideous. But there were a handful of ladies whose dresses (and pantsuits) missed the mark in such disappointing ways. Olivia Munn looked like she was going to work in a bank; Monica Potter’s otherwise cute dress was attacked by a pair of doilies; Ashley Rickards, Morena Baccarin and Naomi Watts were done in by unflattering tailoring. We hate putting the likes of Shay Mitchell and Molly Quinn on this list, so maybe we’re too quick to judge Shay’s random beading or Molly’s ’90s goth looks? Take a look at our least favorite looks of the night and let us know if you agree.

[Photos: Getty Images]

Related: Lea Michele’s People’s Choice Awards Dress: Do We Like It?

January 9th, 2013 | 9:36 pm by Sabrina Rojas Weiss (@shalapitcher)

Lea Michele’s People’s Choice Awards Dress: Do We Like It?

Lea Michele in Elie Saab at the Peoples Choice Awards

Please help us decide about this Elie Saab dress Lea Michele wore to the People’s Choice Awards. Part of us thinks it’s super cute and were we blessed with Lea’s legs, we’d want it right now. Part of us is weirded out by the rectangular cluster of extra sequins strategically placed to hide her private bits. There’s the fact that her body looks slamming in it, but then there’s the fact that it shows a disturbing amount of underboob and would maybe look classier if it were just an inch longer. But the color is so fun! And it is the PCAs we’re talking here, not the Oscars. But she’s making those cheesy poses and faces! But she just won for Favorite Comedic TV Actress!

Seriously, we can’t decide. Will you please do this for us?

[Photos: Getty Images]

January 9th, 2013 | 5:11 pm by Sabrina Rojas Weiss (@shalapitcher)

Happy Birthday, Nina Dobrev! Celebrate With The New Vamp’s 24 Most Seductive Pics

Nina Dobrev's 24th birthday

Back in September, Nina Dobrev told us that she plans on playing a teenager for as long as she can, and we think the Vampire Diaries star, who turns 24 today, can do that for at least a couple more years. On the other hand, now that we’ve seen her play not one but two undead vixens on TVD, she’s going to have a hard time convincing anyone she’s an innocent young thing. Especially not after all those smoldering onscreen looks between her and real-life boyfriend Ian Somerhalder. Not that this should be a loss — after all, she must be having so much more fun now than as a weak human cheerleader. And not that we’re jealous of her or anything.

Let’s all wish Nina a happy birthday as we browse through her 24 most seductive looks.

[Photo: CW]

 

January 9th, 2013 | 4:22 pm by Sabrina Rojas Weiss (@shalapitcher)

Ben Affleck, Bradley Cooper, More Help Decide The Most Important Movie Award: Best Facial Hair

Forget the Golden Globes; put aside your hopes and wishes for tonight’s People’s Choice Awards; sleep in and skip tomorrow’s Oscar nominations announcement, because we here at VH1 Celebrity have a much more important title to hand out this awards season: Best Facial Hair Performance in a Motion Picture. You know we’re not alone in pointing out how important beards, mutton chops, mustaches and scruff have been to 2012′s most critically acclaimed films: Can you even imagine Lincoln, Django Unchained, Argo, Les Miserables, Bernie or (god forbid) The Hobbit with clean-shaven stars?

VH1 News polled the heavy hitters at the National Board of Review Awards on Tuesday night to see who the stars would nominate and the answers were predictably enthusiastic.

“I’m not worried about awards season, but I have been going for best beard,” Ben Affleck told us. “[Leonardo DiCaprio's] got the best, probably, and Bradley [Cooper's] got, like, the scruff, which doesn’t look like a beard-beard but you can’t discredit because it’s carefully calibrated.” Read more…

January 9th, 2013 | 12:20 pm by Sabrina Rojas Weiss (@shalapitcher)

Was Carmelo Anthony Defending La La’s Honor Against Kevin Garnett?

Rumors fly about what caused the fight between Kevin Garnett and Carmelo Anthony

Y’all know that sports things usually go way over our head here at VH1 Celebrity, and when it comes to gossip surrounding the love lives of VH1′s own stars, we bow down to the expertise of Liz Black at VH1 Blog. But we couldn’t stay silent about the stories swirling around the words exchanged between Carmelo Anthony and Kevin Garnett during and after the Celtics-Knicks game at MSG on Monday night. The stars had to be separated on court, and following the Knicks’ loss, Melo contradicted his nickname, yelling at Garnett outside the locker room and as the Celtics boarded their bus. What’s caught our attention this morning is the contents of Garnett’s insult, which Anthony categorized as “something you just don’t say to men, another man.”

What was this indecent comment? According to Black Sports Online, several sources confirmed that the Celtic said Carmelo’s wife La La Anthony “tastes like Honey Nut Cheerios.”

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