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Red was the color of the night at the Oscars! Sandra Bullock wore a red silk faille mermaid dress by Vera Wang, Penelope Cruz picked a garnet gown with hand-embroidered sequins by L’Wren Scott, and Best Actress nominee Jennifer Lawrence chose a crimson tank gown by Calvin Klein, which was hand-made for her by the label’s designer Francisco Costa. Tell us: Did you like red on the red carpet?

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Jennifer Lawrence was the first actress down the Oscars red carpet tonight, and an expert glam squad helped her get there: Dove hairstylist Mark Townsend, Avon makeup artist Jillian Dempsey, and stylist Elizabeth Stewart. (Lawrence’s team was actually profiled in the New York Times today!) “Jennifer looked in the mirror after she put on her dress and said, ‘Mark and Jillian went to work today!’” Townsend tells us. “She was so pleased with her look.” Click through the exclusive photos of the getting-ready process, and get the inside scoop on the magic that went into creating nominee’s flawless look!

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Michelle Williams and Busy Philipps are best friends, and they’re spending Oscars weekend together—as each other’s date to the big event. “For the weekend we are going to get ready together for the whole thing,” Philipps told us at the Forevermark Diamond Dinner at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles this week, which honored Williams for her Academy Award Best Actress nomination for her role in Blue Valentine. “I’m having Dr. Sharon Zadanoff, who is my chiropractor, acupuncturist and massage therapist, come and do treatments on Michelle and me in the early morning to calm us down and relax us and get us zen. Then we’re doing manicures and pedicures together.” As for the whole pre-Oscars routine, that’s just the beginning. “After that, then we start getting ready,” Philipps said. “You literally have to give it hours!”

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— Sharon Clott, with reporting by Kwala Mandel