Oscars worst dressed lists are hard to compile unless someone commits some freaky red carpet abomination. This year's stars did an overwhelmingly good job of dressing for the event.

 But several are up for worst dressed on the red carpet and at the parties, for:

• looking like someone else dressed them
• looking obviously uncomfortable
• making poor use of their assets
• dressing from another era without irony

Ginnifer Goodwin. You're a short zaftig like me. You've packaged yourself like a little potato, and by the looks of it, you know it. Fail.

Rachel Griffiths. Pregnancy is no excuse for this sack.

Eva Longoria Parker. Boot cut pants that cover the shoe. Mistake. Makes you look like Gumby.

So, Jessica Biel, you get a red carpet fail for firstly wearing a sack and secondly, looking frightfully uncomfortable.

Reese Witherspoon and Queen Latifah you could have called each other beforehand. Reese, very adventurous of you, but totally off brand. Where's our sweet girl gone?

Kate Beckinsale, this is not 1995 and you are not off to your school formal. Your hair is juvenile and too fussy. Talk to Naomi Watts for some tips. Also, earrings - too big.

SJP. You can wear anything. We know because you were in that show about the clothes. Could you put your pups away? Too too much of a good thing.

Bai Ling. It's like you set out to be on these lists. This time, it's the hair.

Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Genius is an excuse for wearing a beanie?

Mickey Rourke. Probably not meant to say this in case you wrestle me / retreat back into the wilderness but man, embroidered jacket and torn acid wash jeans with noooo irony? That's a WWF-sized fail.