Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock has said her step-daughter helped her pick her gown for the ceremony.

Bullock, 45, who picked up the Best Actress gong at the event, wore a gold-beaded Marchesa dress to the ceremony at the Kodak Theatre in LA.

On the red carpet, she said: “Somebody helped me decide – my oldest stepdaughter. It was her favourite.”

However, she added: “I know nothing on how to stay comfortable.”

Talking about her getting ready for the show, she said: “I got up a little later than I normally do, and I let everyone else do the work.

“If I’d done the work, I wouldn’t look like this, that’s for sure.”

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Simon Monjack was gutted after viewing his late wife Brittany Murphy on the In Memoriam segment of last night’s Oscars.

The British husband of the tragic star who died suddenly last December at the age of 32 had wanted to attend after-parties but claimed he was shut out of them, RadarOnline reports.

He said: “I was only going to the parties for [Brittany's mother] Sharon so she could see friends and be part of the grieving process for her. And it’s my 40th tomorrow so I thought it might be nice to celebrate after all the pain. In the end I would not have gone anyway as seeing Britt on the big screen so young and gone was just too gut-wrenching. She loved James Taylor and In My Life was her favourite song.”

Monjack was told the Vanity Fair and E! parties were full. “I just think it’s a shame since they’ve said that Brittany was their favourite interview and one of their favourite people.”

Murphy starred in Clueless, Girl Interrupted, and 8 Mile.

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British Oscar-nominated actress Keira Knightley has been hurt by comments made about her weight.

Digital Spy reports Knightley told a UK newspaper she hates reading articles about her size. In Knightley’s case, the comments refer to thinness.

“It hurts an awful lot. You think, ‘All right, develop a thick skin and get through this’, but you just have to stay true to yourself and hope not to get too hurt.”

Knightley, 25, suggested in the past she could screen out negative comments.

The Pirates of the Caribbean, Atonement and Pride & Prejudice star is set to appear in The Talking Cure in 2011.

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All the same the actress has vowed to keep a far distance from drugs, but her experience does not stem from her movie but from a wild night at college which convinced her illegal substances would swiftly sabotage her career.

She says, “I do terrible things. I just have very discreet friends. I had an experience at college where I was at a party and people were passing cocaine around, and I looked at it and thought, that’s not a horse I can ride, I’m never going to do that. So I passed the tray along and left the room. Being an actress is hard enough without complicating it with drugs.”

Great way to go Anne Hathaway and we love you for that, maybe you can start a no drugs campaign and roll in Amy Winehouse.

The Oscars red carpet is a prestigious event that it is highly used to promote designer brands and other products from fashionable clothes, shoes and jewelries. Celebrities who want to be the center of attention only need to dress his or her best, walk the red carpet and be in the center of the klieg lights. Take for example Heidi Klum who is not even a voting Academy member but made the red carpet during last years Oscars Award where she shined in a dragon and fiery-red gown as Coca Cola’s ambassador of heart awareness. The younger set Miley Cyrus of Hannah Montana (last year’s presenter), Zack Efron of High School Musical and Robert Pattinson of Twilight had the chance to be invited as presenters.