Quvenzhané Wallis' Golden Globes Dress Is Absolutely Adorable, Obvi

This is the moment we’ve been waiting for — Quvenzhané Wallis, aka the night’s most adorable star, has hit the red carpet. The 11-year-old “Annie” actress is nominated for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical and she’s definitely glammed up for the big night.

It’s no surprise that Wallis is wearing Armani Junior, considering that she was recently tapped as the face of the children’s designer clothing brand. The pint-size star’s custom made lilac-and-white dress was perfectly paired with her cascading spiral curls, pearl jewels and megawatt smile. She isn’t carrying one of her signature puppy purses, but no need — she’s shining without one!

We can’t wait to watch this little lady’s style star continue to rise!

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Emily Blunt Looks White Hot At The Golden Globes

We really missed Emily Blunt during last year’s awards season, but she definitely made up for it on the 2015 Golden Globes red carpet.

Blunt wowed in an pleated, ethereal Michael Kors gown, paired with turquoise jewelry and Christian Dior Beauty makeup. Looks like the nominee for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy got some inspiration from starring in “Into The Woods,” because Blunt topped off her look with soft, french braids.

See Blunt’s flowing gown below, and excuse us while we swoon a little bit more.

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Jessica Chastain Turns Heads In Vampy Red Carpet Look At The Golden Globes

We’re still not over Golden Globe winner and nominee Jessica Chastain‘s retro vibes from the 2012 Golden Globe Awards, but it seems this year’s she gone a bit more edgy.

The actress, who is nominated for her role in “A Most Violent Year,” graced the red carpet in Atelier Versace and Piaget jewelry. The coppery dress featured a plunging neckline and pleated skirt. Chastain topped off her look with a cool smokey eye, severe side part and soft waves.

See her gown below, and keep looking, and looking…

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Julianne Moore Is Overwhelming Us, And Not In A Good Way At The Golden Globes

Julianne Moore may have spent months preparing for her devastating, impeccable performance as a woman diagnosed with early on-set Alzheimer’s in “Still Alice,” but when it comes to her look at the 2015 Golden Globes (where she is nominated for Best Actress in a drama), Moore, unfortunately, did not quite deliver.

The 54-year-old, who is arguably as famous for her signature red locks and freckles as she is for her stellar movie career, looked a bit overwhelming in custom Givenchy. And while we’re not afraid of a little sparkle, the feathers and ombré effect are just too much.

What do you think of the look? Sound off below!

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Golden Globes 2015 Winners Expected To Include 'Boyhood,' 'Birdman'

In December, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association — with help from Jeremy Piven, Paula Patton, Peter Krause and Kate Beckinsale — announced nominees for the 72nd annual Golden Globes.

On the film side, “Birdman” led the way with seven nods, including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Best Director (for Alejandro González Iñárritu), Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy (for Michael Keaton), Best Supporting Actor (for Edward Norton, Best Supporting Actress (for Emma Stone), Best Screenplay and Best Original Score. “Boyhood” and “The Imitation Game” followed with five nominations a piece. “Selma” earned four.

The television honorees included “Fargo” (which led the way with five total nods), “True Detective” (four) and “House of Cards,” “Orange is the New Black,” “The Good Wife,” “The Affair,” “The Normal Heart” and “Olive Kitteridge” (three apiece).

The 2015 Golden Globes ceremony gets underway at 8 p.m., live from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler return as hosts for the third time. All of the this year’s nominees are below.

This post will be updated as winners are announced.

FILM

Best Motion Picture – Drama
“Boyhood”
“Foxcatcher”
“The Imitation Game”
“Selma”
“The Theory of Everything”

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
“Birdman”
“The Grand Budapest Hotel”
“Into the Woods”
“Pride”
“St. Vincent”

Best Actor – Motion Picture, Drama
Steve Carell, “Foxcatcher”
Benedict Cumberbatch, “The Imitation Game”
Jake Gyllenhaal, “Nightcrawler”
David Oyelowo, “Selma”
Eddie Redmayne, “The Theory of Everything”

Best Actor – Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Ralph Fiennes, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
Michael Keaton, “Birdman”
Bill Murray, “St. Vincent”
Joaquin Phoenix, “Inherent Vice”
Christoph Waltz, “Big Eyes”

Best Actress – Motion Picture, Drama
Jennifer Aniston, “Cake”
Felicity Jones, “The Theory of Everything”
Julianne Moore, “Still Alice”
Rosamund Pike, “Gone Girl”
Reese Witherspoon, “Wild”

Best Actress – Motion Picture. Musical or Comedy
Amy Adams, “Big Eyes”
Emily Blunt, “Into the Woods”
Helen Mirren, “The Hundred-Foot Journey”
Julianne Moore, “Maps to the Stars”
Quvenzhané Wallis, “Annie”

Best Supporting Actor
Robert Duvall, “The Judge”
Ethan Hawke, “Boyhood”
Edward Norton, “Birdman”
Mark Ruffalo, “Foxcatcher”
J.K. Simmons, “Whiplash”

Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette, “Boyhood”
Jessica Chastain, “A Most Violent Year”
Keira Knightley, “The Imitation Game”
Emma Stone, “Birdman”
Meryl Streep, “Into the Woods”

Best Director
Wes Anderson, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
Ava DuVernay, “Selma”
David Fincher, “Gone Girl”
Alejandro González Iñárritu, “Birdman”
Richard Linklater, “Boyhood”

Best Screenplay
Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
Gillian Flynn, “Gone Girl”
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris & Armando Bo, “Birdman”
Richard Linklater, “Boyhood”
Graham Moore, “The Imitation Game”

Best Original Score
Alexandre Desplat, “The Imitation Game”
Johann Johannsson, “The Theory of Everything”
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, “Gone Girl”
Antonio Sanchez, “Birdman”
Hans Zimmer, “Interstellar”

Best Original Song
Lana Del Rey, “Big Eyes” — “Big Eyes”
John Legend and Common, “Glory” — Selma”
Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye, “Mercy Is” — “Noah”
Sia and Greg Kurstin, “Opportunity” — “Annie”
Lorde, “Yellow Flicker Beat” — “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1”

Best Foreign Language Film
“Force Majeure”
“Ida”
“Gett”
“Leviathan”
“Tangerine”

Best Animated Feature Film
“The Book of Life”
“The Boxtrolls”
“How to Train Your Dragon 2”
“Big Hero 6”
“The Lego Movie”

TELEVISION

Best Drama Series
“The Affair”
“Downton Abbey”
“Game of Thrones”
“The Good Wife”
“House of Cards”

Best Actor in a Television Series, Drama
Clive Owen, “The Knick”
Liev Schreiber, “Ray Donovan”
Kevin Spacey, “House of Cards”
James Spader, “The Blacklist”
Dominic West, “The Affair”

Best Actress in a Television Series, Drama
Claire Danes, “Homeland”
Viola Davis, “How to Get Away with Murder”
Julianna Margulies, “The Good Wife”
Ruth Wilson, “The Affair”
Robin Wright, “House of Cards”

Best Comedy Series
“Girls”
“Jane the Virgin”
“Orange is the New Black”
“Silicon Valley”
“Transparent”

Best Actor in a Television Series, Comedy
Louis C.K., “Louie”
Don Cheadle, “House of Lies”
Ricky Gervais, “Derek”
William H. Macy, “Shameless”
Jeffrey Tambor, “Transparent”

Best Actress in a Television Series, Comedy
Lena Dunham, “Girls”
Edie Falco, “Nurse Jackie”
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, “Veep”
Gina Rodriguez, “Jane the Virgin”
Taylor Schilling, “Orange is the New Black”

Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
“Fargo”
“The Missing”
“The Normal Heart”
“Olive Kitteridge”
“True Detective”

Best Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Martin Freeman, “Fargo”
Woody Harrelson, “True Detective”
Matthew McConaughey, “True Detective”
Mark Ruffalo, “The Normal Heart”
Billy Bob Thornton, “Fargo”

Best Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Maggie Gyllenhaal, “The Honorable Woman”
Jessica Lange, “American Horror Story: Freak Show”
Frances McDormand, “Olive Kitteridge”
Frances O’Conner, “The Missing”
“Allison Tolman, “Fargo”

Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Matt Bomer, “The Normal Heart”
Alan Cumming, “The Good Wife”
Colin Hanks, “Fargo”
Bill Murray, “Olive Kitteridge”
Jon Voight, “Ray Donovan”

Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Uzo Aduba, “Orange is the New Black”
Kathy Bates, “American Horror Story: Freak Show”
Joanne Froggatt, “Downton Abbey”
Allison Janney, “Mom”
Michelle Monaghan, “True Detective”

Don't Buy the Argument that Regulation Hurts Employment

Regulatory policies are expected to play a significant part in the agenda of the new Congress. Congressional leaders have indicated in particular that they will be holding hearings on EPA regulations that would affect the operation of coal-fired power plants, and on aspects of the Affordable Care Act and the Dodd-Frank financial reforms.

Unfortunately, coloring the debates and quite independent of the merits of these and other proposed regulations will be claims of Republican Congressional leaders and their supporters among big business organizations that enactment of rules to secure the public interest are intrinsically suspect because they suppress economic activity and limit job growth.  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell could not have made the point more clearly.  On a recent Sunday talk show he said that Republicans would move to block environmental and health care regulations because “[w]e need to do everything we can to try to rein in the regulatory onslaught, which is the principal reason that we haven’t had the kind of bounce-back after the 2008 recession that you would expect.”

In the conservative playbook this is not a new idea. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is on record as predicting incorrectly that employment would suffer if such important developments came to pass as the drilling moratorium following the BP-Deepwater disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, EPA proposals to curb greenhouse gas emissions, the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill, the Consumer Financial Protection Agency and the Affordable Care Act.

This argument reflects a widespread but essentially faulty belief that regulation in and of itself is bad for business, and that government interference with markets inevitably produces undesirable outcomes.  The drumbeat that regulations are bad for business tilts the rhetorical playing field away from protections of workers, consumers and the environment and elevates deregulation almost to a default position in everyday politics.   No one, after all, wants to contribute to unemployment. 

However, as I show in a report released by Demos last month, the arguments that regulations are generally harmful because they dampen business activity are faulty on at least two general grounds.   

First, they have no empirical basis.  Studies trotted out by business organizations purporting to show that regulation is costly to society and negatively impacts jobs do so only by excluding from their calculations the economic benefits that accrue to society, such as lower health care costs resulting from anti-pollution measures.  Likewise, studies showing that regulations negatively impact jobs do so only by ignoring jobs gained in other sectors.   

On the contrary, as Isaac Shapiro and John Irons have shown in an Economic Policy Institute report, studies that focus on the net effects of regulation on jobs, for the most part show no effect, or slight positive effects, on employment. 

Second, the arguments are faulty because they oversimplify or misrepresent the way markets actually behave.  It is true that market theorists posit that increases in costs stemming from  complying with regulation will lead to higher prices, resulting in lower demand for products and reduced demand for labor (in other words, in lost jobs).  But this is only one of many possibilities.  As Washington Post columnist Steve Pearlstein recently pointed out with respect to new laws raising the minimum wage, many variables are involved in establishing the demand for labor. For example, if prices rise and sales decline at fast food restaurants, sales and employment will likely pick up in other sectors as people eat at home more.  The common argument that increased wages among low wage workers will lead to substantial layoffs is much too facile. 

Moreover, the proposition that unfettered markets produce optimal results may be right on paper but wrong in the real world because modern markets almost never exhibit the conditions posited for them in textbooks. 

Specifically, in today’s economy government regulation is necessary because, contrary to free market assumptions, some parties to market transactions may not be knowledgeable buyers (one of the conditions of the free market) and may lack vital information, as in the case of consumers who are not able to tell whether a car will function properly or what the fine print in financial documents might mean for them. 

Regulation may also be necessary when there are only a small number of sellers who would be able to charge excessively high prices, as in the case of internet companies which could collude to drive prices beyond acceptable levels. 

Finally and most obviously, regulation may be necessary to correct for the unacceptable consequences resulting from market actors generating high costs for society without paying for them, as in the cases of air pollution and failure to provide access opportunities for physically challenged citizens. 

This is not to say that government regulation is always desirable, or that existing regulations are well-suited to their purposes.  Rules may be obsolete, excessively burdensome, or costly, just as they may be too weak, or ineffectively enforced.  Rule-making in democracies always requires periodic assessment of the benefits and costs of public actions.  

Nor is it to say, like cancelled contracts for advanced jet fighters and closed military bases, that regulation never has negative employment effects.  Limitations on coal-fired power plants may well cost jobs in Senator McConnell’s Kentucky coal fields.  

However, baleful and ultimately unsupportable criticisms that regulation is inevitably bad for business across the board contribute little to the pragmatic discussion of rule-making that we should be having.   

'Je Suis Charlie' Signs Reach Golden Globes Red Carpet

At Sunday’s Golden Globes, signs emblazoned with “Je Suis Charlie” — the slogan and hashtag used in support of Charlie Hebdo following a terror attack on the publication’s office — made the red carpet. George Clooney, Helen Mirren, Joshua Jackson, Diane Kruger, Kathy Bates, and Golden Globe-nominated composer Alexandre Desplat all showed their support before the ceremony. “Je Suis Charlie” signs were also spotted on the press line and behind Ryan Seacrest’s interview perch on the E! network.

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Felicity Jones' Golden Globes Dress Is Fit For A Queen

While making the press rounds for her latest film, “The Theory of Everything,” Felicity Jones has worn a series of prim and proper looks. Well, aside from this voluminous skirt fail.

Jones turned heads at the 2015 Golden Globe Awards in a regal teal green gown. The fit and flare of the high-collared dress was a bit overwhelming on her figure with the volume of the skirt (again). However, it gave the Best Actress in a Motion Picture nominee a statuesque look that complemented her polished updo and pretty makeup.

Do you think Jones is a best-dressed list contender?

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Pregnant Keira Knightley Is Gorgeous And Glowing At The Golden Globes

What a glowing mommy-to-be!

Keira Knightley looked gorgeous as she graced the red carpet at the 2015 Golden Globe Awards on Sunday. The 29-year-old actress, who is expecting her first child with husband James Righton, wowed in a Chanel gown, embellished with butterflies.

“Apparently it took 30 people to make this in a week,” she exclaimed to Ryan Seacrest on the red carpet.

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Knightley is nominated in the Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture category for her performance in “The Imitation Game.”

“I felt so lucky to have portrayed Joan Clarke, such an extraordinary woman who defied convention and was part of a moment in history. Thank you to the Hollywood Foreign press for this honor, and for recognizing our film,” Knightley said following the nominations announcement in December. “I can’t wait to celebrate with everyone.”

Uzo Aduba's Golden Globes Dress Is A Sexy, Beaded And Awesome

The only thing we love more then watching Uzo Aduba play Crazy Eyes on “Orange Is The New Black” is seeing the actress transform into a style star on the red carpet.

She did just that on Sunday night at the Golden Globe Awards in a Randi Rahm gown. The 33-year-old actress, who is nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a series, miniseries or television film, turned heads in the beaded gunmetal design featuring ruby details and a crystal embellished neckline that perfectly complimented her sleek slicked back hair.

Check out Uzo’s eye-catching look below! Do you love it?

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