BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs
Viola Davis, The Help
Rooney Mara, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
Michelle Williams, My Week with Marilyn

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Rooney didn’t win last night but looked STUNNING! I’ve updated the gallery with photos from the red carpet and the Sony after party.

Trish Summerville, who designed the costumes for the film, said Mara has “absorbed pieces of Lisbeth, but made it into her own style.” She called Mara a fan of fashion who “was so involved and vocal” during all aspects of dressing as Lisbeth on set. Often, Mara would pick pieces she wanted to wear in the film, said Summerville.

But Mara’s new look is the work of Ryan Hastings, a well-respected stylist who counts Mia Wasikowska and Robert Pattinson as clients. A former fashion editor who has slowly taken on celebrity styling, Hastings is highly secretive and doesn’t have a publicist, an agent, or even a website. Friends and colleagues describe him as introspective and highly professional. “He does red carpet in a way that’s fashion and is not just dress-and-shoes,” said friend and stylist Danielle Nachmani.

Hastings is said to have an unofficial “uniform” of his own, which consists of jeans, a gray T-shirt, and a black hat. When he goes to Paris, one friend said, he packs his clothes in a single backpack. This sense of uniform dictates his sense of style with clients, too. As one friend says, “[Ryan] identifies well with the idea of having a brand for a person.” (He’s perfected the “dirty-Brit” look with Pattinson, for whom he does a lot of vintage shopping.) Hastings, who declined to be interviewed for this story, is known for fashion-forward choices and brings those sensibilities to the stars he dresses.

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New photos in the Rooney Mara Online Gallery from the premiere of Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in Rome.

I’ve updated the Rooney Mara Online Gallery with photos from the promotional tour for Dragon Tattoo from both Berlin & Madrid.

As awards season rolls on towards Oscar, the Santa Barbara Film Festival jumps into the fray to honor some standout performances of the year. The six recipients have all garnered critical praise and are all deserving of awards attention, but let’s face it, they all seem to be longshots for that elusive Oscar, so it’s nice to see them get rewarded for their brilliant work elsewhere. Via press release: “The actors who were selected to be recognized for their exceptional performances are: Demián Bichir for his earnest portrayal as Carlos, a virtuous father struggling to provide for his son in A Better Life; Rooney Mara for her dark and provocative performance as Lisbeth Salander in David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; Melissa McCarthy for her role as the hilariously outspoken Megan in Bridesmaids; Patton Oswalt for masterfully navigating between the realms of comedy and drama as Matt Freehauf in Young Adult; Andy Serkis for stepping into the mind and body of an ape through his master of performance-capture technology in his role as Caesar in Rise of the Planet of the Apes; and Shailene Woodley for bringing an emotional complexity to a character rarely seen at her age as Alexandra in The Descendants.”

Part breakout, part performance, the Virtuoso Award went to Lesley Manville, John Hawkes, Jacki Weaver and Hailee Steinfeld last year, three out of four of whom actually did go on to score Oscar nominations. This year’s recipients will be fetted on Friday, February 3rd. Other stars being honored by the Festival include Viola Davis, who gets the Performer of the Year award while Christopher Plummer will receive the Modern Master award.

Would you trust “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” to watch your child? How about Erica Albright, Mark Zuckerberg’s girlfriend in “The Social Network?”

Instead of choosing the waitress or paperboy route, actress Rooney Mara–the star of “Dragon Tattoo” and co-star of “The Social Network”–looked to the private sector. Beginning in seventh grade, Mara followed up a short tenure of being a summer camp counselor with a job she held through high school, babysitting.

“I was like a baby sitter my whole life. I don’t know how much I got paid. Probably much more than is necessary to watch a child, probably like $8 an hour,” Mara said.

She spent the cash on “useless stuff” like Pogs, or stored the money in a piggy bank. But more than the money, Mara often pondered her role in the lives of the children she watched – and their parents.

“I don’t know what they were thinking, I was very mature but I don’t know what they were thinking. I would never let a seventh grader watch my child. But I babysat that family all the way through high school so I guess they really trusted me.”

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