Best and Worst Dressed at the 2009 Academy Awards

Best and Worst Dressed at the 2009 Academy Awards
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Kate Winslet chose a mildly uninspiring Yves Saint Laurent Atelier gown for Sunday's Academy Awards. It was certainly a beautiful dress, but it won't win her any fashion awards.

Actress Kate Winslet arrives at the 81st Annual Academy Awards held at Kodak Theatre on February 22, 2009 in Los Angeles, Californi Kate Winslet

Apparently Winslet's 8-year-old daughter Mia wasn't a fan of the dress, either. Winslet told Oprah Winfrey that when she called home after the awards, her daughter said, "I need to talk to you about the dress--it was gray."

Winslet shrugged off criticism of the dress, saying, "I think in this time in the economy, it's just not nice to have people make lots of dresses and you just wear one out of a possible five. So Yves St. Laurent very kindly said, 'We'd like to make something for you,' and that was what we did.'