Our Golden Globes red carpet is here: Best-dressed to worst, celebs who stole the show!

With lots of easy breezy makeup, minimal jewelry and loose hair, the Golden Globes opened the awards season with a red carpet chock-full of sparkly metallics, bright whites and dramatic reds. Let's start with Jessica Chastain: The A Most Violent Year actor said it best of her ultra-shiny, plunging Atelier Versace: "My movie is about heating oil. It's like an oil slick so I was, like, it's perfect." (Photos: AFP, AP, Reuters)

Updated on: Jan 18, 2015 1:30 PM IST

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With lots of easy breezy makeup, minimal jewelry and loose hair, the Golden Globes opened the awards season with a red carpet chock-full of sparkly metallics, bright whites and dramatic reds. Let's start with Jessica Chastain: The A Most Violent Year actor said it best of her ultra-shiny, plunging Atelier Versace: "My movie is about heating oil. It's like an oil slick so I was, like, it's perfect." (Photos: AFP, AP, Reuters)

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Among those lauded by fashion pros Sunday night at the Beverly Hills, California, awards night was Julianne Moore as she led a parade of silver in custom Givenchy Haute Couture by Riccardo Tisci. Her sequins faded to black and a cascade of feathers at the bottom. "For me she was it. She looked amazing, but the metallic trend was debated all over social media. A lot of people see it as very flashy but I think it looks great because it's just a new, totally different texture and something that's more interesting than just the same old strapless gowns," said Eric Wilson, fashion news director for InStyle magazine.

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Style and beauty expert Mary Alice Stephenson added Emma Stone's sparkly silver-and-black Lanvin jumpsuit to her top five. It had a big floor-length sash at the waist, after all. "Emma Stone broke a lot of rules and that's what Golden Globes fashion is about. It was this great respite from all the boring gowns. And her hair was down. It was superglamorous and a little bit edgy," she said.

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Extending last year's red trend was standout Viola Davis in Donna Karan Atelier. Boy, does she carry that sultry red off!

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And there was plenty for us to hate, including a daring white Vera Wang Collection gown for Gone Girl co-star Rosamund Pike. She showed off midriff cutouts, a strappy barely there back and plunging neckline soon after giving birth. The look was criticized by some as ill-fitting at the top but lauded by Aya Kanai, executive fashion director of Cosmopolitan and Seventeen, as "white hot and sexy."

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A chartreuse Gucci column gown worn by Naomi Watts with a knockout diamond Bulgari Serpenti necklace was a questionable color to others while she was lauded as a vision by Joyann King, editor of HarpersBazaar.com. "I love how she took the classic Old Hollywood glamour equation - memorable hue, over-the-top jewels, red lip and Veronica Lake curls - and made it completely relevant on today's modern carpet," King said.

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Amal Clooney: The awards season debut of George's bride was much anticipated. Her long, baggy white gloves with a black Dior Haute Couture one-shoulder gown and long Harry Winston earrings had lots of fingers tweeting. "To glove or not to glove," laughed Stephenson. "It was a big moment. People had high expectations for what she was going to wear. I think the gloves were ill-fitting. Her hair was down and she had that train coming off the Dior dress and the long earrings. It could have been a modern Audrey Hepburn moment but it wasn't."

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Uzo Aduba: Crazy eyes was, in a word, awesome. The "Orange Is the New Black" co-star rarely disappoints on the red carpet. This time around she wore a halter-style beaded gun metal design by Randi Rahm with ruby touches and a crystal-embellished neckline. "She just looked hot! Her hair looked great smoothed back," Kanai said.

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Keira Knightley: She did not get the let's-flaunt-our-baby-bumps memo, showing up pregnant in a pale blue Chanel with a bib neck, tiers of ruffles at the bottom and appliques of butterflies and feathers. "That was not a best-dressed baby bump," Stephenson said. "It was a little too Little House on the Prairie. Kanai demurred: "She was conservative and pretty for an expecting mother. She looked like she might have stepped out of a Jane Austen novel - in a good way!"

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Kerry Washington: Usually solidly on point, she wore an of-the-moment midi length design by Mary Katrantzou. It was off-the-shoulder with pink and purple panels that were "too competitive with each other," King said. "A monochromatic color choice would have been better." Stephenson agreed. "It was a little too pristine and buttoned up. She did not look comfortable."