Red Carpet Rewind: Oscar fashion predictions

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By Elizabeth Snead

The 2009 Oscar-nominated actresses run the gamut in age, experience and past nominations. On one end there is 15-time nominee (two-time winner) Meryl Streep and six-time nominee Kate Winslet, and on the other there is veteran actress Melissa Leo right there with fellow first-time nominees Anne Hathaway, Viola Davis and Taraji P. Henson. It should make for some diverse styles on Sunday's red carpet. Here's a look at their recent fashion choices to help us predict their Oscar selections.

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Elizabeth Snead, The Dish Rag

Elizabeth Snead is the creator of the celebrity culture blog, The Dish Rag, and also pens the weekly "Red Carpet Rewind" celebrity fashion photo gallery.

She covered international fashion, entertainment and pop culture for USA Today for a decade and survived the film festival war zones from thermal undies Sundance to topless Cannes.

Her celebrity coverage has appeared in The Washington Post, TV Guide, Us Weekly, InStyle, Ladies Home Journal and Harper's Bazaar.

She's allergic to the limelight, designer shoes and persistent publicists. She also heeds Henry David Thoreau's advice: 'Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.'