By Elizabeth Snead

This year's actresses hoping for an Oscar will no doubt handle themselves with cool ease walking the red carpet. After all, most of them have been there many, many times before. Even Anne Hathaway, who's just 26, is an Oscar veteran, with two previous trips to the Kodak. But they don't hold a candle to Miss Meryl Streep, with multiple Oscar appearances in three different decades. She could probably walk the carpet in her sleep.

Here's what those actresses wore for their previous trips down the red mile.