From the salesman in the cheap suit to the uniformed police officer to the prerequisite lady with curlers in an old fashioned nightgown and slippers, zombies on film make great mirrors of the public.
Red was the color of the evening: Sandra Bullock wore a strapless red Vera Wang dress, Jennifer Hudson showed off her svelte frame in a va-va-voom tangerine Versace gown, and host Anne Hathaway sported two red dresses throughout the night (one by Valentino and one, very briefly worn on stage, by Versace).