Every year, at every Awards show, there is someone who attempts to make a fashion statement. There are the Lady Gagas of the world who do this every event, trying to shock people into keeping her name on their tongues, Googling them, and driving their prices up. There are the Matt Stones and Trey Parkers who subvert the fashion culture by wearing dresses for laughs (and thoughts). There are also the Bjorks of the world who wear swans as dresses to make everyone think she's edgy and off her rocker or bring the mental delicacy to the forefront. These outfits and dresses are all interesting, but they are intentionally bad and/or wild. We are interested in the people who wore hideous dresses but were actually out there trying their best to look good.

When a celebrity gets all dolled up to go to a major awards show, there's a risk involved. Sometimes, even for us casuals, we think we look good or we are told we look good when we really don't. Now, imagine your employer or your sugar momma or friend asked you that question. She looks disgusting, but you can't say that. There are other occasions when the dress is part of a deal with a designer. "Wear this ugly thing," they say, "...and you get free clothes throughout the rest of the year." What's one night of embarrassment for a year's worth of riches? The best part for the women on this list is that they looked so bad the cameras even felt bad for them, avoiding them whenever possible. Let's celebrate those awful moments. Here are 20 Celeb Award Show Dresses So Bad The Cameras Avoided Them.

Swank In Pink

The year was 2003 and the event was the Oscars. Hilary Swank chose a sheer pink Dior gown and thus began the worst night of her life. No, we don't know that, but we have to assume that she felt like a total a*s the entire night because she looked like one. This is a dress that you put on your Barbie or one that your 13-year-old daughter might pick out at the local thrift store to play dress-up at home behind closed doors. You don't wear this outside, and you never wear it to the Oscars. But also, shame on Dior for making a dress that looks like Paris Hilton puked on a ballerina.

Jennifer Connelly

The 2002 Oscars will forever be a bittersweet moment for Jennifer Connelly. It was there that she won the award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in A Beautiful Mind, but it was also there that she wore a really awful dress and scarf combo. The Nicolas Ghesquiere for Balenciaga dress was alright by itself. It certainly wasn't great and looked a little too bohemian for the event, but it was the color in combination with Connelly's pale skin and the dreadful yellow/golden scarf that truly ruined it. The whole thing just made Connelly look sickly, which is quite the feat considering she is one of the most beautiful women on the planet.

Juliette Binoche

In 1997, after Juliette Binoche's name had been called as winner of the Best Supporting Actress award, every viewer got quite a shock. The camera panned over to Binoche and up she stood in what was one of the most convincing Count von Count costumes. The massive collar. The velvet. All that red velvet. It was a Sophie Sitbon gown, but it was something unnatural. As Binoche approached the stage to accept the award, the camera shook as if the person behind it was laughing or crying. The audience should have been thinking about Binoche's performance in The English Patient, but instead, we found ourselves counting, one muah ha-ha, two.

Gwyneth Paltrow

If the word frump could be epitomized in one dress, it would be through Gwyneth Paltrow's 2002 Academy Awards dress. Made by Alexander McQueen, the goth dress with a sheer top allowed Paltrow to show off her upper torso without getting too cold, but that was the only high point of this outfit choice. Looking at the pictures, it's as if Paltrow is saying ah well, to everyone. Even she regrets it or at least she regrets her decision not to wear a bra to the event. She tried to go punk, but she settled on junk instead. See what we did there?

Zoe Saldana

The 2010 Academy Awards were confusing if only because Zoe Saldana, a woman who could makes us question everything we ever knew about beauty, wore a dress that had many people talking. The confusing bit was that this purply rainbow dress with a fluffy bottom was being heralded as one of the best gowns of the night. Really? This is good? This Riccardo Tisci-designed Givenchy dress is what the kids of today are going to look at and think, one day, I'll be famous and wear a giant purple fleece blanket to the Oscars. We have a hard time believing it. Yes, Saldana looked gorgeous. Saldana is shockingly attractive. It's dumbfounding how beautiful she is. Of course, she looked good. The dress was terrible.

Kate Winslet

When Kate Winslet was nominated in 1996 for her role in Sense and Sensibility, she showed up just happy to be there. Perhaps she was too young and inexperienced to know that you should never (and we mean NEVER) wear a horrible dress to the Oscars, so she did. At 21, Winslet was a picture of beauty from the neck up, but that pink dress and blood red shawl was horrific. Looking like a giant bottle of Bismuth, Winslet gave us all indigestion just looking at her. Thankfully, she wasn't the big star she would soon become, so the camera avoided her for much of the night.

Nicole Kidman

While the SAG Awards might not be as fashion-forward as the Golden Globes or the Oscars, the show does have some high points…and lows. In 2016, the real low was Nicole Kidman. A woman who has been on both sides of the fashion fence in the past, Kidman wore a very colorful Gucci sequinned gown. Up close, the dress has some details that make it quite eye-catching, but we're not up close, are we? We're at home sweating and covered in barbecue sauce. From afar, Kidman's dress made her look like a painter's palette. While the colors would be nice to see on a watercolor painting, they aren't dress-worthy.

Meryl Streep

There are those who believe that the great and wonderful Meryl Streep can do no wrong, but we're here to say that she can and has, or at least that whoever the hell dresses her can do wrong. Streep went to the 2012 Academy Awards as the favorite to win Best Actress for The Iron Lady. She went as Meryl Streep, the most decorated actress in the history of film. The camera was going to be on her many times throughout the night. So, her personal stylist (hopefully, not Roy Helland who she thanks in her winning speech), decided to dress her up as Oscar himself, the gold statue. Streep wore the shimmery gold dress well, but even on her, it was just too much.

Zoe Saldana Again

It's crazy that Zoe Saldana makes the list not once, but twice. We are honestly really huge fans of her acting (did anyone watch her in Guardians of the Galaxy 1 and 2?). We just don't love her choice in dresses. She popped up at the 2017 Golden Globes in the pink frock-like dress you see in the photo above. It wasn't all that bad and she certainly looked stunning, because she always does, but it basically looked like a bunch of pink dish rags all sewn together. Very raggedy and rough, it just looked sloppy. Sorry, Zoe, you looked beautiful as always. We just really hated the dress.

Faith Hill

We had a big debate over whether or not to include this dress on our list. Faith Hill's rainbow-colored Oscar dress in 2002 is horri-awful, but it kind of worked on her. It's tough because she could probably make anything look good, but this dress is doing its darnest to make her look bad. In her defense, Hill sang "Somewhere over the Rainbow" at the Oscars, so if anything, her dress was themed and planned. Still, even that can't save the darn outfit. Just take a look at those feathers. Ugh. This dress is not good... not good at all, Faith.

Tilda Swinton

Another horrible dress and another winner. But fashion? So strange. In regard to this dress, the critics are so divided that this black Lanvin number by Alber Elbaz has been on both best-dressed and worst-dressed lists. For us, the decision to include the dress here was simple. It looks like a giant trash bag. Against Tilda Swinton's pale skin and popping orange hair, the black dress is like a 3D image in your face. It is not good. We're confused as to how people can see it as anything but nasty. Sadly, Swinton won an Oscar that night for Michael Clayton, so the cameramen, who had been avoiding her all night, were forced to focus in on this dreadful sight.

Anna Nicole Smith

At the 1996 Academy Awards, Anna Nicole Smith stole a lot of the headlines for a variety of reasons. First of all, we will tread lightly here because she was just, at this time, released from the Betty Ford Clinic for substance abuse/dependency. Still, when she showed up at the award parties, she didn't quite seem to be herself. Slightly slurred speech and sloppy makeup could have been the result of many different things, so we won't insinuate, but we will comment on the dress. This was a green velour/velvet dress that was tight, tight, tight. Now, Smith was able to pull it off in a way, but the buxom blonde kept lifting the dress to show off too much of her self, and the photographers kept egging her on. It's actually a little sad. Horrible dress, but a sad sequence of events.

Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand has had a few wardrobe mishaps at the Oscars. The first came in 1969 with the now-famous see-through outfit she wore when she won for Funny Girl. There was the brown lampshade dress she wore in 1977 to accept the Oscar for Best Song and perform the damn thing. But those are too old to judge now. The 90's are fair game, though. So, we've included that thing that Streisand wore at the 1992 Academy Awards. Looking like she was wearing a pink wingsuit, Streisand made us all wonder who her stylist was and if they were going to be fired directly after the show or during the commercial break.

Geena Davis

It wasn't just Barbra Streisand who looked horrible at the 1992 Oscars. Geena Davis, too, looked completely ridiculous. Showing up as a nominee for Thelma & Louise, Davis' dress was one-half wedding gown and the other half prostitute uniform. The whole thing was confusing. A crumpled and ruffled train of mashed-up material following her every step, Davis looked like the horror version of Cinderella where the young woman had to earn a living in the Red-Light district rather than mop her stepmother's floors. She still looked kind of good, though. Ridiculous, but good.

Tyra Banks

Tyra Banks is one of those women who can pull off almost anything. It turns out, however, that anything stops with a huge purple dress. In 2000, Banks showed up on the red carpet at the Academy Awards in this lilac Barbie-inspired ballgown and embarrassed herself. She still looked beautiful, but the dress made her look like she finally got to wear that junior high prom dress she bought but never got to show off. Someone in her home needed to take a stand and say, Tyra, you look like you're wearing a sexy Halloween costume of Barney. Put the purple makeup away. No amount of accenting can save that dress.

Celine Dion

Everyone always acts like Celine Dion is this sacred cow that cannot be touched. Too bad. She's a great performer and singer, but her outfit or whatever you would call what she wore to the 1999 Academy Awards was hideous. This backwards all-white tux and that stupid hat made it look like her head had been twisted all the way around. To make matters worse, the entire night, she took photos looking over her shoulder as if she was just trying to creep us all out. We get it, it's backwards. You look like you're from The Exorcist.

Cameron Diaz

Cameron Diaz circa 1999 had to give it her all if she wanted to look anything less than angelic, but she pulled it off at the Golden Globe Awards. Wearing a flowered Chloe dress over black pants, Diaz looked like a little girl playing with her mom's old clothes. Add in the frazzled hair, the smoky eyes, and the ever-half-empty champagne glass, and Diaz looked like a crazy person who stumbled upon an open bar. Every once in a while, the camera would accidentally catch her looking normal, but that silly outfit soon reminded you of what you were looking at.

Lara Flynn Boyle

At the 2003 Golden Globe Awards, Lara Flynn Boyle, who was still somewhat relevant in the industry at the time because of Men in Black II, caught us all off-guard when she showed up in a ballerina tutu. While we wrote upfront that we weren't going to be including statement dresses, we decided to allow this one because Boyle was not known for this type of pageantry prior to this event or even after it. Looking back now, this strange appearance might have been the beginning of the end for Boyle, or perhaps it was a last-ditch effort to stay in the public eye. Either way, the dress will go down as one of the worst ever.

Emma Stone

The 2015 SAG Awards might not be anything to remember, but it was the event that gave us Emma Stone's brutal suit dress. To be frank, we don't know what to call it. You look at it and give it your own name. It is basically a blazer that becomes a sheer dress halfway down. Perhaps this was just too Emma Stone for her to turn down or maybe she was conned into believing that this would be all the rage in a couple of years. Well, it's been a couple of years and nobody is wearing this garbage. Emma Stone = attractive. Blazer-Dress = repulsive.

Lena Dunham

The Emmy's don't usually make our list of Award Shows because they give out statues to The Big Bang Theory, so they've lost all credibility. That being said, the 2013 Emmy's gave us Lena Dunham in maybe the least-flattering dress since Martin Lawrence in Big Momma's House. The teal-colored, flower-printed dress made Dunham look ludicrous. Maybe it was a statement, similar to those that Dunham likes to make. Maybe it was her subverting the desire of women to wear nice dresses to award shows. We're not quite sure.

Sources: Oscars; celebuzz; perez Hilton; in style