M'onique's Oscar win for Best Supporting Actress was the highlight of the evening

Let's take a look at how she got to where she is today:

Fashion at the Oscars: M'onique's dress killed it!

Monique's dress shined last night, which was fitting because it was HER night.  She was the best-dressed out of all the Best Supporting Actress nominees last night, and her hair and make up were flawless.  Gabby Sidibe was dressed in bold electric blue while her mother appeared in a classic black dress.  I was happy to see Gabby walk the red carpet with such confidence, but I thought her dress could have been bolder, less classic, and more flattering than it was.  I also felt she needed a bit more color in her makeup given the bright color of the dress.  Zoe Saldana appeared in shades of iridescent lavender.  I thought the bodice of the dress could have been more flattering given her petite frame, but her hair and make up were classic and tasteful.  Host Sherrie Shepperd sported what must have been an industrial brassiere to support her unbalanced look in that dress.  Her stylist also could have chosen something much more flattering given her recent and very public weight loss.  Host Vivica Fox chose a sleeveless black number that showed off her curves to perfection; unfortunately, her weave was not on point.  As a matter of fact, it was not even on her head properly.  Note to her hair stylist, a natural hairline for a woman does not begin all the way at the crown of her head.  What weave was there looked good, but her giant forhead and naked front of her head were distracting the entire time she was on camera.  Sherrie Shepperd should have hooked her up.

Other Notable Oscar Nominations Include:

Best Actor:  Morgan Freeman for Invictus
Best Director:  James Cameron for Avatar and Quentin Tarantino for Inglorious Basterds
Avatar and Inglorious Basterds were nominated in numerous other categories.
Best Animated Feature Film and Best Original Song:  The Princess and the Frog

Michael Jackson's This Is It was notably absent from the nominations.

Congratulations to Mo'Nique...

for winning the best supporting actress award for 'Precious' at the SAG (Shave Against the Grain) presentation on Saturday night.

Mo has some 'splainin to do on the View

Mo'nique gave a beautiful acceptance speech at the Golden Globes

Mo'nique gave a beautiful acceptance speech last night after her win for Best Supporting Actress in Precious at the Golden Globes.

Mo'nique gets her acting props at the Golden Globes

Mo'nique won a best-supporting actress award at the Golden Globes last night for her portrayal of an abusive mother in Precious.  She also picked up a best supporting actress award for the same role Friday night at the Critic's Choice Awards.  Mo'nique gave a tearful, heartfelt thanks to the film's director Lee Daniels Friday night, bringing tears to his eyes as well.  These two awards only serve to heighten the Oscar buzz for all those involved with the film. 

Trey Songz appeared on Monique's show

Precious earned 8 NAACP Image Awards nominations

The movie Precious earned a leading eight NAACP Image Awards nominations, including nominations for  for director Lee Daniels, lead actress Gabourey Sidibe and supporting actors Mariah Carey, Mo’Nique, Paula Patton and Lenny Kravitz. It also received nominations for Outstanding Motion Picture and Outstanding Independent Film.  Drums fingers waiting for the Academy Awards and Golden Globe nominations to be announces...

Body Language

Mary J. Blige and her husband Kendu and Monique and her husband Sidney walked the red carpet at the premiere for Precious. A person's body language says a lot about how they feel about you...

Monique Twitter-dissed Keri Hilson

Word is Monique hear Keri Hilson was speaking greasy about her girl Beyonce in that little diss song she made a few months ago so she tried to set her straight via Twitter:

"I like that Keri Wilson girl...she remind me of a fake ciara im just saying...I no damn well that skinny bird looking b*tch didn’t [mean] what she say suga...Keri wilson fcuked up Beyonce is My girl...How that b*tch gon hate on Beyonce Ms. Wilson get it together...Wilson, Hilson hell i dont give a damn!...Suga as i said im not a hater but if you have the guts to hate on anotha sis. yo ass need to be checked and thats real talk."

A Monique sighting

at 106 and Park for the announcement of BET Hip Hop Awards nominees....
(how can you get a $100,000 appearance fee if the budgets for 106 and Park, the BET Hip Hop Awards AND the Monique show don't total $100,000?). Maybe she needs all that extra cash to cornrow her leghairs.

'Precious' Screening at the Toronto Film Festival

Executive producer, director, cast and support at the Toronto Four Seasons Hotel....there is a lot of Oscar buzz about this film. Will you be going to see it?

Monique Says Don't Trip If She Steps Out On Her Man

"We're saying that if by some chance that you hear scandal and you hear that Mo'Nique slept with another man, it won't be a need for a press conference because I'm going to say, 'Why are y'all tripping off that? Because that's what she did. Did she sleep with that man in you?' That's not a deal breaker for myself ... We are logical enough to understand that things like this do happen."

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I have no idea what she means by 'sleep with that man in you', but I know Monique has made statements before in Essence (July 2006) about having an open marriage. In Monique's opinion, it isn't cheating if your partner knows about it. It makes you wonder if she was pressured into accepting this swinger arrangement in order to stay married. It also makes you wonder if her self-esteem is really as high as she would have you believe in light of her recent weight loss; she lost the weight because of something her husband said to her, not because of any initial internal motivation.