These are some fashion photos from the Environmental Media Awards, held Saturday in LA. Matt Damon and Hayden Panettiere were honored for their activism. Variety has the details, and Matt received the Ongoing Commitment Award for founding Water.org, which strives to bring access to clean water and sanitation to remote areas of the globe. Hayden received the Futures Award, for her activism on behalf of animal rights, particularly anti-whaling. Matt’s acceptance speech focused on how meaningful the cause is for him, while Hayden made a bunch of dumb jokes about the culture of celebrity. She’s awesome for doing this, I’m just saying her jokes sound silly:
Matt Damon, Hayden Panettiere, Bill McKibben and Anna Getty may have been honored at last night’s Environmental Media Awards, but fracking was the real winner. Several anti-fracking films and TV shows, including Damon’s “Promised Land” and “Last Man Standing,” took home prizes at the 23rd annual ceremony held outdoors at Burbank’s Warner Bros. Studios lot.
“Insufferable do-gooder” Damon — as he was described by frenemy Jimmy Kimmel in an opening video — received the Ongoing Commitment Award for his efforts to provide underdeveloped countries access to clean water and sanitation. The co-founder of Water.org recalled his first water collection mission in Zambia in 2006, where he met a 14-year-old girl who aspired to move to the “big city” of Lusaka to become a nurse.
“She just reminded me so much of me and Ben (Affleck) when we were young and we were teenagers, 14 years old, and we were gonna be actors, and we were gonna go to the big city of New York,” Damon said. “I just really connected with her and it was then that I really realized it’s not just about saving somebody’s life so they can survive to the next day, it’s really about dignity and hope.”
After watching a clip of himself in Haiti at the inauguration of a new pump in a small village, Damon said he was reminded of another young teen who made him realize that access to clean water isn’t just a life or death issue. The actor asked a 13-year-old girl, who was in charge of water collection for her family, how she was going to spend the three hours she would now save daily.
“I asked, ‘What are you going to do with all this extra time?’” he said. “And she looks me right in the eyes and she goes, ‘I’m going to play.’”
Other acceptance speeches were much more lighthearted. Panettiere, the recipient of the Futures Award, said instead of waiting for the media to rally people to this cause, they need to take initiative to save the environment. After all, the tabloids are more concerned with her personal life and Miley Cyrus’ dancing habits than saving the planet, she said.
“I mean, the fact that I’m 5’2” and my boyfriend’s 6’6” is not going to help the environment,” she said. “It’s not. And twerking is not going to save the environment. I think it speeds it up.”
The “Nashville” star is the spokesperson for the marine conservation nonprofit the Whaleman Foundation.
The article goes on to say that environmentalist Bill McKibben was handed the Lifetime Achievement Award while television shows “House of Cards” and “Last Man Standing” were also honored. You can see the full list of winners on Variety.com.
As for the fashion, Hayden looked somewhat inappropriate in a Georges Hobeika see-through lace dress with an orange skirt. You could see her damn bra through the top. Shouldn’t she be wearing a black bra?
Malin Ackerman was in Christian Siriano. I do like this contemporary dress, but like Hayden’s outfit I wonder if it fits the occasion.
Both Julie Bowen and Luciana Damon were in more full-coverage dresses. I like how they both went for a more conservative look.
We also have photos of Marisa Tomei with bedhead in an unfortunate peplum pants suit (still gorgeous though), Daryl Hannah in a little sack dress with gladiator sandals, James Van Der Beek, and I’m throwing Justin Chatwin in there. If you don’t know who he is, he’s on Showtime’s “Shameless” and he’s such nice eye candy. He can act too.
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Ugh. I can’t with Damon anymore, he’s become just so annoying, to me.
Just to clarify, before someone starts yelling:
He really irritates me as of late. Not his causes, not his projects, not his marriage: HIM. HE irritates me. My own opinion.
what is it about him that annoys you?
He’s such a great actor and im glad he married a non actor who happens to be a fellow Latina but I dont understand why a lot of people fawn over her, I just don’t see it.
I can’t help to think about that whole Minnie Driver breakup fiasco. I know it was a long time ago but it will always be in the back of my head
The Minnie Driver story isn’t true so get over it (they broke up before the show).
Poor Daryl Hannah, bless her heart, she looks like she forgot to wear pants.
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She looks ridiculous. That outfit is completely age inappropriate.
Damon’s just speaking up for his cause which has so far helped 1.6 million people worldwide. Definitely not annoying and part of a great couple.
I don’t think anyone is fawning over Luciana. She keeps a low profile and seems like a lovely lady. I always like photos of Matt and Luciana, the rare species known as a happy Hollywood marriage.
Matt’s wife is someone who is aging well in her late 30s. Many great beauties don’t hold up later, and I think she is someone who is attractive, not beautiful, who will stay attractive when she hits her forties and fifties, probably because while she has a great figure, she isn’t super skinny and looks healthy, so her face won’t get that drawn look that ages women, like Gwyneth’s face is starting to look like. But Marisa Tomei looks fantastic at 48.
I have never once heard Luciana speak, ever. I have no clue if she has a strong accent, slight accent.
Still think it’s weird he married a bar tender. Sorry for my snobbishness, but I think a female celebrity would get way more shit for doing that than Matt does.
Justin is so yummy he makes it a better reason to watch Shameless. I hope his character does stay with Fiona
That’s not a white bra on Hayden, she went bare under that dress. It looks like a white bra because her boobies are lighter than the rest of her skin-tone.
I dont think Hayden is wearing a bra. I think that’s just the untanned boob you’re seeing.
And come on, what did twerking have to do with anything? Way to bring Miley publicity coat tails into it…
OMG I think this is the first time I have seen her NOT pregnant.
I love the shit out of Julie Bowen and I think she’s the funniest character on MF, but does anyone else think she looks exceptionally thin here? She just looks frail to me.
Nope. Its not just you. When I watched MF last week and she was shot with the paintball gun, I thought the poor woman
was going to fall over. And before people jump down my throat for body shamming. This woman has been around a long time and she was always slender but never like she is currently.
Extremely thin. They had a blind about her snorting addarall at an awards show
Her body freaks me out. NOT because she’s thin, but because she looks like she works out 18 hours a day to get thin. Even when Madonna went through that super muscly stage she had a little fat on her, but Julie’s just bone and ropey muscle.
Bowen needs to eat something STAT. Jesus, how did that make it in the photos without comment?! It’s just conservative? It looks like anorexia. I saw Ryan Secrest interviewing her on a red carpet and she was talking about how she needed to diet to get into her dress. I was appalled then. She looks like Portia when she was scary-skinny.
ikr I love her, but she looks sick
Wow, I didn’t realize until this set of pictures that Luciana Damon was so beautiful. She looks the best of all of them!!
Agreed! She looks understated and elegant, and is dressed completely appropriately for the event. I also love how they are holding hands behind her back!
Totally! A real woman,with real beauty, that isn’t whoring herself out with a “look at me! I can be famous too!” attitude, because she has a famous husband.. Aaand I selfishly like them because my husband bears more than a passing resemblance to MD, and we are also a mixed race couple 🙂 They wear it well
but omg I hate MD hair like this.. my husband has been doing his hair like this lately, and tonight I’m going to show him these picks lol
Woah. Luciana is freaking GORGEOUS!
She was by far the prettiest and classiest lady there. Although I LOVE Julie Bowen, she has been looking much, much too skinny lately. That woman is becoming all bones…
I love Marisa Tomei.
mrs damon looks like a cartoon mouse, her teeth are too prominent in her face.
Why post a comment so nasty and unpleasant? She looks natural and great.
it seems that there were lots of posts about her looks. i dont believe i received the memo where i had to agree with them or only post positive things.
Sorry but these two bug the crap out of me as well. I don’t know what it is, maybe they think they are so “normal” and family like” and just a good ol couple when they really are all Hollywood popular. Damon is so full of himself although I do think he is a good actor. Either way, ugh.