Photos: The Academy Awards the way they were, way back in the '90s

 

In the spirit of the Oscar season, a gallery for movie-lovers born before Gen Y who miss the days when wearing a turtleneck on the red-carpet wasn't considered a faux pas (Sharon Stone, we're looking at you).

 
 
 
 
 
A youthful Kate Winslet wears bright pink on the red carpet in 1996.
 

A youthful Kate Winslet wears bright pink on the red carpet in 1996.

Photograph by: AFP , 1996

 
A youthful Kate Winslet wears bright pink on the red carpet in 1996.
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon the night they won an Oscar for 'Good Will Hunting' in 1999.
Dennis Rodman - how could we forget? - in 1997.