Charlize Theron, the Best Actress Oscar winner at the recent 76th annual Academy Awards for her role of a serial killer in the thriller Monster, has fiercely criticized the opinion that the Academy award usually goes to celebrities who appear deliberately ugly on the screen.

Having defended Nicole Kidman who received her Oscar for role in the Hours, not for her fake nose, Charlize proceeded to explain that actors should be judged for their acting - not for their looks.

Theron criticized the fashion industry, blaming it for the fact that actors are being treated only as beautiful celebrities. Actors don`t have to be pretty, Sharon thinks. They are supposed to tell human stories, which has, to some extent, been lost.

Italian designer Stefano Gabbana would definitely agree with Theron on that. As far as Gabbana is concerned, today’s great beauties fail to match up to Hollywood’s fashion icon of years gone by: “If I mention Marilyn Monroe, Greta Garbo or Ava Gardner, you immediately have an idea, an image in your head. If, however, I say Catherine Zeta-Jones, what do you see? A face, a look, but not an image or a defined style.”