Most Stylish of '08, says EW.

The year-end list onslaught continues, this morning with Entertainment Weekly’s retrospective list of the 15 Most (and Least) Stylish Movie Characters of 2008. Important detail: the characters have to display fashion sense, but the movies they inhabit can be (and some were) completely awful. Culled from the list of 15, here are EW’s top 3 Most Fashionable movie characters of 2008:

• 1. The cast of Sex and the City: It’s not all that surprising (indeed, it was predicted), but the feature-length trivialization of everything positive the HBO show once stood for was done in unparalleled style.

• 2. Christian Bale in The Dark Knight: The tall, toned, handsome, dark-haired knight sported some stylish costumes (aside from the Batsuit) in Christopher Nolan’s over-blown blockbuster, but none of his business chic outfits can match this:

• 3. Keira Knightely in The Duchess: Following in the tradition of recent textile porn like Elizabeth: The Golden Age and Marie Antoinette, Knightely’s costumes in The Duchess literally upped the ante by capping exquisite dresses with a Marge Simpson-style mound of locks.

Things get more interesting at list’s end, where Entertainment Weekly’s least stylish characters include:

• Brad Pitt in Burn After Reading: Stars-turned-style-disasters are especially pleasurable, so watching Pitt go from the closest thing we have to Superman to being a gym jockey loser was without question the best thing about this Coen Brothers-do-the-Coen Brothers farce.

"You're putting me on the 'Most Stylish' list, right?"

• Meryl Streep in Mamma Mia!: For similar reasons, seeing the fashion world ice queen of Devil Wears Prada turned to an overall-wearing simpleton made this forgettable musical strangely satisfying.

Streep celebrates her stylishness with champagne.

What’s missing? The idea of a non-stylish hero in a great movie is very appealing, but EW’s got nothing that fits the bill (unless you count High School Musical 3, which you shouldn’t). Yet Mike Leigh’s fabulous Happy-Go-Lucky featured an unflappably delightful main character in Sally Hawkins’ Poppy, whose wacky wardrobe was almost as reliable as her unwavering optimism.

"Please put me on your list!"