Forget 9-year-old Best Actress nominee Quvenzhané Wallis: Maggie Simpson takes the prize for the youngest (well, kind of) person on the Oscars red carpet. The Simpsons' perpetual baby stars in the nominated animated short Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare," and on Facebook the franchise is asking fans to help choose what Maggie, who shows off the legs we barely knew she had, will "wear" to the ceremony. The three choices, it seems, all have real-life Oscar gown counterparts — from last year's viral hip flexer to a memorable red number from the year before that: 

The Angelina, circa 2012, is not winning:

The Jennifer Lawrence, circa 2011, should win!

The Zoe Saldana, circa 2010, might make the most sense?

The choices are drawing strong emotions from commenters: 

Though Maggie's short has tough competition in the form of Disney's heart-warming Paperman and Minkyu Lee's Adam and Dog, we think Maggie would say—in one of her rare speaking turns—that it's just an honor to be nominated. David Silverman, the human who would be accepting the prize if  the film were to win, told The Hollywood Reporter's Scott Feinberg that the 3D short was "a good deal costlier to make" than a normal TV episode of The Simpsons. 

Maggie is really getting pampered these days. 

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Esther Zuckerman