Stuart Townsend and Charlize Theron, Will Smith with children Trey Smith, Jaden Smith and Willow Smith, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Jason Bateman and wife Amanda Anka, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and sons, Thomas Jane, Minnie Driver, Amanda Peet and Virginia Madsen.

Sarah Silverman, Amanda Peet, Anna Wintour, Bon Jovi, Chace Crawford, Christian Slater, Claire Danes, Clive Owen, Dita Von Teese, Emmy Rossum, Eva Mendes, Hilary Duff, Jerry Seinfeld, Lake Bell, Mary J. Blige, Michelle Monaghan, Mischa Barton, Molly Sims, and Sarah Michelle Gellar were all in attendance at the Gala last night.

Any favorites??

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Atonement, starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy, has won the best film award at this year’s Orange British Academy Film Awards.

The movie, adapetd from Ian McEwan’s novel, was nominated for 14 awards, but only went home with two, Best Film and Best Production Design.

James McAvoy lost out on the best actor award to Daniel Day-Lewis’s towering performance in There Will Be Blood, and Keira Knightley was beaten by Marion Cotillard as Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose.

The Best British Film category was won by Shane Meadows’s 1980’s drama This Is England, beating off strong competition from The Bourne Ultimatum and Control.

The full list of winners:

Best Film – Atonement

Best British Film – This Is England

Best Actor – Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)

Best Actress – Marion Cotillard (La Vie En Rose)

Best Supporting Actor – Javier Bardem (No Country For Old Men)

Best Supporting Actress – Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton)

David Lean Award for Achievement in Direction – Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country For Old Men)

Best Original Screenplay – Juno (Diablo Cody)

Best Adapted Screenplay – The Diving Bell And The Butterfly (Ronald Harwood)

Film Not in the English Language – The Lives of Others

Best Animated Film – Ratatouille

The Carl Foreman Award for Most Promising Newcomer – Matt Greenhalgh (writer of Control)

Orange Rising Star Award – Shia LaBeouf

Music – La Vie En Rose

Cinematography – No Country For Old Men

Editing – The Bourne Ultimatum

Production Design – Atonement

Costume Design – La Vie En Rose

Sound – The Bourne Ultimatum

Special Visual Effects – The Golden Compass

Make Up & Hair – La Vie En Rose

Short Animation - The Pearce Sisters

Short Film – Dog Altogether

Red Carpet: Amanda Peet and husband, James McAvoy and wife,  Javier Bardem,  Jessica Biel, Kate Hudson, Keira Knightley, Kevin Spacey, Rosamund Pike, Samantha Morton, Sienna Miller and boyfriend Rhys Ifans and Viggo Mortensen.

Backstage: Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Daniel Day Lewis, Daniel Radcliffe, Emily Blunt, Eva Green, Harvey Keitel, Hugh Laurie, Ian McKellen, Javier Bardem, Marion Cotillard, Orlando Bloom, Paul Dano, Rosamund Pike, Thandie Newton and Tilda Swinton.

The Hollywood Reporter reports that Chris Carter’s upcoming X-Files movie has cast Amanda Peet and rapper Xzibit as fellow FBI agents to David Duchovny’s Mulder and Gillian Anderson’s Scully. The second film adaptation of the supernatural TV series will not be a sequel to the 1998 original movie but a stand-alone story, though the plot is being kept under tight wraps. The Reporter also states that Scottish comedian Billy Connolly (Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events) has been given a role in the project as well. Peet is set to star opposite Mark Ruffalo and Ethan Hawke in Brian Goodman’s drama Real Men Cry for Yari Film Group. Xzibit recently was cast opposite Bruce Willis and Woody Harrelson in Oliver Stone’s Pinkville, that film has been put on hold because of the writers strike.

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Man, Amanda – could we at least have brushed our hair?

Mark Ruffalo, Ethan Hawke, and Amanda Peet will star together in the Brian Goodman-directed autobiographical crime drama Real Men Cry for Yari Film Group.

The story is about childhood friends Paulie (Hawke) and Brian (Ruffalo) who are forced to survive on the streets of South Boston through a life of petty thievery. They join a local gang of criminals, but Brian struggles to cope with his work while maintaining a relationship with Paulie, his wife (Peet), and his son.

The project marks Goodman’s feature directorial debut. He previously acted in a number of films, including Munich and The Last Castle. Ruffalo’s character is based on a friend of Goodman’s who is currently serving 100 years in prison for armed robbery. Goodman himself also served time in prison and has struggled with drug and alcohol abuse.

”I sat down with Mark and Ethan and told them, ‘You are two on a very short list of men who could’ve been in films 35 years ago, when men were men,”’ Goodman said. Ruffalo next appears in Blindness, Margaret, and The Brothers Bloom. Hawke appears in Tonight at Noon and Daybreakers. Peet next appears in Martian Child.

Have I ever mentioned how much I love Mark Ruffalo?

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Dear Amanda,

I love you.  I watched every single “Jack & Jill” episode.  I might have been the only one who liked it, but I did watch it.  I feel like I can say “I knew you when…”.  But for the love of everything holy, will you PLEASE hire a stylist.  You have a cute body – and yet you look like a bag lady.

Signed,

Jocelyn