Hilary Swank and her new short haircut go shopping in New York City’s Meatpacking neighborhood on Saturday morning. Hilary hit boutiques Scoop, Jeffery, and Calypso Christiane Celle before jumping into a cab. Hilary was taking a break from shooting her new film ‘Amelia’ which is about the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart.

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Hilary Swank and Richard Gere on first day of filming “Amelia”. A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.

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Oscar-winner Hilary Swank says Oscar night really works up an appetite so she comes prepared. When asked on the red carpet why she has dashed to Astro Burger after the awards show for the past two years, she explained, “It’s because you’re starving!”

But this year she came prepared. Dressed in Versace, the actress showed Ryan Seacrest the contents of her little black bag. Inside? Nuts!

“I already ate the cake,” she said.

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Katherine Heigl

Helen Mirren

Tilda Swinton

James McAvoy

Jennifer Hudson

Penelope Cruz

Laura Linney

Cameron Diaz

Hilary Swank

Amy Adams

Daniel Day-Lewis

Anne Hathaway

Jessica Alba & Cash Warren

Keri Russell

Jennifer Garner

Heidi Klum & Seal

Miley Cyrus

John Travolta & Kelly Preston

Heidi Klum, Seal, Miley Cyrus, John Travolta, Kelly Preston, Jessica Alba & Cash Warren arrive for the Oscars tonight.

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UPDATE: More pictures!

Hilary Swank is starring as Amelia Earhart in Amelia, a biopic about the pioneering aviator that Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding) is directing from a script by Ron Bass (Entrapment).

Earhart became the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross medal after she flew across the Atlantic Ocean in 1928. She went missing over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 during a solo trans-global flight attempt and was declared dead in 1939. Swank will play Earhart during the trans-Atlantic flight days. Socialite Amy Guest was originally set up to make the daring nonstop flight across, but when she was eventually talked out of trying to become the first woman to make the trip, the idea got pitched to Earhart, who agreed, and the event became a major media spectacle.

Production is set to start in April. Swank just starred in P.S., I Love You. Nair became available to direct Earhart after Warner Bros. postponed Shantaram, which stars Johnny Depp.

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