Last night was a busy one for awards ceremonies. In London, actors and actresses hit the red carpet for the 65th annual Orange British Academy Film Awards.  (aka the BAFTAs)

A few leading ladies who were spotted on the red carpet: Penelope Cruz, Christina Ricci, Shailene Woodley, and Michelle Williams.

2012 BAFTA Winner’s List:

Picture: The Artist

Actor: Jean Dujardin – The Artist

Actress: Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady

Director: Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist

Supporting actress: Octavia Spencer – The Help

Supporting actor: Christopher Plummer – Beginners

Animated film: Rango

Continue Reading to see the rest of the winners!

Documentary: Senna

Outstanding British film: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Film not in the English language: The Skin I Live In

Outstanding debut: Tyrannosaur

Adapted screenplay: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Bridget O’Connor and Peter Straughan

Original screenplay: The Artist – Michel Hazanavicius

Production design: Hugo – Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo

Cinematography: The Artist – Guillaume Schiffman

Makeup and hair: The Iron Lady – Mark Coulier, J. Roy Helland, Marese Langan

Costume design: The Artist – Mark Bridges

Editing: Senna – Gregers Sall and Chris King

Sound: Hugo – Philip Stockton, Eugene Gearty, Tom Fleischman, John Midgley

Original score: The Artist – Ludovic Bource

Rising star award: Adam Deacon

Academy fellowship: Martin Scorsese

Outstanding contribution to British cinema: John Hurt

Special visual effects: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 – Tim Burke, John Richardson, Greg Butler and David Vickery

Short animation: A Morning Stroll – Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe

Short film: Pitch Black Heist – John Maclean and Geraldine

I love awards season! So many reasons to love and hate on celeb fashion! I see several hits and a few misses at last night’s Critics’ Choice Movie Awards, held at the Hollywood Palladium.

In attendance: Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Charlize Theron, Kirsten Dunst, Michelle Williams, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Emma Stone, Evan Rachel Wood, Tilda Swinton, Elle Fanning, Elizabeth Olsen and more!

Who do you think knocked it out of the park? And who failed?

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Although there aren’t many fans of Michelle William’s short do, she is keeping it as a memorial to Heath Ledger, her late ex -boyfriend and the father of her daughter, Matilda.

The actress revealed to UK Elle magazine: “What Matilda would love is for her mom to grow out the cropped hair, though that’s unlikely to happen any time soon. I’ve really grown into it, I feel like myself with short hair. And it’s been a really long time since I’ve had long hair, five years. Of course, the only people who like it are gay men and my girlfriends,” jokes the 31 year-old. “Straight men across the board are not into this hair!”

“I cut it for the one straight man [Ledger] who has ever like short hair and I wear it in memorial of somebody who really loved it.”

What do you guys think? Love it or hate it?

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The Oscar nominated actress opens up in the new issue of Hobo Magazine. Michelle tells the magazine “I often dream of quitting acting. Walking away and becoming a laundress or a sous chef or maybe writing other people’s love letters for a living. Clearly, I don’t like to be in charge. And thinking of quitting is just keeping going in disguise. When you have options, anything is bearable. It’s when a situation is inescapable that it becomes hell. It seems to me that as soon as you get good at something, it is a sure sign that it is about to walk out of your life because it ceases to hold your mind and creative energy hostage.”

Following the death of her ex, Heath Leger, Michelle threatened to quit Hollywood after the paparazzi stalked her every step.

“If it gets to the point where I can’t situate my life in a way that they stay away more, then I’ll drop a match on the thing,” she told Newsweek. “I’ll be sad. I like to act. It’s saved my life over and over again. It’s given me a sense of self-esteem, self-worth. I have this thing that I’m in love with–acting–and now it has this baggage.

Last year, while promoting “Blue Valentine,” she spoke of that film rekindling her love for the job.

“You experience this terrible sense of loss and it was very hard to find some meaning to all of it,” she told OK Magazine. “It was very hard for me to think about work anymore because I found myself cut off from the outside world… Making Blue Valentine restored my desire and enjoyment in acting again, that was the first time I felt like myself again… It helped me feel good again in a way that I hadn’t felt like in several years. It rekindled my spirit in many ways.”

Williams will also soon appear in the Sarah Polley relationship drama, “Take This Waltz,” co-starring Seth Rogen and Sarah Silverman.

I can’t wait to see her new movie, ‘My Week With Marilyn’. Looks great!

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Michelle Williams was cast as Marilyn Monroe in the new film, ‘My Week With Marilyn’ a film based on a book written by a production assistant who worked with Monroe while she filmed the movie ‘The Prince and the Showgirl’ with Lawrence Olivier.

According to the book, Marilyn had just recently married Arthur Miller, and the two traveled to England where the movie was filmed. Apparently Monroe and Olivier hated each other. The new film will center on what happened behind the scenes while filming. I like the idea of this movie, and really I love Michelle Williams. I like the idea of not making a movie about Marilyn’s life – but more so a look into her short, tragic life.

I love these pictures – and if they are any indication of how the movie will go – she looks to pull of Marilyn perfectly.

Here is a bit from the article, you can read the full interview here:

On playing Marilyn: “As soon as I finished the script, I knew that I wanted to do it, and then I spent six months trying to talk myself out of it,” she says. “But I always knew that I never really had a choice.” And, she adds, “I’ve started to believe that you get the piece of material that you were ready for.”

On Marilyn herself: “Everybody has their own idea of who Marilyn was and what she means to them,” Williams says. “But I think that if you go a little bit deeper, you’re going to be surprised by what you find there.”

Becoming Marilyn on film: Williams spent six months immersing herself in all things Monroe. She read biographies, diaries, letters, poems, and notes, pored over photographs, listened to recordings, watched movies, and tracked down obscure clips on YouTube. “I’d go to bed every night with a stack of books next to me,” she recalls. “And I’d fall asleep to movies of her. It was like when you were a kid and you’d put a book under your pillow hoping you’d get it by osmosis.” Her turn from indie waif to Hollywood sex goddess involved working with a choreographer to perfect Monroe’s walk and gaining weight to approximate her curves. “Unfortunately, it went right to my face,” she says, puffing up her cheeks to illustrate. “So at some point it became a question of, Do I want my face to look like Marilyn Monroe’s or my hips?” (She opted for the former and filled out the latter with foam padding.) In the end, she says, “it felt like being reborn. It felt like breaking my body and remaking it in her image, learning how she walked and talked and held her head. None of that existed in my physical memory, and I knew I needed as much time as possible to make it part of me.”

Sex appeal: “Any messages that I got as a child about what it is to have a woman’s body or to be sexual were all negative—that people wouldn’t take you seriously or that they would take advantage of you… The expectation to be beautiful always makes me feel ugly because I feel like I can’t live up to it,” she says. “But I do remember one moment of being all suited up as Marilyn and walking from my dressing room onto the soundstage practicing my wiggle. There were three or four men gathered around a truck, and I remember seeing that they were watching me come and feeling that they were watching me go—and for the very first time I glimpsed some idea of the pleasure I could take in that kind of attention; not their pleasure but my pleasure. And I thought, Oh, maybe Marilyn felt that when she walked down the beach.”

Then she goes on to talk about her daughter, the father of her daughter, the late Heath Leger, and her love life right now.

On her daughter being stalked by the paparazzi: “That’s what seems the most rotten thing about it to me,” she says. “And I’m going to do everything in my power to make her feel safe and protected, and to extend her childhood for as long as possible.”

On Heath‘s death: “Three years ago, it felt like we didn’t have anything, and now my life—our life—has kind of repaired itself… Look, it’s not a perfectly operating system—there are holes and dips and electrical storms—but the basics are intact.” Still, she says, in a fundamental way nothing will ever be the same: “It’s changed how I see the world and how I interact on a daily basis. It’s changed the parent I am. It’s changed the friend I am. It’s changed the kind of work that I really want to do. It’s become the lens through which I see life—that it’s all impermanent.” Williams shuts her eyes, then opens them again and says, “For a really long time, I couldn’t stop touching people’s faces. I was like, ‘Look at you! You move! You’re here!’ It all just seemed so fleeting, and I wanted to hold on to it.”

Her current love life: Williams speculates that she may be drawn to stories about the vicissitudes of romantic love because “relationships have always seemed very mysterious, and therefore worth exploring. I’m single, so it’s still kind of a mystery—a worthwhile mystery, one that I want to be on the scent of.” She confesses that she misses having a guy around when it’s time to haul wood at her house upstate. But, unlike Monroe, she doesn’t define herself through the men in her life: “I’m not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what’s on my bedside table rather than what’s in my bed.”

Michelle Williams transforms herself into Marilyn Monroe in the upcoming film, ‘My Week With Marilyn’ and the resemblance to the Hollywood icon is uncanny!

The new shot shows Michelle’s amazing transformation as the silver screen legend in a beautiful still from the film, which shows her in colour walking through a scrum of paparazzi photographers all shot in black and white.

Michelle’s peroxide blonde curls are pure Marilyn, as is the sex bomb hourglass figure seen underneath a pale lilac shift dress, and the actress has Marilyn’s famous flirty pout spot on.

The British film, which hits cinema screens in November, is based on the book of the same name by Colin Clark who worked as an assistant on the set of the 1957 movie, The Prince and the Showgirl, which Marilyn shot in England while on honeymoon with playwright Arthur Miller.

The film, which also stars Emma Watson, Dominic Cooper and Eddie Redmayne, follows the story of Clark’s week with Monroe as he chaperoned her around the UK after her new husband left the country on business.

The eagerly-anticipated flick will premiere at this year’s New York Film Festival, which kicks off on 30th September.

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