It's been a whirlwind of awards, premieres and posing in the film world this week, for a change. Catch up with the latest faces and action around the world
We begin our jaunt through the week in film as we mean to continue on the lofty and cerebral, and on celebrating cinema as art. Here's Robert Downey Jr, Zach Galifianakis and a comedy dog at the Due Date premiere in London's Leicester Square Photograph: Anthony Harvey/EMPICS EntertainmentSticking with the art-house vein, we up sticks to New York and the premiere of Ben Stiller's Megamind. It is a film about two warring aliens and is reputedly provocative, humane and hilarious by turnsPhotograph: Slaven Vlasic/Getty ImagesMegamind (did we mention?) also features the voice of Brad Pitt as one of the aliens. So proud is Brad of his role in Megamind that he took the unprecedented step of rocking up at the premiere Photograph: James Devaney/FilmMagicBut that is not all, oh no, that is not all. The week also saw the Bafta Los Angeles 2010 Britannia awards and if you think that's a mouthful, you should see the dinner they've laid on. Here's producer Harvey Weinstein, poised to chow down on the full six courses while Marion Cotillard looks on nervously. Pray God, his appetite is satedPhotograph: Angela Weiss/Getty Images For BAFTA Los AngelWe tarry for a moment longer at the 2010 Bafta Britannia Bonanza of Beaming Celebrities to check out smiley Dakota Fanning, Carey Mulligan and host Stephen Fry. Hasn't this been a bad week for Fry? Ever the professional, he refuses to let it showPhotograph: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images For BAFTA Los AngelAnd here is one of the awards they've all been waiting for. Director Tony Scott grips his Britannia while Ridley Scott grips his brother. The Britannia, meanwhile, appears to be gripping some kind of forkPhotograph: Todd Williamson/Getty Images For BAFTA Los AngelBut the Scotts were not the only siblings at the annual Bafta Bossa Nova of Britain (in Los Angeles). A place was also found for Jeff and Beau Bridges, although they had to share the seatPhotograph: Todd Williamson/Getty Images For BAFTA Los AngelFinally, the suspense is over. Christopher Nolan wins a Britannia and Marion Cotillard emerges unscathed from her dinner with Harvey Weinstein. Small wonder Cillian Murphy appears almost tearful with reliefPhotograph: Todd Williamson/Getty Images For BAFTA Los AngelNow moving away from the Bafta thing but staying in LA, here's Anne Hathaway at the American Film Institute festival's opening night gala screening of her film Love and Other Drugs pleading piteously with a spectator to take her picture. This, we're guesing, is what happens when all the official photographers are off covering the Bafta Britannia thingPhotograph: Jordan Strauss/WireImageParis, meantime, hosted the premiere of Sofia Coppola's Somewhere, a bittersweet paean to millionaire Hollywood celebrities who really only want to be loved and have lots of money. Here's Coppola with her lead actor, Stephen DorffPhotograph: Dominique Charriau/Getty ImagesAnother picture, another set of awards. These ones were bestowed by the Savannah film festival. Liam Neeson was honoured with the "achievement in cinema" award while Ian McKellen collected the "lifetime achievement" honour. These awards take the form, respectively, of a commemorative goblet of red wine and an invisible cigar Photograph: Adam Kuehl/APBut there are no awards this week, shockingly, for the great Robert Duvall, who instead had to be content with sitting on a panel discussion at the Pickford Centre for Motion Picture Study. Fortunately, he doesn't look too put out by thisPhotograph: Michael Kovac/FilmMagicTo London, again, for the opening night of the Jewish film festival. The places are set and the stars are massing and here, for the time being, are Heather Kerzner, Kris Thykier and Claudia Winkleman Photograph: Dave M. Benett/Getty ImagesOnce, long ago, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown was a movie by a young Spanish director named Pedro Almodovar. Now the movie is a stage play and the director's hair has turned white, although he still saw fit to show up at the show's glittering New York premiere. A small nugget of constancy in these changing timesPhotograph: Louis Lanzano/APTo Rome, to Rome, to attend the photocall for Martin Scorsese's Boardwalk Empire, starring the famously clean-living Michael Pitt. Remember, kids: cigarettes are great, but don't ever, ever light themPhotograph: MAX ROSSI/REUTERSStill in Rome, model Sveva Alviti swanned into the premiere of Yves Saint Laurent - Pierre Berge: L'amour Fou. Our Italian is a little rusty, but we think her T-shirt reads: "We Love Silvio – He So Sexy" Photograph: Ernesto Ruscio/Getty Images
