George and Amal Clooney
The Clooneys hosted a screening of the Oscar shortlisted doc “The White Helmets” at the posh BVLGARI hotel in London on Monday night. Far from this Knightsbridge setting, the short follows first responders in Syria who risk their lives to pull victims from the rubble of airstrikes.
George Clooney, producer Joanna Natasegara, and director Orlando von Einsiedel
While neither Clooney is a filmmaker on the Netflix project, this is one of the strongest surrogate roles of the season so far.
Bel Powley
The “Diary of a Teenage Girl” actress, who lives in London, was a supportive face in the crowd.
Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, and Aldis Hodge
Back in L.A., the “Hidden Figures” cast screened the film for 10,000 high school and middle school girls at USC on Tuesday (Jan. 10). Monae dispensed with her trademark “black and white only” uniform for the event.
“The Girls Build LA Challenge is more critical than ever in our mission to help close the gender and diversity gap in STEM,” said Megan Chernin, Board Chair of the LA Promise Fund, which produced the event with 21st Century Fox.
Pharrell Williams
The baby-faced “Hidden Figures” producer was probably still the coolest dressed kid at school.
J.J. Abrams and Peter Chernin
The event included a message from space, with astronaut Peggy Whitson addressing the crowd.
“Rosie the Riveter’s” message was catching on.
“Weiner” directors Elyse Steinberg and Josh Kriegman
These filmmakers learned very early on Tuesday that their documentary on the self-destructive sexting politician had been nominated for a BAFTA. That night, they held an intimate reception at L’ermitage in Beverly Hills. Kriegman recalled the politician’s gallows humor from one day shooting with Weiner at the peak of one of his scandals. “Well, this is working our pretty good for you, Josh,” Weiner cracked.
“Gleaseon” producers Steve Gleason, Mike McCready, Michel Varisco and director Clay Tweel
The team behind another Oscar-shortlisted documentary feature had a cocktail reception at WME on Monday night. ALS warrior hero Steve Gleason continues to embrace technology and promote his work nearly a year after the film debuted at Sundance.
Nicole Richie
By the time the new year was only a week old, Hollywood was already prepared to toss out new year’s resolutions. At SVEDKA’s “Broken Resolutions” party at Nightingale Plaza, Richie and pal Sara Foster browsed the opportunities to shatter resolutions, like this wheel of vice (e.g. “Fried Twinkies”) and a corner to propel a shoppers’ bad habits, the “Chotchke Shop”.
