Trophy town

Trina Schulman and Gwyneth Paltrow at WIF party Michael Angarano and Juno Temple at Weinstein partyMatthew Lillard and Shailene Woodley at Spirit AwardsLucy Liu and Anne HecheSeth Rogen and Jonah Hill hit the beach for that Spirit Honours. Fiona Shaw, Jeremy Search, Kenneth Branagh, Victoria Beckham, Gary Oldman and Consul-General Barbara Hay meet in Hancock Park to toast an excellent year for Britons in the movies. Honorees John Logan and Michelle Williams celebrate the Irish in film with host J.J. Abrams in the Oscar Wilde Honours. The trophy-giving over the past weekend began early, on Thursday evening at Bad Robot in Santa Monica, in which the Oscar Wilde Honours honored John Logan, Melissa McCarthy and Michelle Williams.J.J. Abrams located the big event devoted towards the Irish in film, which brought him to exclaim, " 'The Artist' gets nothing tonight."Logan introduced Williams, although he initially hesitated due to her Scandinavian roots. "Her everyone was actually the Viking hordes that found Belfast and pillaged," he joked.On Friday, Trina Schulman and Gwyneth Paltrow located the ladies in Film cocktail soiree at Ceconni's, where Oscar-nommed stars Jessica Chastain, Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer received jeweled broaches along with other treats."It is a great recognition to co-host the wedding,Inch stated Paltrow. "We have to fit everything in we are able to to improve the quantity of women in film...because we're wiser than males and than males."Anywhere, the Britons put a cocktail pour in the consul general's residence in Hancock Park. Culture and Media Secretary Jeremy Search told Oscar nominees Jesse McTeer, Gary Oldman, Kenneth Branagh yet others, "We are incredibly proud to the fact that the U.S. galleries spent $1.5 billion making films within the U.K. this past year. We are incredibly proud to the fact that the 3 greatest U.S. superheroes -- Superman, Batman and Spider-Guy -- are Britons. And that is minimal that you can do after we have permitted a united states to experience Margaret Thatcher."Later that evening, the attention on Black Salute in the Park Plaza Hotel honored Martin Lawrence and Darlene Allen, amongst others.The comedian recognized his prize from Luke Wilson and Tim Allen, who joked, "It's like finding yourself in Cirque du Soleil if you use Martin."Also it appeared such as the circus is at town as Darlene Allen attempted to simply accept her award from Nia Lengthy and Kimberly Elise as the video screen stored bleeping out and in, stifling her. "C'mon now, just contain the video," Allen yelled. "It does not work!"The greatest pre-Academy awards honours confab, obviously, came Saturday mid-day. Seth Rogen began the Independent Spirit Honours around the Santa Monica beach with an irreverent note, telling everyone else that there are nothing to become produced by winning one of these simple trophies."It will not even lift up your cost, since it proves that you will work with nothing," stated Rogen, who later cautioned, "Please, keep the acceptance speeches short since the tent has attend a bar mitzvah at 5."Saturday evening, the Weinstein Co. put a pre-Oscar party at Soho House in WeHo. If Harvey and Bob Weinstein were nervous about Sunday night's outcome, they actually did not show it.Tony Bennett briefly tickled the ivories once the siblings presented their mother, Miriam, who lately celebrated mothering sunday.Later on at night, Harvey huddled track of Leonardo DiCaprio, who puffed with an electronic cigarette.(Shalini Dore, Erin Maxwell, Dork McNary and Shaun Sneider led for this report.) Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com