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The Tribeca Film Festival handed out this year’s honors on Thursday.

This year’s panel of jurors for Robert De Niro’s signature film festival included Meg Ryan, Uma Thurman, Mary-Kate Olsen and Whoopi Goldberg.

Top honors went to the Iranian film About Elly from director Asghar Farhadi.

The festival’s audience award winner will be announced on Saturday evening.

This year’s honorees, including Elia Kazan’s granddaughter, Zoe, who was honored as best actress, include:

Last night Carrie Underwood became only the seventh woman to be named ACM Entertainer of the Year since the show began in 1970.

The last time a woman won the award was eight years ago when the Dixie Chicks picked up the 2001 honor.

Mickey Rourke’s acceptance for Best Actor in The Wrestler at the Independent Spirit Award on Saturday was nothing short of bizarre.

We were with him when he dedicated the award to his beloved pet dog Loki, who died in his arms on February 15th, but then he threatened to beat up Rainn Wilson, who had impersonated him in an earlier skit, saying, “That little blond dude who did that thing, I’m going to beat your ass when I get out of here,” forgot the name of his co-star, Marisa Tomei, and broke the microphone.

She may be a Dame, but Judi Dench is still a bawdy broad at heart.

Case in point, she once flashed her ass to mega-movie mogul Harvey Weinstein to show off a temporary tattoo she got in his honor.

That’s hot. 

The 74-year-old actress has starred in a string of Weinstein-produced films and earned five Oscar nominations, winning the Best Supporting Actress award in 1999 for her nine minutes in Shakespeare in Love. 

The day she received her fifth nod, for Mrs. Henderson Presents in 2005, Dame Judi decided to show her gratitude.

We’ve always hated the In Memoriam section of award shows, especially when the audience claps loudly for certain really famous people and sits quietly for others. It’s just sad and uncomfortable.

This year, however, the Oscars have chosen to honor the recent dearly departed with a serenade from Queen Latifah, who we adore, who will be singing Billie Holiday’s “I’ll Be Seeing You” (like in The Notebook) while clips and photos of stars like Heath Ledger, George Carlin and Paul Newman are shown.

Forget four minutes to save the world, last night, as Grammy producers scrambled to salvage their lineup when Rihanna and Chris Brown both suddenly pulled a no show (thanks to Chris pulling an Ike Turner), it was Justin Timberlake who stepped in and rescued them with just an hour to save the Grammys.

According to the show’s producer, Jack Sussman, during the final dress rehearsal before the show went live, word came in that both acts would be missing, leaving a two-performance void.

JT came over to him and said, “What can I do to help you?”

Is anyone else suffering from award season fatigue or is it just us?

Last night the BAFTA Awards were announced and, as usual, it was a parade of every winner we’ve seen all year. We can practically recite them in our sleep.

In case you’ve been living under a rock for the past three months, the winners (again) were:

Best Film: Slumdog Millionaire

Best Director: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire

Leading Actor: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

Leading Actress: Kate Winslet, The Reader

Last night’s Grammys was a mix of good (T.I. and JT bringing all that baby daddy goodness to one performance), the bad (when is Katy Perry’s fifteen minutes of one-hit wonderfulness going to be up?) and the ugly (Natalie Cole, we need to talk).

U2 kicks things off with “Get On Your Boots” accompanied by a jumbotron with their lyrics. “It’s Karaoke. Alright!” our friend Natalie enthuses. We lack her keenness. The Edge is still jamming but the boys aren’t in Joshua Tree anymore. They’re starting to really show their age.

The London Critics Association handed out their awards last night and their honors weren't a major departure from the critics stateside. With the exception of no Heath Ledger and big love to David Fincher and Steve McQueen, it's pretty close to what we've come to expect this award season: Slumdog, Mickey Rourke, Kate Winslet, rinse, repeat.

The winners were…

Film of The Year - The Wrestler

Richard Attenborough Film of The Year - Slumdog Millionaire

Marisa Tomei and her twelve-years-younger boyfriend, the delightful Logan Marshall-Green, hit the streets of Park City yesterday just after Tomei’s Oscar nomination was announced.