The Trophy Club

The Film Industry Celebrates the Best of 2007

This year's touch-and-go awards season received a major boon in the form of Tuesday's National Board of Review of Motion Pictures gala. The Bulgari-sponsored Cipriani affair drew an Oscars-worthy crowd of celebs, including Julie Christie, Jennifer Garner, Ben Affleck, Javier Bardem, and Denzel Washington. "They've always been very kind to me, so, you know, I think they're geniuses," George Clooney said of the organization, which honored the Michael Clayton star with a Best Actor statuette. Over a lavish dinner, Tinseltown toasted its own. Kate Winslet arrived just in time to present No Country for Old Men's Joel and Ethan Coen with awards for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. But Juno's Ellen Page was thrilled to learn Winslet had made it at all. "She's here? Oh, wow," exclaimed Page, who counts the Titanic star as one of her two idols (the other is Patti Smith). Would the fresh-faced starlet introduce herself? "No," she said. "Too shy."

—Evelyn Crowley