Everyone is wondering why Hollywood’s A-listed couple namely Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt didn’t show up at the event of the year – the Oscars.

Sources told E News that Angelina is busy filming “The Tourist” and couldn’t make time for the Academy awards. But E Online points out that Hollywood actors can take a break from shooting in order to attend a big event. Like Jake Gyllenhaal headed back to Canada immediately after the show to resume filming his latest flick. And moreover Brangelina have the luxury of private jet which travels really fast.

Several news portals claim that the couple chose to take their kids to a birthday party in Venice on the awards days. The couple has bunked the Oscars for the third time in a row. Reports claim that since neither of them received an individual nomination they decided to give it a miss even though Pitt’s “Inglorious Basterds” was up for the Best Picture. They didn’t turn up in 2008 when neither Joliet nor Pitt get any nomination and also in 2007 when Pitt’s Babel was nominated for Best Picture.

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I’ve added one short video of Angelina in the Director’s Guild Awards. She was seen sitting at the same table as Brad, Quentin and an unfamiliar female. Check out the video below.

Amid rumors that they are headed for separation, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt will skip this years Academy Awards ceremony.

The Hollywood power couple, dubbed, “Brangelina,” has denied reports of their split, according to published reports.

Jolie is filming a movie, “The Tourist,” alongside Johnny Depp, when the Oscars takes place, March 7.
Jolie and Pitt have 6 children and are also known for their charitable donations.

Jolie won a Best Supporting Actress award for her performance in Girl, Interrupted! Pitt is a multiple-time Oscar nominee.

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Brad Pitt and his partner Angelina Jolie were left fuming at last year’s Oscars ceremony – after the couple realised they were sat next to a close-up TV camera which was monitoring their every move.

The Hollywood pair sat in the front row at the 2009 event, as they both gained nominations for their film work.

But Pitt wasn’t impressed when organisers warned them they were going to be watched throughout the ceremony by a hidden camera on the floor – especially as the actor’s ex-wife Jennifer Aniston was due to take the stage to present one of the prizes.

Academy Awards scriptwriter Bruce Vilanch tells New York Post gossip column PageSix, “I went to Brad and Angelina, who were sitting in the front row, and warned them they had the nostril cam planted on the floor underneath them, looking up. Mostly, they were not delighted about the angle, because nobody looks great from there.

“They knew there would be reaction shots of them, and they knew Aniston was going to be on. They were more bothered about the nostril cam. Brad asked, ‘Any chance we could kick it and break it?’

“If everybody at the Oscars was worried about some ex appearing onstage, there would be nobody in the audience.”

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Jon Voight has branded rumours of an impending split between daughter Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt as ‘nonsense’.

The Oscar-winning actor – who has a notoriously difficult relationship with Angelina – insists the couple are staying together and there is no truth in the recent claims suggesting otherwise.

When quizzed about the break-up rumours, Jon replied: ‘Nonsense. It’s all made up stuff.’

At the weekend, it was claimed Brad and Angelina – who raise six children together – were set to separate after signing legal papers which equally split their $330 million fortune and custody of the kids.

However, sources say that while the couple – who have been dating for five years – did sign the papers, they only did so as a precaution.

One source told Life and Style magazine: ‘Brad and Angelina had a meeting with a top law firm in Los Angeles in December, where they worked out terms of a legal document similar to a pre-nup. The couple signed the document in early January. They agreed to share their money and assets and custody of their six children, all of whom would live with Angelina in the event of their parents’ break-up.’

But those close to the couple are adamant they have no intention of separating.

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It’s Friday, and publicists are scrambling–but not for the predictable reasons like, say, the upcoming show season. They are busy pulling samples for a weekend Vanity Fair shoot featuring Angelina Jolie. According to industry sources, the actress will appear on the magazine’s August 2010 cover. It is not clear if Brad Pitt or any members of the Jolie-Pitt brood will appear alongside her.

This is far from the first time Jolie has figured prominently in Graydon Carter’s glossy. In July 2008, the lower fifth of Vanity Fair’s cover consisted mostly of her cleavage. In April 2009, a VF.com poll anointed Jolie the most beautiful woman in the world. Jolie’s first Vanity Fair cover was the June 2005 issue, which was accompanied by the coverline “Hollywood’s wild child grows up–just a little! Angelina Jolie speaks out on Brad and Jen, dating a woman, and sex as a single mom…”

Jolie tends to favor diaphanous nude gowns for her Vanity Fair covers, so no doubt the Versaces and Max Azrias of this world are busy culling together samples. Vanity Fair declines to comment on stories that are currently in development.

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SOS Children’s Villages is proud to count Angelina Jolie as one of its most dedicated supporters. As the orphan crisis unfolds in Haiti, SOS calls for all organizations to come together to make the right short-term and long-term decisions for children without parental care.

In this recent statement to the public, Angelina Jolie expressed her support of SOS Children’s Villages:

We are all wondering how to help the people of Haiti and how to reach the most vulnerable. With 500 villages in 132 countries, SOS offers a family-based village model that provides for the holistic needs of a child — a caring parent, family, community, education and support.

SOS is the largest organization in the world that addresses the issue of children without parental care. SOS has been in Haiti for over three decades, now raising over 300 orphaned and abandoned children and caring for 4,000 more impoverished children and families to help prevent child abandonment.

That was before the earthquake. Now the needs for orphaned children are almost incalculable. SOS has been pulling resources together to provide temporary shelter for unaccompanied children, safe areas for mothers, and food, medicine, trauma counselling, and reunification programs for families and children.

SOS was there before the earthquake, and during it — but most importantly, SOS will be there for many years to come — to raise these children, in their communities until they are self sufficient adults.

As a long time supporter of SOS, I have visited many of these unique villages personally. I can vouch for their commitment and care for the children. As the Haiti situation unfolds, and we all focus in on ways to help these desperate children — I ask you to please learn more about and consider supporting SOS Children’s Villages.”

Heather Paul, CEO of SOS Children’s Villages – USA, said: “Having Ms. Jolie’s endorsement means a great deal. She has seen our work over the years firsthand — from Darfur refugee camps to rural areas of Africa and the Middle East. And her recent support of our foster care programs in the US means that Angelina understands the complex picture of children without parental care around the world.

Her support bolsters the global spirit of the SOS family. With over a half-century of experience, SOS is there before the tragedy, during the tragedy, and long after the cameras have gone home. So is Angelina Jolie.”

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It is with great sadness that we bring you the following news from E!’s Cristina Gibison: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are not going to the Golden Globes. They won’t be on the red carpet.

Who’s the source on this? Angie’s stylist, Jen Rade, who told E!: “They’re not going because he’s not nominated individually,” she said. “Inglourious Basterds is, but not him.”

Brad’s manager confirmed Monday morning that he won’t attend.

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Several years ago, Angelina Jolie became the face of St. John clothing and promoted their line for awhile. This should be really old news, but all of a sudden St. John are running their mouth off about Angelina and basically saying they dumped her for being more of a big deal than their boring clothes designed for Ladies Who Lunch. From People:

While Angelina Jolie hasn’t appeared in an ad for St. John for some time, the luxury knitwear company is speaking out on the absence of her famous face from their campaign. The label’s chief executive officer Glenn McMahon tells WWD, “[Jolie] overshadowed the brand. We wanted to make a clean break from actresses and steer away from blondes and cleanse the palette.” So while other luxury brands have hired the likes of Madonna, Emma Watson, Eva Mendes and others to star in their upcoming spring/summer 2010 campaigns, St. John turned to red-headed model Karen Elson, a decision McMahon sees as a step in the right direction for the brand. “We needed to show a modern point of view of St. John,” he says. “We have evolved.” And according to the label’s website, executive vice president of design for St. John, George Sharp, who also directed the new ads, views Karen as the “epitome of the modern day woman…the St. John woman… strong, confident, sensual and approachable with effortless glamour.

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Angelina Jolie’s mother, actress Marcheline Bertrand, left three of Jolie and Brad Pitt’s children each $100,000 in a trust fund. Bertrand died in 2007 from cancer.

According to wonderwall.msn.com, included in the generous amount of money are Maddox, 8, Zahara, 6, and Shiloh, 3. However, the grandchildren will not be able to access the money
until they turn 25.

But what about the celeb’s other children: 4-year-old Pax and newborn twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline? These kids were left out of the trust fund money altogether.

Why? TMZ.com reports that Bertrand’s will was last updated in 2006, before these three kids were even alive, therefore they miss out on grandma’s six-figure inheritance.

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