Hugh Grant reunited with Andie MacDowell at Hollywood Film Awards 2016
Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell were reunited at an awards show – 22 years after their on-screen romance in Four Weddings And A Funeral.
The pair were at the Hollywood Film Awards, one of the first ceremonies of the awards season which culminates in the Oscars in February.
MacDowell, 58, presented Grant, 56, with the supporting actor prize for his role in Florence Foster Jenkins, the comedy-drama starring Meryl Streep.
Addressing MacDowell on stage, Grant said: “I’m just depressed at how much better preserved you are than I am after 22 years. Do you use any special creams or anything like that?
“It’s amazing. You’re still a southern peach and I am, according to Twitter, a scrotum. I almost never get a prize and I’m so pleased with this one. It will not be in my loo or used as a doorstep.”
Other British winners included Naomie Harris, who won the breakout performance prize, and Lily Collins, who took home the New Hollywood Award after starring in Warren Beatty’s film Rules Don’t Apply.
The awards have been criticised in the past for recognising films before they have been released. Host James Corden alluded to this when he told the audience: “Tonight is actually rigged. Literally, none of this is real.”
Other winners at the ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel included a pregnant Natalie Portman, Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, Nicole Kidman, Matthew McConaughey and Robert De Niro. Eddie Murphy received the Hollywood Career Achievement Award.
DiCaprio, who accepted the Hollywood Documentary Award for his environmental film Before The Flood, said it was “completely unacceptable” that climate change was not discussed in the presidential election debates.
De Niro, who picked up the Hollywood Comedy Award for his portrayal of an ageing comic in The Comedian, said a Donald Trump victory in the election would be a “tragedy”.
He urged Americans to vote for Hillary Clinton as he compared Mr Trump to the “totally insane” Brigadier General Jack D Ripper in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove.
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