Angelina Jole and Brad Pitt Lead All-Star BAFTA Awards night in London

 Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie led an all-star cast at the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs), where "Slumdog Millionaire" and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" were the favourites to win Sunday.

The Hollywood couple were joined on the red carpet in London by Penelope Cruz, Kate Winslet, Meryl Streep, Robert Downey Jnr and a cigarette-smoking Mickey Rourke for Britain's leading film and television awards.

Winslet arrived fresh from her double victory at the Golden Globes, where she won best actress for her portrayal of a frustrated 1950s suburbanite in "Revolutionary Road" and best supporting actress for "The Reader," where she plays a former Nazi camp guard.

She has been nominated for her role in both films in the best leading actress category in London, in competition with Jolie for "The Changeling," Kristin Scott Thomas for "I've Loved You So Long" and Streep for "Doubt."

The two biggest films of the night were expected to be "Benjamin Button," starring Pitt as a man who ages in reverse, and "Slumdog Millionaire," a rags-to-riches tale of a lowly Mumbai tea boy who wins top prize in a game show.

They have both been nominated for 11 awards, including best film alongside "Frost/Nixon" -- based on the 1977 interviews between British broadcaster David Frost and disgraced US president Richard Nixon -- "Milk," which stars Sean Penn as California's first openly gay elected official, and "The Reader."

"Slumdog" star Dev Patel is also up for best actor alongside Pitt, Frank Langella for "Frost/Nixon," and Penn and Rourke for "The Wrestler."

In the best supporting actor category is Downey Jnr for spoof Vietnam movie "Tropic Thunder," Brendan Gleeson for black comedy "In Bruges," Philip Seymour Hoffman for drama "Doubt," the late Heath Ledger for "The Dark Knight" Batman movie, and Pitt for Coen brothers caper "Burn After Reading."

Amy Adams is up for best supporting actress for "Doubt," alongside Cruz, for Woody Allen's "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," Freida Pinto for "Slumdog Millionaire," Tilda Swinton for "Burn After Reading" and Marisa Tomei for "The Wrestler."

Angelina Jolie Asks Thai Government To Aid Refugees

Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie has asked Thailand to permit greater freedom for thousands of refugees stuck in camps after fleeing neighboring Myanmar, according to a U.N. statement released Friday.

Jolie and actor Brad Pitt traveled to a refugee camp in northern Thailand on Wednesday in effort to draw international attention to what the U.N. has called "restricted" movement of roughly 111,000 refugees housed in nine camps along the Thai-Myanmar border, the statement said.

Jolie has spent several years as a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. She said her passion for helping refugees, whom she calls "the most vulnerable people in the world," was sparked in 2001 during visits to Cambodia." 

The U.N. estimates more than 5,000 people have fled to northern Thailand's Mae Hong Son province between 2006 and 2007.
A recent CNN investigation found evidence of the Thai army towing an apparent boatload of 190 Rohingya refugees -- a Muslim minority group from Myanmar -- out to sea, prompting Thai authorities to launch an investigation