As announced earlier, here some fantastic pictures of Marion Cotillard. How more adorable can she look? I so love the 2 dresses she’s wearing to these new events & portraits. Kudos to Chopard for honouring Marion – they really seem to like her. They’ve awarded her with their Chopard trophy at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival before. Marion also attended their event at least year’s Cannes festival and appeared in a special portfolio to advertise Chopard in various issues of Elle magazine. Guests who turned up at Marion’s honoring included Amy Ryan, director Julian Schnabel, Harry Dean Stanton, Cuba Gooding Jr, Eric Mabius and Rob Morrow.

I also found 4 additonal pictures of the Oscar Nomination portrait session. Enjoy!

062 80th Academy Awards – Nominees Luncheon, February 4
078 An Evening with Marion Cotillard – Chopard, February 4
015 Taping of AMC Shootout, air date unknown yet
007 Portrait Session 002, 80th Oscar Yearbook Photo & Portraits
004 Portrait Session 001

While you can expect fantastic pictures of Marion Cotillard attending the Oscar Luncheon & more portraits soon I have for you some information about last week’s Virtuosos Tribute during the Santa Barbara Film Festival.

The evening was laid out very diplomatically, with fifteen minutes or so focused on each individual honoree. A more casual discussion with all five actors together concluded the show. Though the event’s format made for a late evening, no one in the audience seemed to mind.

Cotillard, in her quiet French accent, conveyed some of the deepest, most humbled ideas of the evening.

Without a doubt, the evening was a huge success with both the public and members of the festival’s inner circle.

On Wednesday, we thought that movements from the young stars would bring about the same amount of unable-to-contain affection. And, since there were five stars, we thought that we could use the noise meter to figure out which one was the most popular with the local crowd. Well, last night there was no screaming. In fact the only star whose presence raised the roof to over ambient noise levels was Marion Cotillard, whose fan club pushed up the dB’s by singing in French. The meter went as high as 86 – about the same noise level as Abercrombie and Fitch.

All but one of the Virtuosos made it to the end of the Carpet. Cotillard wasn’t feeling well and bowed out early.

credit: Santa Barbara EdHat

Many thanks to Riikka – who runs a website for fellow ‘Hitchcock’ star Scarlett Johansson – about the heads-up to this interesting Making Of video clip of the afore-mentioned Vanity Fair issue: Watch Marion Cotillard acting out a scene from Psycho.

She also sent in screencaptures. Many thanks! I so can’t wait for this issue to hit newsstands!

Vanity Fair’s 14th annual Hollywood Issue hits newsstands on February 12. This year 21 of the finest actors working today have joined with four regular Vanity Fair photographers to re-create 11 of Hitchcock’s most iconic scenes. Read more about the shoot on Vanity Fair Online

Why is this interesting? One of those finest actors is Marion Cotillard! Stay tuned for a HQ scan once the issue comes out!

Marion Cotillard was photographed on January 22 in Beverly Hills – no doubt to celebrate her Oscar Nomination. See the pretty shoot here.

Ok. The gallery is updated with all the pictures of Marion Cotillard’s recent appearances.

First there’s the 60th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards, January 26, where Marion presented Asger Leth the award for Directorial Achievement in Documentary. See 111 photos here.

Then, on January 27, Marion attended the 14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards and looked nothing short of spectacularly gorgeous in a Nina Ricci dress. She presented Best Supporting Actor award to Javier Bardem. See 118 pictures here.

On January 29, Marion attended a special screening of La Vie en Rose at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center in Marin, San Francisco. Also attending were family members – including brother Quentin with his wife Elaine, a former Dutch National Ballet dancer who grew up in Marin and is now a San Francisco fashion designer. Read more about this screening in article by Marin Independent Journal and see a picture here.

Finally, on January 30, Marion was given the Virtuoso award at the Santa Barbara Film Festival – along with Ellen Page, Amy Ryan, Casey Affleck and James McAvoy. See 57 pictures here. Doesn’t Marion look great in the yellow top and with curly hair?

Marion Cotillard is featured in the February issue of Men’s Vogue (Daniel Day-Lewis on the cover). While we’re waiting for full scans check out a slideshow with gorgeous new pictures of Marion online.

It’s very busy in the world of Marion Cotillard right now – and I’m barely able to keep up. I’m trying to catch up on all the news today. For now, I’ve updated the Video Vault with new videos from Marion at the Critics Choice Awards, DGA Awards, SAG Awards and 2008 Virtuosos Awards. Thanks to Mycah, Mariana and Roberta for their help in getting & encoding some of the clips.

008 Videos – Latest Updates – Public Appearances 2008

This just came via Variety:

Director Michael Mann has set Marion Cotillard to join Johnny Depp and Christian Bale in “Public Enemies.”

The Depression-era crime drama gets under way in Chicago on March 10 for Universal Pictures.

Channing Tatum, Giovanni Ribisi, Stephen Dorff and Jason Clarke are also joining the cast.

The Oscar-nominated “La Vie en rose” star Cotillard will play Billie Frechette, the lover of the country’s most notorious gangster, John Dillinger (Depp).

Tatum will play outlaw Pretty Boy Floyd, Ribisi will play Alvin Karpis, Dorff is near a deal to play Homer Van Meter, and Clarke will play John “Red” Hamilton. That quartet repped a Dillinger gang that knocked off banks all over the Midwest during the Depression.

Bale plays Melvin Purvis, who was tapped by FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover to lead a manhunt that established the FBI as the country’s first federal police force after the G-Men killed Dillinger outside the Biograph Theater in 1934.

The shooting script was written by Ronan Bennett, Ann Biderman and Mann. Mann will produce with Kevin Misher. Jane Rosenthal is exec producer.

In addition, Reuters, who says Marion is in negotiations to star in Public Enemies, describes her character Billie as “Dillinger’s torch singer girlfriend”.

The Telegraph (UK) have published a brand-new interview with Marion Cotillard today. Be sure to read it in our Press Archive.

Last night, Marion attended the 60th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles, where she was also one of the presenters. I’ve started adding pictures here. Tonight, she’ll be attending the SAG Awards – where she’ll hand out the award to whoever wins Best Supporting Actor and is nominated herself for Best Actress.