Brad Pitt kissed Angelina Jolie after her grand entrance at the film academy’s Governors Awards on Saturday night. Steve Martin pretended to take a seat at the wrong table a few times before finding the right one, while Angela Lansbury beamed as she entered the room.
The honorary Oscar winners, along with Italian costume designer Piero Tosi, were honored at a private dinner at the Hollywood & Highland Center.
Tosi wasn’t able to attend, but scores of A-listers did, including Tom Hanks, Martin Short, Diane Keaton, Octavia Spencer, Mark Wahlberg, Kathryn Bigelow, Jennifer Garner, Harrison Ford and Alfre Woodard.
Jolie received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, while Martin, Lansbury and Tosi were given honorary Academy Awards for their distinguished careers.
“Receiving the Hersholt award makes me feel like I am on the right path but also reminds me I have more to do,” said Jolie.
Angelina Jolie thanked Brad Pitt, she said: “My love. Your support and your guidance make everything I do possible.”
She also promised not to cry and embarrass her son Maddox, 12, who was at the ceremony with his father to supported Angelina.
She added: “I’m not going to cry, I promise. I’m not going to embarrass you.
“You and your brothers and sisters are my happiness and there is no greater honor in this world than being your mom.”
And the 38-year-old star - who also has children, Pax, nine, Zahara, eight, Shiloh, seven, and five-year-old twins, Knox and Vivienne with Brad - explained she hopes to make her own mother proud.
Getting teary-wide, she said: “I will do as my mother asked and I will do the best I can with this life to be of use.
“And to stand here on Tuesday means I did as she asked and if she were alive she’d be very proud, so thank you.”
The actress-director is a co-founder of the Prevent Sexual Violence Initiative and serves as special envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.