Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie skipped out on the annual Oscar Nominees Luncheon in Beverly Hills on Monday.

The two — who are both nominated for their lead acting roles — opted to stay overseas, where they have been promoting their films, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Changeling.

Despite the power couple being a no-show, there were still plenty of A-listers on hand.

Kate Winslet, who has been nominated five times but has never won an Oscar, told reporters she has learned how to give a “good losing face.”

The Jolie-Pitt clan has landed in Japan.

 days after walking the red carpet at Sunday’s Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were spotted — with all six of their kids — at Narita International Airport in Tokyo on Tuesday.

Maddox, 7, Zahara, 4, Pax, 5, Shiloh, 2 — who walked alongside their parents — don’t mind all the globetrotting, Jolie recently said.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie packed on the PDA at Thursday’s 14th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards in Santa Monica.

Though they both did not take home any awards, the two did not seem to mind. A party attendee tells Us they were “kissing and looking lovingly at each other” throughout the night.

Jolie even whispered to Pitt, “I miss you!” even though they were sitting right next to each other, the witness adds.

“At one point, Brad had his hand all the way up Angelina’s dress!” says the party attendee, adding that they kissed all night, even while chatting with other actors, including Mickey Rourke, Anne Hathaway and Slumdog Millionaire’s Freida Pinto.

The Oprah Winfrey Show, Brad Pitt talks about Angelina Jolie.

During the conversation, Winfrey tells Pitt that Angelina Jolie is the love of his life. Then, she asks him if he’s the happiest he’s even been, according to

“Dare I say,” Brad replies in the interview, tentatively set to air Nov. 18.

“Dare I see,” says Oprah

Today in a very special bite-size edition of the People column, Angelina Jolie backs off from her previous, anti-home-wrecking position and admits she fell for Brad Pitt on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith when he was still married to that Jennifer Aniston woman:

“Not a lot of people get to see a movie where their parents fell in love,” Jolie tells the New York Times, saying she wants her kids to see the flick.

The downside of living your life before the camera, however, is that it’s not so easily edited for immature audiences.

“(Son Maddox will) look up my name and see some kind of sexy pictures or read a story about himself that isn’t true,” Jolie says.

“There’s a lot we’re going to have to explain to them about how public their family is.”

No mercy for a con man

U.S. prosecutors have told a judge that actress Anne Hathaway’s former boyfriend deserves no leniency for cheating investors in a church scam.

Prosecutors submitted papers in a Manhattan court Monday saying Italian businessman Raffaello Follieri deserves more than the four years in prison he promised to serve when he pleaded guilty, the Associated Press reports.

Follieri is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday for cheating investors of millions of dollars.