Hollywood Film Awards Kick Off 2013 Season

Sandra Bullock

Hollywood Actress Award winner Sandra Bullock takes the stage.

Sandra Bullock and Octavia Spencer

In the press room, the Gravity star posed with Fruitvale Station actress Octavia Spencer.

Kanye West and Steve McQueen

Kanye West handed out the first award of the night, presenting 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen with the Hollywood Breakout Director Award. The rapper left girlfriend Kim Kardashian in San Francisco on her birthday to fly to L.A. for the event, but he did make it up to her, returning later the same evening to propose to the reality star. West called 12 Years "extremely moving."

Matthew McConaughey

Dallas Buyers Club star Matthew McConaughey accepts the Hollywood Actor Award. The star had the audience wrapped around his finger with his folksy acceptance speech according to The Hollywood Reporter's Scott Feinberg.

Michael De Luca and Barkhad Abdi

Captain Phillips producer Michael De Luca, who won the Hollywood Producer Award, poses with one of the film's stars, Barkhad Abdi. The Somali-born actor, unknown prior to the film's release, called De Luca, "Someone who truly helped change my life."

Julia Roberts

Julia Roberts accepted the Hollywood Supporting Actress Award from Sean Penn, who delivered a seven-minute ode to the August: Osage County star's "otherworldly talent."

Julia Roberts

Roberts poses with her award.

Forest Whitaker

Lee Daniels' The Butler star Forest Whitaker presented his director with the Hollywood Director Award.

Jake Gyllenhaal

Jake Gyllenhaal accepted the Hollywood Supporting Actor Award for his work in Warner Bros.' Prisoners. Gyllenhaal said, "I wanted to do the movie because it's so balls to the wall … it's not a storybook version."

Viola Davis

Gyllenhaal's Prisoners co-star Viola Davis presented him with his award.

Jennifer Garner

Jennifer Garner presented her Dallas Buyers Club co-star Matthew McConaughey with his award.

Robert Downey Jr.

Robert Downey Jr. presented Jared Leto with the Hollywood Breakout Performance Award for the latter's work in Dallas Buyers Club.

Juliette Lewis

Juliette Lewis was among the big stars who turned up at Monday night's event.

John Knoll and Robert Kazinsky

Pacific Rim star Robert Kazinsky presented the Hollywood Visual Effects Award to the film's visual effects supervisor, John Knoll.

David Oyelowo

Lee Daniels' The Butler's David Oyelowo accepted a Hollywood Spotlight Award, telling the audience how his father told him his decision to pursue acting was "a terrible, catastrophic idea." He also thanked director Lee Daniels for believing in him and casting him in two movies.

Brian Percival

The Book Thief director Brian Percival showed up to support the film's star Sophie Nelisse, who won one of three Spotlight Awards.

Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford accepted the Hollywood Career Award, receiving a standing ovation from the audience.

Geoffrey Rush and Sophie Nelisse

The Book Thief star Geoffrey Rush presented Nelisse with her Spotlight Award.

Jerry Weintraub

Bruce Willis presented the Hollywood Legend Award to producer Jerry Weintraub, saying, "I love him to death." Weintraub, in turn, said, "I'm not gonna talk long 'cause I want a vodka."

Chris Cooper

Chris Cooper was honored alongside his August: Osage County co-stars. 

'August: Osage County'

From left: August: Osage County stars Dermot Mulroney, Julia Roberts, Chris Cooper and Margo Martindale accepted the Hollywood Ensemble Cast Award from Garry Marshall. 

Michael B. Jordan

Michael B. Jordan was among the three young actors honored with the Hollywood Spotlight Award, which recognizes up-and-coming talent. (David Oyelowo and Sophie Nelisse were also honored.)

Dermot Mulroney

August: Osage County actor Dermot Mulroney was honored for Ensemble Cast alongside co-star Julia Roberts. 

Judy Becker, David O'Russell and Michael Wilkinson

American Hustle director David O'Russell (center) hit the red carpet with his film's production designer Judy Becker and costume designer Michael Wilkinson, who won the Hollywood Production Design Award and the Hollywood Costume Design Award, respectively.

Babyface

Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds presented Coldplay's Chris Martin with the Hollywood Song Award for the band's song "Atlas," from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire soundtrack. 

Jeremy Renner and Amy Adams

Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner, two of the stars of the forthcoming American Hustle, presented the film's costume designer Michael Wilkinson and production designer Judy Becker with the Hollywood Costume Design Award and Hollywood Production Design Award, respectively.

Lee Daniels

Jane Fonda and Forest Whitaker, two of the stars of Lee Daniels' The Butler, were introduced to hearty applause before presenting Lee Daniels with the Hollywood Director Award. Daniels noted the irony of his award featuring the word "Hollywood" in its title because his film was made without the interest or support of virtually any Hollywood studio, noting that it was the late Laura Ziskin who is most responsible for making it happen: "On her deathbed we were rewriting the script. Literally."

Garry Marshall

"I'm not sure if anyone has ever seen such an all-star cast," remarked Pretty Woman director Garry Marshall, who presented Julia Roberts and her co-stars with the Hollywood Ensemble Award for August: Osage County. 

Bruce Willis

Bruce Willis presented the Hollywood Legend Award to producer Jerry Weintraub.

Angela Bassett, Lupita Nyong'o

12 Years a Slave newcomer/scene-stealer Lupita Nyong'o received a great build-up from fellow actress Angela Bassett -- who called Nyong'o's portrayal of a particularly put-upon slave "a breakthrough performance that you will not soon forget" -- before taking the stage, in a bright yellow dress, to collect the New Hollywood Award. She then had the audience enraptured as she tearfully thanked her mother, her collaborators on the film and the director: "Steve, I will never forget this opportunity you gave to me. … I am so proud to be a part of 12 Years a Slave." 

'Before Midnight'

Jack Black (second from left) posed backstage with the Before Midnight crew: Ethan Hawke (left), Julie Delpy and Black's School of Rock collaborator Richard Linklater.

Olivia Munn

Olivia Munn presented the Hollywood Movie Award, which was determined by fan voting, to Star Trek Into Darkness.

'Before Midnight'

From left: Sony Pictures Classics' Tom Bernard, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy and filmmaker Richard Linklater arrived at the gala, where Jack Black presented Linklater with the Hollywood Screenwriter Award for Before Midnight. As the honorees stumbled over each other's words at the podium, Linklater joked that this is why "people think that the movies are very improvised. They're actually entirely scripted." Hawke then got big laughs by joking that the film's success was owed less to the script than the actors, whom he wished to thank.

Jared Leto

Hollywood Breakout Performance Award winner Jared Leto, who dropped 40 pounds for the part of a transsexual in Dallas Buyers Club for which he was being honored, was back in fighting shape to collect his award from pal Robert Downey Jr., who complimented him for bringing to his performance "humanity and will." Leto, noting that he's been acting for years, said he was very grateful for the honor because "I've actually never received an award for anything I've ever done onscreen," and added, "To get a Breakout Award at the ripe young age of 41 is pretty incredible."

Danny Strong

Lee Daniels' The Butler writer Danny Strong stepped out to support the filmmaker.