The week in film - in pictures

George 'here all week' Clooney takes a break from his Brilliant lecture at Houston's Brown theatre to wow the crowd with the old invisible fishing hook routine Photograph: Gary Miller/FilmMagic

It's incredibly cold in Berlin's Friedrichstadt-Palast where Alina Levshin picked up her award for best actress at the Lola German film awards. What started as a cheeky smooch has quickly escalated into an emergency. Any warm water anywhere? She's stuck and needs help. No, seriously. Anyone? Photograph: Andreas Rentz/Getty Images

Chinese soldiers watch the closing ceremony of the Beijing international film festival. Occasionally these white-gloved hands will sneak into military-issue pocket to snaffle a sherbet lemon. Soldier centre has swallowed his by mistake, poor chap Photograph: How Hwee Young/EPA

Uggie, star of the The Artist, heads up PETA's campaign to get more dogs adopted. The poster doesn't detail Ug's pre-adoption days – a hedonistic decade that culminated with his original owners rejecting him for being "too wild". He's calmer and cleaner for his experiences, but look at those eyes ... this pup has lived Photograph: Peta

Nicole Kidman soldiers on through the effects of Hollywood budget-saving measures that mean the Short Circuit remake and Jonathan Teplitzky's The Railway Man must share a set Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA

American Pie: Reunion star Jason Biggs appears on the El Hormiguero TV show in Madrid. Who knows what's happening to the bits of him we can't see in this crop? He could be being terrorised by Trancas and Barrancas – the show's rapping puppet ant mascots. Or he could be wobbling his way across a swimming pool filled with the "non-Newtonian fluid" Oobleck, a mixture of cornstarch and water. Both have made the show a ratings smash in Spain. "Don't worry," says the voice in his ear. "You'll be on Graham Norton soon ..." Photograph: Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images

Jason Statham with punters at the European premiere of Safe. They're crowding round to maybe, just maybe, see him dispatch a platoon of anonymous goons with a single blow. Or beam at them winningly. Either/or Photograph: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images

Javier Nunez and Anailin de la Rua, the Cuban stars of the film Una Noche who defected to the US during a trip to New York for the premiere of their film. Both are seeking political asylum in the States Photograph: Rhona Wise/Reuters

Josh Brolin holds up a signed photograph reading: "To Josh, Hopefully you'll be lucky enough to work with me some day. Best, Barry Sonnenfeld". Items from the Men In Black movies are being placed in a time capsule and buried beneath the earth, so that one day future civilisations will understand just how jiggy the Fresh Prince was Photograph: Gregg DeGuire/FilmMagic

Kevin Spacey, former artistic director at the Old Vic, swaps the takeaway-slicked streets of south London for the White House Correspondents Association Dinner. You've changed, Kev Photograph: Kristoffer Tripplaar/Corbis

Bit of a busman's holiday, no? Riders and their horses attend a world first ride-in screening (of horse whisperer film Buck) at Merrist Wood Stables in Guildford Photograph: Jon Furniss

Robin Williams honoured at the second annual Comedy Awards Show, New York. We'll bet you 20 copies of Flubber he's not talking in his natural voice Photograph: PictureGroup/Rex Features

Lynne Ramsay picks up a South Bank Sky Arts award for best film. Her arms are pumped from gong-lifting, her constitution immune to the effects of champagne. For the We Need to Talk About Kevin director has now been on the award circuit for 60 years. There is no end in sight. Eyes deadened by a thousand flashbulbs, she will never blink again Photograph: Ian Gavan/Getty Images

Robert Redford and the Prince of Wales pose together at the Sundance London film and music festival. Before this they'd been playing cowboys, firing off their cap guns and building a tree fort in the Windsor grounds. Took forever to get them to come inside and clean up nice for the cameras Photograph: Philip Ide/PA