OMG. THIS is Ewan McGregor. Can you believe it? I looked at the photo IDs like a million times to make sure. Ewan was spotted out in West Hollywood yesterday, apparently heading out of Salon Benjamin. WHY?!?!?!

I mean, we can go months and months without a good Ewan sighting, and then when he appears, he’ll have new facial hair and I almost always love it. The last time I saw/discussed photos of him, it was in January and he looked like Obi-Wan and it was HOT:

And now this. Is it for a movie maybe? Is he doing a Village People bio-pic (and playing all of the characters)? Oh… I see. Now I remember. He’s currently filming Jane Got a Gun with Natalie Portman, playing a character that was supposed to be played by Michael Fassbender, Jude Law and/or Bradley Cooper and Jake Gyllenhaal, all of whom left the project in its early days (Jake was offered a role but never signed on, actually). It’s some kind of western or something. God, I’m so happy that Fassbender jumped out of this godforsaken movie. This could be Fassbender! Although I think Fassy could probably make this mustache work –he has in the past.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

HOT. SO HOT. Yesterday we had some new photos of Ewan McGregor, but I didn’t post them because I got busy. So I’m glad I have the opportunity to talk about them today because HOT HOT HOT. On Tuesday, Ewan was in Geneva, Switzerland for the “IWC Schaffhausen Race Night Event during the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie 2013 at Palexpo.” I only understood a third of those words. I’m also including photos from last night of Ewan arriving at LAX – I guess he’s come into town for this weekend’s Screen Actors Guild Awards? Perhaps.

So, what can I say about Ewan’s hotness? This man is aging like a fine wine. He’s gorgeous. I think he might even be sexier now than he was in his 20s. He’s 41 years old, by the way – so how does he looks so young? Does he just have one of those “perpetually 33” faces? I think his beard is helping a lot! I know a lot of you prefer clean-shaven men, or men who keep their scruff to a minimum, but Ewan + Beard = One of the greatest forever dongs ever. Imagine that beard on your thighs and get back to me.

In other Ewan news, he’s just signed on to do a film adaptation of John Le Carre’s Our Kind of Traitor, which is about: “An English couple who get mixed up with a Russian businessman who turns out to be an oligarch, and one of the world’s biggest money launderers. They get caught up in his plans to defect and are soon positioned between the Russian Mafia and the British Secret Service, neither of whom they can trust.” Most people assume Ewan will be playing the dude in the English couple. I like when Le Carre’s books are made into films – they adapt well, and they adapt while still remaining smart, so this sounds good.

PS… I love the way he wears clothes. He wears the crap out of EVERYTHING.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.

I think I might have blacked out at various points in last night’s Golden Globes telecast, because how is that Jon Hamm and Ewan McGregor were in the same space and there wasn’t a camera on them at all times? I wish producers would realize that it’s always nice to cut to a hot guy. Even if ladies are going to throw shade at the hot guy’s partner.

So here are my two picks for hottest dudes of Globes. The Hamm Dong is obvious, of course, because he always gets included, even when he doesn’t look particularly good or bad. Jennifer wore Naeem Khan, which I actually love. Imagine if Jessica Chastain had worn this dress…? Right? That would have been stunning. Instead, Jennifer wore it and she looks okay (if you ignore what’s going on with her face, which is way worse than Nicole Kidman’s stuff). I think it’s interesting that Mad Men was shut out once again – I believe the Hollywood Foreign Press “punished” the show for this past season because of the Megan Draper storyline. While the show still packs some gut-punches, it does seem to have waning enthusiasm.

But dear God… Ewan McGregor looks fantastic, doesn’t he? I could eat him for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Dear God. Evie looks kind of over it, but I don’t think this is her scene at all.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.

Well, well. It looks like someone’s Oscar campaign has taken a turn for the interesting (as opposed to Anne Hathaway judiciously parcelling out details on her grueling Les Mis diet). Just kidding, really. I like Anne, and if she doesn’t win Best Actress this year, she’ll probably get it at some point in the future. I get it though — Anne’s been nominated before, and she must feel like it’s time to not only get nominated but also win. For what it’s worth, I think she did a fantastic job playing against her good-girl type in Rachel Getting Married even if the movie itself was slightly underwhelming. Her time will come.

Who I was speaking of in terms of shaking things up is, of course, Ewan McGregor, who has already received support from Angelina Jolie, and has been campaigning hard for his very first nomation for The Impossible. For whatever reason (and who really needs one?), Ewan has decided to assure the moviegoing public (as well as the Academy) that he has no plans to stop getting his kit off when the role requires it. Good news, right? Now take off that kilt, Ewan:

Ewan McGregor tops just about every list going of actors who don’t shy away from flashing the flesh for the odd naked scene.

So when The Impossible star sat down (fully clothed, alas) with CBS Sunday Morning this week, it was only a matter of time before the topic of conversation turned to the Scot’s renowned penchant for stripping down on camera.

And good news for fans of the erstwhile trou-dropper: The 41-year-old has no plans for cutting back when it comes to showing off his nude form.

Clearly, the man takes his craft seriously.

“Being naked is something that happens in either end of the day for me, and if you’re lucky, somewhere in the middle as well,” he says on the show, airing this weekend. “And I don’t understand why it’s an issue. I don’t take my clothes off in movies because I want to flash my body around. I took my clothes off for movies because I’m an actor.”

And one who wants to show every, well, intimate aspect of a character. Even those rather exposing sides that other actors may shy away from. (Not Ewan, though, as evidenced by his frequently full-front*l body of work on display in Velvet Goldmine, Young Adam, The Ghost Writer, The Pillow Book, Trainspotting and…we’re probably forgetting one or two.)

“I believe the movies that I make say something about the world and therefore they should reflect human instincts and natures and desires,” he went on. “A big part of that for us is our sexual life and romantic life.”

The man is an artiste.

[From E! Online]

While it’s nice that Ewan would like to assure us that he is not truly an exhibitionist, I do find it interesting that he often gravitates towards roles that require nudity. He’s very kind like that, isn’t he? At a certain point though, it will be time for Ewan to stop flashing the goods on camera. Let’s say age 60 or so. That leaves 19 years or so for Ewan to fulfill his destiny. Give this man an Oscar already.

Photos courtesy of WENN

This is a historic day for me. And I’m sure, I’m absolutely positive that most if not all of you are going to disagree with me and yell at me. Suck it! No, I hear your complaints and I know that we usually don’t share the same taste in most fashion. I like conservative clothes and I like when women err on the side of caution. I love jewel tones. I’m tired of peplums and miniskirts and Marchesa and Stella McCartney. And you know what? I almost always hate Zac Posen, but not today. These are pics of last night’s Hollywood premiere of The Impossible, and Naomi Watts wore this Posen gown… and I love it. I think this may be my favorite thing she’s ever worn. It’s a beautiful cut on her, I love the fabric and the colors and I love her styling overall. Whoever she worked with for this look, she needs to work with them all of the time. Best Naomi Ever!

And here’s Ewan McGregor with his wife Eve at the premiere. They’ve been married 17 YEARS. And while we can debate whether or not they have an open marriage or whatever, I do buy that they love each other and that Ewan will never leave her. He loves Evie. He loves their family. He just has some recreational fun on the side.

Ewan’s suit is Balenciaga – have I ever talked about how much I love that Ewan is a dandy? Ewan cares about clothes. He cares about men’s fashion. He likes to put an outfit together. And he almost always looks perfect and occasion-appropriate. Anyway… yeah, he’s the hotness.

And here’s Petra Nemcova, looking kind of rough. Going back to Sean Penn over and over… that has not been kind to her. I guess she’s there because The Impossible is about the 2004 Tsunami and Petra was there (and she was terribly injured).

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Here are some more photos from this year’s Governors Awards, which were held over the weekend. As I said in the Kristen Stewart post earlier, this event is for Oscar hopefuls to come and meet members of the Academy and try to convince them to nominate them for an Oscar. This is just about getting the nomination, so it makes sense that many of the people in attendance were from some of the smaller films hoping to be remembered by the Academy this year. One of those hopefuls? Ewan McGregor! Ewan hopes to get his first-ever Oscar nomination for The Impossible, that tearjerker movie about the 2004 tsunami. Everyone is saying that Ewan is wonderful in it, and he’s deserving of a nomination. Angelina Jolie even helped him campaign in London a few weeks ago! Anyway, he looks AMAZING here. Clean and conservative and handsome and Oscar-worthy. Is he overdressed though?

Amy Adams was there… she wants to get nominated for The Master. I guess it would be Best Supporting Actress? Most of the critics agree that Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman are worthy of nominations, and historically they love Amy, so maybe she’ll get nominated too.

Bradley Cooper wants to get nominated for Best Actor for Silver Linings Playbook. I guess I want to see the film, and maybe he’ll change my mind, but I’m just not that into B-Coop. I think he looks strung-out here. Bad move, Bradley. Would it have been so difficult for him to shower and shave?

Quentin Tarantino is a glorious mess. I LOVE HIM. He wants to get some nominations for Django Unchained – I’m assuming QT will get a nomination for Original Screenplay, but will he be nominated for Best Director? And will any of the actors be nominated? I think Leonardo might want to be recognized, but we’ll have to see where the buzz is in a month.

It’s still so weird to me that Seth MacFarlane is going to be the Oscar host. I know a lot of people throw a lot of shade at Seth, but I bet he manages to do a good job as host. He seems like he’ll take the task seriously, you know?

Jeffrey Katzenberg is receiving the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award this year. His friends Tom Hanks and Will Smith were there to celebrate him.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Here are some new photos of Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor at last night’s charity screening/premiere of their film, The Impossible. I’ve discussed the film before – it’s a true story about a European family caught up in the 2004 Tsunami – go here to watch the trailer again and weep. Ewan looked dashing and handsome in his Vivienne Westwood MAN suit (and scarf!) while Naomi wore Tom Ford…. I mean, I like the general cut of the dress. If the sleeves had been half-way normal, this would have been a homerun for me. But the sleeves are a disaster.

Wonderfully enough, Ewan is being discussed for an Oscar nomination for this film. It would be in the Best Supporting category, of course, and yes, he’s been mentioned for awards before. But if he gets nominated for The Impossible, it will be his first Oscar nomination EVER. Isn’t that weird? Doesn’t it feel like he’s done Oscar-worthy work before now? And here’s something especially awesome (for me!): Angelina Jolie hosted a screening of The Impossible two nights ago in London, and she did a Q&A with Ewan after the screening, where she talked him up. Fun side note: when Angelina first got together with Jonny Lee Miller, JLM was sharing a flat with Ewan and Jude Law. Angelina and Ewan have probably known each other for nearly two decades. YAY! Here are some highlights from Jolie’s campaign to get Ewan an Oscar:

This trend of peers effectively campaigning for each other looks set to continue, and we had this season’s first instance of it last night at London’s Soho Hotel, where Oscar-winner Angelina Jolie hosted an intimate reception and screening of “The Impossible” — chiefly to talk up the performance of her friend Ewan McGregor.

McGregor is being campaigned in the Best Supporting Actor category for his performance as a distraught father seeking to reunite his family in Juan Antonio Bayona’s harrowing survival drama set around the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004. Naomi Watts is firmly in the hunt for a Best Actress nomination, while 16 year-old newcomer Tom Holland — who is being campaigned, with unusual and commendable integrity, in the lead race — will surely receive his share of breakthrough and young actor citations. But McGregor’s work has, thus far, prompted less awards talk for a turn that’s no less impressive than that of Watts — though his character comes into focus later in the action.

Still, it’s a performance that will find many admirers among those who stick through Bayona’s viscerally moving, technically astonishing film — in particular, one scene in which an emotionally threadbare McGregor barely holds up one half of a phone conversation is Oscar clip-ready, and I mean that in the least cynical way. Yesterday, Jolie offered this tribute to the actor:

“I have known you for years and you are one of my favorite actors and I’ve always loved to watch you, but I watched this and I didn’t recognize you… To say it is one of the best performances of the year, really doesn’t give it credit, because it doesn’t feel like a performance. It’s from such an honest place and so deeply emotional. You rarely see this emotion from a man on screen and I called him later to tell him how much he made me cry. I was crying, and I looked over at Brad [Pitt] and he was crying. It’s just really, really powerful. As an actor, I’m in awe.”

Of course, Jolie didn’t limit her praise to McGregor while introducing “The Impossible,” a film she quipped “I wish I had something to do with.” She also offered warm words of admiration for Holland, who was also in attendance, together with the film’s writer and composer. (Bayona and Watts couldn’t make it, but will be in London for tonight’s UK premiere.) Jolie continued:

“What the filmmakers have done, they have made [the tsunami], through this one family’s story, personal. We feel like we are in it and we travel through it, and it changes us. That is quite an extraordinary thing and I think that is due to the brilliance and the elegance of the script by Sergio Sanchez. You can see the detail and the care that he took when you watch this, and the respect for this family and all of the families involved. When you take a true story like this, to handle it with such delicacy is really to be commended. It is also masterfully directed by J.A. Bayona, and there will be many scenes where you will be sitting here watching it thinking, ‘How did they do that? That is insane! I don’t understand.’ I was asking them myself and they said, ‘Don’t you know? Aren’t you an actor?’ And I said, ‘It is just beyond imagination.’

“The true testament of any film is what you walk away with, and I think in this film you walk away with more empathy, with a greater sense of connection to your fellow man, and you want to run home and hug your kids, and tell the people you love that you love them. There is no greater message and this is an extraordinary film.”

[From HitFix]

I wonder if Angelina really does have any “pull” with the Academy at large? Sure, she’s an Oscar winner herself, but it’s not like she hosted this screening in LA or NY (the industry towns). This was London. So my guess is that she agreed to host the screening because she loved the film and she loves Ewan (as a friend!). Sigh… I wish Angelina and Ewan would make a movie together. A dirty movie. Something involving spanking.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Last week we discussed Ewan McGregor’s GQ Style pictorial, in which he spent the entire photo shoot fondling some delicate flowers. It was pretty awesome, although the cover shot sucked. Ewan is doing the publicity rounds these days because he’s promoting the limited release of The Impossible. We discussed the trailer last week too – the film is a true story about a European family caught in the 2004 tsunami in Asia, and the trailer made all of us cry, so I’m not going to include it again. Or should I? I’ll put at the end of the post, but just know that you will cry like a baby.

Anyway, these are photos of Ewan at last night’s AFI Fest premiere/screening of The Impossible. Obviously, the man is HOT HOT HOT. I love his beard. I love his hair. I love his eyes. I love his dirty smile. I love the fit on his pants. I love his Henley. I love his sport coat. I love the way he stands. I love the way he stares down the cameras, making love to them with his eyes. I love him. He’s so beautiful.

Incidentally, if you want to read a nice piece of Ewan’s work on August: Osage County in Oklahoma (near Agent Bedhead and her lover George Clooney!), go here. Ewan is playing Julia Roberts’ husband, which must thrill Julia to no end. Interestingly enough, Ewan only talked up Meryl Streep. Because… obviously.

The Impossible trailer:

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Ewan McGregor covers the newest issue of GQ Men’s Style or GQ Style or whatever this is. I can’t say I’m in love with the cover image, but I do like the rest of the pictorial. I think we’re supposed to look at Ewan with those flowers as some kind of romantic hero, a lovely lad who will wait patiently and bring you flowers and be respectful. But the way Ewan is inappropriately touching and stroking the petals of the flowers IN EVERY PHOTO is making me think dirty thoughts. Ewan knows how to rile a lady up, doesn’t he? This is not a respectful, patient gentleman. This is a dude who will bang you senseless in a gazebo. Surrounded by innocent flower! Flowers that think you’re kind of slutty.

Okay, now I have to show you the trailer for Ewan’s newest movie called The Impossible. It comes out in America in limited release in December, possibly so it could be an awards contender. I went into watching this trailer knowing only that it was about a family vacationing in Asia in 2004 when the tsunami struck. I ended up balls-out crying within one minute of the trailer. So… just prepare yourselves. Get a tissue ready. The film also stars Naomi Watts and three extraordinary-looking young actors. OMG.

*hands everyone a tissue* I TOLD YOU.

GQ Style photos/scans courtesy of The Fashion Spot.

Ewan McGregor was at TIFF last week, but I never got around to using any of those photos. Mostly because he was promoting a film with Naomi Watts, who I enjoy a great deal, but who is often the photographic equivalent of a piece of toast. So, I was due to write about Ewan, and here is a perfect excuse. Ewan was photographed over the weekend in England for the Goodwood Revival 2012. Apparently, the Goodwood Revival is basically a really fancy vintage car and motorcycle show. My town hosts vintage car shows too, and I always enjoy seeing some of those beautiful old Cadillacs and Mustangs and Roadsters around town once a year. Ewan was showing off a vintage Manx Norton bike, which looks very pretty. Here’s more:

His love of motorbikes is well known but Ewan McGregor turned into a real life action hero earlier Saturday. The actor took to the race track on a vintage motorcycle at the Goodwood Revival 2012, in Chichester, West Sussex. The 41-year-old put his foot down as he very stylishly raced around on his vintage Manx Norton motorcycle.

Ewan certainly looked the part in his leathers which he models for British designers Belstaff. The Trainspotting star was in good spirits as he found himself in big demand from the other attendees at the festival.

Ewan was happy to pose with fans before jumping on his vintage bicycle and zipping off around the track in some considerably good style. The Scottish actor wasn’t content with just one motor, however, and jumped on to another bike after he was done with his first one. It wasn’t just his bikes that he changed as Ewan switched between a traditional biker jacket and waterproof waxed coat.

The Goodwood Revival is a three-day annual festival celebrating the vintage cars and motorcycles that would have competed during the circuit’s glory years between 1948 to the end of the 60s. Visitors dress in period clothing and all vehicles made after 1966 are banned from the festival area, near Chichester in West Sussex.

The first Goodwood Revival weekend was held in 1998 when 68,000 people attended and this year it is expected to be bigger than ever. Ewan is one of many famous names drawn to the event due to his passion for motorbikes.

He told MailOnline, previously: ‘I have some quite old ones – one was made in 1929 – but they all work, and I like to ride them regardless of how old they are. The 1929 bike is actually a rare antique called a Rex Acme. They were only made for ten years, so there aren’t many of them. I keep it up in Scotland, and whenever I go up there, I take it out and go out for a ride with my Dad. He rides his old bike and I ride mine. It’s nice.’

[From The Mail]

Ewan has always been a motorcycle enthusiast, and I’m sure the other vintage car and bike fans were super-excited to see him at the festival. It sounds like a really cool event! And did I mention that Ewan looks really hot? He looks really hot. I would hit it. On the bike. It would be like an Aerosmith video. I would hit it with a wind machine.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.