Baftas reel in Hollywood guests

TOP Hollywood stars including Renee Zellweger, Nicole Kidman and Nicolas Cage are among celebrities due to attend tomorrow’s Bafta film awards, it was announced yesterday.

They join a long list of high-profile nominees who will trot down the red carpet at Britain’s biggest annual movie bash.

British talent on the shortlist, such as Catherine Zeta Jones, Daniel Day Lewis and Michael Caine will also turn up to the bash at London’s Leicester Square Odeon.

Guests presenters at the event include Oscar winner Jim Broadbent, Michael Douglas and Lara Croft star Angelina Jolie.

“Just about everybody is coming,” said a spokesman for Bafta film awards. “We have every Best Actress and Best Actor nominee apart from Jack Nicholson.”

Rock tearaway Kelly Osbourne pulled out of performing this month at Thursday night’s Brit awards because she feared a terror attack while she was in London.

But Tinseltown’s top stars have no such qualms as Britain bolstered security amid intelligence-led fears that al-Qaida may launch an attack on London.

“The international film industry obviously places the Baftas in extremely high regard,” the spokesman said.

Last year’s awards ceremony hit the headlines for the wrong reasons when actor Russell Crowe angrily confronted the television producer of the awards after a large chunk of his best actor acceptance speech was cut out of the broadcast.

The New Zealand-born star, who shoved and cursed Malcolm Gerrie at a party afterwards, later apologised.

Crowe had carried off the Bafta prize for best actor for his role as a schizophrenic mathematician in “A Beautiful Mind”.