The Sapphires

They’ve taken their joyful musical to Cannes, Toronto, London and all around Australia, and last night the stars of The Sapphires debuted their award-winning movie to an American audience. Leading man Chris O’Dowd was reunited with Jessica Mauboy, Deborah Mailman, Shari Sebbens, Miranda Tapsell and director Wayne Blair at a screening in NYC last night that was hosted by Harvey Weinstein — his Weinstein Company is distributing the crowd pleasing film in the US on Mar. 29. Following the screening, the stars put on a cute performance to further entertain the guests. At the end of the night Jessica posted on Instagram, “Thanks and much love to #theweinsteincompany for giving this film life to the world love from all #thesapphires team!”

The 2013 AACTA Awards took place on Wednesday to celebrate the achievements of the Australian film and TV industry, and we were on the red carpet at The Star to speak to the talented actors as they made their way into the ceremony. We asked lots of people what their favourite movies and shows from the past year were — no surprises that big winners The Sapphires and Puberty Blues got a lot of love — and tried to squeeze any scoop on the second season of Puberty Blues out of its cast. Click through to see what everyone had to say!

As we fly towards Christmas, the celebrity events are all slowing down, allowing our favourite stars some time to spend with their families and loved ones. But don't let that fool you — many stars were still out in force this week! Hugh Jackman, Eddie Redmayne, Anne Hathaway and Amanda Seyfried continued their hectic press tour schedule with another Les Misérables event in Los Angeles — lucky they all like each other so much! Elsewhere, Aussie singer (and star of film The Sapphires) Jessica Mauboy represented at the Dubai International Film Festival, Taylor Swift and Harry Styles kept each other company at a tattoo parlour, and one gorgeous celebrity announced her pregnancy. Then there was Miss Universe — USA may have taken the crown, but Miss Universe Australia Renae Ayris did us proud when she placed third runner-up. There's much more to see. . . click through the gallery to catch up!

The Sapphires continued its film festival run by showing at the Dubai International Film Festival on the weekend. Stars Jessica Mauboy and Shari Sebbens were joined by director Wayne Blair for a photo call and premiere, and since The Sapphires’ debut in Cannes they’ve taken the film to Toronto, London and around Australia. Jessica, Shari and Wayne also hit the slopes in Dubai and Jess shared cute photos of their outing on Instagram. To top off the breakout comedy’s success, it also led the nominations for the 2013 AACTA Awards, which will be held in January.

The year in movies has been a full, exciting one — new franchises were introduced, while others wrapped up their run. Box office records were broken, and highly anticipated movies made their mark, though an unfortunate tragedy also rocked the movie world. Take a look back at the biggest movie headlines of 2012.

The blue carpet at Odeon West End in London belonged to the cast and director of The Sapphires last night when they premiered their film at the BFI London Film Festival. It was a reunion for Australian actors Deborah Mailman, Shari Sebbens, Miranda Tapsell and Jessica Mauboy, and director Wayne Blair, with Irish funnyman Chris O’Dowd, who brought his new wife Dawn Porter to the event. Deborah, Shari, Miranda, Jess and Wayne promoted The Sapphires in Australia but Chris couldn’t make it down for the trip. They did, however, debut the musical at the Cannes Film Festival together back in May.