Except this year. Usually the only people who show up before 3:30 p.m. are TV stars hoping to make the jump to film, or old-timers. But presenter and performer Amy Adams and nominees George Clooney and Tom Wilkinson all were part of the early arrivals -- with good reason, considering the gray skies above.
"It doesn't look good out there," Heidi Klum said as she whisked pass the assembled world media with her husband, the presumably waterproof Seal.