It’s hard to top a singing lesson delivered by Brad Pitt to 2,400 people, and that’s exactly what the Palm Springs International Film Festival’s Awards Gala got on Saturday night in the desert resort 100 miles east of Los Angeles.
Toward the beginning of the Cartier-sponsored gala that annually showcases many of the year’s top awards hopefuls, Pitt took the stage of the huge Palm Springs Convention Center to give an award to “Selma” star David Oyelowo, and immediately took it upon himself to teach the audience how to pronounce the British actor’s name (his name is of Nigerian origin).