But if it was Hollywood that took the major awards, the other distinctive feature of last night's £1m ceremony at the Odeon, Leicester Square, was the success of two relatively small budget British films.
THE two unlikely cobblers of N.B.A. history paced on opposite ends of the sideline last night, displaying distinctive DNA markers of the Van Gundy basketball dynasty: A disheveled appearance undisguised by a tie, crop circles under the eyes and an unnatural devotion to Diet Coke.
The most distinctive Battle Born moment tonight is Flesh and Bone, where synths ping around another roomy track, whose nooks and crannies at least reserve some of the charms of old.
A photo of SLS Brickell's distinctive exterior at night.
Martin Pakledinaz did the subtly varied costumes; James F. Ingalls, the lighting; and Howard Hodgkin, a British painter, the three different backdrops, each a variant of large smears of paint, somewhere between hair and fingerprints, and to my taste the least distinctive element of the evening.
CCTV footage showed her walking down Buzzacott Lane in Furzton the next morning, wearing a distinctive taekwondo hoodie.
Carnegie Hall's Distinctive Debuts series continues tonight with a recital by Aleksei Ogrintchouk, a young Russian oboist, and Lidija Bizjak, a pianist from Belgrade, Serbia.
The search for a star to make ABC's "Monday Night Football" distinctive again required 106 days and the return of the show's former producer.
Posting a picture of the distinctive London landscape at midnight, the 43-year-old wrote: "I'd rather be up here... but only just!" Mr Peake is the first astronaut to travel to space representing Britain.
Winery Lake 1984 Los Carneros Gewurztraminer ($7): A lovely, distinctive wine for Sunday afternoon aperitif sipping, a hospitality wine, it's almost lyric in its bouquet-address from the grape.
