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Meet the parents: Penélope Cruz's new romance with Oscar winner Javier Bardem getting serious
Last updated at 19:30pm on 27.02.08It appears Penélope Cruz's romance with Oscar winner Javier Bardem is getting serious - she's met his family.
The Spanish beauty, her actor boyfriend and his actress mother Pilar Bardem celebrated his Best Supporting Oscar win for No Country For Old Men at a succession of Hollywood parties on Sunday night.
Accepting his golden trophy, Bardem dedicated his win to his mother and, in Spanish, thanked his late actor grandparents Rafael Bardem and Matilde Muñoz Sampedro for "bringing dignity and pride" to the family.
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In with the in-laws: Penélope Cruz escorts Javier Bardem's mother Pilar Bardem, 68, to an Oscars party in the early hours of Monday morning
Intimate celebration: Clutching his Best Supporting Actor Oscar, a jubilant Javier Bardem celebrated with his girlfriend Penélope Cruz and mother Pilar Bardem on Sunday night
Cruz, 33; Bardem, 38; and Pilar, 68; first went to the Miramax party, where Cruz chatted to the Coen brothers and Sir Elton John, before heading to Prince's bash and then to the club Villa.
The couple, who usually try to keep their relationship private, were glued to each other's sides.
Despite arriving at the Academy Awards separately, away from the photographers later on, their coupledom was obvious to fellow partygoers.
An onlooker at Prince's party said: "Javier had his arm around Penélope and his Oscar in his hand."
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Shock: Javier Bardem celebrates with his mother Pilar Bardem as he is announced as the Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner
The couple looked effortlessly chic as they fluttered between three post-Oscars bashes through the early hours of Monday morning.
And even after all that — including free-flowing champagne all night — they were still bright-eyed as they got in the car to go home at 4am.
The pair started dating last summer on the set of Woody Allen's Barcelona-set movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
Their acquaintance goes back a long way, they co-starred in the critically-acclaimed 1992 drama Jamón, Jamón, which made Cruz a household name in her native Spain.
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Solo on the red carpet: Penélope Cruz strikes a pose at the Oscars on Sunday while boyfriend Javier Bardem arrived separately with his mother Pilar
The couple co-starred in four movies together in the 1990s, and are set to film their sixth together later this year.
The pair will film Nine, a Rob Marshall (Chicago) musical inspired by Federico Fellini's classic film 8 1/2, this summer.
And it appears the stunning actress also has a long acquaintance with Javier's mother Pilar - they co-starred in 1997 movie Carne Trémula (Live Flesh) and 1995's Entre Rojas (Among Red).
Prior to finding love with Javier, Cruz dated her Sahara co-star Matthew McConaughey for two years until they split in 2006 and was Tom Cruise's first girlfriend after his high-profile divorce from Nicole Kidman.
Meanwhile, Javier previously lived with translator Christina Pales for over 10 years.
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