Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt arrive late to the Critics Choice Awards

THEY may be Hollywood's top couple - but Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie learned they still have to arrive on time like everyone else.

The pair were late for the 13th Annual Critics' Choice Awards and found not even they could bend the rules.

They weren't allowed into the theater, at the Santa Monica Civic Center, until a commercial break, according to reports.

Instead, the bemused couple were forced to hang around the red carpet for a few minutes as the show went on.

They could be seen chatting to actor Casey Affleck and "canoodling" up against a wall, until they were allowed in, reported USA Today.

The night's big winner was the Coen Brothers' 'No Country for Old Men', which picked up best picture, director and supporting actor for Javier Bardem.