The force of Gravity may be about to exert itself on Hollywood’s awards season when Academy Award nominations are announced today.

CIA thrillers 'Argo' and 'Zero Dark Thirty' won top screenplay honours from the Writers Guild of America last night.

The US Deep South drama 'The Help' won three prizes at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, including best actress for Viola Davis and supporting actress for Octavia Spencer.

Lindsay Lohan is suing rapper Pitbull, it has emerged.

Actress Natalie Portman is pregnant with her first child and is engaged to Benjamin Millepied, the choreographer on the film Black Swan, it was revealed today.

Kelsey Grammer has reportedly filed legal documents to protect his business and retirement accounts from estranged wife Camille.

New Zealand’s prime minister held a crisis meeting with studio bosses today in a bid to keep filming of 'The Hobbit' movies, but warned his country would not be drawn into a bidding war.

Jeff Bridges of 'Crazy Heart' and Sandra Bullock of 'The Blind Side' claimed top acting honours today at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, building momentum for possible Oscars glory.

Pinewood Shepperton reported lower half-year film revenues today despite major productions including Ridley Scott’s new 'Robin Hood' adventure.

Film studios firm Pinewood Shepperton today said it was on track to meet market hopes on annual sales despite first-half revenues running below last year.

America's Screen Actors Guild and Hollywood studios have reached a tentative deal on movie and prime-time TV show productions, after a year-long battle for better internet compensation.

The Oscar contenders Milk and 'Slumdog Millionaire' won top honours yesterday at the Writers Guild of America Awards.

'Slumdog Millionaire' continued its rags-to-riches march through Hollywood's awards season as its filmmaker Danny Boyle won the top honour from the Directors Guild of America.

The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) will resume talks with movie studio bosses next week in a bid to end a dispute over royalty payments.

Robert Redford and Russell Crowe have joined the growing number of actors urging a Hollywood union not to plan an actors strike next year.

The Academy Awards picture should begin to grow clearer today as contenders are announced for Hollywood’s Oscar prelude, the Golden Globes.

Blockbuster film shoots such as the new James Bond film “Quantum of Solace” helped boost half-year profits at film studios Pinewood Shepperton today.

Unable for weeks to agree on terms for a new contract, Hollywood studios and the Screen Actors Guild have now found themselves unable to agree on whether negotiations will continue.

Sean Penn has joined the acting unions battle in Hollywood, urging his fellow Screen Actors Guild members not to vote for a new deal proposed by the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA).

THE Screen Actors Guild leader has said that strike action is not imminent as their contract with Hollywood studios comes close to running out.

George Clooney has pleaded for two rival Hollywood actors unions to put their bitter differences behind them - urging them to provide a united front for the sake of the industry.

Hollywood actor Tom Hanks has joined the calls for America's acting unions to approve a deal with studios to end the threat of an actors' strike this summer.

Hollywood producers have temporarily broken off contract talks with the Screen Actors Guild, calling its demands regarding DVD sales and online content “unreasonable.”

Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing Ben-Hur and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other figures in Hollywood epics of the 1950s and 60s, has died at 84, his family said today.

Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing Ben-Hur and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other figures in Hollywood epics of the 1950s and 60s, has died at 84, his family said today.

Tom Hanks, George Clooney, Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro have taken out newspaper advertisements appealing to leaders of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) to start talks with movie studios in a bid to avert a possible strike.

Acclaimed Coen brothers movie 'No Country For Old Men' picked up another top film prize in Hollywood on Saturday when it claimed gold at the Producers Guild of America gala.

The Writers Guild of America has defended its decision to allow striking writers the go-ahead to work on the Grammy Awards show next month.

Striking Hollywood writers have decided not to picket tomorrow’s Golden Globe Awards after organisers changed it from an exclusive TV broadcast to an event open to all media.

Tom Hanks is disappointed by the cancellation of the Golden Globes ceremony - as it is "one of the best bashes" on the Hollywood social calendar.

Filmmaker Steven Spielberg will receive the prestigious Cecil B DeMille Award at the 2009 Golden Globes Awards following the cancellation of this year's ceremony.

Organisers of the Oscars insisted the show would go on next month despite the Golden Globe ceremony being cancelled due to the Hollywood writers’ strike.

The traditional Golden Globe Awards ceremony has been scrapped over a boycott threat by stars, to be replaced with a news conference format, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association said today.

The Golden Globes and broadcasting giant NBC is poised to scrap the traditional show format to be picketed by striking writers, in favour of a news conference approach, a person close to the awards said.

A fully bearded David Letterman opened his first talk show in two months by walking out amid dancing girls holding picket signs for striking TV writers.

DAVID Letterman and Jay Leno were set to return to the air last night, two months after writers went on strike.

Two of Hollywood’s most glamorous events are now caught up in the entertainment industry’s biggest dispute in two decades.

Production of the hit show Desperate Housewives and at least six sitcoms filmed before live audiences will be halted as a result of the US writers' strike.

Picket lines were set up on both US coasts today as the first strike by Hollywood writers in nearly 20 years got under way.

Hollywood writers will go on strike today after last-ditch talks called by a US government mediator failed.

George Clooney has put his name forward for an Oscar as a potential Best Supporting Actor winner.

Actor Brock Peters, best known for his heartbreaking performance as the black man falsely accused of rape in the American movie To Kill A Mockingbird, has died at his home after battling pancreatic cancer.

Oscar winning actor Morgan Freeman won control of the internet domain name www.morganfreeman.com in a ruling issued by a United Nations panel.

Hollywood star Kirsten Dunst has slammed film-maker Vincent Gallo's cruel remarks about her, after he attacked her for pulling out of his controversial flop film Brown Bunny.