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

The searing historical epic 12 Years a Slave and the con-artist caper American Hustle lead the 71st annual Golden Globes with seven nominations each.

'American Hustle' and '12 Years a Slave' lead the Golden Globes 2014 nominations with seven nods each.

They say the journey is more important than the destination, and that’s never truer than in an Alexander Payne movie.

Got the winter blues? Pick yourself up and see what’s new in irish cinemas today…

CORK Film Festival 2013 mixed old and new in this year’s programme, the first under new director James Mullighan. For fans of the big screen, it was a hectic nine days, and the event brought many surprises and rewards.

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The opening scenes of Tony Palmer’s documentary, Bird on a Wire, about Leonard Cohen’s five-week European tour in 1972 — which began in Dublin — show security manhandling concertgoers in Tel Aviv. Cohen coos softly, in his Quebecker drawl, into a microphone: “I know you’re trying to do your job, but you don’t have to do it with your fists.”

THE 58th Cork Film Festival catalogue will be launched at the Electric bar this evening. The festival is six weeks away, but its new creative director, James Mullighan — a former director of the Edinburgh Film Festival — says the lead-in will allow for as many tickets as possible to be sold.

'Only God Forgives', 'Behind the Candelabra' and 'Inside Llewyn Davis' will compete at the 66th annual Cannes Film Festival.

British film-maker Ken Loach has won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival with his whisky-tasting comedy, The Angels’ Share.

Cannes got the hump with Sacha Baron Cohen yesterday as the funnyman staged his latest stunt to promote his new comedy film, The Dictator.

'Trainspotting' actor Ewan McGregor will join actress Diane Kruger and fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier on the jury at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Woody Allen’s romantic fantasy 'Midnight In Paris' and Alexander Payne’s family drama 'The Descendants' won top screenplay honours from the Writers Guild of America.

The Directors Guild of America Awards are the latest Hollywood film honours to go silent.

Director Alexander Payne's new film opens over sprawling landscape shots of Hawaii's scenic suburbia, accompanied by George Clooney's character, Matt King, caught in a predicament.

Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Best Actress prize at this year's Academy Awards, but Ireland's Michael Fassbender has failed to get a nomination for his role in 'Shame'.

THE Irish lost out, but Michael Fassbender still got a mention onstage at the Golden Globes.

'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' and 'Drive' lead the nominations for the London Film Critics' Circle Awards.

Irish actors Brendan Gleeson and Michael Fassbender have both received nominations for the 69th annual Golden Globe awards.

Oscar-winning star George Clooney today told how he will focus increasingly on directing, claiming it has become more difficult to find roles as he gets older.

Ralph Fiennes is to receive a British Film Institute Fellowship.

I came to 'Friends With Benefits' with the hope that writer-director Will Gluck would take aim at the romantic comedy with the same piquant, mischievous zeal he displayed in 2010's 'Easy A', a film that earned him comparisons to such hallowed figures as Alexander Payne and John Hughes.

IT'S the question everybody's asking: when the Oscars are handed out tomorrow night, will Clint Eastwood and his Million Dollar Baby clip the wings of Martin Scorsese's The Aviator's wings and burst Sideways bubble?

Quirky Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet drama Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind has beaten The Aviator to win Best Original Screenplay at this year's Writer's Guild of America Awards.

Clint Eastwood has become the odds-on favourite to claim the Best Director Oscar next month after beating rival Martin Scorcese again at the Directors Guild Awards (DGA) on Saturday.

Director Payne chalks up another success - and one with much associated talk of Oscars.

A Golden Globe for Nicholson and much talk of yet another Oscar; as the Schmidt of the title, he does look a shoo-in.

ROCK giants U2 and director Martin Scorsese won top Golden Globe awards for their work on the epic movie Gangs of New York.