It's that time of the year again, when the many months of awards season come to a close with the biggest and brightest - the Oscars.

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Filmmaker Sam Mendes could be heading back to Bond despite saying he would not sign up to make the next film after his success with Skyfall.

Nicole Kidman wore Anne Hathaway's original Oscars gown to the Cannes Film Festival.

Cannes jury president Steven Spielberg is going to "play it by ear".

Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle says he believes 3D movies have no future - and predicts they will just be a “phase” for the cinema industry.

Any film which tantalises audiences with a superlative in the title needs to deliver on the promise.

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Daniel Day-Lewis made Oscar history today – becoming the first man to be named best actor three times.

Adele is hot favourite to become the first ever singer to pick up an Oscar for a Bond theme with her hit Skyfall.

Daniel Day-Lewis’s domination of the awards season is expected to continue at the Baftas tonight, where he is hot favourite to win the Best Actor award.

Daniel Day-Lewis's domination of the awards season is expected to continue at the Baftas tomorrow, where he is hot favourite to win the Best Actor award.

The Iran hostage thriller 'Argo' was a surprise best-drama winner at the Golden Globes, beating out the Civil War epic 'Lincoln', which had emerged as an awards-season favourite.

Christoph Waltz and Maggie Smith were early winners on Golden Globes night.

The American Civil War saga Lincoln leads the Academy Awards with 12 nominations, including best picture, director for Steven Spielberg and acting honours for Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, and Tommy Lee Jones.

Ang Lee wants to direct Angelina Jolie in 'Cleopatra'.

Daniel Day-Lewis has been nominated for Best Actor for his title role in US historical drama 'Lincoln' as the nominations for the Oscars were announced today.

Historical biopic Lincoln leads the race for the British Academy Film Awards, with 10 nominations including best picture and best actor — but nothing for director Steven Spielberg.

Cast adrift on the Pacific Ocean after surviving a shipwreck, Pi Patel (Suraj Sharma) realises he has leapt into the proverbial frying pan when he discovers a starving Bengal tiger sharing his lifeboat.

Oscar-winning director Ang Lee ('Brokeback Mountain') experiences film-making in 3D for the first time with this handsome adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Yann Martel.

Steven Spielberg’s US Civil War epic Lincoln led the Golden Globes with seven nominations, among them best drama, best director for Spielberg, and acting honours for Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, and Tommy Lee Jones.

Tobey Maguire has been cut from 'Life of Pi'.

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Martin Scorsese says he has become so enamoured with 3D film-making that he expects to use the technology in all his future projects.

KATIE HOLMES may be a sweetheart on screen and nice enough in person, but as an interviewee, she’s pure hell.

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Filming on the next Bond movie is all set to Goa – after authorities agreed to allow scenes to be shot in India.

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Jake Gyllenhaal thinks his future is in directing.

APOCALYPSE NOW is the best film of the past three decades, critics said yesterday.

Christina Ricci was unprepared for her role in ‘The Ice Storm’ 12 years ago.

Once again Lee captures a defining moment in American, and subsequently world, history with

A FAMILY drama starring an actor who grew up in Kerry and a first-time actress competes for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival today.

THE Cannes film festival rolled out its red carpet with an old-style mix of humour and emotion yesterday, as the animated comedy Up lifted the mood at the start of cinema’s biggest and glitziest gathering.

Talk of recession was put away tonight as the Cannes Film Festival got under way in upbeat mood.

AN award-winning film by acclaimed Dublin playwright Conor McPherson will be among a raft of Irish productions showcased at the Cannes Film Festival this week.

Quentin Tarantino's new movie 'Inglourious Basterds' and Ang Lee's 'Taking Woodstock' are among the nominees for the Cannes Film Festival's prestigious Palme d'Or award.

Ang Lee is being lined up to direct the screen version of 'Life Of Pi', it has been reported.

Lee certainly makes interesting films – Brokeback Mountain for one – and certainly never stints on bringing his audiences a rich mixture of visual and emotional delights.

Ang Lee's controversial 'Lust, Caution' dominated the Golden Horse Awards in his native Taiwan on Saturday, taking home seven trophies including Best Film and Best Director.

CORK-born actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers, star of The Tudors TV series, was arrested at Dublin Airport yesterday afternoon and charged with public order offences.

Director Ang Lee's new movie 'Lust, Caution' has been barred from running for an Academy Award in 2008 - after breaking Foreign Language film rules.