Kate Winslet nearly missed out on her Oscar-winning turn in 'The Reader' - as movie bosses feared she was too busy filming 'Revolutionary Road' to accept the role.

Kate Winslet kept her composure – just – after finally winning an Oscar at the sixth attempt.

'Slumdog Millionaire', the rags-to-riches tale set in Mumbai, has had a triumphant run through awards ceremonies this year, and fans will be hoping this continues at the Oscars.

Kate Winslet said today she was “thrilled” to be nominated for a best actress Oscar for her role in 'The Reader'.

Natalie Portman today explained why she had turned her hand to directing, saying there was not always acting work which fulfilled a creative need.

Oscar-winning director Sydney Pollack, a Hollywood mainstay who achieved commercial success and critical acclaim with 'Tootsie' and period drama 'Out Of Africa', has died of cancer at 73, his agent said today.

The glitz and glamour of this year’s Cannes Film Festival was getting into full throttle today.

Hundreds of family members, friends and colleagues from the movie industry today attended a thanksgiving service for Oscar winning director Anthony Minghella, who died last month.

Late director Anthony Minghella is to be honoured with a special BAFTA Award created in his name, according to British filmmaker Richard Attenborough.

Work by late director Anthony Minghella will be screened at the Shanghai Film Festival this summer.

French actress Juliette Binoche is the latest A-list star to pay homage to director Anthony Minghella - she's penned a moving poetic tribute to the late director.

TRIBUTES poured in yesterday for Oscar-winning film director Anthony Minghella who died yesterday at the age of 54.

It has been reported that Oscar-winning film director Anthony Minghella died of a haemorrhage after an operation last week.

Oscar-winning film director Anthony Minghella has died at the age of 54, his publicist said today.

Law, still an actor shrouded in a lot of doubt over his exact talent, here plays, with as little real effort as he can muster, an architect whose domestic life is as lifeless as his performance.

Actor Jude Law says his new movie Breaking And Entering is a love letter to the city of London.

Actor Jude Law will be on the red carpet tonight for the premiere of his new film Breaking and Entering.

Sigourney Weaver has fuelled speculation she's going to ditch movies for theatre after telling Meg Ryan she'd like to star in London's West End.

Rocker Courtney Love has signed up to be part of a new human rights exhibition sponsored by Amnesty International.

Jude Law is to star in a radio play based on the work of Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, it was announced today.

The Office star Martin Freeman has landed a role opposite Jude Law.

Irish rocker Bono will try his hand at radio this Christmas, when he takes over a BBC radio news programme.

THE Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King made a clean sweep of the Oscars yesterday with an epic 11 awards out of 11.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King made a clean sweep of the Oscars today with an epic 11 awards out of 11.

Director Anthony Minghella says not speaking for some time would be his preferred way of recovering from shooting Cold Mountain.

Johnny Depp was a surprise lead actor winner at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles for Pirates of the Caribbean, while Charlize Theron took the best-actress honour for the serial-killer drama Monster.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King triumphed at the Baftas as it took home best film.

The stars are coming out tonight for this year’s Baftas.

Popular The Return of the King failed to clinch a single gong at an awards ceremony voted for by film critics tonight.

THE Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, the final chapter in Peter Jackson’s majestic fantasy trilogy, led the Academy Awards race yesterday with 11 nominations, including best picture and director.

The Golden Globes ceremony proved a disappointment for Anthony Minghella's Cold Mountain - an American Civil War deserter's journey to find his sweetheart - which had been nominated for eight awards.

Ricky Gervais will lead the British charge at tonight’s Golden Globe awards.

Nominations for this year's BAFTA film awards

The Magdalene Sisters, the film which depicted life in the laundries run by the Magdalene nuns, has earned four nominations in this year’s London Film Critics’ Circle Awards.

The Academy Awards are shaping up as a something of a horse race.

Hollywood’s annual award season started today as the Golden Globe nominations were announced.

Australian actress Nicole Kidman said today she was so humiliated after her split with ex-husband Tom Cruise that she had to be coaxed out of bed to go back to work.

Thousands of cheering fans lined a Sydney street to greet Nicole Kidman at the Australian premiere of her latest movie, Cold Mountain, which could land her another Oscar.

Cold Mountain star Jude Law found “peace of mind” while making the film in Romania, he revealed at the film’s premiere tonight.

Nicole Kidman has gotten cold feet over her new film Cold Mountain, due to be released in North America at Christmas.

Can't stop the gossip on both sides of the Atlantic about Nicole Kidman and Jude Law being more than co-stars on Cold Mountain.

Oscar-winning director Anthony Minghella was today appointed head of leading movie body the British Film Institute.

Natalie Portman and Penelope Cruz are set to join forces in a Second World War epic romance.