Meryl Streep picked up the third Oscar of her career today on a night when Hollywood made a big noise about a silent film.

As Casablanca turns 70 years old and with just days to go to the Oscars, film critic Philip French picks the finest pay-off lines of all time

BAMBI, Forrest Gump and Hannibal Lecter have at least one thing in common: Their cinematic adventures were chosen by the Library of Congress to be preserved in the world’s largest archive of film, TV and sound recordings.

Steven Spielberg gives us a crowd pleaser in The Adventures of Tintin and a tear-jerker with War Horse. Is it too much for one man? David Ansen reports

IN A GALLERY shop the other day, surrounded by Banksy prints and street artists that were so cutting edge that nobody but the gallery owner had heard of them, there were several prints of Marilyn Monroe by the pop art god Peter Blake.

A 26-foot-tall sculpture of Marilyn Monroe in her famous pose from the film 'The Seven Year Itch' has been unveiled on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile.

The Marilyn Monroe dress that flirted revealingly with a gust of New York subway air in The Seven Year Itch fetched $4.6m at a Los Angeles auction of film memorabilia.

I LANDED my job in the Irish Examiner by pitching a half-baked idea — cold — to the sports editor.

ACTOR Tony Curtis’s life could have come straight from one of his Hollywood scripts: rising from the streets of the Bronx to become a matinee idol who boasted of sleeping with 1,000 women.

PETER GRAVES, star of the television series Mission: Impossible and the Airplane! films, has died.

Stephen Soderbergh has compared Matt Damon to screen legend Jack Lemmon.

Filmmakers have named big-screen classic 'The Godfather' their favourite movie of all time.

Young Hollywood stars’ dope and booze-fuelled antics have spiralled out of control, Shirley MacLaine claimed today.

Film legend Peter O'Toole struggles to trust anyone, despite being 75-years-old.

Casablanca and a pair of Godfathers are among the 101 greatest screenplays ever, according to members of the Writers Guild of America.

Prison drama The Shawshank Redemption has come top of a poll of great films to miss out at the Oscars.

Michelle Pfeiffer is set to star in the remake of Billy Wilder’s 1957 version of Agatha Christie’s Witness For The Prosecution.

The Agatha Christie estate has agreed to allow MGM to remake the author’s classic mystery Witness For the Prosecution.

Horst Buchholz, a German actor whose film credits included The Magnificent Seven and Life is Beautiful, died today in Berlin. He was 69.

Hollywood legend Billy Wilder has died at the age of 95.