Irish actor Michael Fassbender has been nominated for a BAFTA for his role in the movie '12 Years a Slave'.

American Hustle ****

Actress Jennifer Lawrence continued to hit the headlines after she was named the most searched for star online.

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

Stars braving the rain-soaked red carpet at the Baftas last night chose to play it safe, with many dressing in black.

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.

Steven Spielberg’s civil war epic Lincoln leads the race for honours at the Golden Globes.

Writer-director David O Russell is destined for awards glory with this quirky romance about an emotionally bruised thirty-something struggling to piece his life together after the ultimate betrayal.

Set in South Central, LA, End of Watch (16s) is a ‘ride-along’ with LAPD cops in one of America’s most notorious districts.

Robert De Niro is in talks to star in comedy 'Last Vegas'.

LESS STYLISH than Raging Bull, less euphoric than the Rocky films, The Fighter (US/15A/115 mins) is a boxing movie made in the image of its hero, ‘Irish’ Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg), a solid but unspectacular Irish-American scrapper who slugged his way to a shot at the world title in the mid-’90s.

Boxing is one of the few sports – baseball is another – that lend themselves to the screen, and more often than not to major film awards. This excellent film has already collected a string of nominations and wins.

MARK Wahlberg, it seems, was destined to take on the role of junior welterweight ‘Irish’ Micky Ward in his critically lauded new film, The Fighter.