The world should plan on hearing a lot more from Jean Dujardin, the handsome and expressive actor whose portrayal of a silent film star has won him acting’s top honour.

Jean Dujardin wants to make another silent film.

Jean Dujardin has won the Best Actor Oscar for 'The Artist'.

Some of the biggest names in Hollywood have paraded down the red carpet ahead of the 84th Academy Awards.

Hollywood’s finest have started to arrive on the red carpet in advance of tonight's Oscars awards show.

Final preparations are underway at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood for tonight's glittering Oscars ceremony. Comedian Billy Crystal will reprise his role as host.

NOBODY expected The Artist to sweep up so many prizes and awards.

Miss Piggy is set to snout out all gossip at the Bafta Film Awards this year.

Hollywood’s new darling Jean Dujardin is in trouble in France after the Oscar frontrunner’s face appeared on the streets of Paris between a woman’s legs in a poster denounced as sexist.

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

The black-and-white silent film The Artist came away with the most prizes with three wins at the Golden Globes, but the show spread the love around among a broad range of films and TV shows.

PHYLLIDA Lloyd’s biopic of Margaret Thatcher, The Iron Lady (12A), opens with a doddery old Thatcher (Meryl Streep) making her uncertain way to the corner shop, there to be ignored as she attempts to buy a newspaper.

Even while defying modern filmmaking techniques with a monochromatic palette and soundscape of silence, 'The Artist' is as conventional as they come.

Introspection laced with charm, wit, observation and emotion … hey, it’s a French film!