Some of Hollywood’s biggest stars have strolled down the red carpet ahead of the Oscars.

Some of the biggest names in Hollywood are gathering ahead of the Oscars.

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.

Opening in Texas in 1858, Django Unchained (18s) begins with bounty hunter King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) liberating Django (Jamie Foxx) from slavery, so that Django can identify a trio of brothers Schultz is tracking down.

Once in a while, an actor delivers a performance of such raw emotional power that it’s impossible to tear your eyes from the screen.

Helen Hunt says her stark sex scene in her new movie 'The Sessions' is "extraordinary".

Everybody's favourite Kerryman Daithí Ó Sé seems to think there was earlier this morning.

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.

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.

Actress Anne Hathaway "really wants" to have a baby.

Like the Kauai Coast, which provides Sean McNamara’s film with its stunning backdrop, life ebbs and flows, transforming from dead calm to raging storm at frightening speed.

IN James L. Brooks’ feted romcom, As Good As It Gets, Jack Nicholson offends his date Helen Hunt so grievously that she’s walking out of the restaurant unless he pays her an immediate compliment.

SANDRA BULLOCK appears to have become the latest victim of the curse of the Academy Awards amid claims her husband Jesse James was linked with a tattooed model.

It took ten years for this story to reach the screen and even if it falls into the Chick Flick category it has been well worth the wait.

Ireland's most famous mature student, Martin Sheen, said today his college experience had been an extraordinary adventure.

THE Oscar curse has struck yet another Hollywood marriage.

Helen Hunt and Scarlett Johansson star in A Good Woman (Paramount, €21.99), a 1930-ish remake of Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windemere’s Fan.

A Good Woman

Hollywood actress Helen Hunt is adamant she won't marry her screenwriter partner Matthew Carnahan, over fears marriage would spoil their relationship.

Smelly socks worn by Ed Harris during the filming of Empire Falls were among the treasures snatched up by fans during a weekend sale of props and costumes from the HBO movie.

Actress Helen Hunt has appeared on live television to urge America's single women to participate in the "sexy" act of voting at this year's presidential election.

Aidan Quinn has joins the HBO production of Empire Falls, a drama set in a blue-collar Maine mill town.

PERHAPS the most surprising moment during Sunday’s drab Oscar ceremony was not Michael Moore’s dramatic denunciation of President Bush and his ‘fictitious’ war on Iraq, but the audience’s reaction to it.

You either love Allen ... or you don't.