All eyes at tonight's Oscars will be on the showdown between 'Avatar' and 'The Hurt Locker'. Each has nine nominations.

Ireland's Richard Baneham was honoured at the Bafta awards last night, when Avatar won for special effects.

James Cameron's sci-fi epic 'Avatar' is among 10 movies nominated in the Best Picture category for the 2010 Academy Awards, it was announced today.

Disney Pixar movie 'Up' has been named the Film Of The Year at the Richard Attenborough Film Awards.

George Clooney is a “non-movie star”.

George Clooney can do no wrong at the moment, soaring from strength to strength as an actor who knows how to turn in one memorable performance after another.

Actor Brendan Gleeson was today in the running for Golden Globe success for his portrayal of Winston Churchill.

George Clooney's 'Up In The Air' leads the nominations for the Golden Globes which was announced today.

Irish music romance 'Once', whose stars Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova have a best-song Oscar nomination, was named Best Foreign Film at the last night.

'Juno' director Jason Reitman has dashed hopes of a sequel to the Oscar-nominated film - insisting he would not work on a follow up.

In the delicious comedy Thank You For Smoking (Fox, €24.99) you can’t help liking master of spin Nick Taylor (Aaron Eckhart), VP of the Academy of Tobacco Studies, despite his job as a spin doctor.

The message remains clear: dump those ciggies.

A sex scene between Katie Holmes and Aaron Eckhart has been deleted from new movie Thank You For Smoking - leading insiders to claim her fiance Tom Cruise exerted his superstar influence to ensure its removal.