Academy Award-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis has retired from acting, his representative has said.

Woody Allen called Dylan Farrow’s allegations of child molestation “untrue and disgraceful,” signalling he would fight renewed claims dating back to Allen’s tempestuous relationship with actress Mia Farrow in the early 1990s.

Woody Allen has called his adopted daughter’s claims of child sex abuse “untrue and disgraceful”.

Oscar-winning director Sydney Pollack, a Hollywood mainstay who achieved commercial success and critical acclaim with 'Tootsie' and period drama 'Out Of Africa', has died of cancer at 73, his agent said today.