American Horror Story: Asylum' and 'The Big Bang Theory' have each been nominated for six Critics' Choice Television Awards.

Antoine Fuqua’s testosterone-fuelled thriller contrives a ‘Die Hard In The White House’ scenario from an assault on Capitol Hill by heavily armed Korean terrorists who are fed up with America meddling in their affairs.

If Planet Earth was decimated by a series of earthquakes and tsunamis, followed by an alien invasion designed to exterminate the pockets of human resistance, you’d stake money on Tom Cruise emerging unscathed from the melee.

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Morgan Freeman and Clive Owen are set to star in 'The Last Knights'.

Robin Williams is to play Dwight Eisenhower in new movie 'The Butler'.

Christopher Plummer has won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in 'Beginners'.

The Deep South drama The Help won three prizes at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, including best actress for Viola Davis, and supporting actress for Octavia Spencer.

The US Deep South drama 'The Help' won three prizes at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, including best actress for Viola Davis and supporting actress for Octavia Spencer.

HOLLYWOOD’S ongoing love affair with the sport of baseball continues with Moneyball (PG), although Bennett Miller’s film is unusual in two respects.

Writer-director Kevin Smith ('Clerks', 'Zack And Miri Make A Porno') abandons the raucous comedies which have made his name and fortune, for this brutal and uncompromising thriller.

Mark Wahlberg is keen to do a sequel to 'The Fighter'.

THESE were supposed to be the younger, hipper Academy Awards, the ones that shook up the ceremony’s conventions with popular, great-looking masters of ceremonies in actors James Franco and Anne Hathaway, who were unlike the middle-aged comedians and TV talk-show hosts of years past.

Melissa Leo became the first person in Oscar history to use the word "f**k" in an acceptance speech last night.

The King’s Speech picked up four Oscars with its star Colin Firth admitting he felt his career had “just peaked” as he collected the award for Best Actor.

Colin Firth heads to the Oscars “as close as you can get to a dead cert” to winning the Best Actor Award.

Remarkable boxer ‘Irish’ Micky Ward says he wouldn’t change a thing about Mark Wahlberg’s portrayal of him in the biopic The Fighter. John Riordan met him in Massachusetts

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.

'The King’s Speech' won the best-actor trophy for Colin Firth and a second honour for its overall cast at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

'The King's Speech', starring Colin Firth and Helena Bonham-Carter, has as expected led the field in the 2011 Oscar nominations, and is up for 12 awards.

Mother Nature has certainly been kind to Cameron.

COLIN FIRTH was celebrating yesterday after being named best actor at the Golden Globes for his portrayal of stammering King George VI in The King’s Speech.

Colin Firth and Natalie Portman have taken the top honours at the Critics Choice Awards in Hollywood.

'Black Swan' and 'The King's Speech' lead the nomination for this year's 17th annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards.

Kristen Stewart found it difficult to relate to her stripper character in 'Welcome to the Rileys'.

Mickey Rourke added to his award season haul and stole the show at the Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday with a hilarious and rambling acceptance speech.

WIN or lose at Sunday’s Oscar ceremony, actress Kate Winslet will enter Academy Award history.

Angelina Jolie needs to be careful if she wins her second Academy Award this year, after misplacing the first statuette she received at the prestigious ceremony.

Oscars fans – and nominees themselves – are in for something new at Hollywood’s biggest party, the show’s overseers said.

Kate Winslet has attracted 10 times more money than her nearest rival in the betting for the best actress Oscar, it was announced today.

Angelina Jolie is thrilled with her Best Actress Oscar nomination, calling the nod "a privilege beyond any expectation".

Kate Winslet was nominated for a best actress Oscar for her role in 'The Reader' today, while feelgood film 'Slumdog Millionaire' is in the running for best movie.

The Academy Awards picture should begin to grow clearer today as contenders are announced for Hollywood’s Oscar prelude, the Golden Globes.