Michel Hazanavicius has won the Oscar for Best Director 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.

'The Artist' has won best picture and three other prizes at the Spirit Awards honouring independent film, a possible prelude to a big night at the Academy Awards for the black-and-white silent film.

For a silent movie, The Artist is generating a lot of noise.

Silent film 'The Artist' made a big noise at the Bafta film awards last night winning seven awards including Best Film, Leading Actor and Best Director.

Silent film The Artist made a big noise at the Bafta film awards last night winning seven awards including Best Film, Leading Actor and Best Director.

Silent film ‘The Artist’ made a big noise at the BAFTA film awards tonight winning seven awards including Best Film, Leading Actor and Best Director.

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 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.

The Directors Guild of America Awards are the latest Hollywood film honours to go silent.

Michel Hazanavicius has won the top film honour at the Directors Guild of America Awards for his silent movie 'The Artist', giving him the inside track for the best-director prize at the Academy Awards.

Jean Dujardin learned how to tap-dance for 'The Artist'.

Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Best Actress prize at this year's Academy Awards, but Ireland's Michael Fassbender has failed to get a nomination for his role in 'Shame'.

Meryl Streep’s portrayal of Margaret Thatcher and Michelle Williams’s role as Marilyn Monroe have put them head-to-head at this year’s Baftas.

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.

'The Artist' has waltzed away with its first wins of Hollywood’s awards season.

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.

'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' and 'Drive' lead the nominations for the London Film Critics' Circle Awards.

Irish actors Brendan Gleeson and Michael Fassbender have both received nominations for the 69th annual Golden Globe awards.

Ralph Fiennes is to receive a British Film Institute Fellowship.

THE Tree of Life, an epic and ambitious coming-of-age film that took years for enigmatic US director Terrence Malick to bring to the screen, won top honours last night at the Cannes festival.