Julie Walters, John Hurt and Helena Bonham Carter will battle it out at the TV Baftas today after being nominated for their portrayals of real-life people.

Quite the most watchable – certainly the most emotional – film of the week, which surprisingly got some poor reviews in the USA.

More than 100 Oscar nominees, old hands and new faces, came together in Beverly Hills for a lunch honouring contenders at the 77th Academy Awards.

Hotel Rwanda star Sophie Okonedo was reduced to silence when questions relating to the film's bleak depiction of genocide in Africa were fired at her during a press conference - because she'd only prepared responses to fashion queries.