Molly Sterling represents Ireland in the Eurovision semi-final on Thursday.

An in-depth look at who will win the big prizes at tomorrow night’s Oscars ceremony and, more importantly, who should win:

The Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory Of Everything was the big winner at the Bafta awards last night.

Birdman received a welcome lift on its flight to the Oscars after winning the Producers Guild of America’s highest film award at a ceremony in Los Angeles.

Boyhood, Michael Keaton and Julianne Moore were among the top winners at the 20th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards, winning best picture and director, actor and actress.

Kevin Costner received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards last night.

The Golden Globes inched closer to legitimacy in its 72nd show, giving awards not just to A-List celebrities, but to the edgier productions that unequivocally deserved recognition, including Boyhood, The Grand Budapest Hotel, and Birdman.

Mary McCarthy is from Whitehall, near Skibbereen, Co Cork. She is director of the National Sculpture Factory in Cork and also chair of Culture Ireland.

Birdman has topped the nominations for the Golden Globes, flying away with a leading seven nods, including best picture in the comedy or musical category.

Birdman squawked loudly at the Golden Globes, flying away with a leading seven nominations.

The Drop (15A) stars Tom Hardy a Bob Saginowski, a bartender in a rundown oston neighbourhood. 

Matthew McConaughey has admitted he's vain.

Here’s a list of our top five events going on around the country.

Begin Again ****

MY friend Mike Dwyer recalls meeting the late Séamus Heaney and the playwright Brian Friel at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts.

Sandra Bullock was among the big winners at the Hollywood Film Awards yesterday.

Two decades on from their romantic interlude in Before Sunrise (1995), and following on from their rendezvous in Before Sunset (2004), Before Midnight (15A) finds Celine (Julie Delpy) and Jessie (Ethan Hawke) on holidays in Greece, the parents of twin girls and comfortably in a long-term relationship.

Is the man or the iron the most important component of Iron Man asks Iron Man 3 (12A), and the makers — Shane Black directs, and co-writes with Drew Pearce — have tremendous fun answering that question.

Jack Black is to again team up with director Richard Linklater for a new comedy.

Efron steps from the froth of ‘High School Musical’ success to try his hand at serious acting and, we assume, to move his career along … he succeeds in so far as turning in a solid performance while retaining strong elements of his HSM character … eager, slick teen making it happen.

Catch up on Richard Linklater’s hilarious 'Slackers' (Metrodome, €24.99), which presents a bunch of weird and outrageous, sometimes over-educated people in a small Texan town shooting the breeze, acting unpredictably and uttering pretty uncool things.

Fast Food Nation (Tartan, €24.99) should turn you off burgers, or else cause you to reassess your diet.

Unlike the following film this episodic plotline affair doesn’t work since the handful of stories never quite connect.

New Yorker Robert Downey Jr. will star as the latest Marvel Comics superhero to hit the big screen in the US.

The technique of animating live action gives this drama of drugs and special agents tracking it down the look of those drawn, adult comics.

Former hellraiser Robert Downey Jr joked today that “25 years of drugs research” helped prepare him for his new film.

The Howard Hughes epic The Aviator led Academy Awards contenders with 11 nominations today, best picture among them, plus acting honours for Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett and Alan Alda and a directing slot for Martin Scorsese.

Three of Hollywood director Richard Linklater's ex-classmates are suing Universal Studios, after enduring jokes over characters based on them in Dazed And Confused.

Ethan Hawke's shock split from wife Uma Thurman inspired the bittersweet musings of his character Jesse in eagerly-anticipated sequel Before Sunset.

SPIDER-MAN 2 pulled in a record $180 million in its first six days in US cinemas and obliterated other box-office highs over the Fourth of July weekend.

A fun movie which manages to be old-fashioned - off-beat teacher at a snooty college gets the snooty kids into rock 'n' roll and annoys their snooty parents and snooty teachers - as well as charmingly funny and richly entertaining.

Oscar-nominated star Ethan Hawke is to star in a movie being filmed over a 12-year period, it was reported today.