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.

'Britain’s Got Talent' has received its first ever nomination for a Bafta television award.

Daniel Day Lewis and Michael Caine are to be honoured at the British Independent Film Awards in London tonight.

Hollywood star Daniel Day-Lewis is to receive an honour from the British Independent Film Awards.

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

Dustin Hoffman, Clint Eastwood and Josh Brolin were among the stars honoured at this year's Hollywood Film Festival Awards Gala in Los Angeles.

Michael Gambon and Stephen Rea will be joined by Colin Firth, Jim Broadbent, Penelope Wilton, Sophie Okonedo and James Bolam in a special film of Harold Pinter's play Celebration for Brit TV channel, More4. The production airs in December.

Oscar glory went to Clint Eastwood and his boxing movie Million Dollar Baby at the Academy Awards ceremony last night.

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.

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.

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.