The red carpet has been rolled out as Down welcomed home Oscar-winning director Terry George.

'The Shore' has won the Oscar for Live Action Short Film.

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

A year-and-a-half after she died of cancer aged 49, the daughter of a Cork father and a Limerick mother has been nominated at this year’s Oscars for her adapted screenplay, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

RTE's hit drama 'Love/Hate' looks set to clean up at the 2012 IFTAs this year, with ten nominations announced today.

Colm Meaney’s character is reduced to living in his car in the new Irish feature film Parked, Pádraic Killeen reports.

The man whose heroism in the face of genocide was portrayed in the film 'Hotel Rwanda' was warned today he could face charges of financing terror.

The FBI worked with local authorities in the UK as part of an investigation into claims that Michael Jackson made a sexually explicit phone call to a 13-year-old boy, documents released today show.

IF he had called off his hunger strike, Bobby Sands would be 54 and still, very possibly, the MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone.

Three of Ireland’s top film stars will be honoured in Hollywood just days ahead of the Academy Awards, it was announced today.

Acclaimed film director Jim Sheridan plans to make a major television drama series which would hammer a nail into the coffin of the conflict in the North, he revealed today.

Oscar-nominated Terry George, back in his native city to launch the Belfast Film Festival, had some down-to-Earth comments about life in Hollywood, where he now lives.

Moviemaker Terry George, born in Belfast and famous for 'Hotel Rwanda', will be back home to kick-start the Belfast Film Festival, running from April 10-19. His new film 'Reservation Road' gets a premier.

THE Hollywood writers strike has forced producers to postpone work on the Tom Hanks movie Angels and Demons, a prequel to the worldwide blockbuster The Da Vinci Code.

An Irish language film has been submitted for an Oscar for the first time ever, it emerged today.

HOLLYWOOD royalty turned out in force in Los Angeles on Thursday night to honour Van Morrison, Terry George and William Monahan for their writing and contribution to film.

It was a wild night indeed for Van Morrison in LA last night when he was presented with an award for his contribution to film by Al Pacino.

HOLLYWOOD celebrities Penelope Cruz and Kate Winslet head the nominations for the glitzy Irish Film and Television Awards.

IT’S not often that an Oscar-nominated movie director helps out with your school project.

Irish-born director Terry George, who was nominated for an Oscar for Hotel Rwanda, is set to direct Reservation Road with Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Garner in the US in October.

Rwandan president Paul Kagame has criticised the Oscar-nominated movie Hotel Rwanda for not portraying his country's 1994 genocide accurately.

Elton John and David Furnish were given a rousing reception by well-wishers today after tying the knot in one of the first "gay weddings" in England and Wales.

STRAPPY gowns and forceful frowns were the special ingredients that went into making it the biggest night of the year on the Irish social calendar.

More news of Belfast-born writer-director Terry George's project: American Gangster, about Harlem 1970s drug boss, Frank Lucas.

Sunday is the big day for Oscar glory … and the Irish will be there in force.

SCOTTISH actor Robert Carlyle joined hundreds of film lovers at a red carpet premiere to open the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival last night.

Tickets are in hot demand for a host of Irish films set to premiere at the Jameson Dublin International Film festival, it has emerged tonight.

Belfast writer Terry George has been nominated for an Oscar for his movie Hotel Rwanda.

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.

Two Irish films - Asylum and Hotel Rwanda - are bound for the Berlin International Film Festival next month.

Irish films grabbed honours in three of the top categories in the Toronto International Film Festival.

Arts Minister John O'Donoghue has added his tributes to three Irish film-makers who enjoyed success at the Toronto International Film Festival this weekend.

A movie about the Omagh bomb was one of two Irish films to scoop a top prize at a major Canadian film festival.