The London Evening Standard has handed out a set of film prizes which will not be familiar to most seasoned awards observers.Colin Firth – who’s won every Best Actor honour that counts so far, including the Golden Globe and SAG Award – was beaten by Andrew Garfield, who’s nominated at [...]

The British film-maker Christopher Nolan has picked up the prestigious Writers Guild of America award for the Best Original Screenplay, as another set of industry professionals hand out their prizes in Hollywood, ahead of the Oscars at the end of this month.As he collected his award for Inception, he said [...]

The film composer John Barry — whose music for the James Bond films helped to define the Swinging Sixties — has died. He was seventy seven and suffered a heart attack.Born in York, Barry was schooled in church music as a child, started a successful pop group and began [...]

America’s Screen Actors Guild has handed out its annual awards for achievement in film and television acting.The film categories are seen as the most reliable indicators of who will win the corresponding Oscars, because the cohort of voters is largely the same.Melissa Leo and Christian Bale took the supporting awards [...]

The British film-maker Tom Hooper has won the Directors’ Guild of America award for the Best Director, for The King’s Speech — about King George the Sixth’s relationship with his Australian speech therapist.The award is seen as the most reliable pointer to who might win correspondent Oscar.Only six times in [...]

The British actor Pete Postlethwaite, who died earlier this month, has been honoured by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts with an BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actor, as a flower-loving gang boss in Ben Affleck’s The Town. He received three BAFTA TV nominations, but this is his [...]

Britain’s man-of-the-moment in Hollywood, Colin Firth, has kicked off what he hopes will be a year to fill his awards cabinet with a star on the Walk of Fame.Just days after picking up a prize in Palm Springs, for his latest performance as the stammering George VI in The King’s [...]