Screen Actors Guild Award Predictions

The excitement of the Oscar nominations has barely settled when the stars will once again walk down the red carpet on Sunday night for the 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards

Director's Chair: Ron Howard

Ron Howard is the man behind some of cinema's most memorable movies including Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind and The Da Vinci Code and he is one of the most successful director's at work in Hollywood at the moment

British Oscar Success

So as expected it's Slumdog Millionaire that leads the British charge at this year's Academy Awards with an impressive ten nominations, including one for Best Picture

Jason Statham Q&A

Jason Statham, 36, has established himself as one of the world’s biggest action stars with his formidable body of work to date, culminating in this summer’s Death Race.

Film Family Tree: The Barrymore's

There are some family names that are just synonymous with the movies and Barrymore is one of them with the like of Lionel and John Barrymore, and more recently Drew having all enjoyed major cinema success

Benjamin Button Leads Oscar Race

With the announcement of the Oscar nominations this afternoon The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has cause to celebrate as it leads the field with thirteen nominations, including Best Picture

The Rise of Anne Hathaway

Anne Hathaway made a name for herself back in 2001 in Disney's The Princess Diaries alongside Julie Andrews. And over the last seven years the twenty six year old has transformed herself from family favourite to serious Oscar contender

Jack Black Q&A

2008 was a great year for funny man Jack Black with the summer smash Kung Fu Panda before joinging ben Stiller and Robery Downey Jr on war comedy Tropic Thunder

Heath Ledger Remembered

It's expected that the first anniversary of Heath Ledger's death will be marked by the actor receiving a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his role as The Joker in The Dark Knight.

Awards Watch: The Love Guru Leads Razzies

The movie world might be waiting for the announcement of this year's Oscar nomination but the nominations that everyone was dreading were revealed yesterday for the Razzies

Actors to Directors

More and more actors are turning their hand to directing with the likes of Ben Still, Ben Affleck and Denzel Washington have all stepped behind the camera in the last eighteen months

The Story of Valkyrie

Valkyrie is just the latest war movie to make it on to the big screen in recent months starring Tom Cruise in the role of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg

Ben Stiller Q&A

Ben Stiller made his directorial debut back in 1994 with Reality Bites before going on to direct The Cable Guy with Jim Carrey in 1996.

Milk Laps Up Awards Success

Following in the footsteps of Happy Go Lucky and Slumdog Millionaire political drama Milk, which stars Sean Penn, is also having a great run during the awards season

Awards Watch: More Success for Wall-E

There was more award success for Wall-E as it once again captured the Best Picture gong at the Online Film Critics Society Awards

The Power of the Biopic

If the Academy like anything on the run up to award season is the biopic picture, a film genre that seems to have dominated cinema screens of late

The Best of the B Movie

The blockbuster movie has become a dominating force at the box office over recent years, 2008 being a prime example, that now much loved B movies are getting the big bucks makeover

Where Are They Now? - Justin Henry

Justin Henry made his big screen debut as a child actor in 1979 in Kramer vs. Kramer alongside Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep.

Cinema Masterpieces: Brief Encounter

Sundance Weekend Round-Up

After the rather quiet opening of this year's Sundance Film Festival proceedings are now well and truly underway as we enter day four of the festival

The Best of Sean Penn

Ones to Watch: Taraji P. Henson

American actress Taraji P. Henson is best known for her roles in Baby Boy and Hustle and Flow back in 2005 but it's her new film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, alongside Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, that is really catching the attention of both audiences and critics.

Cinema's Best Sporting Moments

The Wrestler is just the latest movie in the popular genre of the sports movie in recent years that follows Randy 'The Ram' Robinson a wrestler who is trying to recapture his glory years, despite the detrimental effect that it could have on his health

Foreign Cinema: Best French Movies

So this week French cinema has been the focus of the movie pages on FemaleFirst looking at it's development as well as some of it's most famous stars. Today we take another look at French cinema to try and uncover some of it's most popular and famous movies