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Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet and her director husband Sam Mendes have separated after six years of marriage.
The Hollywood A-listers’ split was “amicable”, the British couple’s lawyer says.
Winslet, winner of the 2009 best actress Oscar for The Reader, married Mendes, awarded the best director Oscar in 2000 for American Beauty, in May 2003.
“Kate and Sam are [...]

Low-budget Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker has dominated the 82nd Academy Awards, scooping six Oscars including best picture.
The tension-filled film – about a US Army bomb disposal squad in Baghdad – blew away the competition, with Kathryn Bigelow becoming the first woman to win the best director Oscar.
“This really is, there’s no other way [...]

The Hurt Locker” sweeps six Oscars at the 82 nd Academy Awards including Sound Mixing, Film Editing, Original Screenplay, Direction and Motion Picture.
THE OSCAR WINNERS…
Best Picture: “ The Hurt Locker” bags its 6 th Oscar .
Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow wins the best director Oscar for “The Hurt Locker”. Kathryn Bigelow has become the [...]

LOS ANGELES: Too predictable. That’s the persistent complaint about the Academy Awards, whose drama generally is sapped by a glut of earlier award shows that spell out what films will win at the Oscars before the show starts.
Not this time — at least for Sunday’s top prize, and maybe the weekend’s threatening weather. With the [...]

LONDON: Sandra Bullock is on the brink of a rare double this weekend which could see her become the first actress to win an Oscar and a slightly less-coveted Razzie award in the space of 24 hours.
The star is regarded as the favorite to win the best actress prize at Sunday’s Oscars for her performance [...]

New York, March 5 (ANI): Fans have already given an Oscar to James Cameron’’s Avatar – the 3-D sci-fi saga bagged 33.7 percent votes in the Moviefone.com survey to emerge as Best Picture.
But readers named Cameron’’s ex-wife as the Best Director.
Kathryn Bigelow, who helmed “The Hurt Locker,” received 39 percent votes as she outscored her [...]

London, Mar 5 (ANI): Halle Berry has revealed she will be watching this year’’s Academy Awards on television at her home.
The actress plans to enjoy it in a relaxed mood, instead of treading on the red carpet.
Berry said she would be “in my jim-jams at home with a glass of wine,” reports the Daily Star.
In [...]

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Sadbhavna Divas is celebrated on August 20 in India in the memory of Late prime minister Rajeev Gandhi’s birth anniversary, the man who believed in peace.
Importance of the [...]

Washington, July 11 (ANI): Charlize Theron is the sexiest actress who has posed nude, according to two experts.

RadarOnline.com roped in renowned photographers Bradford Rogne and Helene DeLillo to rank 12 of the sexiest of female thespians who have left nothing to the imagination.

And the duo combined their years of expertise behind the lens to choose [...]

London, June 26 (ANI): The Dark Knight is continuing to add to its list of film awards as it recently lifted five trophies at the Annual Saturn Awards.

The film was named Best Action-Adventure Thriller, while late star Heath Ledger was honoured posthumously as Best Supporting Actor.

The batman flick starring Christian Bale also took prizes [...]

London, May 14 (ANI): Beyonce and T.I. have won five nominations each at the 2009 Black Entertainment Television (BET) Awards.

The actress would compete with Dreamgirls co-star Jennifer Hudson in the Female R and B Artist of the Year and the Best Actress category.

The stunning singer further bagged a nomination for a Viewers’ Choice award at [...]

London, May 10 (ANI): ‘Coronation Street’ star Michelle Keegan has bagged the award for the Sexiest Female in soap.

The 21-year-old, who plays Tina McIntyre, won the award at the 11th British Soap Awards.

‘EastEnders’ received the Best Soap award for the second year running, reports the Daily Express.

Barbara Windsor won the Lifetime Achievement award for, as [...]

New York, April 25 (ANI): Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange have trashed reports of a spat over the forthcoming Emmy Awards nominations for their work in Grey Gardens.

The two stars had been rumoured to have had their differences over who had the claim [...]

Here is good news for Asins fans.
The big news doing the rounds is that the renowned Singapore-based International Tamil Film Awards (ITFA) will honor the South Indian beauty on May 16.
Asin will get an award in the best actress category for Kamal Haasan’s magnum opus Dasavathaaram at Singapore Expo Max Pavilion.
The Hindi version of the [...]

London, April 20 (ANI): Bruce Lee’s kung fu master’s biopic, ‘Ip Man’, has bagged the Best Picture trophy at the annual Hong Kong film awards.

But other top accolades such as Best Director and Best Actress went to ‘The Way We Are’, based on with the [...]

Washington, Mar 24 (ANI): Hollywood actress Christina Applegate, who was diagnosed with breast cancer last year, has revealed that it was her sense of humour that helped her cope with the disease.

Applegate tells that “the only way to cope” with the disease was laughing throughout the painful treatment.

The 37-year-old is cancer-free since having a [...]

Washington, Mar 18 (ANI): Nicolas Cage says that he is indebted to Cher for helping him become a Hollywood star.

The ‘City Of Angels’ star has said that he is thankful to the singer-cum-actress because she fought to land him a role alongside her in the Oscar-winning movie ‘Moonstruck’.

Studio bosses were not very keen on casting [...]

Mumbai, Mar 13 (ANI): After winning accolades on international arena, ‘Videsh-Heaven on Earth’, a film on domestic violence by director Deepa Mehta, is all set for release in India.

‘Videsh’ revolves around the life of a young girl from rural hinterland of Punjab who migrates to Canada [...]

London, Mar 11 (ANI): American actor Johnny Depp has come out tops for a Best Actor Oscar in a new online survey, to find out, which star is most overdue an Academy Awards win.

After Kate Winslet’s 2009 Best Actress win, website GoldDerby.com has asked readers to pick the star most [...]

London, Mar 9 (ANI): Actor Patrick Stewart has bagged one of the biggest theatre honours, the Laurence Olivier award, for his role of Claudius in ‘Hamlet’.

Stewart has got the award for the third time, while his first Olivier dates back to 1979 for ‘Anthony and Cleopatra’.

This time, the actor received the award for best supporting [...]