Ellen DeGeneres juontaa 2014 Oscarit

Talk-show emäntä Ellen DeGeneres tulee juontamaan ensi kevään Oscar-gaalan. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, paremmin tunnettu lyhenteellä AMPAS, on juuri ilmoittanut, että jo kertaalleen taitonsa todistanut koomikko pääsee uudelleen Dolby Theatren lavalle viihdyttämään elokuvamaailman edustajia ja miljoonia tv-lähetystä seuraavia katsojia.

Golden Globe nominees revealed

Award statues from the 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards.

The nominees of the 2012 Golden Globe Awards were revealed today. With several nominations in their names, The Artist, The Descendants and The Help are all strengthening their spots as the front-runners of this year's awards season.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the contestants of The 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards this afternoon in Los Angeles. This year there are 67 film and TV titles competing in 25 categories.

King's Speech reigns at BAFTA

This year's BAFTA Awards were held tonight at the Royal Opera House in London. As could have been anticipated from the film's earlier successes, the British production The King's Speech swept the Awards by winning in seven categories. (The film was nominated in 14.) The royal film grabbed the award for both the Best Film and (obviously) the Best British Film.

Best Leading Actor this year according to the British Academy of Film and Television Arts was Colin Firth in his role as King George VI in The King's Speech. This was Firth's second consecutive win at the Awards since he won the same prize last year for Tom Ford's A Single Man. Last time an actor won in the same category two years in a row was when Rob Steiger won for his roles in The Pawnbroker (Sidney Lumet, 1964) and In The Heat Of The Night (Norman Jewison, 1967) in 1967 and 1968.

SAG Award Winners

The 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were held last night in Los Angeles. The SAG is the only organisation in which the winners of its awards are voted only by actors themselves - leaving out all the other peer groups such as directors, screenwriters and producers who all have their own awards to deal out.

Among this year's winners there are no surprises in the feature film categories. The award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture went to The Weinstein Company's factual drama The King's Speech. The film also received the award for best actor in a leading role as Colin Firth won for his performance as King George VI. Firth has now won three major awards for his role (Golden Globe, Critics Choice Award and SAG Award) and he is still nominated in the Academy and BAFTA Awards.

Tom Hooper gets DGA grand prize for The King's Speech

Tom Hooper (centre) directing Geoffrey Rush and Colin Firth on set of The King's Speech

Tom Hooper received his first big price last night for his new sensational film The King's Speech. The English director won the most anticipated award at the 63rd Annual Directors Guild of America Awards for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film.

This victory makes Hooper the front-runner to win the Oscar for Best Director at the end of February. In the history of the Academy Awards, the winners of the DGA Award and the Oscar for Best Director have been different only six times. Last time this happened in 2003 when Rob Marshall won the DGA Award for Chicago but lost the Oscar to Roman Polanski for The Pianist.