Australian Directors Guild Awards will honour the memory of director Esben Storm with the announcement today of the Esben Storm Award for Best Direction in a Children’s Television Program. Storm passed away last March after a career spanning 40 years. ...

Betty White in the audience at the 39th AFI Life Achievement Awards on June 9, 2011, in Culver City, Calif. (CBS) Betty White won her first Grammy Sunday during the pre-telecast of the 54th Annual Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Word Album beating out...

Cut to yesterday, and actor-on-the-rise Sullivan Stapleton - a break-out performer in crime smash Animal Kingdom - was cast as the lead in the Warner Bros swords-and-sandals blockbuster 300: The Battle of Artemisia. Pictures: 2010 AFI Awards red carpet...

The AFI Life Achievement Award tribute to Morgan Freeman will premiere on TV Land on Saturday, June 19 at 9PM ET/PST. (Photo by Christopher Polk/Getty Images for AFI) Chrysler isn’t the only company benefiting from a Clint Eastwood endorsement.The...

Robert Downey Jr. (L) and wife Susan Downey arrive at the 36th AFI Life Achievement Award tribute to Warren Beatty held at the Kodak Theatre on June 11, 2008 in Hollywood, California. (Frederick M. Brown, Getty Images for AFI) Robert Downey, Jr. and his...

Continuing the Oscar theme today, we have a triple-shot from arguably the greatest director to never win an Oscar: Alfred Hitchcock. A couple weeks ago, Rebecca, Spellbound, and Notorious made their Blu-ray debuts. These are three of his earliest...

Windom (best known for the sitcom My World and Welcome to It) as the prosecutor, Mr. Gilmer. Robert Duvall made his film debut as Arthur “Boo” Radley. Mary Badham played Scout, and received a supporting-actress Oscar nomination. The Robert...

9 - LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 05: Rihanna performs for her 'Loud' tour at The O2 Arena on October 5, 2011 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Dave J Hogan/Getty Images) BEVERLY HILLS, CA - JANUARY 15: TV Personality Kim Kardashian arrives at 13th...

The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards, formerly the AFI Awards, have been announced in Sydney, with many of the awards going to book adaptations. The award for best film went to Red Dog, based on the novel by Louis De...

George Clooney arrives at the 12th Annual AFI Awards held at the Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills on January 13, 2012 in Beverly Hills, California. (Kevin Winter, Getty Images for AFI) George Clooney is opening up his Hollywood home for...

But clearly there's still work to do. The delayed and truncated telecast on Nine attracted a miserable 314,000 viewers nationally. To put that into context, the film and TV industry's so-called night of nights was convincingly beaten by the likes of...

Clint Eastwood arrives at the 12th Annual AFI Awards held at the Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills on January 13, 2012 in Beverly Hills, California. (Alberto E. Rodriguez, Getty Images) Justin Timberlake will star with Clint Eastwood as...

Henshall has won best lead actor in the AFI awards. Picture: Jay Town Source: HWT Image Library Daniel Henshall, who won the AACTA best lead actor award last night for his chilling portrayal of serial killer John Bunting in the low-budget drama...

Photo: Getty Images Presiding over all the glamour was Geoffrey Rush, who has been darting back and forth across the Pacific in pursuit of his duties as the first president of our academy. Oh, yes; there was the small matter of picking up an Australian...

Photo: Getty Images Presiding over all the glamour was Geoffrey Rush, who has been darting back and forth across the Pacific in pursuit of his duties as the first president of our academy. Oh, yes; there was the small matter of picking up an Australian...

The Red Carpet was hosted by Richard Wilkins and Julia Morris, but the interview with Megan Gale turned into an advertorial for David Jones (complete with in-store footage), not exactly fitting for a prestigious event looking to realign itself. That...

Brooks (pictured peforming at the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award tribute to Morgan Freeman last June in Los Angeles) turns in an intimate, laid-back and all-acoustic show at the Encore Theater in Las Vegas. It was more a case of “for now, at least.” ...

Source: Supplied THE new acronym, AACTA, appears to have stuck. For the embattled artists' group formerly known as the Australian Film Institute that should be enough after the misguided attempt not so long ago to dub our annual film and TV awards the...

These include "Fearful Symmetry," a documentary on the making of the film; "A Conversation with Gregory Peck"; Peck's acceptance speech when he won his "Mockingbird" Oscar, along with his acceptance of the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award; a segment of...