Hollywood actress Kate Winslet and director Sam Mendes have announced that they have split after 6 years of marriage.

Reports say that the 34-year-old Titanic actress split from her husband, American Beauty director Sam earlier this year and it was mutual. They have a child together, six-year-old Joe Alfie Winslet Mendes.

According to a statement made from law firm Schillings, it said: “Kate and Sam are saddened to announce that they separated earlier this year. The split is entirely amicable and is by mutual agreement. Both parties are fully committed to the future joint parenting of their children. They ask that the media respect their privacy at this time.”

This was the second marriage for Oscar-winner Kate Winslet, who was previously married to film assistant Jim Threapleton in 1998. The couple divorced in 2001 and have one child, nine-year-old Mia.

via Gather

“I know what you did last summer” actress Jennifer Love Hewitt and boyfriend Jamie Kennedy have called it quits after a year of dating. The couple met for the first time on the sets of the TV show “Ghost Whisperer” and the reason for the split is not known at the moment.

The famous Hollywood actress had earlier told reporters that she and Jamie were the perfect match.

Jennifer Love Hewitt reportedly told Ellen on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, “There are people in your life who are just supportive and who just look at you and they see who you are. And Jamie really saw who I was as a person more than anybody had ever done in my whole life. I think that’s for me when I sort of went, ‘Oh, wow’.”

She went on to say that it was such a blessing working together on Ghost Whisperer since it meant that they didn’t have discuss their evenings since they were always together.

Now Jennifer Love Hewitt is back in the market!

Known for his role as Jim Phelps in the cool spymaster of television’s “Mission Impossible”, renowned actor Peter Graves has been found dead at 83 in his Los Angeles home, on Sunday. Graves’ business manager has announced that he died because of a heart attack.

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The 82nd Academy Awards took place last night at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center and was hosted by Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin.

Thee Hurt Locker was the big winner for the night and Kathryn Bigelow was the first woman to win the prestigious Best Director award.

Here is the list of the 2010 Academy Award Winners List:

Best Actor: Jeff Bridges, for “Crazy Heart”

Best Actress: Sandra Bullock, for “The Blind Side”

Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow, for “The Hurt Locker”

Best Picture: “The Hurt Locker”

Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, for “Inglourious Basterds”

Best Supporting Actress: Mo’Nique, for “Precious: Based on The Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire”

Best Animated Feature Film: “Up”

Best Original Song: “The Weary Kind (Theme From Crazy Heart),” music and lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett, for “Crazy Heart”

Best Documentary Short: “Music By Prudence”

Best Short Film (Live Action): “The New Tenants”

Best Short Film (Animated): “Logorama”

Best Adapted Screenplay: Goeffrey Fletcher, for “Precious: Based on The Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire”

Best Art Direction: “Avatar”

Best Costume Design: “The Young Victoria”

Best Sound Editing: “The Hurt Locker”

Best Sound Mixing: “The Hurt Locker”

Best Cinematography: “Avatar”

Best Original Score: “Up”

Best Visual Effects: “Avatar”

Sandra Bullock may have won the Oscars in the Best Actress category, but this lady also happened to win a Razzie for Worst Female Performance for her role in All About Steve just the previous day!

However, the “Miss Congeniality” star was as sporting as ever and said: “Something tells me you all didn’t really watch the film because I wouldn’t be here if you really, really watched it and understood what I was trying to say.”

Interestingly, she also won a Razzie for the Worst Screen Couple along with Bradley Cooper for “All About Steve”.

However, she made up for these negative awards by taking home the much sought after “Best Actress” Oscar at the 2010 Oscar Awards.

The 55th Filmfare Awards 2009 took place on 28th February 2010 at the Yash Raj Studios in Mumbai India.

The Filmfare Awards is one of the biggest awards for the Indian film industry. and is considered to be the Academy Awards of India. Actors Imran Khan and Ranbir Kapoor were the hosts for the event.

Amitabh Bachchan and Vidya Balan won best actor and actress respectively.

We have the list of some of the main winners of the 2009 Filmfare Awards here:

Best Actor in Supporting Role (Male): Arjun Rampal – Rock On!

Best Actor in Supporting Role (Female): Kangana Ranaut – Fashion

Best Dialogue: Mano Rishi for Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!

Best Screenplay: Yogendra Joshi, Bhupendra for Mumbai Meri Jaan

Best Story: Abhishek Kapoor – Rock On!

Best Music Director: A R Rahman – Jaane tu…

Best Lyrics: Javed Akhtar for Jashn-e-Bahara (Jodha Akbar)

Best Playback Singer (Male): Sukhwinder Singh for Haule haule (Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi)

Best Playback Singer (Female): Shreya Ghoshal for Teri ore… (Singh is Kinng)

Best Sensational Debut (Male): Farhan Akhtar and Imraan Khan

Best Sensational Debut (Female): Asin Thottumkal – Ghajini

Sony Filmfare Best Scene Award: Rab Ne Banadi Jodi

R D Burman Upcoming Talent: Benny Dayal for Ghajini

Twilight star Robert Pattinson’s rumored romance with Kristen Stewart has been leading to a lot of speculation over the past few months and now Pattinson has led to some more speculation after the BAFTA Awards after-party Sunday night.

Robert Pattison is known to have told reporters : “It is extremely difficult but we are together, yes. We can’t arrive at the same time because of the fans, it goes crazy. This was supposed to be a public appearance as a couple but it’s impossible. We are here together and it’s a public event but it’s not easy. We have to do all this stuff to avoid attention.”

But that still does not confirm whether the two are in a relationship or just co-stars. This statement was enough to get gossip columns talking and giving their opinions.

The Twilight actors reportedly who arrived at the BAFTA awards separately after the awards show was allegedly getting cozy with Kristen.

Eclipse, the third film in the Twilight saga, is expected to release in July this year.

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Miley Cyrus, famous for her role as Hannah Montana, will be a presenter along with Zac Efron, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner at the 2010 Academy Awards ceremony on March 7, 2010.

According to reports, the other presenters for the 2010 Academy Awards ceremony are Kate Winslet, Sean Penn and Penelope Cruz.

Penelope Cruz won the Best Supporting Actress award for Vicky Cristina Barcelona in 2009,and te Spanish actress has been nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category for her role in the movie Nine.

The Academy Awards is all set to take place at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles and the hosts for the event are ‘30 Rock’ star Alec Baldwin and “The Pink Panther” actor Steve Martin.

via OK

The BAFTA Awards took place yesterday in London and it had a surprise winner. Not Avatar, but instead it was “The Hurt Locker” that swept the awards.

The Hurt Locker, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, edged out rival James Cameron’s film Avatar to win the Best Film BAFTA Awards 2010.

The Hurt Locker won a total of six awards including Best film, Best director, Best Editing, Best Sound, Best Original screenplay, Best Cinematography.

Avatar won awards for Best Production Design and Best Visual Effects.

Here is the list of winners:

Best Film – The Hurt Locker
Best British Film – Fish Tank
Best Director – Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
Best Actor – Colin Firth, A Single Man
Best Actress – Carey Mulligan, An Education
Best Supporting Actor – Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Best Supporting Actress – Mo’nique, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Best Rising Star – Kristen Stewart
Best British Debut – Director Duncan Jones, Moon
Best Original Screenplay – The Hurt Locker
Best Editing – The Hurt Locker
Best Cinematography – The Hurt Locker
Best Production Design – Avatar
Best Visual Effects – Avatar
Best Sound – The Hurt Locker

via UKTN

Leader is a Telugu movie directed by Sekhar Kammula and produced by AVM Productions.

The main stars of the film are Rana Daggubati, Richa Gangopadhyay and Priya Anand and the main reason why this Telugu film is so hyped up is because Rana happens to be the grandson of D Rama Naidu and son of D Suresh Babu. This is also his first film as an actor.

The movie “Leader” was premiered in India on 19th Feb 2010..

Leader is about the wide disparity that exists between an ordinary politician and a ‘Leader’. Even though there are no physical fights in this film (like most Telugu movies), there is a lot of drama involved.

via DLN