An early whispering campaign has already begun in Hollywood for a posthumous Oscar to be awarded to Heath Ledger for his brilliant performance of the villainous Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight.

The 80th Annual Academy Awards have come and gone. It’s time we start looking at the contenders for the 81st round of Oscar gold.

This film is a dreadful bore and a gigantic, glaring disappointment.

The nominations are out, now it is time to talk about them…

Mel Gibson needs booze money… Let’s have another release of Braveheart on DVD!

For a moment there, you may have thought that you had seen the last of “The Oscar Beat”, our now annual feature that brings you the best (and worst) of Awards season.