Black British actors should go west to Hollywood as quickly as they can because they won't find leading roles in the UK, David Harewood, the acclaimed National Theatre performer, has advised.

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By the time you read this, the handful of women inclined to order haute couture clothing will be off to their first show – cosmetic enhancement perfected, liveried drivers at the ready and with a limousine-required wardrobe to match.

On Saturday night, in a cinema in Dalston, the audience clapped. They may or may not have clapped after the event that took place next, which was a "happening", involving live, human beings, and which sounded to me as weird as the outfits of the trilby-headed hipsters I had to squeeze past. But what they clapped when I was there wasn't human, and it wasn't alive. What they clapped was a film that had just finished called The Artist.

Silent film The Artist swept the board tonight when it won three awards at the London Film Critics' Circle awards.

As Downton Abbey takes US TV by storm, its creator is under attack from America's favourite British historian

As sharp-tongued comedian Ricky Gervais is invited back to present the Golden Globes for the third time this Sunday, we take a look at other shocking gong-giving occasions

Spy drama set to battle it out with Marilyn biopic as long-list of nominees is revealed

When Harvey Weinstein phoned his brother and business partner, Bob, from this year's Cannes Film Festival and announced that he had just spent "a lot of millions" acquiring a silent, black-and-white movie by a little-known French director, he is said to have received a two-word response: "You're mad!"

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has always been an eccentric organisation. How, you wonder, can the small troop of foreign critics based in LA have overlooked the claims of Terrence Malick's Palme d'Or winner, The Tree Of Life? Why is The Ides Of March – such a middling thriller – being so feted? How did Angelina Jolie suddenly appear from left field to secure a Foreign Language nomination for her Bosnian-set directorial debut In The Land Of Blood And Honey? (It has not been widely seen or reviewed.)

Angelina Jolie's latest turn as an animated big cat is all about family and taking responsibility – two things the Hollywood actress knows plenty about, she tells Gill Pringle

Exhilaration can turn to ashes in the beat of a heart. Build this knowledge into your expectations

Ricky Gervais has filmed a cameo appearance for the US 'Office'.