DHAKA: Cate Blanchett has officially swept awards season with yet another win for Best Actress at the 2014 Academy Awards held at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday (March 2) in Hollywood.The 44-year-old actress was nominated at every award show across the board this season for her work as a

DHAKA: Historical drama 12 Years a Slave has won best picture at the 86th Academy Awards, while space drama Gravity won the lion`s share of awards.Gravity`s Alfonso Cuaron became the first Latino to win the best director award, adding to the film`s six Oscars for technical achievement,

DHAKA: Alfonso Cuarón Orozco, a Mexican film director, won the 86th Academy Award for best director award for his “Gravity”. Angelina Jolie and Sidney Poitier presented best director award.Gravity is a 2013 British-American science-fiction thriller and space drama film.Alfonso

DHAKA: Animated film ‘Frozen’ has won the 86th Academy Awards in Animated feature category, defeating a field that included The Croods, Despicable Me 2 and Hayao Miyazaki`s The Wind Rises.Produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, and based on the Hans Christian Andersen story The

DHAKA: The final countdown to the Oscars has begun, with space thriller ‘Gravity’ expected to scoop multiple awards at Sunday’s ceremony in Los Angeles.The 3D film is likely to dominate the technical categories, with Alfonso Cuaron tipped for best director.But Oscar watchers have

DHAKA: The gravity and sincerity expressed in Steve McQueen’s ‘12 Years a Slave’ will help to educate children in America as the National School Boards Association has made it mandatory that US public high schools add it to their curriculum in connection with talkshow host and

DHAKA: Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher are reportedly engaged.The 30-year-old actress has sparked rumours her boyfriend of nearly two years has proposed after she was spotted wearing a diamond sparkler on her ring finger while out shopping in Los Angeles in California.A source confirmed the

DHAKA: The filming of the movie was put on hold in November, 2013, after actor Paul Walker died in a fiery car crash in California, but the shooting is said to start in April.Reports femalefirst.co.uk, says contactmusic.com.At the time of his death, Walker was more than halfway through

DHAKA: Star Cineplex arranged the Dhaka-premiere of Oscar winning Hollywood blockbuster movie ‘Avatar’ in 3D at its halls in Bashundhara City Shopping Mall in city’s Panthapath area.This action, adventure and fantasy movie was premiered on Thursday evening.It will be screened at

DHAKA: Rihanna fuelled rumours suggesting she and rapper Drake have rekindled their romance, after making a surprise appearance at his concert in Paris.The Started From the Bottom hitmaker was performing at the Palais Omnisports de Paris Bercy venue in France when he brought his pal

DHAKA: R&B star Akon has launched an ambitious environmental project in Africa to provide electricity to one million households by the end of the year.‘The Smack That’ hitmaker has teamed up with charity officials and bosses of local corporations for the Akon Lighting Africa campaign,

DHAKA: Star Cineplex will arrange the Dhaka-premiere of Oscar winning Hollywood blockbuster movie ‘Avatar’ in 3D at its halls in Bashundhara City Shopping Mall in city’s Panthapath area.This action, adventure and fantasy movie will be screened at 6:30pm on February 27.Avatar is a

DHAKA: An Evening of Sarod Recital by eminent artist Ms Rajrupa Chowdhury will be held at 6:30 PM on February 28 at Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre. IGCC in association with Asian Paints, IRCON and Marico Bangladesh will organize the programme.Ms. Rajrupa Chowdhury was born at Kolkata,

DHAKA: Impressed by her performance in National Award winning Tamil film ‘Vazhakku En 18/9’, filmmaker Seenu Ramasamy has roped in Manish Yadav in upcoming drama ‘Idam Porul Eval’.She will essay the role of a girl belonging to a farmer`s family in the film.‘I really liked

DHAKA: Actor and director Harold Ramis, best known for the films ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Groundhog Day’, has died aged 69.He died of autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis, a rare disease that involves swelling of the blood vessels, his agent told the BBC.The star found fame as

DHAKA: R&B singer Robin Thicke and his actress wife Paula Patton said that they have separated after nearly 10 years of marriage.Blurred Lines singer Thicke, who caused a sensation with a raunchy MTV Video Music Awards performance last year with Miley Cyrus, and Patton met as teenagers

DHAKA: Police say actor Sam Worthington has been arrested in New York City for punching a photographer after the man kicked Worthington’s girlfriend, Lara Bingle, in the shin.The 37-year-old Avatar actor was arrested on an assault charge following the incident Sunday evening.The actor

DHAKA: Priyanka Chopra, Arjun Kapoor and Ranveer Singh starrer ‘Gunday’ is the latest film to join the Rs 100 crore club, albeit only if we include the worldwide collections.Directed by Ali Abbas Zafar, ‘Gunday’ released on the viable Valentine’s Day and box office collection

DHAKA: A critical and commercial success, ‘Frozen’ marks a second renaissance for Walt Disney’s legendary film studio, and is widely tipped to win its first ever Oscar for best animated feature next weekend.The movie, which has made nearly US$1 billion, is the culmination of a

DHAKA: Foreign Ministry’s attention has been drawn to the media reports and reaction of people particularly in the social networking sites on the Hindi film ‘Gunday’ which has recently been released in India.The disclosure came from a press release issued by External Publicity Wing