While fashion faux pas and speech gaffes are to be expected, every year the short-list of nominees demonstrates the glaring inconsistencies within the Academy voting system. How can a director, who has a film nominated for Best Picture, not be short-listed for Best Director?

Everyone dreams of earning a fortune. While a lucky few achieve wealth beyond their wildest dreams, most of us have to settle for something a littl...

Michael Fassbender's provocative movie Shame has been banned from release in Singapore after director Steve Mcqueen refused to cut an explicit sex sce...

Issues of race dominated the Oscars this year, with talk rife over Billy Crystal's controversial black-face sketch, Octavia Spencer's emotion acceptance speech, and Viola Davis' unexpected defeat at the hands of Meryl Streep.

Veteran actress Ali McGraw regrets not demanding more money from her ex-husbands, including Steve McQueen, branding her "romantic" notion of her divor...

Michael Fassbender joked that it was his director Steve McQueen's fault he kept appearing nude on the big screen. The Irish-American actor scooped ...

Like a lingering disease cured only by cuts to the most nefarious bits of your running time, the NC-17 has long been the leper of US distribution. Many American cinema chains both refuse to promote and flat out refuse to show NC-17 rated films due to the institutionalised stigma that comes with them.

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Michael Fassbender has won the best actor prize at the Venice Film Festival for his role in the British film Shame. The German...

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- For Steve McQueen, there was no better place than Manhattan to film Shame, his new film that portrays the life of a 30-something ...