Kenneth Branagh's Belfast lands six BAFTA nominations for 2022 Awards

Google Maps has taken a highly unusual move in a bid to keep people in Ukraine safe from the Russian military. Google has temporarily disabled its mapping service which provides live traffic data in Ukraine in a bid to mask how busy different areas are.

Law & Order actor Ned Eisenberg has died following a tragic battle with cancer.The actor is best known for playing Detective Hauser in the HBO drama Mare of Easttown alongside Kate Winslet and his work on Law & Order.In the series, he played defence attorney Roger Kressler in "Law & Order" and "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" which made him one of the series' most regular supporting characters.His wife, Patricia, has confirmed that he died on the weekend aged 65.She told TMZ: "As Ned would say, he was attacked by two very rare assassins — cholangiocarcinoma and ocular melanoma. "Over the course of two years, he bravely fought the cancers in private while continuing to work in show business to ensure that his medical coverage paid for himself and his family.”Ned has also acted in a bunch of successful films including Last Man Standing with Bruce Willis, Limitless and Million Dollar Baby.Other roles he had totted up over the years also include The Burning, Flags of Our Fathers and A Civil Action.The Tv and film star was born and raised in New York City and kicked off his love for acting while studying it in high school.He then went on to get his first film credit in 1980 and also toured the Broadway play "Bright Beach Memories." Ned also co-founded the Naked Angels Theatre Company back in 1987.He also starred roles on various 1980s television series such as The Equalizer and Miami Vice.This then led to a role in the television comedy The Fanelli Boys, which also featured actors Christopher Meloni and Joe Pantoliano.In 1999, he also appeared in the first season episode Denial, Anger, Acceptance as Ariel in the HBO series The Sopranos.

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EastEnders fans reckon they have finally discovered the date that killer Gray Atkins will be exiting the soap.Eagle-eyed viewers spotted the day that Toby-Alexander Smith's incarnation of the killer will finally depart Albert Square as they held out to see if he will wake up from his coma after he came to blows with rival Kheerat Panesar.Now fans have learnt that the leaving date has leaked online ahead of next week's run of showdown episodes for Gray.One fan took to Twitter to confirm the exodus for the chilling character, who has left a trail of bodies in his wake. The viewer revealed via a screenshot from the EastEnders Wikia page - which is run by fans - that Gray's final appearance on the BBC soap will come next week on Thursday, March 10.

Good news for White Lotus fans — the second installment of Mike White’s dark comedy series will be one episode bigger than the first. The expanded second season will consist of seven episodes, HBO confirmed today as production has started at the San Domenico Palace, Taormina, A Four Seasons Hotel, as well as in and around Sicily.

Ethan Shanfeld Honored today with a Hollywood Walk of Fame star, Benedict Cumberbatch paid tribute to his sister Tracy Peacock, who died of cancer last year, and called attention to the crisis in Ukraine at the unveiling ceremony, held Monday in Hollywood.“I want to mention my sister who we lost last year,” Cumberbatch said. “She would have loved this.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticAgatha Christie was born in 1890, and the heyday of movie adaptations of her novels goes quite a ways back (like, 70 or 80 years). The whole structure and flavor of this sort of delectably engineered whodunit, with its cast of suspects drawn in deliberate broad strokes and its know-it-all detective whose powers of deduction descend directly from Sherlock Holmes, is rooted in the cozy symmetry of the studio-system era.

Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of “Death on the Nile” begins with a sequence that is miles removed from Agatha Christie — indeed, it feels like a Branagh has spliced in a missing reel from “1917.” In an unbroken take, his camera snakes through a WWI-era foxhole, ending with the delivery of orders for a suicide mission. But maybe not.

Outlander'sCatriona Balfe has admitted she is "proud" after she and new film Belfast got a whopping six BAFTA nominations.

Clayton Davis Ballots are in, and the nail-biting portion of Oscar season has begun. Nominations for the 94th Academy Awards will be revealed on Feb.

Naman Ramachandran The BAFTA revealed a bunch of diverse nominations on Thursday and the talent behind the recognized films are understandably ecstatic.Jane Campion’s moody western “The Power of the Dog” scored eight nominations. Benedict Cumberbatch, best actor nominee for the film, said: “I’m deeply humbled and grateful to BAFTA for this nomination.

Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi epic Dune leads the 2022 British Academy Film Awards nominations with 11. The movie adaptation of Frank Herbert's epic, starring Timothee Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson and Oscar Isaac, topped the nominations when they were announced in London on Thursday.

 British Academy Film Awards have kicked things off by announcing the highly-anticipated nominations list for the 2022 ceremony. MORE: 9 movies to catch in the cinema in February 2022: Death on the Nile, The Duke, Marry Me and moreThis year's ceremony is set to take place on Sunday 13 March at the Royal Albert Hall and will be hosted by Australian actress Rebel Wilson.

bullying and abuse. Clarke denied accusations of sexual misconduct and the award finally had to be suspended. But this year’s list is very lively: the best director section is not lacking in inclusivity and good taste: Aleem Khan, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Audrey Diwan, Paul Thomas Anderson, Jane Campion and Julia Ducournau.

Sci-fi epic blockbuster “Dune” and Jane Campion’s dark Western “The Power Of The Dog” lead the nominations for this year’s British Academy Film Awards, with Benedict Cumberbatch, Leonardo DiCaprio and Lady Gaga among those up for leading actor awards.

Dune” and Jane Campion’s dark Western “The Power Of The Dog” lead the nominations for this year’s British Academy Film Awards, with Benedict Cumberbatch, Leonardo DiCaprio and Lady Gaga among those up for leading actor awards.“Dune,” starring Timothee Chalamet and Zendaya, received eleven nominations Thursday including best film, cinematography and original score. “The Power of the Dog,” set in 1920s Montana and starring Cumberbatch as a ranch owner, follows close behind with eight nominations, including best director and best film.Kenneth Branagh’s semi-autobiographical “Belfast,” which tells of a childhood in Northern Ireland during the bloody conflict known as The Troubles, was also nominated for best film and five other categories.

The BAFTA Film Awards nominations announced this afternoon in London offer up a diverse crop, and the highest number of female nominees on record; they’re also notable for a strong British presence and Will Smith’s first-ever mention.

Nominations for the 2022 BAFTA Film Awards have been unveiled. Scroll down for the full list.

Manori Ravindran International EditorThe British Academy of Film and Television Arts has unveiled its awards nominations, and they’re precisely the agents of chaos that many have been anticipating.Only the second edition of the BAFTA Film Awards since the institute’s groundbreaking diversity review in 2020, this year’s nominations are full of surprises that reflect a shifting membership. While James Bond movie “No Time to Die,” which grossed $131 million at the U.K.

Steven Spielberg, Jane Campion and Paul Thomas Anderson, this year’s Oscar race is proving unusually difficult to call. Here’s what you need to know about the Oscars 2022 nominations process.