French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius took the top award from the Directors Guild of America for "The Artist" on Saturday, beating out Woody Allen for "Midnight in Paris" and Martin Scorsese for "Hugo".
The 62nd annual Berlin film festival revealed its selections Monday, including a 9/11 family drama with Tom Hanks (pictured left) and "The Flowers of War" from Zhang Yimou, on Japan's brutal World War II-era occupation of the Chinese city of Nanking.
The non-profit website ProPublica won its first outright Pulitzer prize Monday and the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times each won two, while novelist Jennifer Egan picked up the Pulitzer for fiction.
Moroccan film maker Mohamed Mouftakir's (pictured right) "Pegase", a movie that deals with the difficult themes of identity, rape and incest, won the top prize at the Pan African Film Festival of Ouagadougou Saturday, Africa's largest film festival.
Country-pop trio Lady Antebellum (pictured) walked away the big winner at Sunday's Grammy awards ceremony with a total of five prizes.Canadian rock band Arcade fire took the event's top hounour of album of the year for "The Suburbs".
British royal drama The King’s Speech picked up a handful of prizes Sunday at the BAFTA awards ceremony, along with other winners, Inception and The Social Network – a foretaste of the Academy Awards in Hollywood later this month.
Time magazine on Wednesday named Mark Zuckerberg, founder of the Facebook social networking site, its Person of the Year for 2010. The magazine bestows the honour to the person it feels has done the most to influence world events in the past year.
Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas (pictured) was awarded the Sakharov human rights prize Thursday by the European parliament. Farinas, a journalist and psychologist, has used hunger strikes to call attention to the situation in his homeland.
Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa have won the Pritzker Prize for their use of light and transparency in buildings across the globe. The award is often described as the architectural equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
In this edition, we look back at the 'César', France's annual version of the Oscars, which took place this weekend. Lisa Nesselson then tells us about the winners and how the César differ from the Oscars.
