Ryan Gosling's thriller Drive and the final Harry Potter installment lead the nominations for the 2012 Empire Awards.

Drive has landed five nods, with Gosling and his co-star Carey Mulligan both vying for Best Actor/Actress awards, while Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 also scored five nominations.

Both movies will compete for the Best Film prize, along with the American version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

Daniel Radcliffe will compete with Gosling for the Best Actor Prize, along with Daniel Craig (The ...

Ryan Reynolds has beaten Ryan Gosling to the top of a new list of hunks women would most like to cheat on their partners with.

Reynolds topped the Fitness magazine countdown with 14 percent of the vote, while Gosling was just one percent behind him. Taylor Lautner and Bradley Cooper tied for third place with 10 percent each.

The poll also revealed that 38 percent of the women asked to name the celebrity they'd consider having an affair with confessed they would cheat if given a free pass.

In a related survey, Reynolds' "The Proposal" co-star Sandra Bullock was the clear winner in a Class...

Ryan Gosling, Glenn Close and Michael Fassbender were among the big winners at the Irish Film and Television Awards (IFTA) in Dublin on Saturday night.

The Ides of March star saw off competition Don Cheadle, Leonardo DiCaprio and Gary Oldman to take home the Best International Actor trophy for his turn in Drive, while Close was named Best International Actress for Albert Nobbs.

Fassbender, who spent much of his childhood in Ireland, was honored with the Best Leading Actor for his turn in Shame, and other winners included Bridesmaids star Chris O'Dowd (Best Supporting Actor) and Irish actr...

Sexy Cuban actress Eva Mendes is Marie Claire magazine's March cover girl, and as expected she looks fantastic. The actress talks about Ryan Gosling, her boyfriend and co-star in upcoming film "The Place Beyond the Pines," as well as her looks and Hollywood idols.

On working with Ryan, she said, "He's your dream costar. I have never felt so creatively satisfied on a film." Their movie centers on a motorcycle stunt rider who considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child. This decision puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.

The stunning star ...

Ryan Gosling's martial arts trainer has given the actor top marks for dedication as he trains for a new boxing movie.

Muay Thai master Kiu Puk tells Life & Style magazine the star will wow film fans with his physique when he appears in "Only God Forgives" - and he deserves all the accolades and attention her gets for his perfect body, because he has worked hard to get in tip-top shape.

Kiu Puk reveals Gosling has been training for two hours a day, four days a week for the past two months - and he always comes prepared.

He says, "Ryan's disciplined and enthusiastic, and above all, he love...

Blonde beauty Rachel McAdams stars in the upcoming film "The Vow" about a man (Channing Tatum) who tries to win back his new bride's heart (McAdams) after she loses her memory in a tragic car accident. It hits theaters Feb. 10.

In honor of this sure-to-be tear jerker, we're looking back at some of McAdams' most interesting and popular roles:

Perfect Pie (2002)

This film centers on two girls and their prom night when one was sexually abused by more than one boy. McAdams was nominated for a Genie award (the Canadian equivalent of an Oscar) for her performance.

Mean Gir...

Ryan Gosling will miss out on the chance to pick up a trophy at the upcoming Golden Globes as he will be absent from the awards ceremony due to filming commitments.

The Notebook star is nominated for two Best Actor prizes, for The Ides of March and Crazy, Stupid, Love, at the ceremony which will take place in Los Angeles on Sunday night.

However, Gosling won't be in attendance to see if he wins because he is currently out of the country filming Only God Forgives, a new movie helmed by his Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn and set in Bangkok, Thailand.

The actor's representative tells P...

You've seen the rest, now see OUR best - Starpulse contributing editors Pete Weiss, Noelle Talmon, Kevin Blair & Casey Johnson bring you their favorites from the year that was - 2011. We've been watching & listening, too, and here's what we think are the best TV shows (Drama, Comedy & Reality), the best movie of the year, and the albums that had the most plays on our iPods...

Pete, Editorial

Best TV Show, Drama: Breaking Bad

The big networks should follow AMC's lead, as they continue to produce the best programs on television. Season 4 of Breaking Bad was no exception, great acting and...

Hip-hop superstar Kanye West has been named the "Most Stylish Celebrity of 2011."

The fashion-forward hitmaker beat his rap collaborator Kid Cudi to take the title in the Complex magazine poll, followed by actor Ryan Gosling at three.

The top five picks are rounded out by rap newcomer A$AP Rocky and superproducer Pharrell Williams in fourth and fifth place, respectively.

Others to make it on the "25 Most Stylish Celebrities of 2011" list include: Rick Ross (8), Jay-Z (10), Justin Bieber (14), Justin Timberlake (16), Swizz Beatz (19), Joseph Gordon-Levitt and a slimmed-down Jonah Hill (22...

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Drive look set to lead the 2012 London Film Critics' Circle awards after landing six nominations each.

Both movies have been named in the coveted film of the year category, alongside silent movie The Artist and The Tree of Life.

Gary Oldman is up for actor of the year for his role in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, against other contenders including George Clooney (The Descendants), Michael Fassbender (Shame), and Ryan Gosling (Drive).

Kirsten Dunst (Melancholia), Anna Paquin (Margaret), Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady), Michelle Williams (My Week With Marilyn), a...

Let's hear it for the boys! It's that time of year again when we honor the "37 Hottest Male Stars." Our list includes the usual suspects (Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt and George Clooney), as well as a younger crew (Taylor Lautner and Zac Efron).

Robert Pattinson dominated the big screen with "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1," and Ryan Gosling impressed critics with "Drive." We can't decide between who's the sexier magical creature on "True Blood" - Alexander Skarsgaard or Joe Manganiello.

Let's not forget the musicians: Adam Levine, Justin Bieber, Drake and other heartthrobs also make...

Action thriller Drive was the toast of the 2011 Satellite Awards on Sunday night, winning four of the ceremony's top honors.

Nicolas Winding Refn was named Best Director, while the movie's lead Ryan Gosling fought off competition from stars including George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio, Gary Oldman and Brad Pitt to take home the Best Actor prize.

Albert Brooks landed the Best Supporting Actor trophy, and Refn's movie also won the Best Sounding Editing prize.

However, Drive missed out on the Best Picture Of The Year award, which went to Clooney's The Descendants. The film, a top tip for ...

‘Tis the season… for Ricky Gervais to make nasty jokes and make Robert Downy Jr. blush…. Fa la la la la la la la la. That’s right, the Golden Globe nominations were announced this morning. There were a few surprises, a few snubs, and a few nominees that make you go, “Hmmmm”? Let’s break it down by Movie and TV categories.

Movies

Films like 'The Artist' and 'The Help' dominated, not surprisingly.

The most surprising inclusion here? ‘The Ides of March,’ which up ‘til now was considered an also-ran in awards season. But the film picked up nods for Best Drama, Best Director (George Clooney),...

Although The Protester is Time magazine's official Person of the Year, if you dig a little deeper, you can find that they, too, have a special place in their hearts for Ryan Gosling.

Dig deeper than those profiles of actual protestors, "People Who Mattered" (Adele and Abbas! Casey Anthony and Anonymous! Former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi and Kim Kardashian!), and world-shaking events like the Egyptian uprising, and you'll see that Gosling has been voted Coolest Person of the Year. Because, well, duh.

2011 saw the explosion of the young Canuck's career and a growing online fascination wi...

The Help, The Artist and The Descendants will be the ones to beat at the 2012 Golden Globe Awards after landing four nominations each.

The Help will go head-to-head with The Descendants in the Best Motion Picture (Drama) category alongside The Ides of March, Martin Scorsese's Hugo, Steven Spielberg's War Horse, and Moneyball.

The Help also received nods in the Best Performance by an Actress (Drama) category, thanks to Viola Davis, and Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, for Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer's work.

The Descendants scooped mentions for Best Performa...

George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Gary Oldman and Rooney Mara have shed their clean-cut images to channel creepy and villainous characters from Hollywood history for a magazine photoshoot.

The Up in the Air star has taken on the unpleasant role of tyrant Captain Bligh from Mutiny on the Bounty, while Pitt has opted to do his best impression of horror film actor Peter Lorre and portray Eraserhead's Henry Spencer for this week's issue of The New York Times Magazine.

Clooney says, "I picked Captain Bligh because I liked his hat. Bad guys don't think they're bad guys. In film, the best evil perfor...

The Artist and Hugo have both been given major Oscars boosts after landing 11 nominations apiece for the 2012 Critics' Choice Awards.

The two films, which have already picked up early awards, will compete for the Best Picture at the 17th annual Critics' Choice Awards, as selected by the Broadcast Film Critics Association in America.

They will be up against Midnight in Paris, Drive, The Help, Moneyball, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Tree of Life and War Horse.

George Clooney (The Descendants), Jean Dujardin (The Artist), Ryan Gosling (Drive), Brad Pitt (Moneyball), Michael F...

Could Olivia Wilde be dating funnyman Jason Sudeikis? That's the hot rumor going around, and US Weekly has a source saying the couple is not exactly trying to hide it.

In this week's issue a source tells US Weekly that Wilde(27) and Sudeikis(36) have been spending plenty of time together around New York when Jason isn't rehearsing for Saturday Night Live. On December 4 they arrived at Loi together following the live show that night.

"She's come to the [SNL] studio at Rockefeller Center, and they've gone out to dinner after rehearsals," adds an insider.

Wilde divorced Tao Ruspoli in Octo...

Bradley Cooper feels uncomfortable since People magazine editors named him Sexiest Man Alive - because he's convinced his pal Ryan Gosling actually deserves the title.

The Hangover hunk has claimed the 2011 crown but admits Gosling is a more deserving winner as the Canadian actor always looks groomed.

He tells U.K. talk show host Graham Norton, "It's so awful that I'm admitting this but the hell with it - there was such a backlash to when they announced it. Ryan Gosling, who I love and I just did a movie with him, he's the greatest, but we were both in Paris this last week and a friend of...

Action thriller Drive and Steven Spielberg's latest epic War Horse lead the International Press Academy's nominations for the 2011 Satellite Awards with eight nods apiece.

Both movies are up for Best Film, alongside The Artist, The Descendants, The Help, Hugo, Moneyball, Midnight in Paris, Shame and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy while Drive's Ryan Gosling and Albert Brooks are among the nominees for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor respectively.

Competing with Gosling for the Best Actor trophy will be George Clooney (The Descendants), Leonardo DiCaprio (J. Edgar), Michael Fassbender (Sh...

Moviemaker Kevin Smith has taken aim at the organizers of the 2012 Independent Spirit Awards for failing to tip the stars of his movie Red State in the nominations list.

The shortlist was revealed on Tuesday, with critically-acclaimed apocalyptic drama Take Shelter and silent movie The Artist leading the way with five nominations each.

Ryan Gosling, Woody Harrelson and Michelle Williams were among the celebrities named in the acting categories - and Smith is fuming the stars of his horror were not recognized.

In a post on his Twitter.com page, he writes, "How the f**k did the SpiritAw...

Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes were spotted getting cozy over the weekend in Paris.

The new couple, who have only been dating since September, were in the City of Light while Eva filmed her new movie, Holly Motors.

The long-time friends took things to the next level while shooting The Place Beyond the Pines and are now steady boyfriend and girlfriend.

Ryan was recently snubbed by People magazine - he lost out to Bradley Cooper in the magazine's annual 'Sexiest Man Alive issue.

Back in September, when the couple was spotted getting close at Disneyland over Labor Day weekend, a source told U...

Bradley Cooper has been named the Sexiest Man Alive by People Magazine! The Hollywood hunk beat out other actors such as Ryan Gosling, Alec Baldwin and Idris Elba.

People writes, "Ladies, take note: this Georgetown grad can whip up dinner, take you for a spin on his motorcycle and whisper sweet nothings in French (he's fluent!). Just don't try convincing him what a catch he is."

Cooper, who sat down for an interview with the mag, says: "I think it's really cool that a guy who doesn't look like a model can have this. I think I'm a decent-looking guy. Sometimes I can look great, and other t...

Sad-sack divorcee Cal Weaver (Steve Carell) finds his second wind in life after meeting a handsome young ladies' man who teaches him how to become a master of the modern dating scene in "Crazy, Stupid, Love."

A devoted family man who married his high school sweetheart, Cal had a great house and a stable job when his wife, Emily (Julianne Moore), left him to be with another man. When Emily announces that she's filing for divorce, Cal finds himself awkwardly thrust into the dating scene and begins drinking his nights away at the local pub.

Just when it's starting to look as if there's no h...

Justin Timberlake has heaped praise on his former "Mickey Mouse Club" co-star Ryan Gosling, insisting he's one of the finest young actors in Hollywood.

The pop star-turned-actor grew up with Gosling and the two castmates even lived together as their TV careers took off - and Timberlake is very proud of his pal's success.

He says, "He's unbelievable, I think one of the best actors of our generation... He is working a lot too. It's hard to keep up with him."

And the hitmaker tells TV host Ellen DeGeneres he has very fond memories of hanging out with Gosling when the two pre-teens were on t...

Actor Ryan Gosling's female-focused upbringing and ballet lessons have left him thinking "like a girl."

The Drive star was brought up as the only boy in a house of women after his parents divorced, and he was home-schooled after his early brush with fame as a 'Mouseketeer' on the Disney Channel made him the target of bullies.

And he admits his reliance on his sister and his girly hobbies left him deeply in touch with his feminine side.

Gosling tells Britain's The Independent, "I think like a girl, I think. I was literally raised by my mother and my sister. And I just feel like I wouldn...

"Drive" is a lot of things -- a critically acclaimed showpiece for Ryan Gosling's star power, a moody meditation on the subtle powers of pop culture, one of the most popular films on the international festival circuit -- but there is one thing it definitely is not: "Fast Five."

And that's a major problem, because according to The Hollywood Reporter, one film goer is so irritated that "Drive" is not "Fast Five" that she's decided to actually sue the film's distributors for misleading advertising.

We s#!t you not.

"Drive," which was released nationwide on September 16 after being nominate...

Hugh Jackman's robot boxing film "Real Steel" fought off competition to debut at the top of the U.S. box office, raking in $27. 3 million over the weekend.

George Clooney and Ryan Gosling's highly-anticipated political drama "The Ides of March" premiered at second place with takings of $10.4 million, while last week's box office winner "Dolphin Tale" fell to third place after grossing $9.2 million.

Rounding out the top five were Brad Pitt's baseball movie "Moneyball" ($7.5 million) and cancer comedy "50/50" ($5.5 million) at fourth and fifth place respectively.

Not sure what's playing at your local movie theatre? Here's what's hitting the theaters this weekend! "The Ides of March" (Ryan Gosling, George Clooney), "Real Steal" (Hugh Jackman), and "Dirty Girl" (Juno Temple).

You can't lose with any of these three movies! I'm a huge Clooney and Gosling fan, love a good boxing movie (especially with robots), and I always appreciate a good indie comedy. What do you want to see? Tweet me @stuartbrazell

October 7

The Ides of March

This weekend has an interesting match-up for the box office: George Clooney’s “The Ides of March,” a sure Oscar contender, vs. “Real Steel,” a robot boxing film starring Hugh Jackman. In “Ides,” Clooney, who directed and co-wrote the screenplay, stars as a promising presidential candidate whose young, idealistic aid (Ryan Gosling) sees the dark underbelly of what political campaigns are really about. Expect amazing performances from the entire cast which also includes Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Maris Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood.

Real Steel

So why ...