Awards season is upon us again with the 84th Academy Awards ceremony ready to capture the world's attention as nominees prepare to feel their hearts in their throats and millions watch on in anticipation.

This year's crop of nominations is interesting with some big surprises! South Africa's Skoonheid didn't get through in the foreign-language film category, probably due to its heavy content and it seems they've gone in favour of films broaching lighter subject matter. This explains the omission of Ryan Gosling, who had a great year with high hopes for his performance in Drive. Ironically, Martin Scorsese's lightest film to date... Hugo, has garnered the most nominations.

Other upsets include The Adventures of Tintin and Cars 2 being ousted in favour of Rango, Puss in Boots and Kung Fu Panda 2 in the best animated feature and Leonardo DiCaprio missing a best actor nod after featuring at the Golden Globes for his age-spanning character portrait, J. Edgar. Many Harry Potter fans and filmmakers must have felt slighted by so few nominations for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, possibly a comment on it being a Part 2?

Ricky Gervais, host of the 2012 Golden Globes, did it again! After much speculation over the comedian's 2011 controversy involving a scathing round of insults aimed at high profile celebrities many thought he wouldn't appear on TV let along the Golden Globes again.

Well, the ratings must have got the boost they needed because he was invited back with a set of ground rules, which he actually read on stage in this year's show. Did Gervais behave? No, the actor took pot shots at celebrities, networks, the foreign press and the show itself!

Guy van der Walt a.k.a. Plasticboy is a talented CG artist, entrepreneur and citizen of the world, whose profession has taken him to international destinations such as London and Bangkok. Cape Town is his hometown, where Guy grew up, training in the art of illusion at the College of Magic. He studied graphic design and was awarded a bursary by a leading animation studio, where he was introduced to the world of 3D animation.

His animation business took off in Johannesburg, working on a range of high profile TV commercials. Guy's talents drew international attention, moving to London where he generated digital content for the National Geographic and Discovery channels. These projects prompted him to create a set of virtual 3D models of the human body and over several years, he has set up an online business trading in "virtual anatomy". He relocated to Thailand where he spent almost a year exploring urban South East Asia as well as living on remote islands.

Since then Guy's returned to Cape Town, where he continues to work in the 3D animation arena, on his own projects with occasional collaboration between other studios. We managed to catch up with the animation guru known as "Plasticboy" to find out what films have made the grade in his Top Ten Movies...

Yep... it was almost inevitable. The movie Be Kind, Rewind inspired a generation of movie fans when Jack Black and Mos Def decided to "swede" a whole bunch of classic films. Now the phenomenon has got wings with big-ass swedes coming in for 2012 movies like The Avengers and now Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises. Check it out... you won't/will be disappointed.

The Dark Knight Rises gets its first official movie trailer as Christopher Nolan's timeless cinematic crime epic marches on with Christian Bale reprising his role as Bruce Wayne... or Batman.

What do Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Terry Crews, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, Chuck Norris and Jean-Claude Van Damme have in common? Well, besides being action heroes... The Expendables 2. Watch the introductory teaser trailer for the much-anticipated follow-up to The Expendables.