Bafta winners announced, and other top stories...

Most divorcees have to manage their break-ups by cultivating civil relations for the purpose of childrearing or the inevitability of running into one another in the supermarket. Not James Cameron and Kathyrn Bigelow. The two have gone head-to-head at this year's Baftas with their films Avatar and The Hurt Locker, respectively. Bigelow stomped Cameron by winning six awards, although he's likely to fare well at the Oscars. Meanwhile Colin Firth won the best actor award for A Single Man and Carey Mulligan took best actress for An Education...

Beatles fans, crawl back into the sand. EMI has released a statement to say that Abbey Road is not going to be sold. And even if it were to be, the prospective buyers for the studio (where the Liverpudlians recorded most of their output) are likely to honour the site's heritage. The National Trust, for example, and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Speculation was mounting that EMI would sell it in an attempt to relieve debts, prompting a Facebook campaign to save the studio...

An American professor is spearheading a campaign for a greater degree of realism in science fiction films. Sidney Perkowitz, a professor of physics at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia says that the genre would be improved if films limited themselves to one key violation of scientific actuality, allowing them to spin a credible yard around it. Whilst Perkowitz enjoyed Starship Troopers, he points out that if bugs were actually that size they would collapse under their own weight. Dustin Hoffman also supports the initiative...