Emma Watson became the first person to win the MTV Movie and TV Awards' new gender-neutral best actor award Sunday night for her performance as Belle in Beauty and the Beast. The awards show also added a gender-less best actor category for television.

There's ample proof some "truths" movie executives live by simply aren't so.

With the mercury dropping, there's no better time to break out the popcorn. Here's our pick of the season's best cinematic offerings.

After making his name in sketch comedy, Jordan Peele pulls off a spectacular transformation as horror movie director.

Jordan Peele's debut movie is a game-changer, with the potential to unlock the gates for black participation in a genre in which they have rarely felt welcome.

Sentimental salutes to the original Goodbye Pork Pie are in this remake with lots of colour and movement.

After arguments that turned into fights behind the scenes, the classic alien is back with a new look.

"It's been very emotional ... incredibly difficult but therapeutic as well," Ledger's sister Kate said.

Our pick of the best of the big screen this week

Johnny Depp's legal spat has just gotten uglier.

SHORT CUTS: The Childhood of a Leader, American Essentials Film Festival, Emo the Musical

Brett Whiteley's bohemian life and times are charted in a documentary that includes film footage, photos, notebooks and interviews supplied by Wendy Whiteley.

Kitty Green's unconventional documentary reveals plenty about the unsolved murder, though not the one thing people so desperately want - an answer.

An idyllic zoo in Poland is plundered by the Nazis in this sweeping period drama with Jessica Chastain

Twenty-five years after he died alone in a motel room, Australian art's troubled hero is captured on the big screen.

The two comedians play mother and daughter in the new film, Snatched.

Barbra Streisand has claimed sexism cost her Oscar nominations because even just two decades ago people weren't comfortable with the idea of a female director.

​Rebel Wilson is claiming defamatory magazine articles cost her roles in Hollywood and tarnished her reputation, a court has heard.

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'He talks pretty straight,' the maverick filmmaker says of the Russian leader.

It began as a student film project but soon morphed into something much larger - including an unexpected and bruising legal battle.

Director George Miller has definite plans to return to his dusty dystopian wasteland.

Brie Larson has had a stratospheric rise to fame on the back of multi-layered roles, including her latest in Free Fire.

One of Britain's most interesting filmmakers finds the human side of lowlifes, criminals and terrorists.

Tom Hanks said Demme was the "grandest of men" who "taught us how big a heart a person can have."