Man Of Steel isn’t even cold in the ground yet, but we’ve got our first casting rumour.

Ralph Fiennes is in talks to play a British government agent in new John Le Carré adaptation, Our Kind of Traitor.

Sorry, Robert Downey Jr., we went for the other guy with a ludicrously high number of syllables in his name

Whiskey and Britishness, hurrah!

SO MANY GUILDS

Would you like Steven Spielberg to come over there and lick your toes clean, Michel Hazanavicius? That’s probably the only accolade left.

THEY’RE HERE! The nominations for the 84th Academy Awards have been released, and as we predicted The Artist has basically bagsied all the categories like a fat greedy child in a tuckshop. Standard.

Greedy.

Did you know Benedict Cumberbatch spent a year teaching English to Tibetan monks? That he sent himself on a secret mission to Morocco in order to prepare for his role in Tinker Tailor? That his air miles must be stacking up by now? Cheat Sheet! Sherlock Cheat Sheet! Is this pure indulgence? Yes. But he shouts a bit in War Horse, so that counts as relevance.

WHERE’S OLIVIA COLMAN?