Good boy!

The ravest of rave reviews have greeted the performance of one of the stars of The Artist, an early favourite in the race to an Oscar next February. And they've not gone to Jean Dujardin or Bérénice Bejo the human performers who headline the film, but Uggy the Dog who steals it from the pair of them.

Uggy (pictured, extreme left) is - controversially - ineligible for the  main awards of the American Academy. And BAFTA members have already been notified that he cannot stand for their awards in February.

So the terrier will have to content himself with winning The Palm Dog at Cannes last May, and the sheer satisfaction of having acted his way into the hearts of audiences all around the world.