The best biopics, documentaries, cartoons, features and award favourites of the year

Donald Clarke runs the rule over the likely winners ahead of this week’s festival trifecta

Zoe Kazan is evolving from writer to actor and is hoping to subvert rom-com stereotypes with ‘The Big Sick’

Scarlett Johansson in ‘Ghost in the Shell’, Matt Damon in ‘The Great Wall’: even after #OscarsSoWhite the movies still stereotype and whitewash Asian actors

Donald Clarke ranks the best picture nominees at this year’s Academy Awards

‘La La Land’ or ‘Moonlight’? Emma Stone or Natalie Portman? Casey Affleck or Denzel Washington? Donald Clarke makes his predictions for Sunday night's Oscars ceremony

Hollywood musical scoops most gongs on occasion coloured by celebrity and politics

Dev Patel said it was ‘horrible’ that people from seven countries had been banned from entering the US

‘La La Land’ is the film to beat, earning 14 nominations including best picture

Winners will be announced on February 26th

It’s the time of year when we accurately pick around 83 percent of the main nominations

Actor criticises US president-elect over mocking of disabled reporter

Still formidable after all these years, Sigourney takes the parts that interest her, be they big or small. Next up: a possible return to her most famous role in a rebooted ‘Alien’ series