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Oscars 2022: Will any Irish nominees win? Will Lady Gaga’s snub break the internet?

Donald Clarke: Here are 10 key questions on this year's Oscars nominations

Tue Feb 08 2022 - 17:45

Cannes 2019: Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite takes Palme d’Or

Antonio Banderas is among the other winners as contentious festival draws to a close

Sat May 25 2019 - 21:10

Tarantino, Almódovar and Loach head the old brat pack at Cannes

Fewer instant classics on show, but Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire, dark drama The Lighthouse and Irish horror Vivarium stand out

Fri May 24 2019 - 05:00

Cannes 2019: Irish film starring Jesse Eisenberg gets rapturous reception

Vivarium, an Irish science-fiction horror, has world premiere as part of International Critics Week at the film festival

Sat May 18 2019 - 13:45

Cannes 2019: Thierry biffs back the beamers – and gives us brilliant bags

Cannes diary: Gender parity, populist politics, freebies and zombies. It’s all go already

Wed May 15 2019 - 11:00

Cannes Film Festival begins amid heavy security

Show goes on as Michael Haneke tipped for third Palme D’Or, for ‘Happy End’

Tue May 16 2017 - 15:00

Oscars 2016: Two Irish films win, best actor for DiCaprio

Brie Larson named best actress as Ben Cleary wins best live short at 88th Academy Awards

Mon Feb 29 2016 - 14:00

Brooklyn celebrates Bafta win but Saoirse loses out to Brie

Best film goes to The Revenant – tale of survival from 19th century US frontier

Sun Feb 14 2016 - 23:03

Can The Revenant’s effects bear the weight of history?

One of the key characters in the Oscar-baiting film is a very angry ursine – but when its CGI starts to look patchy, will the film’s reputation survive?

Sun Jan 24 2016 - 10:00

Ken Early: Jurgen Klopp needs control over transfers

Manchester United were confused and incoherent yet still left Liverpool with points

Mon Jan 18 2016 - 14:14

Domhnall Gleeson: The Force is strong in this one

With roles in ‘Frank’, ‘Ex Machina’ and ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’, and a star turn in ‘The Revenant’, Gleeson’s career has gone stellar

Fri Jan 15 2016 - 14:00

Irish talent front and centre in the 2016 Oscar nominations

Saoirse Ronan and Michael Fassbender get acting nominations, while ‘Brooklyn’ and ‘Room’ both make the Best Picture list

Thu Jan 14 2016 - 14:11

Una Mullally's alternative Oscars night predictions

While awards season can be unpredictable, there are certain things you can also be damn sure will go down on the night of the Academy Awards

Wed Jan 13 2016 - 14:30

Oscars 2016: Donald Clarke predicts the nominations

There are more mysteries and imponderables this year than over the past decade

Wed Jan 13 2016 - 09:20

Golden Globes 2016: Full list of winners

Alejandro González Iñárritu’s ‘The Revenant’ takes three awards in Los Angeles

Mon Jan 11 2016 - 10:30

Golden Globes: Brie Larson, Leonardo DiCaprio win big

Sylvester Stallone takes best supporting actor for ‘Creed’ in Los Angeles ceremony

Mon Jan 11 2016 - 10:30

Mexico today: Terrifying, corrupt, unbearable

Pope Francis described Mexico as terrifying and expressed fear of the “Mexicanisation” of his native Argentina

Sat Feb 28 2015 - 01:00

Everything awesome as Irish animation beats Lego movie to Oscar shortlist

Linklater’s ‘Boyhood’ is odds-on favourite for best picture

Fri Jan 16 2015 - 01:00

‘Boyhood’ wins Best Drama at Golden Globes

Richard Linklater takes top prize for coming of age film at Beverly Hills awards ceremony

Mon Jan 12 2015 - 12:11

Will Poulter: ‘Acting was a release from what I found to be a very tough period of my life’

Even at 21, Will Poulter works hard at being the best thing in every picture he makes, writes Donald Clarke

Fri Oct 10 2014 - 00:00

Gravity’s pull: the making of a rocket-fuelled space smash

Mexican film-maker Alfonso Cuarón is delighted about the warm reception for his gripping space yarn. And what about the criticism of its supposed scientific inaccuracies? ‘It’s not a documentary,’ he shrugs

Fri Nov 01 2013 - 15:54

Cate Blanchett: 'My maternal guilt is of the high-class and expensive variety'

Cate Blanchett's latest performance in Woody Allen’s ’Blue Jasmine’ – as a vodka-and-Xanax-swilling woman on the brink of breaking point – must have been quite a stretch for the immaculately casual mother-of-three

Fri Sept 27 2013 - 00:00