Oscars 2025 predictions: Irish actors need a miracle, but what about Kneecap?
Saoirse Ronan, Cillian Murphy and Paul Mescal have struggled this awards season. Only a miracle will see an Irish actor get an Oscar nod next week
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‘Ireland taking British awards is f**king hilarious’: Kneecap’s six Bafta nominations a leap forward for Irish-language film
Baftas 2025: Rich Peppiatt’s raucous film about the Belfast trio has got into every category where it had even a reasonable chance
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor: ‘One of the references I have when I talk about Nickel Boys is the Magadelene laundry mothers in Ireland’
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor missed out on an Oscar for her role in King Richard. It will be no surprise if she’s nominated again for RaMell Ross’s acclaimed new film
Paul Mescal’s response to meeting King Charles was a masterclass in diplomacy
Gladiator II star said meeting the English king at the film’s British premiere was ‘not on the list of priorities’
Paul Mescal: ‘My favourite actors are Irish. There’s a wildness. We do our own thing’
Gladiator II proves another showcase for Mescal’s tough and tender masculinity, giving rein to his natural instinct as an actor
Gladiator II: What the critics say about Paul Mescal’s performance
The word on the Irish actor’s performance was consistently positive, not so much for the film itself
Gladiator II review: Don’t blame Paul Mescal, but there’s no good reason for this jumbled sequel to exist
Ridley Scott’s sequel to his own historical epic fails to rise above second-hand status, despite valiant efforts from a fine cast
‘This feels categorically mental’: Paul Mescal stunned by celebrations at Gladiator II premiere
Actor attends Irish premiere of Ridley Scott film at Light House Cinema in Dublin
The Piano Lesson review: Denzel Washington’s project is admirable, but this film can’t shake off its stage origins
Danielle Deadwyler and Samuel L Jackson are outstanding in the third instalment of the star’s effort to bring August Wilson’s Pittsburgh cycle to the screen
Saoirse Ronan delivers a stone-cold truth about women’s safety that stuns Paul Mescal and fellow actors
Graham Norton’s male guests found self-defence hilarious. Of course it was all just a joke, but this tiny little sofa vignette reflects women’s reality
Paul Mescal battles savage monkeys and a stampeding rhino in new trailer for Gladiator sequel
Irish actor plays Lucius, son of Lucilla from the original Gladiator, in sequel set years after 2000 epic
Gladiator II trailer: Paul Mescal muscles his way in with biff, bang and ouch
Irish actor Paul Mescal is all muscle amid the sieges, riots and killer rhinos as he channels Russell Crowe in Ridley Scott’s epic sequel
‘When Denzel Washington is on the screen he’s giving his all. That’s what people love’
Star has been a constant force in Antoine Fuqua’s film-directing career. The Equalizer 3 is their fifth collaboration in 22 years
Will Smith apologises to Chris Rock after on stage Oscars slap
The Academy denounced Smith’s actions and opened an inquiry into the incident
Oscars 2022: Who should win, and who will win?
Ireland has its biggest haul of nominations since 2016, but has won few awards so far
Oscars 2022: This best picture list is even better than the real thing
Here are 10 films that could have been nominated for best picture, but weren’t
Will Smith: ‘I’ve only lost an Oscar to other black actors’
After his nomination for best actor in King Richard, the actor reflects on his career
Golden Globes 2022: What’s happening with the ceremony you can’t watch?
After a year of scandals, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is under pressure
Sidney Poitier, who has died aged 94, was one of cinema’s most beautiful giants
Donald Clarke: The mellifluous Poitier didn’t just break down barriers, he was also of the great movie stars
The Tragedy of Macbeth: Lean, efficient take on the Scottish Play
Joel Coen delivers an expressionist version of the often-filmed drama
West Side Story: Sondheim’s lyrics still crackle in Spielberg’s movie
Review: Steven Spielberg revives Bernstein and Sondheim’s classic musical for the screen
Paul Rudd is the world’s sexiest not-very-Irish man
People Magazine named him ‘Sexiest Man Alive’. An Irish connection was swiftly unearthed
Ruth Negga: ‘I found London quite limiting to be honest’
The actor on her journey from Limerick to LA and her performance in Rebecca Hall’s Passing
Scarlett Johansson’s suing Disney. Welcome to the great 21st-century streaming wars
The Black Widow star and her lawyers are riding a wave that has been swelling for some time
Ian McKellen as Hamlet: Is ageism the last great barrier in the arts industry?
Will the critics let them be sexagenarian murderers in peace? I wouldn’t count on it
He Got Game: ‘I pray that you understand why I pushed you so hard’
You need dark forces behind you to make it as a basketball star – in this case an obsessive dad
Four new films to stream this weekend
Judas and the Black Messiah, Coming 2 America, The Little Things, Cherry
From Saoirse Ronan’s Ammonite to Spielberg’s West Side Story, 50 films to watch in 2021 (we hope)
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a traffic jam of anticipated films for this year
Viola Davis: ‘My father was just one generation removed from slavery’
The Oscar-winner on playing Ma Rainey, working with Chadwick Boseman and race in Hollywood
Saoirse Ronan and Daniel Day-Lewis on ‘greatest 21st-century actors’ list
But hang on: what’s Keanu Reeves doing here? And really hang on: where’s Meryl Streep?
Leave the World Behind: Gripped by everyday dread
Book Review: Timely novel about a sudden, cataclysmic event that shocks the world
Matthew McConaughey: ‘I wouldn’t give back one ass-whupping for the values that are ingrained in me’
The actor on his life philosophies, securing roles, and his new memoir Greenlights
Film 2020: The 50 films to watch out for
The best biopics, documentaries, cartoons, features and award favourites of the year
Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand to star in Joel Coen’s Macbeth
Oscar winners to take lead roles in Coen’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy based on his own script
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