Grand Tour star Crista Alfaiate: ‘Portuguese cinema has this beautiful heritage – the sense of freedom’
Miguel Gomes won the best director award at Cannes for a film that is properly strange, in a way you don’t get from the mainstream
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Cannes Film Festival: Bono, Paul Mescal and Element Pictures to fly flag for Ireland this year
Documentary based on U2 frontman’s memoir will premiere in Cannes, while Paul Mescal will attend for The History of Sound
Ralph Fiennes: ‘I don’t feel any need to slow down. Opportunities come my way – and I can’t say no’
The actor, who recently starred in the Oscar-winning Conclave, arrives to Uberto Pasolini’s The Return as a known property – but is still also a bit of a mystery
Bruce Springsteen to release seven ‘lost albums’ in June
Collection of 83 songs will include 74 that have never been officially released
Oscar-winning Palestinian film-maker returns home following Israeli beating and detention
Hamdan Ballal was hospitalised for his injuries
Flow review: Children will rewatch this piece of outsider art until the pixels wear out
This tiny Latvian film hammered the giant studios in the race for animated feature at the Oscars
Ludivine Sagnier: ‘This sexy bombshell had nothing to do with who I was. I felt confused’
Hollywood came calling after she starred in Swimming Pool but the actor had other ideas
Away: After all those cheap and nasty children’s movies, here’s a gem
Film review: Gints Zilbalodis made this gorgeous feature-length animation entirely by himself
Oscar winner Gints Zilbalodis: ‘It’s really cool that we can make these films with free software’
Flow, which the self-taught director made for $3.5m, beat Pixar and DreamWorks to take the Academy Award for best animated feature
The Movie Quiz: For what did Anora’s Sean Baker not win a gong at the Oscars?
Plus: Spot the film without a credit for Bono
What follows the best-picture Oscar? Fame, fortune and perhaps even a Baggot Street nightclub
The Academy Award can help move a director to the top of the heap – or make everyone involved lose the run of themselves and deliver a catastrophic flop
Will Sinn Féin back a left unity candidate for the presidency?
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Apolitical Oscars a chilling sign of the times
Apolitical Oscars indicative of sense that world is sinking into total fatalistic malaise
Mickey 17 review: Bong Joon Ho’s fitful sci-fi satire is a rickety follow-up to the Oscar-winning Parasite
Robert Pattinson and the rest of the strong cast manage to make something fleetingly diverting of this jumbled concoction
Oscars 2026: Will Hamnet with Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley get a best picture nomination?
It might be early, but we’re betting on these 10 movies getting the all-important Oscars nod next year
Oscars 2025: Was Adrien Brody’s speech the longest ever, was Conan O’Brien funny and eight other key questions
How did the drama over best international picture end up? And who was left off the in memoriam tribute section this year?
Oscars 2025 red carpet: Ariana Grande sets the standard while Timothée Chalamet stood out in ‘Kerrygold’ yellow
Gowns holding space were popular this year, with Ariana Grande setting the standard in Schiaparelli. Among men, Timothée Chalamet stood out in ‘Kerrygold’ yellow
Oscars 2025: Full list of winners as wild screwball comedy Anora takes five Academy Awards
Mikey Madison beats Demi Moore for best actress prize as Adrien Brody is best actor, and Kieran Culkin and Zoë Saldaña get best supporting actor Oscars
Actor Anamaria Vartolomei: ‘I’m 25 now. I started when I was 10. I’ve been working for 15 years. It sounds weird when I say it’
The star of Happening, Being Maria and Traffic appears next in Bong Joon Ho’s futuristic new film, Mickey 17
People have a deep human yearning for validation and applause. We love awards
Actors can be shallow and self-serving ... but so can the rest of us
Oscars 2025: Who will win and who should win? Ireland has just one chance
Will Anora nab the Academy Award for best picture? Can Demi Moore edge out Mikey Madison for best actress? And how many awards might the troubled Emilia Pérez pick up?
Early stages of investigation finds actor Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa had been dead for some time
Police search warrant indicates couple dead for some time
Gene Hackman: Ageless, everyman actor who never gave a bad performance
Hackman was among actors most responsible for changing Hollywood in 1970s, becoming a generation-defining performer
SAG awards 2025: Colin Farrell wins for The Penguin as Demi Moore, Timothée Chalamet and Conclave take big prizes
Colin Farrell pays moving tribute to sons James and Henry ‘who have made my life so much more special than I ever truly thought possible’
The 25 greatest upsets in Oscar history
It’s almost Academy Award weekend. From an inappropriate smooch to Envelopegate, here are the biggest limelight-stealing Academy Award moments
Pamela Anderson: ‘I felt like life was really like death for me’
The former Baywatch star hasn’t always come out on top. But with her role in Gia Coppola’s gritty film The Last Showgirl, she is finally getting the respect she deserves
Jane Fonda: ‘I don’t feel like an old person. I’m much younger than I was when I was in my 20s’
At 87, the actor and activist has become the face of a new luxury trainers campaign
The Movie Quiz: How many actors have received Oscar nominations for Star Wars films?
How many actors have received Oscar nominations for Star Wars films?
‘Eunice had a unique inner strength. It’s like a volcano that never spills’: Walter Salles on the Oscar-nominated I’m Still Here
The film, based on the real story of the forced disappearance of a dissident in 1970s Brazil, is a box-office sensation in its native Brazil despite right-wing calls for a boycott
What Baftas 2025 tell us about the Oscars: Emilia Pérez is still in the race, Anora is back as a front-runner, and more
As the British and US film academies share many voters, the Baftas are a good indicator of what to expect at the Academy Awards
Memoir of a Snail review: A lovely, heartfelt creation from an Oscar-winning animator
Adam Elliot has created a dark, antipodean fable of divided siblings
Netflix’s Emilia Pérez was tipped as a big Oscar winner – then an unexpected scandal erupted
Oscars 2025: What has gone wrong for Emilia Pérez after its 13 nominations and triumphant awards season?
The Seed of the Sacred Fig review: An odd, special, important film
A taut thriller that unfolds against the backdrop of an increasingly draconian Iranian regime
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