The Irish Times

Will Smith resigns from Academy following Oscars slap

Group that runs ceremony says it will ‘move forward’ with disciplinary proceedings against him

Sat Apr 02 2022 - 00:43

Will Smith refused to leave Oscars after slap, Academy says

Rock also addressed the incident at a sold-out show where he received a standing ovation

Thu Mar 31 2022 - 08:48

Jada Pinkett Smith calls for ‘healing’ in first comment since Oscars slap

‘This is a season for healing. And I’m here for it,’ actor and wife of Will Smith says

Wed Mar 30 2022 - 09:42

Will Smith apologises to Chris Rock after on stage Oscars slap

The Academy denounced Smith’s actions and opened an inquiry into the incident

Tue Mar 29 2022 - 07:27

Oscars 2022 red carpet: Jessie Buckley and Caitríona Balfe among best dressed stars

From exuberant to understated, here are the fashion highlights from the Academy Awards

Mon Mar 28 2022 - 10:25

Oscars 2022: Will Smith slapping Chris Rock overshadows CODA’s best picture award

Kenneth Branagh takes best original screenplay for the autobiographical Belfast

Mon Mar 28 2022 - 05:58

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

Sat Mar 26 2022 - 05:00

Baftas 2022: Belfast edged out by The Power of the Dog

Kenneth Branagh’s film takes just one prize as Joanna Scanlan is ‘surprise’ best actress

Sun Mar 13 2022 - 21:00

Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast wins no Screen Actors Guild award in ceremony of upsets

Irish actor Ferdia Walsh-Peelo among the award-winning cast for Coda

Mon Feb 28 2022 - 13:50

Screen Actors Guild awards 2022: Will Smith, Squid Game and Coda win big

'Now I feel I’m finally part of the family': Troy Kotsur, first deaf actor to win award

Mon Feb 28 2022 - 10:02

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

Thu Feb 10 2022 - 10:44

Golden Globes 2022: Belfast wins best screenplay in discredited awards

Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog wins best drama, in a low-scoring night for the Irish

Mon Jan 10 2022 - 05:55

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

Sun Jan 09 2022 - 06:00

Donald Clarke: China’s financial success at the cinema is not a pandemic story

People’s Republic released two highest-grossing films of 2021 after decade of growth

Sat Jan 01 2022 - 05:00

King Richard: Will Smith is suave and arrogant as Venus and Serena Williams’s father

Film review: Will Smith works hard for the Oscar he will almost certainly win

Fri Nov 19 2021 - 05:00

King Richard: The surreal story of the Williams sisters’ rise to greatness

Will Smith stars as father of the tennis stars Venus and Serena in a film of their unlikely journey

Mon Nov 15 2021 - 06:00

Hollywood tale of Serena and Venus Williams sisters hits the big screen

Will Smith plays father Richard as he steers his daughters from Compton to Wimbledon

Mon Nov 08 2021 - 16:29

River of Time – Paul Clements on the Shannon

An Irishman’s Diary

Sun Sept 06 2020 - 15:01

Returning emigrants facing social welfare and housing barriers

People left ‘vulnerable’ with no income because of ‘unacceptable delays’

Thu Nov 29 2018 - 14:01

My Kingdom for a Verse – Frank McNally on King Richard III, Shakespeare, and Irish bards

An Irishman’s Diary

Thu Oct 11 2018 - 18:40

Richard III: ‘virtual’ skeleton of monarch to be shown in Galway

Exhibition, including three-dimensional image of remains, set to run for three days

Mon Nov 20 2017 - 01:00

Soccer Angles: Leicester’s fall almost as surreal as their rise

Shakespearean element to Ranieri’s regicide as kings of England meekly hand over crown

Sat May 20 2017 - 08:00

Why not taking offence will make you – and the world – better

Unthinkable: Donald Trump may make your skin crawl but your anger ‘destroys you’ not him, argues Brant Hansen

Tue Feb 21 2017 - 00:00

Over 100,000 fans salute Leicester City’s Premier League win

Open-top bus tour sees champions lauded by huge crowds

Mon May 16 2016 - 20:46

Culture Shock: Subversive glory of Ireland’s arts and crafts movement

Harry Clarke and Richard King created profoundly questioning work

Sat Mar 05 2016 - 04:00

Artist’s view of Shannon flooding

Book published in 1880 by Henry Trench with lithographic views of watercolours by an unknown Victorian artist

Sat Dec 19 2015 - 01:00

Eir takes on the king for PR honour

Telco nominated for European PR Excellence Award for its rebrand from Eircom this year

Fri Dec 04 2015 - 10:15

Dromana house: keeping it in the family for 800 years

The 800th anniversary of the Villiers-Stuart grounding on the banks of the Blackwater in Waterford in 1215 will celebrate one family’s links to Dromana House

Thu Oct 30 2014 - 01:00

King Richard III to be re-buried near scene of his death

Court rules ‘it is time for Richard III to be given a dignified reburial and finally laid to rest’

Fri May 23 2014 - 14:21