Jeff Nichols

Jeff Nichols on his film The Bikeriders: ‘For me it’s a combination of two things – Danny Lyon’s book and GoodFellas’

Director on getting out of his southern US comfort zone and his plans to adapt Cormac McCarthy’s final two novels

The Bikeriders review: Jodie Comer ensures you pay attention to this violent, sometimes tragic biker-gang saga

This flawed, fascinating film, also starring Austin Butler and Tom Hardy, resists the hollow allure of cheap tribalism

Ruth Negga: ‘I didn’t experience explicit racism growing up. Maybe some exoticism’

The Limerick actor is determined to play her part in making sure diverse voices are represented

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Loving review: Ruth Negga, Limerick’s greatest export since Richard Harris

Jeff Nichols’s crusading love story bravely focuses on the domestic over the public, the personal over the political

Oscars 2017: Our predictions for this year’s nominations

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

Oscar nomination for Ruth Negga: ‘I became an actor to hide’

The quiet Irish actor may be on the cusp of mega-stardom but she hasn’t lost sight of her craft

Negga’s ‘Loving’ performance already generating Oscar buzz

Limerick actor who was cut out of ‘12 Years a Slave’ is having a dizzying career surge

Cannes review: Loving. Ruth Negga shines as one half of a couple who changed the US

Jeff Nichols’s film about a couple who were arrested and expelled from Virginia for falling foul of anti-miscegenation laws refuses to take the obvious path

Cannes Film Festival 2016: Established masters - and some fresh faces

Three female directors out of 20 will compete for this year's Palme d’Or - in 2012 there was none on the list for the top prize

Ruth Negga: ‘There aren’t many black people on film sets’

The actor, who is an early Oscar tip for Loving and also stars in the ‘entrancing’ Iona, talks about the ‘white Oscars’ controversy and her desire to move home

Matthew McConaughey's hunk evolution

He was once known primarily as a mahogany beefcake, but a series of thrilling performances has seen Matthew McConaughey’s critical star rise to the very top. The Oscar nominee talks reinvention, rom-coms and running the gauntlet of awards season

Michael Shannon’s got the Krypton factor

Michael Shannon is one of the most intense actors of his generation, with eye-popping turns in the likes of Bug, Take Shelter and Man of Steel, but in person, he couldn’t be more nonchalant . . . He even has a nice lie down during the interview

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Jeff Nichols: the hippest young director on the block

Is it Southern Gothic? Americana? Or just another reason to love Matthew McConaughey? Jeff Nichols is back with the intruguing Mud