Joaquin Phoenix

Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby shine in Ridley Scott’s breathless rollick

At 85, the film-maker has been making almost a movie a year for two decades – and there’s still something of an old-school showman about him

Box office is booming, powered by a handful of smash hits. But look around, especially in art houses and on streamers, and you’ll find plenty of great movies

Ari Aster adeptly juggles the sort of laughs you get from Samuel Beckett with the sort you encounter in Mel Brooks

The director of Midsommar and Hereditary has taken a left turn with his new film starring Joaquin Phoenix

Donald Clarke forecasts how the category will shape up at the next Academy Awards

The Homeland star talks about writing music, praying with his dog and acting at 69

A rumour did surface in November, but was shut down quickly. Now there’s little doubt

Timothée Chalamet’s Wonka is the latest example of trend that refuses to go away

Viktor Kossakovsky’s film raises profound questions about our dominion over animals

It was also the one where Chadwick Boseman didn’t win. The one with the miscalculated finale

But hang on: what’s Keanu Reeves doing here? And really hang on: where’s Meryl Streep?

There’s been another major turnover but catch the classics while you can

River Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix’s brother, died aged 23 of a drug overdose in 1993

The actor on her salty turn in Neasa Hardiman’s contagion-themed debut feature

Some stand-ups believe finding humour in dark places can be good for well being

Saoirse Ronan misses out; Brad Pitt and Renée Zellweger take home Academy Awards

The star’s looks make us dismiss his talent. After his Bafta, he deserves the Academy Award

A big night for Sam Mendes and 1917 as Renée Zellweger and Joaquin Phoenix win best acting awards

Saoirse Ronan in running for Little Women, while Jessie Buckley competed for Wild Rose

Joaquin Phoenix, Renee Zellweger take lead acting prizes as Jennifer Aniston wins for The Morning Show

Half our favourite movies have vanished. But there’s still plenty of great stuff to search for

How did film about a comic book idiot get more nominations than The Irishman?

The Oscar-nominated Marriage Story actor on why he will not watch himself on screen

Saoirse Ronan gets nominated for Little Women role as best director shortlist dominated by men

Saoirse Ronan earns nod for Little Women as Joker leads with 11 nominations

Joker leads with 11 nods, while The Irishman and Once Upon A Time In Hollywood earn 10

All the winners of the 77th annual Golden Globes for film and TV

Saoirse Ronan, nominated for Little Women performance, loses out to Renée Zellweger

The singer on a Stephen Fry podcast and why The World at War should be mandatory viewing

The decade in culture: Arrival, Lady Bird, Get Out... But which movie is at number one?

No nomination for Irish star of Little Women but Andrew Scott gets nod for Fleabag

The hit movie, starring Joaquin Phoenix, is attracting tourists to a set of outdoor steps in the Bronx

Donald Clarke: Almost nobody expressing concern has seen the movie

Satirical masterpiece or manifesto for psychopathy, this is a beautifully made film

Academy Awards 2020: An educated stab at the 2020 best-film nominees, six months out

The director’s on working with Brad Pitt on Ad Astra, being ignored in America and making movies in Northern Ireland

How did the unpredictable star figure out his Joker character? He’s in no hurry to explain

Todd Phillips’s movie starring Joaquin Phoenix takes the top prize, while Roman Polanski’s An Officer and a Spy was runner-up

Donald Clarke runs the rule over the likely winners ahead of this week’s festival trifecta