Oscars

March 14th-20th highlights: including Turbulence: The Story of Ryanair, The Other Bennet Sister and the Oscars

Unless Los Angeles slides into the sea, the Hamnet star will become the first Irish winner of the best actress Academy Award

Hollywood is used to being in the international persuasion business. Donald Trump’s triumphalist warmonger videos change that

This year’s awards come at a moment of flux and uncertainty for the gilm industry

If Jessie Buckley wins the leading-actress award for Hamnet this weekend, she’ll join an illustrious group of Irish winners

Plus: Who claimed that the Oscar was so named as she had noted its backside resembled that of her uncle Oscar?

The arts are in trouble, and what’s needed is some realism - not head-in-the-sand holier-than-thou pap

I did what I could to connect the playwright with Ireland, but it was a stretch

Streaming services, digital rentals and catch-up cinema screenings mean you can see all of this year’s key contenders

Felines have been the signal beneficiaries of modern internet culture over the past decade

Let’s hope a re-emergence of the actor’s bold declaration that she doesn’t like cats won’t mean she faces kitty karma on Oscar night

German film-maker on how her Cannes-winning second feature brings women’s voices out of the margins

Best enjoyed in the biggest cinema with the best audio system, it leans into ravers’ musical preference with relish

He played huge roles in The Godfather and Apocalypse now, but we loved him best in a little-known soccer comedy with Will Ferrell

‘Film-maker of the senses’ on his apocalyptic, Oscar-nominated sensation and being a ‘freak’ in Spain

Rose Byrne, Jessie Buckley’s biggest Oscar rival, is extraordinary in Mary Bronstein’s film

Labyrinthine film set during military dictatorship evokes 1970s conspiracy chillers

Five stars for a musical that argues for the often underexplored potency of female charisma

After winning two Golden Globes, the proudly puzzling thriller is up for the best-picture Oscar. And now the Brazilian president is on the phone

Jessie Buckley’s Bafta nomination confirms her as strong favourite for the best-actress award

I expected Chloé Zhao’s film to be daring and brilliant and moving. I think I fell prey to the hype around it

John Kelly’s Retirement Plan has been nominated for an Academy Award for best animated short

Irish talent ranked high in this year’s Oscar nominations, but Hamnet film-makers will be disappointed Paul Mescal didn’t make the final list

Sinners smashes nominations record with 16 nods, Element Pictures picks up four for Bugonia

Watch out for One Battle After Another or Sinners shattering the record for most Academy Award nominations

The Oscar-winning actor’s peripatetic life makes him a perfect fit for his new film, Rental Family

Key grip Tomasz Sternicki is a veteran of soup preparation for the stars

Plus: What is the only film to have won the best picture Oscar with no other nominations?

The director of one of 2025’s most talked-about films on the links between Irish and black communities

Kate Hudson’s turn as a blue-collar mother with a love of Neil Diamond may be the best work of her career. Could she break into the Oscar race?

Streaming the ceremony free and globally on the platform gives the Academy an opportunity to find new viewers

The stars of Hamnet, Chloé Zhao’s Oscar-tipped film, talk Shakespeare, acting and growing up in different Irelands

ABC has televised ‍the Oscars, the film industry’s highest honours, every year since 1976

In Chloé Zhao’s beautifully shot, cruelly raw feature, the Irish actors play the grieving Shakespeares

Paul Thomas Anderson’s rambunctious One Battle After Another topped the charts with nine nominations

We gave you the best films of the year, now here are the worst

There were hopeful signs that Hollywood could make money out of good films that did not spring from established franchises

Our critics have selected the standout movies released in Ireland this year

We continue our countdown of our favourite movies released in Ireland this year

We continue the countdown of our top-rated movies released in Ireland this year