Oscars

Actors can be shallow and self-serving ... but so can the rest of us

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?

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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

As the British and US film academies share many voters, the Baftas are a good indicator of what to expect at the Academy Awards

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A taut thriller that unfolds against the backdrop of an increasingly draconian Iranian regime

The September 5 star broke through with films such as Boys Don’t Cry. His new movie is a taut account of the attack on the 1972 Munich Olympics

The nail-biting thriller is one of the most-lauded films of the past year - and making it involved secret shoots as well as interrogation by Iranian authorities

Ignore all the whingers. Go to see the excellent The Brutalist. Take along an architect you hate. The film is 3½ hours long. They might actually explode with fury

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Aged 36, the auteur has already made three of the most remarkable films of the 21st century – including the one tipped to win this year’s best-picture Oscar

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‘We will have a few drinks and dust ourselves down,’ says writer and director Rich Peppiatt

Details of upcoming Irish film, television and animation projects announced at event held ahead of underwhelming Oscar nominations

Biopic of the West Belfast rap trio lost out on Oscar nomination for best international picture and best original song

Disappointment as Kneecap misses out and no Irish actors are nominated for an award

From The Brutalist to Wicked, to Emilia Pérez and Conclave, all the contenders, for the 97th Academy Awards

Saoirse Ronan, Cillian Murphy and Paul Mescal have struggled this awards season. Only a miracle will see an Irish actor get an Oscar nod

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The film industry’s highest honours will now be announced on Thursday, January 23rd

Jesse Eisenberg’s light-fingered second directorial effort is a touching, funny drama that allows truths to emerge subtly and sometimes ambiguously

The actor’s performance in Small Things Like These seems perfectly positioned for an Academy Award nomination. So what’s gone wrong?

Critics also favoured Ralph Fiennes in Conclave and Mikey Madison in Palme d’Or-winning Anora

Two Irish films, TJ O’Grady-Peyton’s Room Taken and Portia A Buckley’s Clodagh, land spots in the shortlist for best live-action short

The nature of being an actor is the need to be able to stay free and open and vulnerable, says the 57-year-old

The Oscar-winner plays a scheming German chancellor in Rumours, Guy Maddin’s raucous, phantasmagorical comedy about the G7

The acclaimned film-maker on the dynamics of Mumbai, the significance of rice cookers and why doesn’t mind being overlooked in India’s Oscar race

This heavily plotted adaptation moves at a dizzying clatter as revelation upends revelation

Actor plays lead in new version of 1980s legal drama Matlock, which sees lawyer avenging her daughter, who has died of opioid overdose

Gladiator II actor reprises role of Stanley Kowalski, following in footsteps of Marlon Brando

The way Warner Bros has handled the veteran star’s 40th film as director is in keeping with Hollywood studios’ new approach to the movie economy