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The Movie Quiz: How many actors have received Oscar nominations for Star Wars films?
How many actors have received Oscar nominations for Star Wars films?
‘Eunice had a unique inner strength. It’s like a volcano that never spills’: Walter Salles on the Oscar-nominated I’m Still Here
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
What Baftas 2025 tell us about the Oscars: Emilia Pérez is still in the race, Anora is back as a front-runner, and more
As the British and US film academies share many voters, the Baftas are a good indicator of what to expect at the Academy Awards
Memoir of a Snail review: A lovely, heartfelt creation from an Oscar-winning animator
Adam Elliot has created a dark, antipodean fable of divided siblings
Netflix’s Emilia Pérez was tipped as a big Oscar winner – then an unexpected scandal erupted
Oscars 2025: What has gone wrong for Emilia Pérez after its 13 nominations and triumphant awards season?
The Seed of the Sacred Fig review: An odd, special, important film
A taut thriller that unfolds against the backdrop of an increasingly draconian Iranian regime
Peter Sarsgaard: ‘I was around all these professional actors – Jeremy Irons, Gabriel Byrne... They all acted pretty crazy’
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
A flogging and eight years in prison: The risks Mohammad Rasoulof ran to make the Oscar-nominated Seed of the Sacred Fig
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
Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist has architects up in arms – but they’re missing the point
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
The Movie Quiz: Stars from which TV series are going head-to-head for an Oscar?
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This century’s The Godfather: How Brady Corbet made the staggering film The Brutalist
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
The Movie Quiz: Which James Bond has something in common with Donald Trump?
Plus: Who’s the host of this year’s Oscars?
Kneecap crew react to Oscars disappointment: ‘We’ll have a few drinks’
‘We will have a few drinks and dust ourselves down,’ says writer and director Rich Peppiatt
Screen Ireland launches slate of more than 80 productions
Details of upcoming Irish film, television and animation projects announced at event held ahead of underwhelming Oscar nominations
Oscars 2025: Kneecap’s failure to get a nomination is a genuine upset
Biopic of the West Belfast rap trio lost out on Oscar nomination for best international picture and best original song
Oscar nominations 2025: Emilia Pérez breaks record with 13 nods as Kneecap loses out
Disappointment as Kneecap misses out and no Irish actors are nominated for an award
Oscar nominations 2025: The full list
From The Brutalist to Wicked, to Emilia Pérez and Conclave, all the contenders, for the 97th Academy Awards
Oscars 2025 nominations today: What are the chances for Kneecap, Saoirse Ronan and Cillian Murphy?
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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Oscar nominations postponed for second time because of Los Angeles wildfires
The film industry’s highest honours will now be announced on Thursday, January 23rd
A Real Pain review: Kieran Culkin could be on an unstoppable run to an Oscar for this touching, funny drama
Jesse Eisenberg’s light-fingered second directorial effort is a touching, funny drama that allows truths to emerge subtly and sometimes ambiguously
The Oscars aren’t fair. Just look at what’s happening to Cillian Murphy
The actor’s performance in Small Things Like These seems perfectly positioned for an Academy Award nomination. So what’s gone wrong?
Dublin Film Critics Circle awards 2024: The Zone of Interest and Kneecap big winners
Critics also favoured Ralph Fiennes in Conclave and Mikey Madison in Palme d’Or-winning Anora
Oscars 2025: Kneecap shortlisted for best international feature film and best original song
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
Nicole Kidman on sex, death and her risky new film, Babygirl
The nature of being an actor is the need to be able to stay free and open and vulnerable, says the 57-year-old
‘They are stupid people for stupid times’: Cate Blanchett on presidents, prime ministers and power
The Oscar-winner plays a scheming German chancellor in Rumours, Guy Maddin’s raucous, phantasmagorical comedy about the G7
All We Imagine as Light director Payal Kapadia: ‘In India we have fables because women can’t always express their feelings’
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
Conclave: Ralph Fiennes is flawless in Robert Harris’s preposterously gripping drama of papal electioneering
This heavily plotted adaptation moves at a dizzying clatter as revelation upends revelation
‘I took one pill and my whole body was gone’: Kathy Bates on opioids, ageing and selfish co-stars
Actor plays lead in new version of 1980s legal drama Matlock, which sees lawyer avenging her daughter, who has died of opioid overdose
Paul Mescal rides A Streetcar Named Desire to New York stage
Gladiator II actor reprises role of Stanley Kowalski, following in footsteps of Marlon Brando
Show Clint Eastwood some respect. His new film Juror #2 is no dud
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
Bird director Andrea Arnold on Barry Keoghan: ‘I thought he had the most incredible face. Wow. What a man’
The English film-maker talks about tough shoots, her working-class background and working with Irishmen Keoghan and Robbie Ryan
The Movie Quiz: What three Oscars has Meryl Streep won?
Plus: What was the first film Clint Eastwood directed in which he did not act?
Anora director Sean Baker: ‘What Mikey Madison did was so impressive. She shadowed lapdancers. She spent time in the club’
The US director used to be one of indie cinema’s best-kept secrets. Now his funny, sexy, action-packed new film is frontrunner for the best-picture Oscar
The Movie Quiz: In what Irish town is Cillian Murphy’s Small Things Like These set?
Plus: What was the only Netflix title among this year’s Oscar nominees for best picture?
Anora: A stripper, Russian heavies and an oligarch’s son – what more do you need for a knockout comedy?
Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner doesn’t waste a single one of its 140 minutes. No wonder it’s the favourite for the best-picture Oscar
Karla Sofía Gascón, star of the Oscar-tipped Emilia Pérez: ‘I put my entire life and soul into creating this character’
If the Spanish star gets an Academy Award nomination for her role in Jacques Audiard’s film, she’ll be the first openly trans performer to do so
Joker: Folie à Deux - Why has it been such a catastrophic box-office failure?
The film’s nosedive will have repercussions for the still-floundering DC and beyond
Maggie Smith obituary: Exceptional actor whose comic genius was often refracted through tales of sadness
Her comedy was fuelled by anxiety, and her instinct for the correct gesture was infallible
The Shawshank Redemption at 30: is it really the greatest film ever made?
No, but there are a few explanations for why a lot of people on IMDb think it is
How Netflix won the streaming wars
The company has staged a remarkable recovery since the ‘great correction’ of 2022 and now has the edge over Hollywood rivals
James Earl Jones: It was as if no screen was wide enough to contain him or his voice
The acclaimed stage and screen actor, voice of Darth Vader and Mufasa, has died
Michael Keaton: ‘I could have made tons more movies, much more money. But I wanted to be a father’
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice star with a Cheshire cat smile talks Tim Burton, family and being a ‘Montana Man’
Barry Keoghan to star alongside Cillian Murphy in Peaky Blinders film
Dublin actor will take on an undisclosed role in Steven Knight’s Birmingham-based period drama
Colman Domingo: ‘I was noted as one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people, and I thought, what?’
Actor looks to be on track for another Oscar nomination for imminent prison drama Sing Sing
Recycled plastic lids to stained-glass ‘wearable art’: Claire Garvey reimagines waste for new collection
Designer’s eccentric creations have attracted customers ranging from music legends and actors, to those wanting a dress that looked like a tree
Barbie tops the charts with Irish cinema audiences
Margot Robbie hit takes in 54% more at the box office that multi-Oscar winning rival, Oppenheimer
Lily Gladstone: ‘We are done with being told our stories won’t resonate. That’s been proven wrong so often’
The Native American Oscar nominee broke new ground in Killers of the Flower Moon. Her new film, Fancy Dance, picks up the same issues 100 years later
‘The intimacy co-ordinators are kind of unshockable’: Emma Stone on her new film with Yorgos Lanthimos
If you thought their Oscar-winning collaboration Poor Things was unconventional, wait for the full-throttle madness of Kinds of Kindness
Kerry Condon: ‘Sometimes people look at me but they can’t place me. And that’s what I want to be – an actor’
The intensely private star likes to stay out of the limelight, despite being the most successful Irish actress at the global box office
‘When my grandad arrived he was illiterate, and now his grandson is earning this country an Oscar nomination’
The Teachers’ Lounge director Ilker Çatak on his tense, multilayered film about attempts to identify a thief in a multicultural German school
Percival Everett: ‘What’s amazing to me is this denial that this history belongs to all of us’
The veteran novelist, whose book Erasure became this year’s Oscar-winning American Fiction, on why he decided to retell Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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