Viola Davis

The Emmy-nominated Kildare actor appears in 10 to watch list with Borat’s Maria Bakalova

The late actor was a star for the ages who helped change Hollywood's view on race

Irish-founded software company reports big rise in pretax profit to $32.2m

Harriet Tubman screenwriter says an executive proposed actor to play former slave

Irish actors up for three awards, as Game of Thrones breaks records with 32 nominations

New this week: Assassination Nation, Shoplifters, The Girl in the Spider’s Web and The Camino Voyage

Review: Steve McQueen tries to cram in too much good stuff – but there's no crime in that when it's such good stuff

Audience input and domestic films make TIFF more than just an Oscar barometer

Toronto film festival: British filmmaker honours series while imprinting his own visual stamp

The Favourite from Yorgos Lanthimos will compete for the Golden Lion at Venice and John Butler’s Papi Chulo will premiere at Toronto

Donald Clarke: And then The Shawshank Redemption, The Sting and 12 Angry Women

Donald Clarke predicts 2019’s Best Picture nominees. He was nearly half right this year

The ‘Lady Bird’ star faces tough competition in this year’s best female actor category

Dunkirk blows away the competition

The Irish stars are among a raft of Academy inductees, which could diversify the Oscar nominations

Actor came under fire on social media for her unusual method of applauding the awards

Commentators dissecting perceived slights at Oscars need to brush up on film history

‘Moonlight’ carries off best picture statuette after ‘La La Land’ wrongly declared winner

A diligent Oscars observer should be happy with nothing less than 70 per cent in the prediction stakes – which means I’m not happy with my forecasting

Did Moonlight deserve its last gasp win? Was Emma Stone up to scratch? Here’s how we reviewed the winning films

Donald Clarke on the best, worst and most awkward moments of the 89th Academy Awards

Donald Clarke ranks the best picture nominees at this year’s Academy Awards

‘La La Land’ or ‘Moonlight’? Emma Stone or Natalie Portman? Casey Affleck or Denzel Washington? Donald Clarke makes his predictions for Sunday night's Oscars ceremony

Golden Globe winner tipped for an Oscar for ‘Fences’ is, at 51, taking success in her stride

Denzel Washington directs and stars alongside Viola Davis in a drama that betrays its origins as a stage play

Hollywood musical scoops most gongs on occasion coloured by celebrity and politics

Can sunny favourite ‘La La Land’, with 14 nods, hope to match the 11 gongs of ‘Titanic’?

Winners will be announced on February 26th

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

Irish nominees come up short, Meryl Streep gives searing critique of Donald Trump

Even Margot Robbie’s charming psychopath cannot rescue this poor team effort from the DC universe

As the hit series returns to Netflix, four of its stars discuss the show’s raw depictions of race, class, gender and sexuality, and speculate how far the show still has to go

Idris Elba, Viola Davis and Queen Latifah among big winners at this year’s ceremony

Viola Davis first African-American to win lead actress award for ‘How to Get Away With Murder’

This big budget adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s popular space opera is a bracing, if dubious, orgy of youthful militarism, writes Donald Clarke

Only 16, Hailee Steinfeld’s CV already boasts an Oscar nod and roles alongside the likes of Bridges, Ford Streep and Kingsley. How did she find herself in such illustrious company? “I never really found something that I loved as much as I love acting,” she tells Tara Brady

This long but jangly, complex thriller will set pulses racing