To Kill a Mockingbird: The story behind the gripping stage production on its way to Ireland
While still maintaining its historical setting, Aaron Sorkin’s script feels urgently engaged with the contemporary United States
Academy Awards
Oscars 2026: Jessie Buckley is in strong position to win Ireland’s first best actress award
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
‘Doing nothing is being complicit. This film is a way not to be complicit’
Kaouther Ben Hania, director of The Voice of Hind Rajab, on the moral imperative to tell this tragic story from Gaza
YouTube rips up the script with Oscar coup
Streaming the ceremony free and globally on the platform gives the Academy an opportunity to find new viewers
Oscars to move from broadcast TV to YouTube in 2029
ABC has televised the Oscars, the film industry’s highest honours, every year since 1976
Tom Cruise accepts honorary Oscar: ‘Making films is not what I do. It’s who I am’
Mission impossible star Tom Cruise is a four-time Oscar nominee who has never won the award
Congrats to Cillian Murphy but there’s no way of turning this into a good look
The male-female split among the star’s rivals for a gender-neutral acting award is the sort of result sceptics feared
Pauline Collins: The actor whose most celebrated roles held a sense of sly intelligence
Collins was part of Killarney’s New Irish Players in the 1960s before going on to earn her Oscar nomination
‘I couldn’t sit through it’: New Oscars rule requires members to watch all films before voting
Donald Clarke: There has been speculation that this is good news for low-budget titles, but expect no seismic shift
Julie Keeps Quiet director Leonardo Van Dijl: ‘I didn’t want to make a film about a hashtag’
The director’s debut feature is a gripping post-#MeToo drama about a teenage tennis prodigy. Has she been groomed?
TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight
March 2nd-7th, including Towards Zero, The Academy Awards, The Skinny Jab Revolution and Réaltaí na Gaeltachta
Landmark Japanese documentary on rape was nominated for an Oscar, but may never be widely seen there
Victim Shiori Ito directed the ‘emotionally wrenching’ film about her attack and its aftermath
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: The full list
From The Brutalist to Wicked, to Emilia Pérez and Conclave, all the contenders, for the 97th Academy Awards
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Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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