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Gowns holding space were popular this year, with Ariana Grande setting the standard in Schiaparelli. Among men, Timothée Chalamet stood out in ‘Kerrygold’ yellow
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Mikey Madison beats Demi Moore for best actress prize as Adrien Brody is best actor, and Kieran Culkin and Zoë Saldaña get best supporting actor Oscars
Oscars 2025: Who will win and who should win? Ireland has just one chance
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?
Screen Actors Guild awards 2025: Full list of winners
Demi Moore, Timothée Chalamet, Zoe Saldaña and Kieran Culkin take the main acting prizes at the Screen Actors Guild awards
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As the British and US film academies share many voters, the Baftas are a good indicator of what to expect at the Academy Awards
Baftas 2025: Conclave beats The Brutalist to best picture as Kneecap film wins award
Main acting awards go to Mikey Madison and Adrien Brody as Emilia Pérez wins best film not in the English language
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
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
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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Brady Corbet’s cold-eyed third film allows the possibilities of the United States while admitting the Faustian costs
Screen Actors Guild awards: Full list of nominations
Irish actors Nicola Coughlan, Colin Farrell and Andrew Scott received TV acting nominations
Golden Globes 2025: full list of winners
The Brutalist, Emilia Pérez and Shōgun triumph at the Golden Globes as Colin Farrell wins third award
50 films to see in 2025, from Babygirl to You’re Cordially Invited
Nicole Kidman stars in a kinky office romance, Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell play wedding planners, and Éanna Hardwicke and Steve Coogan replay Saipan
Golden Globes 2025: full list of nominations
Musical thriller Emilia Pérez and historical epic The Brutalist led the pack of films nominated, with Emilia Pérez earning 10 nods and The Brutalist gaining seven
Clooney, Kidman, Pitt and Jolie lit up the Venice Lido. Which of their films will scoop the Golden Lion?
Venice International Film Festival 2024: One film immediately became deserved favourite for the top prize – which means it will almost certainly lose
The French Dispatch: Something for le weekend
Wes Anderson’s Gallic portmanteau is gorgeous but insubstantial
Oscars 2022: My predictions for next year’s best-picture nominees
Donald Clarke forecasts how next year’s category may look as the industry creaks back into action
50 scary films to watch at Halloween
Scare yourself silly with this list of everything from classic films to modern hits
20 great travel movies to take you around the world while you’re stuck at home
From city breaks to train trips, Rome to the Amazon, these are all on streaming services
Do you know about all the Irish connections in Peaky Blinders?
Latest season of the 1920s gangster drama sees the arrival of Irish director David Caffrey and other Love/Hate stars in Charlie Murphy and Aidan Gillen
Peaky Blinders never knows when enough is enough
Review: The violent, sulphurous period gangster drama is back to cut up our screens
2016: The 50 best films on Netflix
While some movies have vanished from the streaming service, many have arrived and there are plenty to fill the summer evenings, from comedy classics like ‘Airplane’ to thrillers such as ‘Winter’s Bone’
The Clasp by Sloane Crosley: Latching on to love
A comedy of manners about modern America steeped in literature
Paul Haggis: “I do feel quite guilty sometimes . . . This is who we are. We’re vampires”
From Scooby Doo to his Oscar-winner Crash, Paul Haggis is a man supremely in charge of his craft
Third Person review: a cinema crash waiting to happen
Beautiful people have all the frickin’ problems in Paul Haggis glossy but superficial drama
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