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
Daniel Day-Lewis
‘I want to be alone’: Greta Garbo, sure. Daniel Day-Lewis, maybe not so much after all
The unconvincing retirement has history as a promotional tool in show business. Nobody believes that’s what’s going on with Day-Lewis
Daniel Day-Lewis ends retirement from acting to star in son’s film
Three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis returns to film to star in his son Ronan’s directorial debut, Anemone, which he also cowrote
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Television: The author and playwright, who suffered life-changing injuries after a fall in 2022, revisits his life and career
Ranked: The 15 greatest Irish moments at the Oscars
From Daniel Day-Lewis and Brenda Fricker winning acting awards for My Left Foot to the Academy singing Happy Birthday to James Martin in 2023
Ranked: the 25 greatest films to lose out on best picture Oscar
The films that were nominated for best picture but never won, losing out more often than not to a lesser work
Oscars 2024: Cillian Murphy leads sky-high Irish hopes as nominees fly out
Irish-made Poor Things is also up for several awards
Fionnuala Ward: So long autographs, selfies are taking over
Getting a photo with a celebrity is the done thing these days, but a few scribbled words can also tell a tale
Anglo-Irish poet Cecil Day-Lewis was third-choice UK poet laureate in 1968, archives show
Father of Oscar-winning Irish actor Daniel Day-Lewis was put forward for prestigious position after two other frontrunners were dismissed as ineligible
Milan Kundera obituary: Communist Party outcast whose sexually charged novels turned him into a literary star
Influential Czech-born author of the bestselling novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being captured the suffocating absurdity of life
Oscars: the 25 best winning lead acting performances of all time
From Bergman, Bogart and Brando to De Niro, Portman and Taylor, the competition is stellar - and Streep doesn’t make the cut
An Oscar ceremony dominated by Ireland... but will anybody be watching?
Back when host David Niven dealt with a male streaker, the Oscars were essential viewing. Now audiences have lost interest (unless a star assaults the host)
British actor Julian Sands missing in California mountains after hike
The 65-year-old A Room with a View actor was first reported missing on January 13th
Vicky Krieps: ‘Wearing these dresses is actually torture. It cuts off the emotions’
Vicky Krieps’s award-winning performance in Corsage as an iconic Mitteleuropean monarch strips away the myth and the glamour
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