Oscars 2026: Jessie Buckley finishes a job started by three other Irish stars
The Hamnet star, winner of the Academy Award for best actress, had seemed unstoppable for months
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Oscar winner Jessie Buckley to her husband: ‘You, Fred, I love you. I want to have 20,000 more babies with you’
The Irish star, picking up the Academy Award for best actress for her heart-rending turn in Hamnet, is one of two Irish winners
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Irish Academy Award nominees Jessie Buckley, Richard Baneham, John Kelly and Andrew Freedman will all be at Sunday night’s ceremony
Oscars 2026: Is Jessie Buckley really a cert? We predict who will win and who should win
Unless Los Angeles slides into the sea, the Hamnet star will become the first Irish winner of the best actress Academy Award
Oscars 2026: Where to watch Hamnet, Sinners, One Battle After Another and all the other best picture nominees
Streaming services, digital rentals and catch-up cinema screenings mean you can see all of this year’s key contenders
‘Tourette syndrome is like blinking: the urge is too strong to control’
The man at the centre of the Bafta racial slur controversy said he was ‘deeply mortified’ if anyone considered his tics intentional
Bafta N-word Tourette fallout has done nobody any good and there is no easy fix
On one thing everyone agreed: broadcast of the involuntary tics two hours after the live event defied all reason
Bafta N-word controversy: BBC producers ‘didn’t hear’ slur while ‘working in a truck’
Broadcast containing N-word remained on BBC iPlayer overnight before coverage was taken down
Bafta N-word controversy: BBC apologises as Jamie Foxx and Wendell Pierce criticise outbursts
Tourette syndrome activist John Davidson was heard shouting several times during the ceremony
The Secret Agent director Kleber Mendonça Filho: ‘I love the title. It’s short and sexy’
After winning two Golden Globes, the proudly puzzling thriller is up for the best-picture Oscar. And now the Brazilian president is on the phone
Ryan Coogler on Sinners’ hit Celtic vampire dance: ‘Rocky Road to Dublin is an affirmation of humanity’
The director of one of 2025’s most talked-about films on the links between Irish and black communities
Sinners review: The best film of 2025 so far, right down to the Celtic vampires singing Rocky Road to Dublin
Part period bloodsucker flick, part blues-heavy musical, with not one but two Michael B Jordans and an insanely violent denouement
Debate rages over tennis players’ ambivalent attitude towards vaccination
Some players shrug shoulders as they’d have to remain in tournament bubbles regardless
Just Mercy review: Irresistible legal drama with a real world Atticus Finch
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A year on from ‘inclusion rider’, Hollywood accepts 4% challenge
Stars and some studios are backing a push to see more women and minorities hired
Oscars 2019: Here’s who I predict will be nominated today
Donald Clarke: If I get fewer than 80% of these correct I’ll be disappointed
The 50 best films of 2018
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Creed II: Little else this season has been so entertaining
Review: The Rocky films have moved on, and the acting has never been better in the series
Brad Bird: Inside the Pixar movie-making machine
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Cannes film festival: the class acts of 2018
Despite a dispute with Netflix and films not being ready in time, the competition is one of the funkiest, least creaky in years
The Wire, 10 years on: ‘We showed the American dream was dead’
Writers and stars of ‘anti-cop show’ look back at a series that changed TV for ever
Black Panther: This film is revolutionary. Just not that good
Review: It features a black superhero, but the CGI is suffocating and the plot is weak
Ryan Coogler: ‘Apollo Creed meant everything to African-Americans’
In the Rocky offshoot Creed, Ryan Coogler has made a rare boxing film with a black actor as star. The director talks about how he won over Sly, and the cultural importance of Apollo Creed
Fruitvale Station
This Sundance prize winner is overly schematic, but also hard-hitting in its outrage over a racially charged miscarriage of justice
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