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Oscars 2025: Full list of winners as wild screwball comedy Anora takes five Academy Awards

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

Mon Mar 03 2025 - 05:47

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?

Sat Mar 01 2025 - 05:22

Dublin International Film Festival 2025: 10 films you should catch

The festival runs until March 2nd, with a huge variety of features on offer – we’ve whittled them down

Fri Feb 21 2025 - 18:30

What Baftas 2025 tell us about the Oscars: Emilia Pérez is still in the race, Anora is back as a front-runner, and more

As the British and US film academies share many voters, the Baftas are a good indicator of what to expect at the Academy Awards

Sun Feb 16 2025 - 22:13

Baftas 2025: the full list of winners

From Conclave's and The Brutalist's four gongs each to Kneecap's one, every prize at the British Academy Film awards

Sun Feb 16 2025 - 20:33

The Guide: Alison Moyet, King Lear, Dublin film festival and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end

February 15th-21st, 2025: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week

Sat Feb 15 2025 - 05:00

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

Thu Jan 23 2025 - 16:58

Oscar nominations 2025: The full list

From The Brutalist to Wicked, to Emilia Pérez and Conclave, all the contenders, for the 97th Academy Awards

Thu Jan 23 2025 - 15:17

‘Ireland taking British awards is f**king hilarious’: Kneecap’s six Bafta nominations a leap forward for Irish-language film

Baftas 2025: Rich Peppiatt’s raucous film about the Belfast trio has got into every category where it had even a reasonable chance

Wed Jan 15 2025 - 15:30

Bafta nominations 2025: Full list of nominees

Kneecap gets seven nods as Saoirse Ronan is listed for best actress for performance in The Outrun

Wed Jan 15 2025 - 13:15

Megyn Kelly’s rant about Conclave being ‘the most disgusting anti-Catholic film I’ve seen’ is big win for the church

The conservative US journalist’s diatribe might reek of woke-gone-mad overreach, but no, she does indeed describe the twist ending accurately

Sun Jan 12 2025 - 05:00

Golden Globes 2025: full list of winners

The Brutalist, Emilia Pérez and Shōgun triumph at the Golden Globes as Colin Farrell wins third award

Mon Jan 06 2025 - 05:22

Dublin Film Critics Circle awards 2024: The Zone of Interest and Kneecap big winners

Critics also favoured Ralph Fiennes in Conclave and Mikey Madison in Palme d’Or-winning Anora

Thu Dec 19 2024 - 15:08

Ralph Fiennes at the Abbey Theatre: An electrifying, moving reading of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets

The likely triple Oscar nominee, star of Conclave, is in fluent form at the national theatre’s TS Eliot Lecture for 2024

Sun Dec 15 2024 - 21:34

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

Mon Dec 09 2024 - 16:07

The 50 best films of 2024: No 50 to No 31

The 10 highest-grossing titles were all sequels – but none is in our 50-best list in a year audiences turned out in numbers for ‘cultural cinema’

Wed Dec 04 2024 - 05:30

Conclave: Ralph Fiennes is flawless in Robert Harris’s preposterously gripping drama of papal electioneering

This heavily plotted adaptation moves at a dizzying clatter as revelation upends revelation

Thu Nov 28 2024 - 05:00

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar: A delightful amuse-bouche that reunites Wes Anderson and Roald Dahl

Three more adaptations featuring the same team will arrive on Netflix in coming days

Fri Sept 29 2023 - 05:00

Wes Anderson on his new Roald Dahl film: ‘No one who is not the author should be modifying somebody else’s book’

Benedict Cumberbatch, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes and Dev Patel star in the director’s faithfully scripted new film of The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

Sat Sept 23 2023 - 05:30

Ben Whishaw: ‘I don’t find acting helps my social anxiety’

The actor talks about his off-stage shyness and his latest role in This Is Going to Hurt

Tue Feb 01 2022 - 06:03

The King’s Man: The best entry yet in the secret agent pastiche franchise

Push the barmy politics to one side and wallow in the imaginative absurdity

Tue Dec 21 2021 - 00:00

No Time to Die film review: The opening sequence is the best thing about it

The new Bond film starts brilliantly, goes off the boil, then rallies in a stirring finale

Wed Sept 29 2021 - 01:01

Anderlecht’s Josh Cullen spreads play by moving beyond English game

Ireland midfielder has expanded his horizons, and advises others to follow his example

Wed Jun 02 2021 - 06:00

The secret to a great veggie barbecue, by Rukmini Iyer

The former MasterChef contestant and caterer to the stars shares recipes from her new book

Sat May 01 2021 - 06:00

Ian McKellen as Hamlet: Is ageism the last great barrier in the arts industry?

Will the critics let them be sexagenarian murderers in peace? I wouldn’t count on it

Sat Mar 27 2021 - 05:00

Stanley Tucci, Colin Firth, Steve McQueen and Nina Hoss to appear at Dublin film festival

Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival unveils line-up for 2021 virtual event

Wed Feb 03 2021 - 13:13

The Dig: Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes shine, but then things get a bit muddy

Film review: This wartime drama is Oscars material until a dull subplot gets in the way

Fri Jan 29 2021 - 05:50

Ralph Fiennes: ‘English society is built on hierarchies’

The actor on playing a high-achieving, under-recognised archeologist, and English society

Sat Jan 23 2021 - 05:00

‘My waitressing job was paying the bills so I could afford to work at the theatre’

Wild Geese: Pauline Turley is the vice-chair of the Irish Arts Center in New York

Fri Jan 08 2021 - 05:01

Patrick Freyne: Nigella Lawson is not a chef, she's a food playwright

Here's the thing, herbs and spices are costumes. Rice and pasta are ‘extras’. Bowls and plates are sets. Chicken is the lead character

Fri Nov 13 2020 - 05:00

Robert Sheehan: ‘I was a contrarian f**ker. I thought it made me seem more edgy’

The Portlaoise-born actor talks about London living, meditation and lockdown writing

Sun Jul 26 2020 - 06:10

Dolittle review: Worse than a bad movie, this is the low-point of every career involved

This ‘film’ doesn’t even have the good grace to be a bad movie. It’s far worse than that

Thu Feb 06 2020 - 05:00

James Bond: No Time to Die first trailer released

In trailer for 25th 007 film Daniel Craig comes face to face with his replacement

Wed Dec 04 2019 - 14:08

Official Secrets: Fascinating Iraq War whistleblower tale

Review: Hood’s study of Katharine Gun is an efficient, diverting exercise that will educate

Fri Oct 18 2019 - 05:00