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Oscars 2023: My predictions for next year’s best-picture nominees

Donald Clarke forecasts how the category will shape up at the next Academy Awards

Tue Mar 29 2022 - 13:30

Oscars 2022: Who should win, and who will win?

Ireland has its biggest haul of nominations since 2016, but has won few awards so far

Sat Mar 26 2022 - 05:00

Al Pacino: ‘The Godfather gave me a new identity that was hard to cope with’

Fifty years later, the actor looks back on his breakthrough role as Michael Corleone

Mon Mar 14 2022 - 10:06

Baftas 2022: Belfast edged out by The Power of the Dog

Kenneth Branagh’s film takes just one prize as Joanna Scanlan is ‘surprise’ best actress

Sun Mar 13 2022 - 21:00

‘I was just a very confused actor. But I was really keen to learn’

Mark Rylance on his unlikely road to Hollywood stardom, and why Brits love an underdog

Sat Mar 12 2022 - 05:00

Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: Bob Odenkirk’s memoir is funny and unsentimental

Enlightening account of a life in laughter’s vanguard may test patience of Breaking Bad fans

Mon Mar 07 2022 - 06:00

Screen Actors Guild awards 2022: Will Smith, Squid Game and Coda win big

'Now I feel I’m finally part of the family': Troy Kotsur, first deaf actor to win award

Mon Feb 28 2022 - 10:02

Oscars 2022: Kenneth Branagh, Jessie Buckley and Ciarán Hinds among nominees

Belfast up for best picture and Van Morrison nominated for best original song

Tue Feb 08 2022 - 12:10

Mark Rylance on theatre, film and his family’s tragedy: ‘For me, love is stronger than death’

The actor’s beloved stepdaughter, Nataasha van Kampen, died aged 28 in 2012

Mon Jan 10 2022 - 10:07

Golden Globes 2022: Belfast wins best screenplay in discredited awards

Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog wins best drama, in a low-scoring night for the Irish

Mon Jan 10 2022 - 05:55

Donald Clarke: China’s financial success at the cinema is not a pandemic story

People’s Republic released two highest-grossing films of 2021 after decade of growth

Sat Jan 01 2022 - 05:00

How to go from Rathmines to working with Hollywood’s A-list

Oscar-winning Irish director Benjamin Cleary on his thought-provoking metaphysical sci-fi debut

Thu Dec 16 2021 - 05:00

Golden Globes 2022: Belfast leads the nominations for controversial awards

Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast gets seven nods. Ruth Negga is also nominated for Passing

Mon Dec 13 2021 - 15:30

West Side Story's Ariana DeBose: ‘I was enamoured with Rita Moreno’

The performer and actor on playing the classic role of Anita in Steven Spielberg's remake

Sat Dec 11 2021 - 05:00

West Side Story: Sondheim’s lyrics still crackle in Spielberg’s movie

Review: Steven Spielberg revives Bernstein and Sondheim’s classic musical for the screen

Wed Dec 08 2021 - 05:00

Rita Moreno: ‘Was Brando a good lover? Oh, yes! Incredible’

The Hollywood veteran on West Side Story, dating Brando and Elvis Presley, and joy at 90

Thu Dec 02 2021 - 06:00

Ian Shaw: ‘I used to see Dad drink. I was often playing under the table in Irish pubs’

The actor on his father, Jaws star Robert Shaw, and the problems that plagued the film shoot

Mon Nov 08 2021 - 06:00

Donald Clarke: When is a new take on a movie not a remake?

A complex formula involving several variables dictates whether the word is appropriate

Sat Oct 23 2021 - 05:00

Tuning out: The strange case of the apparent death of the film musical

Dear Evan Hansen screen adaptation comes during a fraught period for the always imperilled genre

Thu Oct 21 2021 - 05:00

Ireland has the weather, the landscape and the spotty extras that medieval movies need

Donald Clarke: The country easily delivers the desired sense of mildewed desolation

Sun Oct 10 2021 - 08:44