74 m. ago From Parasite to Anora: how Cannes became an Oscars power player

The increasingly international Academy has warmed to more and more Cannes film festival premieres, leaving all eyes on this year’s editionIt might have been a bad night for streamers, blockbusters and horror movies, but last night’s Oscars was another excellent year for the Cannes film festival.The major winner, Anora, which picked up five awards including best picture, best director and best actress, was a Palme d’Or winner at last May’s edition and became only the fourth recipient to go on to a best picture Oscar. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Fires, frocks and the president who must not be named: my very weird night in the Oscars cheap seats

After the horror of the LA wildfires and with the world in uproar, some had called for the show not to go on. But up in the mezzanine with the shouty hoi polloi, I saw that hope really does spring eternal hereOscars 2025: Brody beats orchestra, Brits keep it classy and Kieran Culkin botches his big momentIt’s the calm before the storm of the 97th Academy Awards and the announcer, Nick Offerman, is rehearsing his lines on the auditorium’s PA system. He introduces the nominees and trails the potential stories. He says: “Conclave won six awards tonight, including best picture,” and then pauses a moment to allow this momentous result to sink in. Upstairs at the Dolby theatre in Hollywood, the early arrivals have barely had time to get a drink in their hands. Now, all at once, they look stricken and cast nervous glances back and forth. Is Offerman joking, or has he just emitted white smoke by electing Edward Berger’s papal thriller? The Oscars don’t even start for another two hours and t...

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8 h. ago How to watch Crufts 2025: Full television programme for the famous dog show, presenters, daily schedule

You’ll be able to watch plenty of canine action on your television.

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11 h. ago Anora sweeps Oscars with five awards, including best picture – here’s where to watch the film

Mikey Madison won best actress for her starring role in the thriller slash comedy caper

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13 h. ago Oscars 2025 dubbed the most boring ceremony EVER as shock snub for Demi Moore, risque jokes and string of Trump rants fail to avert an absolute snoozefest

Anora was the big winner of the evening, taking home five awards including Best Picture, Best Leading Actress and Best Director.

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14 h. ago Oscars 2025 red carpet: Demi Moore, Ariana Grande and Timothée Chalamet among best dressed

Celebrities showed off their looks as Anora dominated the 97th Academy Awards, winning big with five golden statues, including Best Picture and Best Actress for Mikey Madison

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14 h. ago Oscars 2025 red carpet as Demi Moore and Selena Gomez dazzle in sequins

Celebrities showed off their looks as Anora dominated the 97th Academy Awards, winning big with five golden statues, including Best Picture and Best Actress for Mikey Madison

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16 h. ago Full list of Oscars 2025 winners ‘Anora’ takes home best picture

Anora dominated the 97th Academy Awards, winning big with five golden statues, including Best Picture and Best Actress for Mikey Madison, beating out favourite Emilia Perez

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16 h. ago Full list of Oscars 2025 winners as Anora takes home best picture

Anora dominated the 97th Academy Awards, winning big with five golden statues, including Best Picture and Best Actress for Mikey Madison, beating out favourite Emilia Perez

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17 h. ago Oscars 2025 live: Anora sweeps awards with best picture, best director and best actress

At the 97th Academy Awards in Los Angeles, Adrien Brody wins best actor for The Brutalist, while Zoe Saldaña and Kieran Culkin take prizes. Join us for full coverage• The complete list of winners• The red carpet – in picturesAnd now a special live update from the Guardian’s Xan Brooks at the Dolby theatre in Hollywood First trip to the Oscars. Impossibly glamorous arrival. Non-celebrity guests, I discover, access the Dolby theatre by walking around the police cordons, across a filling station forecourt and past a shuttered bowling alley to the theatre doors. This is perhaps what’s known unofficially as the Karla Sofía Gascón Entrance. But I’m now safely inside and have been handed a spring roll to eat. Continue reading...

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17 h. ago Anora sweeps the Oscars as Mikey Madison named best actress and Adrien Brody wins for The Brutalist

Sean Baker’s film picked up five awards including best picture while Israel-Palestine documentary No Other Land also gets major winOscars 2025 — follow live Academy Awards updatesSee complete list of winners and photos from the red carpetLow-budget comedy Anora has triumphed at this year’s Oscars winning five Oscars, including best picture and best actress while Adrien Brody took home best actor.Anora, which follows Mikey Madison’s sex worker who gets married to the son of a Russian oligarch, premiered at the Cannes film festival last year and has become the fourth Palme d’Or winner to be named best picture. Continue reading...

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17 h. ago Anora dominates the Oscars as Mikey Madison named best actress and Adrien Brody wins for The Brutalist

Sean Baker’s film picks up five awards including best picture while Israel-Palestine documentary No Other Land also gets major win• Oscars 2025 – follow live Academy Awards updates• Complete list of winners and photos from the red carpetLow-budget comedy Anora has triumphed at this year’s Oscars winning five Oscars, including best picture and best actress while Adrien Brody took home best actor.Anora, which follows Mikey Madison’s sex worker who gets married to the son of a Russian oligarch, premiered at the Cannes film festival last year and has become the fourth Palme d’Or winner to be named best picture. Continue reading...

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35 h. ago Netflix is removing one of its greatest Original films after seven years

The film is available to watch exclusively on service in UK – but not for much longer

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43 h. ago Oscars 2025: How to watch in the UK, full list of nominations and why are there big changes to the show this year

This year's Academy Awards are set to be different to their usual broadcast. Here's everything you need to know

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3 d. ago Netflix is removing one of its greatest Original movies after seven years

The film is available to watch exclusively on service in UK – but not for much longer

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3 d. ago Oscars 2025: Last minute betting odds ahead of this weekend’s ceremony

Here’s who the bookies think are set to win big at this weekend’s 97th Academy Awards 🏆🎞🏆

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4 d. ago Gene Hackman refused to watch his most famous film – despite winning Oscar for it

Hollywood legend and two-time Oscar winner Gene hackman was found dead, aged 95, alongside his musician wife Betsy Akaway and their pet dog on Thursday (February 27)

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6 d. ago The Brutalist is about a great architect. Columbus is a heartfelt tribute to great architecture

This critically acclaimed drama about how spaces can haunt and heal us is the finest work of John Cho, Haley Lu Richardson and director Kogonada’s careersGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailBrady Corbet’s Oscar hopeful The Brutalist offers a somewhat skewed depiction of architectural intent, one where public demonstrations of genius and private catharses have an outsized impact on a building’s design. Grand gestures and hidden intentions make for good drama, but physical space in The Brutalist is rendered secondary to psychological space — it’s a film about a great architect, not great architecture. For the latter, one must watch Korean-American director Kogonada’s film Columbus.Early on in this gentle drama, Jin (John Cho) speaks of renowned architect James Polshek’s belief in architecture as a “healing art” while looking at one of Polshek’s own designs: the glass walkway of the Columbus Regional Mental Health Center. While Jin admires its faintly dilapidated beauty, it is u...

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7 d. ago Never mind the quality, feel the money: central flaw of football’s ‘greatest show on earth’ | Barney Ronay

Title race and relegation over by February? The Premier League is rich, but there’s no jeopardy and no real sense of excellence, at least not on the pitchLadies and gentlemen we have now reached our cruising altitude. The pilot will be putting his feet up and drinking tiny cans of Sprite from here to the middle of May. Sit back, zone out. Stick on a bad film with Seth Rogen in it. You can even watch the football if you like. Just don’t expect much to happen for the next three months.So much for that excitingly bumpy, turbulence-fuelled Premier League season, all perky upstarts, crumbling certainties and unexpected shifts of altitude, which really did seem to be shaping up just a few short weeks go. As of game weekend 26 and Arsenal’s defeat by West Ham, followed by Liverpool strolling through Manchester City, the league has reached a stage of premature entropy. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago How to watch the Oscars in the UK 2025: ITV's full programming, with host Jonathan Ross and celebrity guests

Red carpets, jaw-dropping speeches, comedy bits and big losers – how to tune in for another rollercoaster year of drama

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