3 h. ago Guy Pearce: ‘I’m not going to win the Oscar – Kieran Culkin will’

The Brutalist star is up for his first ever Academy award next week. He talks about awards fuss, living with his ex, and making his new film, Inside, in an actual prisonGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailAfter his acclaimed performances in films such as LA Confidential, The Proposition, Memento, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Animal Kingdom and The Hurt Locker, you may be surprised that Guy Pearce has just been nominated for his first ever Oscar: for his turn as the sociopathic industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren in The Brutalist. Or maybe you haven’t noticed Pearce’s Oscars campaign because he keeps rubbishing his own career: he was “shit” in Memento (“I’m bad in a good movie. Fuck!”), worse in Neighbours (“I played the same thing and it fucking drove me nuts”) and has cheerfully owned up to acting in “a bunch of shit during my divorce because I needed the money”.As awards campaigns go – well, it’s a lot better than Karla Sofía Gascón’s. Not that Pearce ...

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10 h. ago ‘I love Suicide Squad!’: Our favourite unpopular Oscar wins of all time

From ‘American Beauty’ winning Best Picture to the eternal controversy over Marisa Tomei’s win for ‘My Cousin Vinny’, Oscar history is filled with divisive victories endlessly debated by film fans. Here our culture desk go to bat for some of the most controversial

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13 h. ago Sag awards red carpet 2025: Wicked drama and men without ties – in pictures

On a fairly subdued red carpet at the Screen Actors Guild awards, the cast of Wicked stood out in full fantasy regalia. Here’s a look at what the stars wore – including Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Timothée Chalamet, Monica Barbaro, Jeremy Allen White and Demi MooreSag awards 2025: Timothée Chalamet, Demi Moore, Kieran Culkin and Zoe Saldaña win major categories Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Sag awards 2025: Timothée Chalamet, Demi Moore, Kieran Culkin and Zoe Saldaña win major categories

Screen Actors Guild awards go to Shōgun and Conclave ensembles, while Jane Fonda gives a rousing political speech while accepting a life achievement awardTimothée Chalamet has won best actor in a surprise upset at the 2025 Screen Actors Guild awards for his performance as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown, with Demi Moore and the ensembles of Shōgun and Conclave also winning big.Chalamet won best male actor in a leading role, his first in an awards race that has been led all season by The Brutalist’s Adrien Brody, who has picked up the Golden Globe, Bafta and Critics’ Choice awards and is still widely predicted to win the Oscar next week. Continue reading...

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15 h. ago Kieran Culkin takes stray shot at Adrien Brody over long acceptance speeches at 2025 SAG Awards

Culkin playfully roasted Brody over his lengthy award speeches

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4 d. ago War of words: who is winning the Oscar for best acceptance speech?

This season’s awards circuit has seen Demi Moore and Sean Baker praised for their speeches, but how much does that contribute to the big win?Winning an Oscar for acting has never looked particularly easy, even if certain types of performances – physical transformations, celebrity impressions – always seem to maintain an edge over others. One major factor contributing to the Oscar’s degree of difficulty is that the job doesn’t end when the movie does. There’s a whole season of awards campaigning requiring a different sort of performance – the equivalent of being thrown into an overtime that lasts far longer than the actual on-field game play. If awards season had a playbook for how to win this endless overtime, it would probably focus on acceptance speeches.There’s no better example than Demi Moore’s bonus-round performance at this year’s Golden Globes. As an awards body, the Globes are a longtime joke – a recently rebooted organization that can never claim any voting-body overlap wi...

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5 d. ago Kevin Spacey hits back after Guy Pearce claims he was 'targeted' on LA Confidential set

Pearce claimed Spacey was ‘aggressive’ towards him when they worked together in 1997

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5 d. ago Kevin Spacey fumes 'grow up' as Guy Pearce admits being 'scared' of star

Kevin Spacey has hit back after his LA Confidential co-star Guy Pearce claimed he felt 'scared' around the actor when they worked together almost 30 years ago

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5 d. ago ‘Grow up’: Kevin Spacey responds to Guy Pearce’s allegation that he ‘targeted’ him

‘I’ve got nothing to hide’ says Spacey, after the Australian actor said he is attempting to be more candid about his former co-star’s alleged behaviourKevin Spacey has responded to Guy Pearce’s allegation that the actor “targeted him” during the filming of LA Confidential, telling Pearce to “grow up” and “you are not a victim”.On Monday, Pearce expanded further on his alleged experiences with Spacey, having previously called him “a handsy guy” in 2018. Spacey, who has been dogged by accusations of sexual misconduct, has conceded he made some “clumsy” approaches to men in the past, but never anything illegal. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Kevin Spacey vehemently denies ‘targeting’ Guy Pearce on 1997 film: ‘Grow up’

Pearce claimed on a recent podcast that his ‘L.A. Confidential’ co-star Spacey made him feel ‘uncomfortable’ and ‘scared’ on set

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5 d. ago ‘Grow up’: Kevin Spacey responds to Guy Pearce’s accusation that actor ‘targeted’ him on 1997 film

Pearce claimed on a recent podcast that his ‘L.A. Confidential’ co-star Spacey made him feel ‘uncomfortable’ and ‘scared’ on set

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5 d. ago ‘Grow up’: Kevin Spacey responds to Guy Pearce’s accusation that actor ‘targeted’ him on L.A. Confidential

Pearce claimed on a recent podcast that his ‘L.A. Confidential’ co-star Spacey made him feel ‘uncomfortable’ and ‘scared’ on set

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5 d. ago Kevin Spacey hits back at Guy Pearce in video after actor said he was 'scared' of disgraced Oscar

Kevin Spacey has hit back at Guy Pearce's claims he was 'scared of him' on the set of 1997 film, LA Confidential.

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6 d. ago ‘He targeted me’: Guy Pearce says he ‘sobbed’ over Kevin Spacey encounters

The Oscar-nominated actor has said he is attempting to be more candid about his former co-star’s alleged behaviourGuy Pearce, the actor Oscar-nominated for his role in Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, has opened up about his experiences when working with Kevin Spacey on 1997 film LA Confidential.Pearce had previously been oblique about his time with Spacey, who has been dogged by accusations of sexual misconduct, which Spacey has always denied, calling him “a handsy guy” in 2018. But speaking on Hollywood Reporter’s podcast Awards Chatter, the actor said he was now attempting to be franker about his co-star’s alleged behaviour. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Guy Pearce admits he was 'scared of Kevin Spacey' when they worked together on 1997's LA Confidential as controversial actor is hit by another sexual abuse claim

The Brutalist actor, 57, became tearful as he recalled his interactions with Kevin, 65, on the set of the 1997 crime film LA Confidential.

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7 d. ago BAFTA 2025 winner Jesse Eisenberg on Kieran Culkin’s genius and his ‘love

The actor-writer-director said of Culkin: ‘There's nothing better than acting alongside somebody who's alive, who's fresh as he was in it and engaged’

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7 d. ago Why Kieran Culkin missed out on receiving his award at the Baftas

Culkin’s A Real Pain co-star Jesse Eisenberg accepted the award on his behalf

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7 d. ago ‘Dying changes you. I’m more understanding now’: Ian Smith on cancer, celebrity – and 40 years on Neighbours

As the show’s beloved star Harold Bishop, Smith has seen actors from Margot Robbie to Guy Pearce come and go. Offscreen, he has battled grief, finding out he was adopted in his 50s and now a terminal diagnosis. Here, he reflects on a remarkable lifeFor a man who was supposed to be dead next month, Ian Smith looks good. Astoundingly good: huge smile, glowing skin, that famous wobbly chin. There is only one visible clue that he has terminal cancer: a freshly shaved head, over which he frequently rubs his hand. Chemotherapy left him with “an awful half shaggy, half bald look”, so he buzzed it all off. “First time I’ve been bald since I was a baby,” he says, happily. “Apart from no hair, you can’t tell I’m sick at all.”Smith is among Australia’s most recognisable actors, although you may not know him by his name. Charlie Brooker once described him as “probably the friendliest face on television – a cross between 10 Toytown mayors and a baby”. Perhaps you know him as Harold Bishop from N...

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