29 h. ago The Guardian view on the future of cinema: gen Z is falling in love with the big screen | Editorial

Film is in a state of existential crisis. But a new generation of cinephiles might save it from the streaming giants“It was from a weekly visit to the cinema that you learned (or tried to learn) how to walk, to smoke, to kiss, to fight, to grieve,” Susan Sontag wrote 30 years ago, in an essay to mark 100 years of film entitled The Decay of Cinema. For Sontag, the onset of the “ignominious, irreversible decline” of the 20th century’s greatest art form was the arrival of television. Today it is the advent of streaming.Cinema is in a state of existential crisis. Netflix is bidding to take over Warner Bros, as the industry is still recovering from lockdown and the 2023 Hollywood writers’ and actors’ strikes. Leonardo DiCaprio, whose One Battle After Another received 13 Oscar nominations last week, having failed to break even at the box office, asked if people still have “the appetite” for movies, and if cinemas are in danger of becoming “silos – like jazz bars”. Matt Damon has...

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3 d. ago ‘An environmental nuclear bomb’: documentary examines fight to save Great Salt Lake

Sundance film festival: A cautionary new film, executive-produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, warns of the devastating consequences if the Utah lake continues to disappearThe Sundance film festival kicked off its final edition on Thursday in Park City, the Utah ski enclave that has housed the independent film hub for more than four decades. Beginning in 2027, the festival will move to Boulder, Colorado, after a multi-year selection process that many assumed would end in Salt Lake City.Utah’s largest city, a mere 30 miles from the festival center, has long hosted extra Sundance events and served as its transit center. It’s a rapidly growing metropolitan area, a mecca for outdoor enthusiasts, a major US city – and, according to a new documentary that opened this year’s festival, facing an imminent ecological crisis. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Ryan Coogler, Leonardo DiCaprio, Rose Byrne, Diane Warren react to Oscar nominations

Director Ryan Coogler spoke about writing “Sinners,” nominated for a record 16 nominations, for his late uncle

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4 d. ago Leonardo DiCaprio’s Bob Ferguson was already iconic before the Oscar nomination

Leonardo DiCaprio has picked up his sixth lead actor Oscar nomination for his role in “One Battle After Another.”

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4 d. ago Timothee Chalamet, 30, ties with Hollywood legend Marlon Brando for Oscar record after achieving rare nominations feat

The star will now be facing off against Leonardo DiCaprio, Ethan Hawke, Michael B. Jordan, and Wagner Moura for the Best Actor award.

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4 d. ago Oscar 2026 nominations: Timothee Chalamet and Leonardo DiCaprio to battle it out for biggest honor in film as full Academy Awards list is revealed

It was a record-breaking morning as Sinners made history as it earned most Academy Awards nominations ever with 16 including biggest prize of the night Best Picture.

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4 d. ago Irish stars Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal tipped for Oscar nominations

The contenders will be revealed on Thursday.

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1 week ago Timothee Chalamet topples Leonardo DiCaprio at the box office after thrashing him during awards season

The actors' competitive game just got a little more hectic with Chalamet's Marty Supreme knocking DiCaprio's One Battle After Another out of the park in gross revenue.

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1 week ago Awkward moment Jacob Elordi's mother snubs Leonardo DiCaprio backstage at the Golden Globes

A cringeworthy encounter between Jacob Elordi's mother and Leonardo DiCaprio backstage at the Golden Globes has gone viral for all the wrong reasons. 

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1 week ago Leonardo DiCaprio mystery deepens as Teyana Taylor BACKTRACKS claim he was talking to her in viral Globes moment

Teyana Taylor is walking back her initial claim that Leonardo DiCaprio was chatting with her during a now-viral moment at the 2026 Golden Globes.

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1 week ago Teyana Taylor not mystery person Leonardo DiCaprio was talking to in viral video

The viral clip shows DiCaprio speaking flamboyantly to another guest during the Golden Globes award ceremony on Sunday night.

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1 week ago Teyana Taylor shares what really happened during Leonardo DiCaprio’s viral Golden Globes moment

A clip of DiCaprio animatedly speaking to someone during a commercial break went viral

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1 week ago Why the world wants to know who the true Leonardo DiCaprio is

Despite his viral moment, the ‘One Battle After Another’ star remains one of Hollywood’s most inscrutable mysteries. Who is this man, asks Louis Chilton, beyond his films and his childhood love of pasta?

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1 week ago One DiCaprio after another: Leo’s viral ‘personality reveal’ wasn’t the mask

Despite his viral moment, the star remains one of Hollywood’s most inscrutable mysteries. Who is this man, asks Louis Chilton, beyond his films and his childhood love of pasta?

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1 week ago Leonardo DiCaprio fans go into overdrive as his notorious 1991 Teen Beat interview is unearthed after Golden Globes host Nikki Glaser poked fun at the star during her opening monologue

DiCaprio was approaching his 17th birthday and developing a name for himself as one to watch courtesy of his role in US sitcom Parenthood when the pop culture publication came calling.

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1 week ago Starstruck Adolescence star Owen Cooper, 16, poses for selfies with A

Starstruck Adolescence star Owen Cooper posed for selfies with A-listers Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn and Emily Blunt after making history with his Golden Globes win on Sunday night.

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1 week ago Leonardo DiCaprio's hilarious Golden Globes exchange is decoded by lip reader

The Titantic star, 51, was seen chatting to an initially unidentified attendee in an uncharacteristically animated fashion much to the delight of fans

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2 w. ago One bizarre expression after another: DiCaprio’s viral moment won the Golden Globes

Famously serious Oscar-winner gave rare insight into what might be the real Leo with his commercial break anticsThe fact that nobody really knows anything about Leonardo DiCaprio is well-established at this point. Indeed, the best joke of Nikki Glaser’s Golden Globes monologue last night revolved around that fact that DiCaprio gives so little of himself away that the only things she could find to joke about him were his notoriously younger girlfriends and an obscure magazine interview he gave when he was 17, where he announced that his favourite food was “pasta, pasta and more pasta”.However, DiCaprio then went and instantly gave some of himself away. A camera remained on him during a commercial break, and it caught him giving one of the most flamboyant demonstrations of his personality ever seen. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Golden Globes 2026 viral moments: Leonardo DiCaprio meme to Wanda Sykes’ Ricky Gervais dig

Hollywood’s biggest names gathered at the Beverly Hilton on Sunday night, but it didn’t take long for attention to drift from the winners’ speeches to the reaction shots

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2 w. ago Leonardo DiCaprio goes viral after Golden Globes clip shows actor’s ‘real personality’

Seated alongside his mother, Irmelin Indenbirken, 82, and co-star Sean Penn, DiCaprio proved an unexpectedly animated fixture during the three-hour broadcast on CBS

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