3 h. ago Jonathan Anderson leans into Dior’s dramatic backstory for couture show

Designer spins the historic house off on a tangent in Paris, with his reading of its history being that shock value can sellFor billionaires with an eye on best-dressed lists and Oscar nominees with sights set on red carpet domination, Paris haute couture – where a dress can take months to make by hand, and cost as much as a small apartment in the city – is a shopping opportunity. For the rest of the fashion industry, it is a battle for bragging rights between the haughtiest brand names in the world. With ambitious young designers newly installed at Dior and Chanel vying for domination, that battle is feistier than ever.Haute couture is an arms race like no other. At 10 o’clock on a Monday morning, the Oscar nominee Teyana Taylor was in a diamond tiara in the front row of Schiaparelli, where the house is preparing for a lavish exhibition opening at the V&A Museum this spring. A few hours later in the garden of the Rodin Museum, where a mirrored Dior catwalk reflected a suspended...

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3 d. ago Delroy Lindo: the Sinners Oscar nominee who could make Spike Lee’s secret British weapon rather less secret

Lining up for best supporting actor in the year’s most hotly-tipped film, the Lewisham-born actor has long been a favourite of the Malcolm X director and is poised for brighter limelightIn the aftermath of the Oscar nominations, Wunmi Mosaku was heralded as Britain’s saviour after her best supporting actress nod at Hollywood’s most prestigious awards. The UK had been facing its first nomination-less year in the acting categories since 1986.But the Sinners star was joined by a fellow cast member, Lewisham-born, Delroy Lindo, who will also be representing Britain on the big night on 15 March. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Ryan Coogler’s Sinners has administered an almighty smackdown to critical favourites One Battle and Hamnet

Coogler’s vampire thriller swept the Oscar nominations over Chloé Zhao’s tearjerker and Paul Thomas Anderson’s counterculture thriller. This genre-defying drama about the black experience could now rule awards season• Full list of nominees• Sinners becomes first film in history to earn 16 Oscar nominationsAgree with them or not, these Oscar nominations deliver a pert slap to the accepted assumptions of awards season. The industry had been expecting landslides for classy upmarket fare such as Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet, Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, and also for Josh Safdie’s delirious comedy Marty Supreme. And that’s what they got.But perhaps no one expected these titles to get quite as colossal a smackdown as they got from Ryan Coogler’s vampire drama thriller Sinners: a violent, high-energy fantasia about racism, music and the black experience, which has soared ahead with 16 nominations – the most for any film in 97 years of the Ac...

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4 d. ago No UK Oscar nominees for best actor or actress for first time since 2012

It is the third time in the past four years that British performers have bagged just two acting nominations.

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4 d. ago A breakdown of how Oscar best picture nominees fared at the box office and which studios dominated

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4 d. ago Oscar nominations 2026: Full list of nominees as one movie leads with 16 nods

The ceremony will take place on March 15, 2026, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

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4 d. ago Oscar nominee Jessie Buckley's property portfolio — from an east London flatshare to a Norfolk manor house

Irish actor Jessie Buckley has been nominated for the best actress Oscar, following her Golden Globes win for her role in Hamnet

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4 d. ago Oscar nominations 2026: Full list of Academy Award nominees as Sinners makes history

The Ryan Coogler vampire film broke the record for most Oscar nominations

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4 d. ago Sinners becomes first film in history to earn 16 Oscar nominations

Ryan Coogler’s ghost story breaks recordsOne Battle After Another in second with 13 nodsMarty Supreme, Sentimental Value and Frankenstein score nine apieceMescal, Clooney, Paltrow and Wicked snubbedFull list of nomineesSinners, Ryan Coogler’s critically and commercially acclaimed supernatural thriller, has become the first film to be nominated for 16 Academy Awards.The film starring Michael B Jordan as twin brothers setting up a blues club in 1930s Mississippi while battling racism and vampires has so far taken $368m worldwide. It is nominated for trophies including best picture, director, leading actor, supporting actor (for the British actor Delroy Lindo), supporting actress (for British-Nigerian actor Wunmi Mosaku) and the Academy’s inaugural casting prize. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago EastEnders star Natalie Cassidy supported following emotional tribute to Derek Martin

The actress shared her own emotional tribute to late actor and co-star Derek Martin

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7 d. ago Mickey Rourke surfaces for a night jog in LA after eviction as he seeks to return $100K donated by fans

The 73-year-old Oscar nominee has received 'four movie offers' and moved into a new Koreatown apartment since he was forced out of his Hollywood home on December 22

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2 w. ago Inside Jessie Buckley's property portfolio — from an east London flatshare to a Norfolk manor house

Irish actor Jessie Buckley was named best actress in a drama at the Golden Globes for her role in Hamnet

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2 w. ago Gobsmacked Emmerdale fans have just learned Paddy actor is married to soap co

Emmerdale's Paddy Kirk actor Dominic Brunt has been married to a fellow soap actress with fans only recently discovering their real-life romance

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2 w. ago Revealed: Jessie Buckley's 'secret' husband is a former X Factor producer with a surprisingly starry CV

Oscar-nominated actress Jessie Buckley's husband is a former X Factor producer who worked alongside Simon Cowell, The Daily Mail can reveal.

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3 w. ago Taskmaster Contestants 2026: Here are the five comedy stars appearing in season 21

The cast features two Oscar nominees.

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3 w. ago Jessie Buckley's unstoppable rise from reality TV to Oscar nominee as she wins Critics Choice award after life

The Irish actress was just 18 when she appeared on BBC show I'd Do Anything in a bid to land the role of Nancy - narrowly being pipped to the post by Jodie Prenger.

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3 w. ago Tesco makes 'significant' announcement affecting all shoppers for first time since 2012

The UK's biggest grocer has resurrected a label that it dropped more than a decade ago

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