20 h. ago Oscars 2025: Conclave writer scores first British win of the night in Adapted Screenplay category

British writer Peter Straughan scooped the UK's first Oscar win of the night on Sunday as he won in the Best Adapated Screenplay category.

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20 h. ago Oscars 2025 LIVE: Kieran Culkin wins Best Supporting Actor, as Wicked, Conclave and Anora scoop first Oscars

All eyes will be on the Best Picture race, where indie darling Anora has emerged as the frontrunner

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20 h. ago Peter Straughan wins the best adapted screenplay Oscar for Conclave

The award follows previous triumphs at the Baftas, Golden Globes and moreOscars 2025 — follow live Academy Awards updatesSee complete list of winners and photos from the red carpetThe British dramatist Peter Straughan has won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay for his take on Robert Harris’s papal thriller Conclave.The writer, 56, has also won the Bafta, Golden Globe and Critics Choice award in this category for Conclave; he was previously Oscar-nominated for his 2011 adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.Watch or stream the OscarsReview our guides to best picture, actor, actress and directorPeter Bradshaw’s final predictions Continue reading...

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20 h. ago Ralph Fiennes cuts a sharp figure as he attends the Oscars 2025 amid his Leading Actor nomination for Conclave

Ralph Fiennes cut a sharp figure as he attended the Oscars 2025 held in LA on Sunday night.

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4 d. ago Conclave: Why ‘Mean Girls with popes’ deserves to win the Oscar for Best Picture

Filled with dramatic popes and nuns backstabbing one another behind closed doors, Edward Berger’s surprisingly spicy thriller – starring Ralph Fiennes and Isabella Rossellini – should be rewarded on Hollywood’s biggest night, writes Lydia Spencer-Elliott

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1 week ago This is the year the Oscars found God – but can they keep the faith?

From Conclave to The Brutalist to A Real Pain, films about religion are unusually well represented at the Academy Awards – some with decidedly unorthodox themes• Warning: contains spoilersWhat Tony Blair’s former spin doctor Alastair Campbell said of New Labour – “We don’t do God” – applies also to the Academy Awards. The secular gong-dispensing rite annually sweeps religion off its proverbial red carpet. The last best picture winner to deal with the subject was 2015’s Spotlight, which hardly proselytised for organised religion – it dramatised the Boston Globe’s investigation into sexual abuse in the Catholic church. You have to go back to 1973 to find a movie with a priestly protagonist that really beguiled the Academy: William Friedkin’s horror movie The Exorcist received 10 Oscar nominations, winning awards for screenplay and sound.This year, though, may be different. Two leading contenders, The Brutalist (10 nominations) and Conclave (eight), put faith front and centre. And let’...

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