1 hour 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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16 h. ago What to Stream: 'Bridgerton,' the Grammys, Chevy Chase, Rose Byrne and 'The Wrecking Crew'

Kendrick Lamar and Bad Bunny live at the Grammy Awards and Rose Byrne’s Oscar-nominated performance in “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you

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27 h. ago Inside Timothee Chalamet and Kylie Jenner's celebratory night out in Cabo San Lucas after his Oscar nomination

Timothée Chalamet marked one of the biggest milestones of his career with an intimate and unusually public night out with girlfriend Kylie Jenner last Thursday.

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28 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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30 h. ago Teyana Taylor reveals she learned about her Oscar nomination during SNL bald cap fitting

The actor received her first Oscar nomination for her performance as Perfidia Beverly Hills in ‘One Battle After Another’

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59 h. ago From London, Ont., to Hollywood: Animation short earns Oscar nomination

From London, Ont., to Hollywood: Animation short earns Oscar nomination  CBC

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3 d. ago Mel Gibson protege Rudy Youngblood hit with drug charges just two months after assault arrest

Rudy Youngblood - the actor who starred in Mel Gibson's Oscar-nominated film Apocalypto - is back in legal trouble just two months after his assault arrest.

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3 d. ago Where you can stream Sinners and everything else to know as film earns 16 Oscar noms

Sinners is a genre-defying supernatural thriller. The 2025 American horror-drama directed, written, and produced by Ryan Coogler, is up for a record 16 Oscar nominations

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3 d. ago Oscar nominations 2026 – the biggest snubs and surprises, from F1 to Sinners cast members

This year’s Oscar nods threw up a series of shock omissions and lovely inclusions

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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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3 d. ago Sinners’ Delroy Lindo reveals sweet way son told him about Oscar nomination

Sinners star Delroy Lindo has revealed the sweet way he discovered that he had been nominated for an Oscar.

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3 d. ago 'The Secret Agent' earns 4 Oscar nominations, boosting Brazilian cinema

Brazilians are celebrating the nomination of “The Secret Agent” for four Oscar categories, highlighting the rise of Brazilian cinema

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4 d. ago Brad Pitt’s F1 somehow got an Oscar nomination for Best Picture

Following in the high-octane slipstream of ‘Top Gun: Maverick,’ Joseph Kosinski’s formulaic Formula 1 blockbuster is up for the most prestigious prize the Oscars have to offer. Kevin E G Perry argues that in their rush to venerate box office achievement, the Academy has forgotten what the award is really about

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4 d. ago Ruth E. Carter makes Oscar history again with costume designer nomination for 'Sinners'

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4 d. ago Oscar nominations 2026 – live: Sinners director Ryan Coogler reacts after film breaks record as fans express shock at best picture nods

’Sinners’ and ‘One Battle After Another’ leads this year’s movie crop

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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 Miles Caton shares Sinners cast reaction to historic Oscar 2026 nominations

The film’s star speaks to the Standard after the vampire thriller becomes the most nominated film in Academy Awards history

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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 Jessie Buckley ‘honoured’ by Oscar nomination and addresses Paul Mescal snub

The 36-year-old actress has been recognised by the Academy in the best actress category.

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