EastEnders viewers were left in shock on Monday evening after a villain made a surprise appearance on the BBC soap

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The increasingly international Academy has warmed to more and more Cannes film festival premieres, leaving all eyes on this year’s editionIt might have been a bad night for streamers, blockbusters and horror movies, but last night’s Oscars was another excellent year for the Cannes film festival.The major winner, Anora, which picked up five awards including best picture, best director and best actress, was a Palme d’Or winner at last May’s edition and became only the fourth recipient to go on to a best picture Oscar. Continue reading...

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Streamer promised it would ‘make a full replay of the event available as soon as possible’

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Taking place in the middle of a chaotic time for the US and the world at large, this year’s ceremony was light on statements and devoid of the Trump word entirelyTwenty-two years ago, the last time Adrien Brody won the Academy award for best actor, film-maker Michael Moore accepted his own Oscar for Bowling for Columbine, a documentary about America’s obsession with guns, by offering a preview of sorts of his next feature, Fahrenheit 9/11. He decried then president George W Bush as “fictitious” (alluding to his fishy, supreme court-assisted election win a year and a half earlier) and excoriated the Bush administration for sending the United States to war with Iraq – just three days earlier, in fact – for “fictitious reasons”. It was received with a mixture of applause and boos, probably the most memorable moment of the night, give or take Brody planting a kiss on Halle Berry.Two years later, when Fahrenheit 9/11 might have been similarly honored (and almost certainly would have been...

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‘Zoolander’ star is known for being a die-hard New York Knicks fan

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After almost two decades of red-carpet dressing that has at times seemed as much about pushing boundaries, aesthetic or otherwise, as it does about looking good, something has shifted.

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Walter Salles’s dictatorship-era movie turns focus on dark time in country’s history and more recent coup attemptAhead of the Oscars ceremony, Brazil’s Fernanda Torres – star of Walter Salles’s dictatorship-era movie I’m Still Here – had warned her compatriots not to get into a “World Cup fever” over the Academy Awards.Her plea went in vain on Sunday night, however, as crowds across the country – already gathered to celebrate carnival – erupted in joy over Brazil’s first-ever Oscar win, for best international feature. Continue reading...

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Goldie Hawn left viewers of the 2025 Academy Awards stunned after she gave a heartbreaking health update on stage.

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Perhaps the Ozempic was making people light-headed, or the stars felt they should stay silent. Either way, there was a notable lack of politicsThe Oscars ceremony on Sunday night was long and boring, as it has been for a few years, but this year its shortcomings landed differently. Hollywood’s waning influence, which registered most glaringly last month in the large number of American nominees who showed up in London for the Baftas – not something they were inclined to do in better times – gave the ceremony a sense of low-stakes irrelevance that was frankly a relief from the rest of the news cycle. Still, the question lingers as to why the actors and presenters largely, and mercifully in my view, stayed away from mention of Donald Trump.After the devastating forest fires in Los Angeles in January, the classy thing to have done this year would’ve been to cancel or at least radically downsize the Oscars ceremony, but of course no one involved was going to vote for that. Instead, audie...

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At one of the most exclusive afterparties in Los Angeles, Kevin E G Perry soaks up the atmosphere with billionaires, Oscar winners and plenty of margaritas

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At one of the most exclusive afterparties in Los Angeles, Kevin EG Perry soaks up the atmosphere with billionaires, Oscar winners and plenty of margaritas

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Legendary singer-songwriter has endured a total of 16 nominations for Best Song with no wins

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The film’s five Academy Awards seen as act of normalisation by commentators in country still persecuting critics of its war on Ukraine• Anora dominates the Oscars as Mikey Madison named best actress• How Anora swept the OscarsIt was an unfamiliar sight for Russians watching state TV on Monday morning. For the first time since Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago, the Oscars made the news.The state anchor devoted the tightly controlled news bulletin to Anora, the night’s runaway success, spotlighting its cast of Russian actors – chief among them best supporting actor nominee Yura Borisov, who earned global praise for his performance as a brutish yet unexpectedly sensitive Russian bodyguard. Continue reading...

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While Lynch was remembered in a four second clip, furious fans criticized the ceremony for not going above and beyond given his impact on film.

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Demi Moore reacted with grace to Mikey Madison’s Best Actress win at the 2025 Oscars on Sunday (2 March), but her fans were less accepting.

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Lily Rose Depp was placed right in front of her former flame and his current girlfriend Kylie Jenner, during part of the prestigious award ceremony

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The Rolling Stones legend, 81, let slip that he was second choice to present Best Original Song on the night after the elder statesman of songwriting passed on the offer.

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The 2025 Oscars had the internet in a frenzy, delivering shocking wins, major snubs, and unforgettable fashion moments on Hollywood’s biggest night.

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Berry went for a lingering kiss and then said sorry after the pair hugged and kissed on the red carpet.

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The Oscars are notorious for heaping awards on films about marginalised communities, so why did Netflix ignore this one?

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