62 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 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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4 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 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 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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1 week ago Secret Service agent assigned to JD Vance put on leave after sharing ‘sensitive details’ on fake date

Agent divulged details to undercover journalist he thought he was on a date with, a report claims

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1 week ago Secret Service agent assigned to JD Vance placed on leave after being caught 'leaking sensitive details'

The agent, who has not been identified by Secret Service, revealed the secrets on a date with a woman who was really an 'undercover journalist.'

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2 w. ago 'Masterpiece' film starring Tom Cruise is free to watch this weekend

A hit film starring Tom Cruise airs free this weekend as the Oscar-nominated blockbuster that earned £1.185 billion worldwide can be watched without subscription fees

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Netflix subscribers are being warned off a best-selling book adaptation starring Line of Duty and Baby Reindeer legends.

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Evy Poumpouras, a former special agent for the US Secret Service, trained as an interrogator

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Could Ed Miliband be a secret Tory, or even an undercover agent for Reform UK? Of course, the notion is absurd. The Energy Secretary is a paid-up socialist and Net Zero zealot.

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4 w. ago The real Marty Supreme... The table tennis titan whose true story was even wilder than the Timothee Chalamet biopic: ALISON BOSHOFF

When Marty Supreme was released in UK cinemas on Boxing Day, it marked the culmination of a project that began in 2018 and is tipped smash the box office and earn its star his first best actor Oscar.

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