46 h. ago ‘I’m here to open doors’: Bernardine Evaristo on success, controversy and why she plans to donate her £100k award

The Girl, Woman, Other author has this week been awarded a one-off Women’s prize award for her outstanding contribution. She talks about her long road to recognition, and using her profile to support other writersBack in 2013, Bernardine Evaristo gave a reading in a south London bookshop from her novel Mr Loverman. Only six people showed up, a couple of them were dozing and she realised they were homeless people who had come to find somewhere comfortable to sleep. Last month, the hit TV adaptation Mr Loverman, about a 74-year-old gay Caribbean man set in Hackney, east London, won two Baftas, including leading actor for Lennie James, making him the first Black British actor to win the TV award in its 70-year history. “I checked Wikipedia!” Evaristo exclaims of this shocking fact when we meet in London.Evaristo’s long career is one of firsts and creating them for others. In 2019, at the age of 60, she became the first Black woman to win the Booker prize – shared with Margaret Atwood –...

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6 d. ago Writer Bernardine Evaristo receives lifetime accolade for her ‘transformative impact’

The British writer scooped the Women’s Prize Outstanding Contribution Award

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6 d. ago How a drag queen thriller became too controversial for Britain: ‘It was queers policing queers’

‘Femme’, a violent erotic drama starring Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and George MacKay, hit a handful of cinemas in 2023. And its tortured journey to release – as well as its rejection by elite institutions in the British film industry – speaks to the incredibly narrow and polarised landscape for queer stories today, writes Ryan Gilbey

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6 d. ago Writer Bernardine Evaristo receives lifetime accolade for a career of breaking boundaries

British writer Bernardine Evaristo Evaristo has won the 100,000-pound Women’s Prize Outstanding Contribution Award

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6 d. ago Bernardine Evaristo scoops Women’s prize outstanding contribution award

One-off £100,000 prize awarded to Girl, Women, Other writer for entire body of work and ‘dedication to uplifting under-represented voices’Bernardine Evaristo is to receive £100,000 after being announced as the winner of the Women’s prize outstanding contribution award, a one-off prize to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Women’s prize for fiction.The author of Girl, Woman, Other and Mr Loverman has been rewarded for her entire body of work, as well as her “transformative impact on literature and her unwavering dedication to uplifting under-represented voices across the cultural landscape”. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Bernardine Evaristo receives Women’s Prize outstanding contribution award

The literary honour recognises Evaristo’s body of work and dedication to advancing underrepresented voices.

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7 d. ago Huge UK singer 'set for new Netflix film after battle with demons saw shock exit from the music industry' as rumours stir about a 2025 comeback

The singing sensation is reportedly in talks with the streaming giant's executives to review his options for a new project.

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8 d. ago Joanne Froggatt among signatories calling on Government to take action on Sudan

Figures from across the TV, film, music and sport industry have signed an open letter calling on the Prime Minister to tackle the humanitarian crisis.

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1 week ago Ursula von der Leyen honored with award for contributions to European unity

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has received the International Charlemagne Prize

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1 week ago Ambika Mod says 'doors are starting to open' as she reflects on One Day success

A year after the sweeping success of her lead role in Netflix's One Day, Ambika Mod has shared her personal insights and experiences about being a brown woman in the film industry

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1 week ago Barry Keoghan reveals what acting alongside Peaky Blinders star Cillian Murphy is REALLY like

He's become one of the most sought after upcoming actors in the film industry having starred in Dunkirk, The Batman and Top Boy in recent years. 

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2 w. ago ‘Revelatory, magnetic, unknown’: how Frank Dillane became a star at Cannes

With a breakout performance in Urchin, the actor has emerged from cult TV fame to the cusp of major stardom – a new ‘post-alpha male’ lead to join the ranks of Paul Mescal and Josh O’ConnorFew actors make an instant impact on their first major film festival appearance, but Frank Dillane, star of fellow actor Harris Dickinson’s directing debut Urchin, is one of them. Critics are near-unanimous in their praise, with Variety calling his performance “revelatory”, and IndieWire describing it as “magnetic”. Influential film industry publication Deadline said that Dillane “arrived in Cannes a virtual unknown, but Harris Dickinson’s directorial debut has made him a star”.In Urchin, Dillane plays Mike, a man living on the streets who ends up in jail after committing an assault and then struggles to go straight after his release. Despite being given a place in a hostel and helped into employment, Mike is tempted to fall back into his old ways. With a script written by Dickinson, Dillane commi...

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2 w. ago On the road to somewhere Cannes film festival reminds us world cinema and ‘globalism’ are not the same

It might look like a platform for the films ‘produced in foreign lands’ that Donald Trump despises. But a surprising number of pictures at this year’s festival side with the locally rooted over cosmopolitan elitesIf Donald Trump really wants to save Hollywood, maybe he needs to venture outside his comfort zone and watch more European art house cinema.The Cannes film festival, which closes on Saturday, is in many ways the very definition of the “globalism” that the American president’s Maga movement despises. Walk past the queues snaking alongside the Palais des Festivals and you hear languages and accents from every corner of the globe. The Marché du Film, where industry professionals strike their deals, is brimming with smart people from all over the world beckoning US producers with irresistible tax incentives – resulting in the kind of movies “produced in foreign lands” that the US president earlier this month proposed punishing with 100% tariffs. At the opening gala, Cannes gave...

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2 w. ago First look: Royal Caribbean’s Star of the Seas begins sea trials – here’s everything we know so far

Royal Caribbean’s newest cruise ship is getting closer to welcoming passengers on board

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3 w. ago ‘A push towards the conservative’: Cannes tries to ban oversized outfits and naked dressing

Film festival’s rules designed to protect ‘decency’ and seating arrangements stir controversy among those who read themNot for the first time, organisers of the Cannes film festival, the ritziest and most photographed in the industry’s calendar, have decreed that various outfits will not be allowed on the red carpet this year.An official statement released earlier this week stated that for “decency reasons” there will be “no naked dressing” – and no oversized outfits either – “in particular those with a large train that hinder the proper flow of traffic of guests and complicate seating in the theatre”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Depardieu convicted. Cannes reacts. But did #MeToo finally win in France?

For powerful men in France’s film industry, this was a week of reckoning

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3 w. ago Kristen Stewart says Donald Trump’s effect on the film industry is ‘terrifying’

The actor who is making her directorial debut with The Chronology of Water at the Cannes film festival says ‘we should expect the worst and fight for the best’ Kristen Stewart has described President Donald Trump’s effect on the film industry as “terrifying” and said that “we should expect the worst”.In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter as her feature directing debut The Chronology of Water screened at the Cannes film festival, Stewart said: “We’re living in a world that’s folding in on itself by the split second we’re all looking over our shoulders going: ‘Holy shit.’ The slippage is just terrifying.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago GenZ sensation and gospel musician Joel Baraza electrifies the crowd at the Aberdeen Fashion Show, taking home Outstanding Artistic Contribution Award.

Aberdeen Fashion Show 2025: A Revolution of Creativity, Purpose, and Community.

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3 w. ago Watch live: Tom Cruise and stars on red carpet for Mission: Impossible premiere in London

Watch live: Tom Cruise and stars on red carpet for Mission: Impossible premiere in London  Sky News

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3 w. ago Scarlett Johansson says ‘big tech guys’ have ‘muzzled’ the film industry

The ‘Marriage Story’ star also called out the lack of action against AI companies in Hollywood

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