8 h. ago Andrew Lloyd Webber donates rare handwritten Sunset Boulevard score to raise money for LA wildfire victims

Signed score sheet is expected to fetch $2,500 at auction fundraiser

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10 h. ago What’s in the Oscars 2025 gift bag: LA wildfire relief, a luxury wellness retreat and cruelty

From luxury vacations to transformative skincare products, Oscar nominees won’t go home empty handed on Sunday

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11 h. ago Kate Moss' luxury wellness brand Cosmoss faces a compulsory strike

The notice was filed against the brand at Companies House this week and the supermodel, 51, has two months to get the figures in.

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12 h. ago Gene Hackman's heartbreaking confession about his children before shock death

Gene Hackman, the two-time Oscar-winning actor, passed away on February 27, 2025, at 95. He often regretted not being more present for his children due to his acting career.

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17 h. 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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34 h. ago Saldaña squished and Chalamet chafing as Ariana and Cynthia bag the best seats: the 2025 Oscars class photo

The Academy Award nominees assembled for their annual group portrait, but who scooped the prize for looking the most bored?Every year during Oscars week, it has become tradition for all the nominees to meet up and eat a meal together. This is usually followed by a group photo; something that the people in attendance can look back upon and cherish, knowing that for this one moment all competition fell away and they found joy in surrounding themselves with their gifted colleagues.At least that’s the idea. As anyone who has ever been in a group photo will attest, these things are an absolute mess. There are simply too many people to control, and the resulting image is generally a free-for-all of weird costumes, odd expressions and seemingly hostile body language. As such, let’s use this year’s Oscars class photo to hand out some awards of our own. Continue reading...

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34 h. ago Oscars 2025: Date, start time, presenters and how to watch in the UK

Here is everything you need to know about the 97th Academy Awards

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36 h. ago Oscars 2025: best actress nominees – awards, interviews and what their chances are

What to know about the actors nominated for the Academy Awards’ biggest acting prize, along with the Guardian’s reviews and interviewsFull list of Oscar nominationsWant more? Our guides to the best picture, best actor and best director racesCareer wins and nominations: After a career marked more by box office records than silverware – bar a Golden Raspberry win – Moore, 62, has been hoovering up a lot of trophies for The Substance. She missed out on the Bafta earlier this month, and the independent spirit award, but won the Golden Globe for leading actress in a comedy or musical, as well as the Critics’ Choice trophy and the Sag award. Continue reading...

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41 h. ago Anora: Why Sean Baker’s sad and sexy glitter bomb of a film deserves to win the Oscar for Best Picture

The awards season staple features a star-making performance from 25-year-old Mikey Madison and a tone that oscillates between slapstick, romcom and bleak drama – and it’d be a worthy winner on Oscar night, writes Annabel Nugent

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49 h. ago Will Meghan Markle and Prince Harry attend this year's Oscars?

A PR expert has revealed what could happen if Meghan Markle and Prince Harry were to attend the 2025 Oscar Awards this Sunday.

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56 h. ago Oscars 2025: best director nominees – reviews, interviews and chances for victory

All you need to know about the five directors in the running for the Academy’s prestigious film-making prize, along with reviews of their nominated films, interviews and the awards they’ve earned so far• Full list of Oscar nominationsTrack record: Baker came out of the US’s microbudget/indie subculture; his first feature, Four Letter Words, was released way back in 2000. But it took a decade and a half for Baker to make a serious breakthrough; Tangerine, shot on iPhones, was the story of a trans sex worker (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez), and won Baker some high-profile awards. His follow-up, The Florida Project, another account of marginalised Americans became a fixture on the awards circuit, bagging co-star Willem Dafoe an Oscar nom for best supporting actor. His next film, Red Rocket, premiered in competition at Cannes. Continue reading...

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65 h. ago Oscars 2025 predictions: Who will win and who should win at this year’s Academy Awards

Will it be Demi Moore or Mikey Madison? Timothée Chalamet or Adrien Brody? And is ‘Emilia Pérez’ really, truly dead in the water? Ahead of this Sunday’s Academy Awards, Adam White predicts who will reign supreme in the show’s major categories

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3 d. ago Karla Sofía Gascón to attend Oscars despite tweet controversy

The Emilia Pérez best actress nominee will be at Sunday’s ceremony with Netflix paying for all expenses incurredThe Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón is reportedly set to attend this Sunday’s Oscars after controversy over bigoted tweets.The Spanish actor, who is nominated for best actress, had been removed from the campaign trail by Netflix after resurfaced tweets led to a backlash. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago How to watch the Oscars in the UK 2025: ITV's full programming, with host Jonathan Ross and celebrity guests

Red carpets, jaw-dropping speeches, comedy bits and big losers – how to tune in for another rollercoaster year of drama

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3 d. ago Race to the Oscars 2025: Final league table after the 2025 SAG Awards

Our final Race to the Oscars 2025 league table is complete - here’s our results compared to the bookies 🎞🏆⌚

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3 d. ago Guy Pearce: ‘I’m not going to win the Oscar – Kieran Culkin will’

The Brutalist star is up for his first ever Academy award next week. He talks about awards fuss, living with his ex, and making his new film, Inside, in an actual prisonGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailAfter his acclaimed performances in films such as LA Confidential, The Proposition, Memento, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Animal Kingdom and The Hurt Locker, you may be surprised that Guy Pearce has just been nominated for his first ever Oscar: for his turn as the sociopathic industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren in The Brutalist. Or maybe you haven’t noticed Pearce’s Oscars campaign because he keeps rubbishing his own career: he was “shit” in Memento (“I’m bad in a good movie. Fuck!”), worse in Neighbours (“I played the same thing and it fucking drove me nuts”) and has cheerfully owned up to acting in “a bunch of shit during my divorce because I needed the money”.As awards campaigns go – well, it’s a lot better than Karla Sofía Gascón’s. Not that Pearce ...

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3 d. ago ‘I love Suicide Squad!’: Our favourite unpopular Oscar wins of all time

From ‘American Beauty’ winning Best Picture to the eternal controversy over Marisa Tomei’s win for ‘My Cousin Vinny’, Oscar history is filled with divisive victories endlessly debated by film fans. Here our culture desk go to bat for some of the most controversial

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3 d. ago Conan O’Brien might be the funniest man alive. Can he navigate hosting the Oscars?

The former talk show host and all-time great ‘The Simpsons’ writer is taking the helm of the Academy Awards for the first time. Kevin E G Perry looks back at his storied career and examines how he’ll handle Hollywood’s biggest night in a city still reeling from devastating fires

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6 d. ago Paris Hilton auctions off her Y2K outfits for LA wildfire relief — and they’re already sold out

The DJ’s Malibu house was destroyed in January during the devastating LA wildfires

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6 d. ago Wellness in Jordan: How to have a luxury trip that soothes the mind, body and soul

As our car winds its way down Jordan’s mountain roads towards the Dead Sea, rather than continuing towards the luxury resorts that line the coast, we take a turn and head down a less travelled road.

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