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A conversation: Debating our picks for the 2025 Oscars

A conversation: Debating our picks for the 2025 Oscars

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Get your popcorn and your predictions at the ready, and join us to discuss our Oscars picks and drops.
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Opinion: Timothée Chalamet shouldn’t win Best Actor

Opinion: Timothée Chalamet shouldn’t win Best Actor

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Timothée Chalamet’s recent press coverage focusses on how closely he imitated Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown, but is that really worthy of an Oscar?
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Uncut film takes: The biggest Oscar snubs of the last 10 years

Uncut film takes: The biggest Oscar snubs of the last 10 years

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Which films deserved a win or even just a nomination? We’re here to correct history
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My first night at the Oscars: The 2024 Academy Awards as seen from my laptop

My first night at the Oscars: The 2024 Academy Awards as seen from my laptop

The Oscars aired for the first time on ITV this year but is it really worth staying up to watch them?
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The dos and don’ts of fashion at the Oscars: Breakdown of the 2024 looks

The 96th Academy Awards were full of the glamorous looks you’d expect, but what trends and outfits stood out at the Oscars this year?
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Perfect Days review: Finding warmth in a cold world

Perfect Days review: Finding warmth in a cold world

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Spend a perfect day in the cinema with this new Wim Wenders classic on the beauty of the everyday
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A conversation: Debating our picks for the 2024 Oscars

A conversation: Debating our picks for the 2024 Oscars

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Forget the Oscars ceremony. This is where to find who should really be winning these awards.
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Opinion: Every Best Picture winner of the 21st century, ranked from worst to best

Opinion: Every Best Picture winner of the 21st century, ranked from worst to best

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With the 96th Academy Awards looming, let’s look back at this century’s winners of the big grand prize of Best Picture
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The Zone of Interest review: Unseen horrors in Glazer’s heart-stopping return to cinema

The Zone of Interest review: Unseen horrors in Glazer’s heart-stopping return to cinema

A pair of chilling performances from Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller present idyllic domesticity along the border of Auschwitz, and in doing so reflect the banality of evil with a uniquely precise edge
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Hair, makeup and costume design nominees at the 2024 Academy Awards

Hair, makeup and costume design nominees at the 2024 Academy Awards

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Who has been celebrated for exceptional hair, makeup and costume design at the Academy Awards 2024… and who was snubbed?
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Men’s fashion is finally having its moment during the 2024 awards season

Men’s fashion is finally having its moment during the 2024 awards season

Are we finally seeing some creativity in men’s award show fashion? The experimental cuts and colour on show at the latest BAFTAs and Golden Globes red carpets suggest so
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Poor Things review: Award-winningly outrageous

Poor Things review: Award-winningly outrageous

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Exploitative or experimental? Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest has become an instant success, but what is it and why does this cinematic experience deserve every accolade?
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American Fiction review: Satirical comedy at its finest

American Fiction review: Satirical comedy at its finest

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While perhaps not quite as subtle in its approach as British satire, American fiction is a case of American satirical comedy at its finest
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The Holdovers, surrogate families and a cinematic trip to Leeds

The Holdovers, surrogate families and a cinematic trip to Leeds

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As The Holdovers gains in the awards conversation, writer Will Ardley recalls a cinematic voyage to Leeds for Alexander Payne’s latest
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Opinion: Any self-respecting feminist shouldn’t be rooting for Barbie

Opinion: Any self-respecting feminist shouldn’t be rooting for Barbie

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As Barbie misses out on big category nominations at the Oscars, the misplaced passion of its supporters signals a worrying shift for feminism
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Let’s break down the 2024 Oscar nominations

Let’s break down the 2024 Oscar nominations

The Oscar nominations are finally here, so let’s see who the frontrunners are, and who missed out
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Diversity and the long road ahead: The lack of female directors at the 2023 Academy Awards

Diversity and the long road ahead: The lack of female directors at the 2023 Academy Awards

It seems that once again the Academy Awards have let down female directors by failing to nominate a single one; here’s what we have to say about it.
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So you’ve won an Oscar: What’s next?

So you’ve won an Oscar: What’s next?

The Dos and Don’ts of the Oscars acceptance speech in preparation for this year’s ceremony
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The Whale debate: Offensive or groundbreaking?

The Whale debate: Offensive or groundbreaking?

Darren Aronofsky’s latest film The Whale is dividing audiences – including our film section! We debate if it’s worth your time
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Brendan Fraser and the failure of the fat suit

Brendan Fraser and the failure of the fat suit

Brendan Fraser has been critically praised for donning a fat suit in Aronofsky’s latest film, the question is: are fat suits still offensive?
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