Oscars
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Andrew Pulver: Paweł Pawlikowski’s story about a young nun discovering the troubled past of her Jewish family is as remarkable for its subtlety as for its power
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JC Chandor drama gathers critical momentum ahead of Oscars season, with wins for leads Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac
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Richard Linklater’s coming of age drama chief victor at New York Critics Circle awards, while Birdman triumphs at Gotham awards and The Boxtrolls leads Annie nominations
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The director Mike Nichols, who won the 1968 best director Oscar and enjoyed a long screen and stage career, has died at the age of 83
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Johnny Depp sounded off-kilter at the Hollywood Film awards, but can you finish these celebrity awards show quotes?
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Daniel Day-Lewis may have won an Oscar for his bow-legged, Selleck-moustached performance, but don’t be fooled: Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic drama was truly awful, writes Peter Walker
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Environmentalist Suzy Amis Cameron talks about dressing stars sustainably at the Oscars and creating a new line of affordable ethical fashion
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Xan Brooks: Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain star in the latest film from Margin Call and All is Lost director JC Chandor – a rigorous crime drama which paints a knotty, nuanced portrait of the man who fuelled the 1980s
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Film blog Renée Zellweger's face is her brand – a new look will change her career beyond recognition
Steve Rose: Regardless of the cause of the actor’s different appearance, it’s a move which will alter forever the roles she’s offered and the way she’s received – though not necessarily for the worse. After all, Mickey Rourke is still ready for his close-up … -
The Visitor, which was released in 2007 and starred Richard Jenkins as an isolated economics professor who befriends two illegal immigrants from Syria and Senegal, is set to get the song-and-dance treatment
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Actor, Broadway star and seasoned awards show host to pick up DeGeneres’s baton at Academy awards, Variety reports
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New Academy Awards compere Neil Patrick Harris has straddled film, TV and stage for 20 years. Here’s the pick of his performances so far, including highlyacclaimed hosting turns at the Tonys
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Catherine Shoard: Notebook: As a professor with dementia, Julianne Moore is brilliant. But the film fuels the myth that the disease is only tragic when sufferers are young
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Actor says websites are responsible and that the theft and online publication of photos are ‘a sexual violation’
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First screening of Paul Thomas Anderson's freewheeling 70s-set crime thriller leaves stars - including Joaquin Phoenix, Owen Wilson and Jena Malone - as bewitched and bewildered as audience
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Xan Brooks: Paul Thomas Anderson gives the New York film festival a high with his woozy, inspired Thomas Pynchon adaptation, starring Joaquin Phoenix as a stoner sleuth
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Companies owning more than half the US’s Imax screens angered by decision to release film simultaneously in cinemas and streaming online
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Major surprise sees Andrei Zvyagintsev’s Cannes award winner nominated by Russian committee despite film’s attack on governing elite
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Andrew Pulver: French film about fashion designer faces strong competition from other foreign-language favourites, including the Dardenne brothers’ Two Days, One Night
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Star talks about her community service at LA county morgue – and her ambition to win two Oscars
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Story of Alan Turing starring Benedict Cumberbatch has won the People’s Choice Award at the 38th Toronto film festival, a prize generally considered a key indicator of Oscar success
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Jordan Hoffman: This autumn belongs to Jessica Chastain, who stars in four of the season’s Oscar contenders, directed by the likes of Al Pacino, Guillermo Del Toro and Christopher Nolan. But what she really wants is a cape
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Director acknowledges Kubrick’s genius, but says the maverick’s only Oscar was for special effects he did not originate, reports Ben Child
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As Joshua Oppenheimer’s followup to The Act of Killing unites Venice in praise, the director pays tribute to his subject, and says he himself can no longer return to Indonesia
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Editorial: An actor of subtle excellence has won every gong going except for an Oscar; it’s time for the Academy to make good this omission
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Archive footage of comedian Robin Williams, who has died aged 63, accepting an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor at the 70th Academy Awards in 1998
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Jordan Riefe: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences raises a toast to the Bridges brothers
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Latest trailer for space drama starring best actor winner Matthew McConaughey shows an awards-friendly combination of cosmic wonder and emotional gravity, writes Ben Child
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Dick Smith, the ‘godfather of make-up’ and winner of an honorary Oscar in 2012, died on Thursday after a career of creating some of Hollywood’s best known make-up designs. Here we present a selection of his most remarkable work
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The drama about a pair of priests spreading Christianity in Japan is potentially to be released by Paramount in late 2015
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Alejandro González Iñárritu's superhero movie, in which Michael Keaton plays an actor keen to adapt a Raymond Carver story, bags coveted spot at start of autumn film festival season
• We predict what will screen at Venice, Telluride and Toronto
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Stuart Heritage: It was a shoo-in for a bunch of Oscars, pleased monarchists and history buffs, and got an older generation back in cinemas. But watch Colin Firth as George VI again on the small screen, on Channel 4 at 9pm on Saturday, and its oddness – the skewed camera angles, endless close-ups – will hit you immediately
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Action star amongst substantial influx of younger potential Oscar voters, including Steve Coogan, Michael Fassbender, Lupita Nyong'o, Barkhad Abdi and Pharrell Williams
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Joy Mangano movie, about creator of Miracle Mop and Huggable Hangers, to proceed with script by Bridesmaids writer and Christmas 2015 release date
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Mike Nichols made films about women – sadly a rarity in Hollywood