French abortion drama wins top prize at Venice Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival has given its top prize, the Golden Lion, to the French drama Happening, about a young woman seeking an
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Ant & Dec, David Tennant, Line of Duty and After Life among NTA winners
Ant & Dec have come out top at a Covid-delayed National Television Awards ceremony, being named the best TV presenters for the twentieth
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BFI brings Cannes and Venice hits to London
The organisers of the London Film Festival have announced the full programme of nearly 160 films. Jeymes Samuels’ opener The Harder They Fall
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Idris Elba and Denzel Washington bookend London Film Festival
The BFI has indicated that a key theme of this year’s London Film Festival will be race, in a year that the Hollywood
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The HFPA has backed widespread reform – but can the Golden Globes be saved?
The body behind the Golden Globes, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, has backed a new set of by-laws, in the first step towards
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Plans for major new film studio in Hertfordshire
American investors are planning to build a $1 billion dollar film and TV production studio complex in Hertfordshire, in what the UK government
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Cannes Gives Top Prize To a Woman for only the Second Time
The Cannes Film Festival has given its top prize, the Palme d’Or, to a female director for only the second time in its
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Strong British showing at US TV Academy Emmy nominations
After a year when most people across the world – and certainly in the US – have been stuck at home, watching the
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Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You dominates TV BAFTAs
Michaela Coel was the big winner of the BAFTA TV Awards, with two of the top awards on the night to add to
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Cannes favourites dominate a delayed 2021 line-up
“Cinema is not dead,” declared the artistic director of the Festival de Cannes, Thierry Frémaux, as he announced more than 60 films that
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Small Axe and The Crown dominate BAFTA TV nominations
No sooner are the year’s film awards out of the way, than TV awards season kicks in with BAFTA announcing the nominations for
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Nomadland takes Oscar’s biggest prizes on a less diverse night than expected
Nomadland has taken three of the top awards at the 2021 Oscars, at a ceremony delayed for two months by the pandemic. As
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Nomadland, Sound of Metal and Promising Young Woman dominate Spirit Awards
The awards season front-runner Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland has taken four prizes – including Best Feature and Best Director – at the Independent Spirit
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Golden Globes organisers expel former president Philip Berk over race article
The beleaguered organisation that runs the Golden Globes, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, has moved quickly to expel its eight-time former president, Philip
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Nomadland dominates the Covid-delayed BAFTAs
Nomadland – a film about a woman travelling around the US after the financial crash – has dominated the BAFTAs, at a Covid-delayed,
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BAFTA honours Prince Philip as it hands out technical film awards
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has paid tribute to the Duke of Edinburgh at its first standalone ceremony for technical
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Cineworld, Warner Bros and Disney give a taste of post-Covid cinema
With the film business in chaos, as one of the industries most severely hit by Covid restrictions, two announcements have given an indication
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Golden Globes organisers pledge to admit 13 black members in race row
“Thank you to the all-white Hollywood Foreign Press,” the British star Sacha Baron Cohen said as he accepted his Golden Globe, when Borat
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Spike Lee invited to return to historic Cannes Jury President role
The organisers of the Cannes Film Festival have invited the director Spike Lee to preside over the jury at this year’s delayed event,
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British stars, snubbed by BAFTA, are nominated for Oscars
Four British stars, who failed to be recognised by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, have been shortlist for the most
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