Three Billboards leads SAG nominations to firm up acting Oscar race
The Screen Actors Guild – whose awards are usually one of the strongest predictors of acting Oscars – has published a nominations list
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Christopher Plummer up for Golden Globe a month after replacing Kevin Spacey
Already the oldest actor ever to win an Oscar, Christopher Plummer could be on his way to securing that honour after receiving a
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Diversity wins as Handmaid’s Tale, Veep and Big Little Lies triumph at Emmys
Diversity was the big winner at an Emmy awards in which the most successful shows were female-led and the most successful men were
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It’s a happy night for Happy Valley at the BAFTAs
Sarah Lancashire (second from right) with the Happy Valley team. Photo: © BAFTA In the first year that BAFTA allowed nominations from streaming
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The Crown leaves The Night Manager in its wake at TV BAFTAs
Claire Foy has earned one of The Crown’s five BAFTA nominations The Netflix drama The Crown, which chronicles the early years of the
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Rogue One and Fantastic Beasts dominate Empire Awards
With the Oscars already becoming a distant memory, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story has taken the top prizes at the annual Empire
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La La Land’s Damien Chazelle feted by fellow directors
La La Land’s awards success is continuing with another of the more reliable Oscar-predictors falling in its lap; the Directors Guild of America has honoured Damien Chazelle with its award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Feature Film.
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Black actors dominate SAG Awards, a month ahead of Oscars
A week after the most ethnically diverse set of Oscar nominations in recent history, the latest back-slapping ceremony in Hollywood has raised the
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Record inward investment helps 3 UK-made films top 2016’s box office
A record £1.35bn of foreign money was spent on film production in the UK in 2016, up 18% on the previous year. This
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La La Land and The Night Manager dominate Golden Globes
The Oscar-tipped musical love-letter to Los Angeles, La La Land, has become the most successful film ever at the Golden Globes, winning all seven of the categories in which it was nominated.
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Globes set up La La Land and Moonlight as Oscar front-runners
The 2017 Awards Season has kicked off in earnest with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announcing a plethora of nominations covering film and
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Game of Thrones beats Frasier’s Emmys record
Game of Thrones star Kit Harington missed out in the best supporting actor category Game of Thrones was the big winner of the
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Final Downton Abbey series challenging Game of Thrones for Emmys
The sixth and final season of ITV’s Downton Abbey is in the running for the Best Drama award at America’s prestigious Emmy Awards.
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45 Years and Catastrophe among South Bank winners
Long after the recognised awards season has come to an end, the acclaimed drama 45 Years has picked up another prize. It’s been
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Wolf Hall leads BAFTA TV nominations
Mark Rylance and Claire Foy are both nominated for Wolf Hall The BBC’s Golden Globe-winning adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Tudor drama Wolf Wall
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Larry Sanders creator Garry Shandling dies at 66
Tributes have been paid to the comedian Garry Shandling, whose parody of the American talk show, The Larry Sanders Show, took Hollywood to
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Star Wars dominates Empire Awards
Star Wars: The Force Awakens won the most awards at the Empire Awards, being honoured as the Best Sci-Fi, for its visual effects, for director JJ Abrams and for its lead actors John Boyega and Daisy Ridley, who took the best male and female newcomer awards.
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Directors give fresh Oscar momentum to The Revenant
Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu directing Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant The Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu has been named the best film director for the
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Actors’ backing boosts Leo’s Oscar hopes as Elba wins 2 SAG Awards
The Screen Actors Guild has given out its annual film and TV awards at a ceremony in Los Angeles that is seen as one of the better indicators of who might go on to win Oscars, as such a large proportion of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are actors.
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