Olivia Colman was the Oscar favourite after all, as Green Book upsets Roma
The 91st Academy Awards have thrown up a couple of surprises in a night that otherwise followed the predictions to a tee. The
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Alfonso Cuarón
Richard E Grant gets the winning Spirit
Moonlight director Barry Jenkins has dominated this year’s Independent Spirit Awards – the Santa Monica ceremony that honours, as its name suggests, American
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Roma and The Favourite share the spoils at the BAFTAs
Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma won BAFTA’s two most prestigious awards The Favourite has picked up the most BAFTAs, with seven, but the four
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Alfonso Cuarón boosts Oscar hopes with a DGA win
The Directors Guild of America has honoured Roma’s Alfonso Cuarón with its top prize – one of the most reliable Oscar-indicators among the plethora
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The Favourite and Roma lead Oscar nominations
The Golden Globes have come and gone, BAFTA nominees are eagerly waiting and busily campaigning and the SAG Awards are less than a
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London Critics pick Roma over The Favourite
The Awards Season favourite The Favourite has added to its trophy collection with another four prizes, courtesy of the London Film Critics Circle.
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Awards favourite The Favourite leads 2019 Film BAFTA nominations
The Favourite – a biting satire about two women vying to become the favourite of Queen Anne in the early 18th Century –
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A good night for Britain at a diverse Golden Globes
The Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody has confounded some critics by winning what’s widely regarded as the top award at the Golden Globe Awards
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British talent makes a rare appearance among Independent Spirit Nominations
The Scottish director Lynne Ramsay and the English actors Carey Mulligan and Richard E Grant are among the nominees for the Independent Spirit
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Alfonso Cuarón wins top prize at Venice for Mexican film Roma
Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma won the Golden Lion for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival The director of one of the biggest films
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Autumn festival line-ups fire starting gun on Oscars race
The first clues as to the likely contenders for next year’s Oscars have been revealed, with the line-ups for the two big film
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Cannes 2017 – The Second Wednesday
It was another early start for one of the most hotly anticipated competition titles of the year; Sofia Coppola’s remake – or re-imagining – of Clint Eastwood’s 1971 US civil war era drama, The Beguiled. I was particular keen to see it in the light of some early suggestions that the film was so poor, people were laughing at it.
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Venice honours Venezuela
From Afar, by Lorenzo Vigas, won the Golden Lion at Venice From Afar, or Desde Alla – a Venezuelan film about a rich
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Gravity – Review
DIRECTOR: Alfonso Cuarón – CAST: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris
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