Female director tops BFI’s Sight & Sound greatest films list for the first time
The Belgian director Chantal Ackerman has become the first woman to top the BFI’s Sight & Sound list of the top 100 greatest
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Parasite
What’s Worth Seeing – or avoiding – from 2020?
Well, that’s a year that many people will be glad to see the back of – not least a cinema industry where social
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Parasite upsets Oscar’s apple cart as acting awards go to favourites
Parasite – a dark social comedy from South Korea – beat 1917 to Oscar’s top two prizes. South Korea’s social satire Parasite has
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The Farewell, Uncut Gems, The Lighthouse and Marriage Story among the big winners at the pre-Oscar independent Spirit Awards
As a film awards season nears its end, during which a lack of female directors has been one of the key talking points,
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1917 dominates BAFTAs as the acting prizes go to favourites
The First World War epic 1917 has emerged as the big success at this year’s BAFTA Film Awards, taking seven prizes on a
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Joker – and Netflix – dominate Oscar nominations
The dark comic-book origins drama Joker has continued to dominate the nominations stage of Awards Season, being in the running in 11 categories
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1917, Rocketman, Joker and Once Upon A Time in Hollywood among Golden Globe winners
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has spread its honours thinly, making it hard to make predictions ahead of next month’s Oscars, but the
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Marriage Story and Irishman lead Golden Globes nominations for Netflix
The Golden Globes have fired the starting pistol for the 2020 Oscar race, as the first of the major film awards of the
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For Sama and David Copperfield dominate BIFAs
The documentary For Sama has won four prizes at the annual British Independent Film Awards in London. For Sama won 4 BIFAs, including
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Nazi satire Jojo Rabbit wins Toronto Audience Award
A World War Two satire – about a young German boy who discovers that his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in the
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South Korean Parasite wins Cannes Palme d’Or
Parasite – a dark social comedy from South Korea – won the Palme d’Or. The South Korean director Bong Joon-ho has achieved what
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Cannes 2019 – The Second Tuesday
After a little lie in, I headed into Cannes in time to catch the press conference for Ira Sachs and Isabelle Huppert’s Frankie,
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