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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Spike Lee
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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Spike Lee to chair the jury at Cannes 2020
The American director Spike Lee has been selected to chair the main Palme d’Or jury at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Photo: Spike
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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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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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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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BLACKkKLANSMAN – Review
DIRECTED BY: Spike Lee – FEATURING: Adam Driver, John David Washington, Topher Grace, Alec Baldwin, Ashlie Atkinson, Damaris Lewis, Harry Belafonte, Jasper Pääkkönen, Laura Harrier, Michael Buscemi, Paul Walter Hauser, Robert John Burke, Ryan Eggold
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Japanese film Shoplifters wins Palme d’Or at Cannes 2018, under the spectre of Harvey Weinstein.
The Japanese film Shoplifters has won the top prize at a Cannes Film Festival, overshadowed by the spectre of Harvey Weinstein.
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Cannes 2018 – The Second Tuesday
Spike Lee explains why he takes a pop at the US President at the end of his Palme d’Or-nominated film, BlacKkKlansman. Press conferences
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Spike Lee, poster boy Jean-Luc Godard & 8 newcomers join Cannes competition
Spike Lee is back in competition in Cannes for the first time since Jungle Fever, 28 years ago, with (read it carefully) BlacKkKlansman
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Academy acts as Rampling accuses black actors of anti-white racism
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, mired in a row over all-white nominees in the acting categories at the Oscars for
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Oscar organisers announce membership review amid race row
The body that hands out the Oscars has announced a review of its membership criteria, after no black actors were nominated for the
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