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Donald Clarke: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is meeting to review its rules after Andrea Riseborough’s surprise nomination
Angela Bassett on success, salaries and staying power: ‘I gotta find a new queen to play’
The Tina Turner actor on fairness in pay, film-making and why acting is still her first love
The Suicide Squad: Franchise gets welcome jolt of mad energy
Review: James Gunn’s comic-strip fantasy delivers on its own terms
The best new movies coming to cinema and TV this summer
Films are once again being shown on big screens, as well as on Netflix and Disney+
Workhuman set to increase staff and bring its HR conference to Dublin
Irish tech firm worth more than $1bn taking additional space to house more employees
Olympia Dukakis, Oscar-winning actor, dies aged 89
Cher among those to pay tribute after death of Moonstruck and Tales of the City star
Elizabeth Perkins: ‘In 1980s Hollywood, there were no safety nets, no HR’
The Brat Pack actor on luck, sexism and Big’s love scene – ‘It would not be acceptable today’
SAG Awards 2021 go to The Trial of the Chicago 7, Chadwick Boseman and Viola Davis
On the Screen Actors Guild Awards’ TV side, The Crown and Schitt’s Creek win top honours
Golden Globes 2021: Who should win, who will win and are any of them Irish?
Wolfwalkers, Brendan Gleeson and Normal People could win in the controversy-hit awards
Cicely Tyson, award-winning star of stage and screen, dies aged 96
Pioneering US actress won Emmy and Tony honours during extraordinary long career
Four new films to see this weekend
Wonder Woman, Let Him Go on release, Ma Rainey, American Utopia on demand
Viola Davis: ‘My father was just one generation removed from slavery’
The Oscar-winner on playing Ma Rainey, working with Chadwick Boseman and race in Hollywood
Netflix: 10 of the best new shows and films to watch in December
Including Mank, The Prom, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Midnight Sky and Bridgerton
Normal People’s Paul Mescal named as actor to watch by Variety
The Emmy-nominated Kildare actor appears in 10 to watch list with Borat’s Maria Bakalova
Chadwick Boseman, star of Black Panther, was so much more than just a gifted actor
The late actor was a star for the ages who helped change Hollywood's view on race
Workhuman considers Dublin as venue for major HR conference
Irish-founded software company reports big rise in pretax profit to $32.2m
‘No one will know’: Studio wanted Julia Roberts to play black abolitionist
Harriet Tubman screenwriter says an executive proposed actor to play former slave
Emmy nominations 2019: Fiona Shaw and Chris O’Dowd among nominees
Irish actors up for three awards, as Game of Thrones breaks records with 32 nominations
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend
New this week: Assassination Nation, Shoplifters, The Girl in the Spider’s Web and The Camino Voyage
Widows: funny, twisty, implausible heist caper delivers unashamed thrills
Review: Steve McQueen tries to cram in too much good stuff – but there's no crime in that when it's such good stuff
Toronto may not have the Cannes kudos, but the gap is closing
Audience input and domestic films make TIFF more than just an Oscar barometer
McQueen’s ‘Widows’ so consistently funny that flaws hardly matter
Toronto film festival: British filmmaker honours series while imprinting his own visual stamp
Irish films in the mix at Venice and Toronto festivals
The Favourite from Yorgos Lanthimos will compete for the Golden Lion at Venice and John Butler’s Papi Chulo will premiere at Toronto
After Ocean’s 8, give Reservoir Dogs an all-female makeover
Donald Clarke: And then The Shawshank Redemption, The Sting and 12 Angry Women
Which films will be up for next year’s Oscars? These ones will
Donald Clarke predicts 2019’s Best Picture nominees. He was nearly half right this year
Will Saoirse Ronan win an Oscar? Watch the SAG Awards to find out
The ‘Lady Bird’ star faces tough competition in this year’s best female actor category
The best in film 2017, according to the Dublin Film Critics Circle
Dunkirk blows away the competition
Ruth Negga, Ciarán Hinds, Domhnall Gleeson get the Academy seal of approval
The Irish stars are among a raft of Academy inductees, which could diversify the Oscar nominations
Nicole Kidman explains her ‘seal’ clapping at the Oscars
Actor came under fire on social media for her unusual method of applauding the awards
‘Visibly unhappy’ Brie Larson and the amateur body linguists
Commentators dissecting perceived slights at Oscars need to brush up on film history
Oscars 2017: Blunder overshadows biggest upset in recent history
‘Moonlight’ carries off best picture statuette after ‘La La Land’ wrongly declared winner
Oscars 2017: how did I fare with my predictions?
A diligent Oscars observer should be happy with nothing less than 70 per cent in the prediction stakes – which means I’m not happy with my forecasting
Oscars 2017: Our verdict on the winning films and performances
Did Moonlight deserve its last gasp win? Was Emma Stone up to scratch? Here’s how we reviewed the winning films
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