Faye Dunaway's post-Oscar breakfast: 29 March 1977
The Oscar winner was photographed the morning after the triumphant night before by Terry O'Neill, who went on to marry herEven in the gloom of March, breakfast is glamorous. It's something to do with...
View ArticleAvatar was the year's real milestone, never mind the results
Historians of the Oscars will remember the 2010 celebrations as the year that a possible scenario for a screwball Hollywood comedy became actual when a former husband and wife – James Cameron and...
View ArticleKathryn's Oscar comes too late | Victoria Coren
Bigelow's prize makes little difference to Hollywood's basic sexist approach towards womenA woman winning the Oscar for best directing is one of those cultural milestones that would pass better...
View ArticleOscars 2010 diary: In the Loop with Jesse Armstrong
The co-writer of the Oscar-nominated British comedy shares his experiences of LA's biggest night outJesse Armstrong wrote In the Loop with Armando Iannucci, Simon Blackwell and Tony Roche). The film...
View ArticlePoliticians and their pasts | Hadley Freeman
Whether it's David Cameron or Lib Dem candidate Anna Arrowsmith, it's not where a politician went to school that interests me, it's what they did afterwardsWow, personality: it's so in these days. So...
View ArticleSandra Bullock proves the Oscars curse exists | Stuart Heritage
The Blind Side star is only the latest in a long line of actresses to see their marriages collapse right after taking Oscar home. The consequences for us filmgoers can only be direThis week we've...
View ArticleSandra Bullock: Congenial, but oh so ambitious
Her joy in winning an Oscar for The Blind Side has been tainted by her husband's alleged infidelity. Will the savvy actress let misery get to her?'A lot of times girls are raised to be little...
View ArticleSandra Bullock: her best-known roles
Sandra Bullock has been a bankable Hollywood star for years, and this year saw her crowned with a best actress Oscar. Here's a look back on how far she's come Continue reading...
View ArticleFilm Weekly explores the Land of the Free with Vadim Jean and meets Brendan...
This week's podcast ventures into criminal underworlds both real and imaginary, as we take you from Louisiana's notorious Angola prison – possibly the scene of a horrific miscarriage of justice –...
View ArticleNeil Gaiman: a nobody's guide to the Oscars
You know you're not going to win. You're seated in second-class. You've trodden on someone's dress. Author Neil Gaiman on what it's like to be invisible at the OscarsThere were authors grumbling about...
View ArticleYou review: The Blind Side
Did you catch The Blind Side at the weekend? Did Sandra Bullock deserve her Oscar, or is the Academy guilty of rewarding a mushy, sugar-coated slice of sentimentality?It's been praised in the US as a...
View ArticleSigourney Weaver: James Cameron lost out on Oscar because he 'didn't have...
Sigourney Weaver has questioned the judgment of Oscar voters who chose Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker over James Cameron's Avatar, in which she starredThe Avatar actor Sigourney Weaver accused Oscar...
View ArticleRussell Crowe 'threatened to kill producer with bare hands'
A new book claims the Australian actor was not a model of courtesy on the set of Ridley Scott's GladiatorRussell Crowe threatened to kill a veteran producer with his bare hands during a 3am phone call...
View ArticleWho knew? Scotland and Ireland love The Iron Lady
Polarising Thatcher biopic stands up well in multiplexes against M:I 4 and Sherlock, but The Artist beats her at the arthouseDespite the enormous amount of publicity attracted by Margaret Thatcher...
View ArticleFilm festivals: which is top dog?
Cannes, which has announced its 2012 line-up, has some serious competition. As Tribeca begins and ahead of Sundance London, our critics examine the big hitters on the film festival circuitIt has been a...
View ArticleEli Wallach, star of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, dies aged 98
Early practitioner of method acting who played the bandit Tuco in the spaghetti western and was awarded honorary Oscar in 2010 has died • Peter Bradshaw's appreciation• His career in clips• Eli Wallach...
View ArticleMo'Nique: I'm 'difficult', 'tacky' and was blackballed after Oscar win
Precious star who won best supporting actress award five years ago says Hollywood has shunned her for being ‘tactless’ and that parts in subsequent Lee Daniels movies were offered to her then given to...
View ArticleMo'Nique says she was 'blackballed' by Lee Daniels after Oscar win for Precious
Director wanted to teach her a lesson after she failed to thank him on awards night, claims actorThe Oscar-winning star of Precious, Mo’Nique, has claimed Lee Daniels began a professional boycott after...
View ArticleNeil Gaiman to release non-fiction work at end of May
Author blogs he has finished ‘giant proofread’ of The View from the Cheap Seats, a collection of ‘not every speech, introduction or article I’ve written’Neil Gaiman has revealed that a new collection...
View ArticleFrom House Of Cards to Moonlight, why Mahershala Ali is having a moment
He’s the breakout star of this year’s buzziest films, next as a Miami drug dealer in Barry Jenkins’ tender coming-of-age drama. Will it win him an Oscar?‘Let me see… Luke Cage. I’m looking down my...
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