Baftas 2026: A record-breaking Hamnet, a slate of Irish talent, and a strange awards-race decision
Jessie Buckley’s Bafta nomination confirms her as strong favourite for the best-actress award
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Baftas 2026: Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal nominated as Hamnet makes history
The film, directed by Chloe Zhao, has broken the record for the most nominations for a female-directed film in Bafta history
I’ve just seen Hamnet. Why did nobody tell me it would be coma-inducingly boring?
I expected Chloé Zhao’s film to be daring and brilliant and moving. I think I fell prey to the hype around it
Oscars 2026: Jessie Buckley is in strong position to win Ireland’s first best actress award
Irish talent ranked high in this year’s Oscar nominations, but Hamnet film-makers will be disappointed Paul Mescal didn’t make the final list
Jessie Buckley nominated for Oscar, Hamnet co-star Paul Mescal misses out
Sinners smashes nominations record with 16 nods, Element Pictures picks up four for Bugonia
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As I sit in the cinema watching Hamnet, a dull ache starts in my throat
Hamnet isn’t grief porn but a bittersweet reminder that all love is a raw miracle
Jessie Buckley’s Golden Globes win sees odds shorten on best actress Oscar victory
Kerrywoman will walk into nominations, barring a meteor strike, while Paul Mescal might face a tougher battle to take top prize
‘This is not a normal feeling or situation to be in’: Jessie Buckley wins Golden Globe for Hamnet
Paul Mescal loses out to Stellan Skarsgård in best supporting actor category
Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley: ‘There was an undeniable energy and chemistry between us’
The stars of Hamnet, Chloé Zhao’s Oscar-tipped film, talk Shakespeare, acting and growing up in different Irelands
Frank McNally on a grand stretch in the evenings, a new Dublin restaurant and ‘Gloomsday’
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‘Incredibly inspiring’: Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley at Irish premiere of Hamnet
Maggie O’Farrell hails actors’ performances in adaptation of her novel
Hamnet review: Five stars for Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal’s devastating film
In Chloé Zhao’s beautifully shot, cruelly raw feature, the Irish actors play the grieving Shakespeares
Golden Globes 2026: Hamnet stars Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal now seem certain to receive Oscar nods
Paul Thomas Anderson’s rambunctious One Battle After Another topped the charts with nine nominations
Jessie Buckley is unbeatable at the Oscars. Unless this happens
Academy Award nerds are already engraving the Hamnet star’s name on the best-actress trophy. All that stands in her way are pesky other actors
Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley on their new film Hamnet: ‘I only want to make films as brave and as human as this’
Film adapted from Maggie O’Farrell’s bestselling novel of the same name has received rave reviews
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2021: The year in highlights
From the storming of the Capitol and the Suez Canal to Olympic success and Storm Barra, the news never stopped
Jane Campion: ‘If New Zealand can be Middle Earth, it can be Montana’
The director’s new film is a powerful study of masculinity set on a ranch in the 1920s
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Trinity academic Dr Martin Worthington translated dead language for Marvel film Eternals
Eternals: Po-faced superhero entertainment
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Salma Hayek: ‘Weinstein would scream at me – ‘I didn’t hire you to look ugly!”
The actor on being bullied by the disgraced movie mogul and becoming a superhero at 55
The 10 best movies of 2021 so far – in order
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Cannes film festival 2021: Irish-produced movie secures place in prestigious Directors’ Fortnight
Element Pictures’ The Souvenir Part II stars Honor Swinton Byrne and Tilda Swinton
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The opportunity to play with the noisiest toys in the biggest sandpit must be hard to resist
Oscars 2021 will be remembered as the one where Frances McDormand howled like a wolf
It was also the one where Chadwick Boseman didn’t win. The one with the miscalculated finale
Nothing like a bizarre Oscars to trigger desire for magic of cinema
Single remark from Frances McDormand is enough reminder of what we’ve missed
Frances McDormand: ‘I’m not going to be your movie star’
The Nomadland actor likes to keep out of the public eye. That’s tricky for a triple Oscar winner
Oscars 2021 in pictures: The fashion, the Hollywood A-listers – and Kilkenny Castle
This year’s Academy Awards ceremony went international amid a year for film like no other
Nomadland review: Chloé Zhao’s triple Oscar winner is a film at war with itself
Frances McDormand plays a widow who takes to the road after losing her job
Donald Clarke: Digging for dirt in Nomadland’s soil
Mud-slinging at Chloé Zhao over work scenes set in Amazon warehouse unlikely to stick
Oscars 2021: Something has changed. And Donald Trump wouldn’t like it
Today’s nominees look nothing like those we would have encountered in the 1990s or 2000s
Golden Globes 2021: Nomadland starring Frances McDormand wins best dramatic film
Chloé Zhao becomes only the second woman, after Barbra Streisand, to win best director
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