Damien Chazelle

Deal adds a marquee name to iPhone maker’s content efforts

Donald Clarke predicts 2019’s Best Picture nominees. He was nearly half right this year

Film’s failure to score a Best Director Oscar nomination for Martin McDonagh is not necessarily a reaction

Dunkirk blows away the competition

Here are our favourite film moments of the last year. Don't forget to vote for yours

‘Moonlight’ carries off best picture statuette after ‘La La Land’ wrongly declared winner

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

Did Moonlight deserve its last gasp win? Was Emma Stone up to scratch? Here’s how we reviewed the winning films

Donald Clarke ranks the best picture nominees at this year’s Academy Awards

‘La La Land’ or ‘Moonlight’? Emma Stone or Natalie Portman? Casey Affleck or Denzel Washington? Donald Clarke makes his predictions for Sunday night's Oscars ceremony

McCabe scandal; St Patrick’s Day caution; hospital strike; Baftas; Irish gangs

Hollywood musical scoops most gongs on occasion coloured by celebrity and politics

The boom in independent cinema has meant a more diverse, better list of nominees in the best picture race

Winners will be announced on February 26th

It’s the time of year when we accurately pick around 83 percent of the main nominations

Something will have gone terribly wrong if the Oscars fail to honour a film that fits comfortably into the Trump conversation

Ireland and Brexit; college dropouts; ‘quango cull’; Golden Globes; ASTI pay freeze

Don’t believe everything you see at the movies: for great jazz sticksmen Jeff Ballard and Tom Rainey, being mentored was a joy – although Ray Charles was no picnic