Michael Shannon

Donald Clarke forecasts how the category will shape up at the next Academy Awards

TV: In Nine Perfect Strangers the actor gives her wellness guru the full Goop loop-the-loop

Maintaining Olympic hopefuls’ training regime during current crisis no easy task

The singer on a Stephen Fry podcast and why The World at War should be mandatory viewing

We start with Monos, Marriage Story and Midsommar. Find out what else makes the cut

Toronto film festival: Opening weekend also included Knives Out, Greed and Sea Fever

Aontú deputy Peadar Tóibín had tried to make representations in Liffey Meats case

Review: Florence Pugh mesmerises in this adaptation of a John le Carré spy story – and Alexander Skarsgard is not too shabby either

The spy novelist is 87, but his star has never shone brighter, with a BBC adaptation of ‘The Little Drummer Girl’ about to start

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Review: The favourite for best picture Oscar is a happy rom-com starring a B-movie creature

Review: It makes the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan look like ‘The Magnificent Seven’

‘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

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Jeff Nichols’s crusading love story bravely focuses on the domestic over the public, the personal over the political

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‘La La Land’ is the film to beat, earning 14 nominations including best picture