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Jessie Buckley’s friends and family describe her Oscar as win for ‘hard work’ and authenticity
Cousins and locals recall her early talent and journey from talent shows to Hollywood acclaim
Catherine Connolly hails Jessie Buckley’s Oscar win as ‘historic moment’
‘We are very lucky to have so many talented people contributing at every level to the Irish film industry,’ says President
Jessie Buckley, a generational talent with acting superpowers
From her quiet emotion in War & Peace to her compelling physicality in Hamnet, the Irish actor has shown her talent runs deep
Oscars 2026: Jessie Buckley finishes a job started by three other Irish stars
The Hamnet star, winner of the Academy Award for best actress, had seemed unstoppable for months
Oscars 2026: Full list of winners, including Jessie Buckley, Richard Baneham, One Battle After Another, Sinners
At the Academy Awards on Sunday night, Jessie Buckley wins for leading actress and Richard Baneham wins for visual effects
Oscar winner Jessie Buckley to her husband: ‘You, Fred, I love you. I want to have 20,000 more babies with you’
The Irish star, picking up the Academy Award for best actress for her heart-rending turn in Hamnet, is one of two Irish winners
Oscars 2026: Jessie Buckley becomes Ireland’s first ever best actress winner
Irishman Richard Baneham secures his third visual effects Oscar, while One Battle After Another takes six awards, including best picture
Oscars 2026: How to watch, which races to stay glued to and everything else you need to know
Irish Academy Award nominees Jessie Buckley, Richard Baneham, John Kelly and Andrew Freedman will all be at Sunday night’s ceremony
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Oscars 2026: Is Jessie Buckley really a cert? We predict who will win and who should win
Unless Los Angeles slides into the sea, the Hamnet star will become the first Irish winner of the best actress Academy Award
The White House ‘slopaganda’ machine is a direct hit on American soft power
Hollywood is used to being in the international persuasion business. Donald Trump’s triumphalist warmonger videos change that
The Irish Times view on the Oscars: a ridiculous but potent celebration
This year’s awards come at a moment of flux and uncertainty for the gilm industry
Oscars 2026: All of Ireland’s Academy Award wins, including two doubles and a triple
If Jessie Buckley wins the leading-actress award for Hamnet this weekend, she’ll join an illustrious group of Irish winners
The Movie Quiz: Which film is nominated for the most Oscars this year?
Plus: Who claimed that the Oscar was so named as she had noted its backside resembled that of her uncle Oscar?
Timothée Chalamet is right: no one cares about opera or ballet
The arts are in trouble, and what’s needed is some realism - not head-in-the-sand holier-than-thou pap
A cast of characters: Hamnet, Hamlet, William Shakespeare and James Joyce
I did what I could to connect the playwright with Ireland, but it was a stretch
Oscars 2026: Where to watch Hamnet, Sinners, One Battle After Another and all the other best picture nominees
Streaming services, digital rentals and catch-up cinema screenings mean you can see all of this year’s key contenders
The Irish Times view on cats and dogs: Jessie Buckley beware
Felines have been the signal beneficiaries of modern internet culture over the past decade
Could Jessie Buckley’s ‘problematic’ anti-cat vibes scupper her Oscar bid?
Let’s hope a re-emergence of the actor’s bold declaration that she doesn’t like cats won’t mean she faces kitty karma on Oscar night
Sound of Falling director Mascha Schilinski: ‘We realised there were many repressed secrets’
German film-maker on how her Cannes-winning second feature brings women’s voices out of the margins
Sirat: This nomadic rave adventure is tense, original and extraordinary
Best enjoyed in the biggest cinema with the best audio system, it leans into ravers’ musical preference with relish
Dave Hannigan: Farewell Robert Duvall, unforgettable (to my family at least) as Buck Weston
He played huge roles in The Godfather and Apocalypse now, but we loved him best in a little-known soccer comedy with Will Ferrell
Oliver Laxe on the making of desert rave epic Sirat: ‘You jump into the abyss’
‘Film-maker of the senses’ on his apocalyptic, Oscar-nominated sensation and being a ‘freak’ in Spain
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You: Maternal stress becomes searing, breathless psychodrama
Rose Byrne, Jessie Buckley’s biggest Oscar rival, is extraordinary in Mary Bronstein’s film
The Secret Agent: Danger hums in nervy Brazilian thriller
Labyrinthine film set during military dictatorship evokes 1970s conspiracy chillers
The Testament of Ann Lee: Oscar snub for steely Amanda Seyfried is a mystery
Five stars for a musical that argues for the often underexplored potency of female charisma
The Secret Agent director Kleber Mendonça Filho: ‘I love the title. It’s short and sexy’
After winning two Golden Globes, the proudly puzzling thriller is up for the best-picture Oscar. And now the Brazilian president is on the phone
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
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
Oscar-nominee Dubliner got idea for film after ‘quiet panic attack’ on plane
John Kelly’s Retirement Plan has been nominated for an Academy Award for best animated short
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
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