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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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
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
Oscars 2026: Donald Clarke’s predictions for today’s nominations
Watch out for One Battle After Another or Sinners shattering the record for most Academy Award nominations
Brendan Fraser: ‘My great-grandad escaped the Famine. He came across the Atlantic by himself aged 11’
The Oscar-winning actor’s peripatetic life makes him a perfect fit for his new film, Rental Family
The story behind the soup in Jessie Buckley’s Golden Globe speech: ‘I couldn’t believe she said that’
Key grip Tomasz Sternicki is a veteran of soup preparation for the stars
The Movie Quiz: What is now the highest grossing Disney animation ever?
Plus: What is the only film to have won the best picture Oscar with no other nominations?
Ryan Coogler on Sinners’ hit Celtic vampire dance: ‘Rocky Road to Dublin is an affirmation of humanity’
The director of one of 2025’s most talked-about films on the links between Irish and black communities
Kate Hudson: ‘Every time I tried to pivot, the industry continued to see me in a certain way’
Kate Hudson’s turn as a blue-collar mother with a love of Neil Diamond may be the best work of her career. Could she break into the Oscar race?
YouTube rips up the script with Oscar coup
Streaming the ceremony free and globally on the platform gives the Academy an opportunity to find new viewers
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
Oscars to move from broadcast TV to YouTube in 2029
ABC has televised the Oscars, the film industry’s highest honours, every year since 1976
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
The 10 worst films of 2025: ‘Cap’, you say? Crap, more like
We gave you the best films of the year, now here are the worst
The 50 best films of 2025 – a full list in reverse order
There were hopeful signs that Hollywood could make money out of good films that did not spring from established franchises
The 50 best films of 2025: Top 10 movies of the year
Our critics have selected the standout movies released in Ireland this year
The 50 best films of 2025: No 20 to No 11
We continue our countdown of our favourite movies released in Ireland this year
The 50 best films of 2025: Materialists, Bridget Jones and Alpha make the list of numbers 30 to 21
We continue the countdown of our top-rated movies released in Ireland this year
We Did OK, Kid by Anthony Hopkins: An engaging and tersely written memoir
There are occasional reminders that the bellicose Hopkins still lurks within the reformed man
The 50 best films of 2025: No 50 to No 31
Our list again leans strongly on the cultural cinema that emerged from big festivals such as Cannes and Venice
George Clooney interview: ‘I’m not a guy who lives with regret’
The actor wasn’t a star until he was in his 30s. It let him make his mistakes before he got famous – unlike Jay Kelly, the A-lister he plays in his new film
‘I knew she was going to pull this off’: Sean Baker takes a back seat to Shih-Ching Tsou for Left-Handed Girl
The long-time collaborators join up again for a frenetic, characterful, lovely tale set in the night markets of Taipei
Tom Cruise accepts honorary Oscar: ‘Making films is not what I do. It’s who I am’
Mission impossible star Tom Cruise is a four-time Oscar nominee who has never won the award
Sally Kirkland: Oscar-nominated actor dies aged 84
Sally Kirkland, star of Anna, JFK and Bruce Almighty, entered hospice care two days before death
Congrats to Cillian Murphy but there’s no way of turning this into a good look
The male-female split among the star’s rivals for a gender-neutral acting award is the sort of result sceptics feared
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
‘Robert Redford called. He’s at the same number as last night,’ the note said
Like his friend Paul Newman, Redford helped define American culture through his acting – and was exemplary off-screen
The Movie Quiz: Who has Anthony Hopkins not played?
Plus: How many best actress Oscar nominations have Irish nationals accrued in total?
Jimmy Kimmel profile: Who is the TV host at centre of Charlie Kirk controversy?
TV host placed on indefinite leave by ABC after Charlie Kirk comments, prompting debate on whether the land of the free is becoming a dystopia
Robert Redford 1936 - 2025: A life in pictures
89-year-old Hollywood superstar had lead roles in comedies, dramas thrillers
Robert Redford: US actor and Oscar-winning director dies aged 89
Big-screen charmer made serious topics like grief and political corruption resonate with audiences
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