Spike Lee

Park Chan-Wook must have smiled when he heard that Quentin Tarantino was jury president at Cannes in 2004. The Korean director’s bleakly comic Oldboy (...)

What’s changed since, an implausible 30 years ago, Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing was released to acclaim and controversy? “Not enough,” Spike would a(...)

Knock Down the House From May 1st US congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Knock Down the House. Photograph: Netflix An exhilara(...)

Few people come to New York to disappear, not least those in fashion. Whether you’re attending the opening of a Broadway play or standing tall in the (...)

Think back to the most boring years of the Academy Awards. It is the 1980s, and the ceremony is dominated by Oscar bait such as Out of Africa and Driv(...)

The director Spike Lee, whose film BlacKkKlansman was nominated for this year’s best-picture Oscar, said “the ref made a bad call” when the competing (...)

Best picture Green Book Best actress in a leading role Olivia Colman, The Favourite Best actor in a leading role Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody B(...)

Olivia Colman pulled off the biggest of several shocks at the 2019 Oscars when she won best actress for the Irish production The Favourite. Peter Far(...)

Between the writing of this piece and its publication, the Academy will, no doubt, have suggested settling best actress with a nude mud-wrestling matc(...)

Best Film Roma Outstanding British Film The Favourite Best Director Alfonso Cuaron – Roma Leading Actress Olivia Colman – The Favourite Leading Ac(...)