Key Oscars moments: from the historic to the hilarious – video | Film
[ad_1] While the scaled-back Oscars in Los Angeles on Sunday made for a more subdued and intimate affair than usual, the evening was not without its moments. Picking up his award for best supporting actor, the British actor Daniel Kaluuya managed to embarrass his proud mother. ‘It’s incredible. My mum met my dad, they had sex. […]
Nomadland wins big, and Glenn Close does Da Butt: Oscars 2021 – in pictures | Film
[ad_1] The 93rd Academy Awards saw wins for Emerald Fennell, Daniel Kaluuya, Anthony Hopkins, and the Guardian-produced short Colette – plus a clutch of honours for Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland Matt Fidler Main image: Producers Peter Spears, from left, Frances McDormand and Chloe Zhao, Mollye Asher and Dan Janvey, winners of the award for best picture […]
Oscars 2021: the dresses, the winners, the weird semi-masked ceremony in a train station – live! | Film
[ad_1] Emerald Fennell is on the red carpet, having made a transatlantic flight in order to stand in the entrance to a train station and shout replies to distant reporters. “I eat pizza out of a bin,” she says, jokingly. “I’m obsessed,” says the presenter, weirdly unjokingly. [ad_2] This content first appear on the guardian
Baftas 2021: moments of joy and surprise from the online acceptance speeches – video
[ad_1] Bukky Bakray was ecstatic after winning this year’s rising star Bafta award for her role in the film Rocks. Meanwhile, Youn Yuh-jung, the 73-year-old Korean actor crowned best supporting actress for Minari, said in jest that the award was particularly special because the British are ‘known as very snobbish people and they have approved […]
‘Film-making? Bring it on!’: ex-stockbroker Farah Nabulsi on her Oscar nomination | Film
[ad_1] Farah Nabulsi was at home in west London when she found outher film The Present had been nominated for the Oscar for best live action short. She’d persuaded her teenage sons to stay home and watch the announcement. When she heard her name, she jumped up on the table. Her eldest looked at her […]
Hear me out: why 2017’s Ghost in the Shell isn’t a bad movie | Film
[ad_1] If you dare to suggest that the live-action remake of Ghost in the Shell isn’t completely terrible, you’ll most likely receive a confused dog look from some film fans, while also having your sense of morality brought into question. The 2017 adaptation, directed by Rupert Sanders, was instantly dismissed by many when it was […]
‘They cut the beheading scene’: The Long Good Friday, remembered by Helen Mirren and co-stars | Film
[ad_1] It has been 40 years since the release of The Long Good Friday, a gangster film still revered as one of the best British movies of all time. Shot in London in the late 1970s and starring the late Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren, it told the story of an underworld boss trying desperately […]
Live and let live: why does James Bond always survive? | Culture
[ad_1] In the Guide’s weekly Solved! column, we look into a crucial pop-culture question you’ve been burning to know the answer to – and settle it, once and for all After this September’s No Time to Die, there will have been 25 official James Bond films (15 based on Ian Fleming’s novels). In all, one […]
Hear me out: why She’s the Man isn’t a bad movie | Film
[ad_1] I’m sure you must be wondering why a movie in which there is a scene where Amanda Bynes, playing a girl pretending to be her brother, screws up her face to stridently declare in a cartoonishly male voice, “I am a dude. I am a hunky dude! I’m a badass hunky dude!” was not […]
Lonesome Dove author and Brokeback Mountain screenwriter Larry McMurtry dies at 84 | Books
[ad_1] Larry McMurtry, the Pulitzer prize-winning author and screenwriter who examined the reality of the American west in novels including Lonesome Dove, has died. McMurtry, 84, was the author of more than 30 novels, from Terms of Endearment to The Last Picture Show, and received an Academy Award for best adapted screenplay for his work […]
