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James Van Der Beek and Brigitte Bardot among stars snubbed from Oscars in memoriam tribute

Key names were omitted from this year’s tribute to industry figures who have died over the last 12 months

Free Palestine and ICE out: how this year’s Oscars got political

As One Battle After Another swept, Paul Thomas Anderson, Javier Bardem and Conan O’Brien gave a welcome reality check to the glitzy ceremony

AI job layoffs are here: it’s time to revive the push for shorter working hours

There’s no doubt artificial intelligence will produce real productivity improvements. It’s imperative these benefits are shared with workers

Conan’s bits, O’Connell’s fangs and Jafar Panahi unimpressed: Oscars 2026 viral moments

In a year that largely stuck to script, host O’Brien’s antics and the It Was Just an Accident director’s stare at Kevin O’Leary got the internet talking

Warner Bros wins a record 11 Oscars as One Battle After Another and Sinners dominate awards

Film studio – currently in acquisition talks with Paramount – earned 11 awards thanks to films by Ryan Coogler and Paul Thomas Anderson

Diane Warren becomes record-holder for longest Oscars losing streak with 17 nominations and no wins

Songwriter first nominated for ballad Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now in 1987 and is beaten this year by K-Pop Demon Hunters’ Golden

One Battle After Another sweeps the Oscars as Michael B Jordan and Jessie Buckley win big

Paul Thomas Anderson’s revolutionary epic took home six awards while Sinners scored four including for best actor

Jessie Buckley becomes first Irish winner of best actress Oscar for Hamnet

Buckley, who plays Shakespeare’s wife Agnes in adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel, was favourite to win after victories in all preceding ceremonies

Michael B Jordan wins best actor Oscar for Sinners

Jordan is the sixth black actor to take the award – and the first person to take the prize for portraying twins

Paul Thomas Anderson wins best director Oscar for One Battle After Another

Anderson wins for film starring Leonardo DiCaprio as an ex-revolutionary, taking Oscar in this category for the first time

Golden from KPop Demon Hunters wins Oscar for best original song

Victory for South Korean sensation is film’s second of the evening, after best animated feature

Sentimental Value becomes first Norwegian film to win best international feature Oscar

Joachim Trier’s family saga is about a film director estranged from his adult daughters

Sinners’ Autumn Durald Arkapaw becomes first woman – and first black person – to win best cinematography Oscar

Cinematographer asks all the women in the room to rise as she thanks cast, crew and her family

Mr Nobody Against Putin wins the best documentary Oscar

Primary school teacher Pavel Talankin’s record of the indoctrination of his pupils to support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine beats contenders

Barbra Streisand pays tribute to Robert Redford at the Oscars: ‘He blazed his own trail’

The actor and singer remembered her co-star in 1973’s The Way We Were, who died in September

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  • Australia to introduce mandatory reporting after OpenAI hack to combat artificial intelligence ‘going rogue’
  • Teenager who planned terror attack in Sydney tells court he was radicalised online and used AI to strategise
  • Silicon Valley and Trump rally behind Nvidia CEO after his affair with alleged Chinese spy
  • Jensen Huang’s image has been shattered. Could he be pushed out at Nvidia?
  • The AI poster boy, the ‘Chinese spy’ and Trump: how an affair may have harmed US security
  • Cyber-attack on French supermarket freezers has geopolitical context
  • Revealed: Palantir lobbied minister to stretch AI tools’ reach to NHS GP records
  • Who is Alice Huang, the woman linked to Nvidia’s CEO?
  • Donnie Dunagan, original voice of Disney’s Bambi and triple Purple Heart marine, dies aged 92
  • Nvidia’s board needs to do some succession planning – sharpish
  • More than 400,000 Russians killed fighting in Ukraine war, leaked data suggests
  • EU sues IBM and two European firms over troubled entry/exit border system
  • Parents and teachers decry Google pledge to yank Search if schools block AI: ‘This threat is nothing but extortion’
  • ‘Obvious risk of further tragedy’ at rail crossing type at which Amazon driver died, inquiry finds
  • Why is Nvidia’s Jensen Huang at the centre of a US-China row?
  • 1 in 2 review – compassionate film about dealing with bowel cancer is a personal plea on behalf of the young
  • ‘We did 10 takes of it!’ Kerr Smith on Dawson’s Creek and filming US TV’s first gay kiss
  • ‘Sadistic, forbidden pleasure’: why Gone Girl is my feelgood movie
  • A Fox Under a Pink Moon review – Iranian teen refugee paints boldly imaginative self-portrait
  • 100 Sunset review – elliptical, elusive drama dreamlike through Toronto’s tight-knit Tibetan community
  • Look at Me by Dustin Hoffman review – an era-defining actor says his piece
  • Robert Pattinson has auditioned for James Bond – and finally the 007 race is interesting
  • ‘Thicky thicky dumb dumb’ satirist Cody Dahler on his viral videos: ‘my material is presented to me on a silver platter!’
  • Godzilla Minus Zero takes US box office by storm in opening weekend
  • Nvidia opens investigation after report CEO Jensen Huang was target of foreign intelligence
  • Is this the most rubbish Christmas present ever?
  • What are you yearning for? We took to the streets to find out
  • Pickpockets review – small-budget Australian crime flick steals audience’s heart
  • Bluey’s Daley Pearson on how losing his brother inspired his new film: ‘He was the best thing ever to me’
  • Monica Dolan looks back: ‘I was repulsed by Rose West, yet I had to work out what made her tick’

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