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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

‘What fun we had storming the castle’: Billy Crystal pays tribute to Rob Reiner at the Oscars

The star of When Harry Met Sally, one of Reiner’s most enduring movies, honoured the director and his wife

Rachel McAdams pays tribute to late Diane Keaton at the Oscars: ‘A legend with no end’

Much-loved actor, who died in October aged 79, remembered in emotional segment at the 98th Academy Awards

Ryan Coogler wins best original screenplay Oscar for Sinners

Coogler, who also directed the film, becomes only the second black writer to win this award, after Jordan Peele

Paul Thomas Anderson wins first ever Oscar as One Battle After Another takes best adapted screenplay

Director won the Oscar for his critically acclaimed film based loosely on Thomas Pynchon’s novel Vineland

Cassandra Kulukundis wins inaugural casting Oscar for One Battle After Another

Film’s star Chase Infiniti pays tribute to Kulukundis, who has cast nearly all of Paul Anderson’s films since Magnolia

Sean Penn wins best supporting actor Oscar for One Battle After Another

With this, his third Oscar – he won best actor for Mystic River in 2004 and Milk in 2009 – Penn joins an elite band of triple winners, including Daniel Day-Lewis and Jack Nicholson

Conan O’Brien jokes about Ted Sarandos, Timothée Chalamet and ‘frightening times’ in Oscars monologue

Host bobs and weaves through a number of third-rail topics in Academy Awards speech that’s at turns silly and sincere

Amy Madigan wins best supporting actress Oscar for Weapons

Having been nominated in 1986, the actor sets a new record for the longest gap between nominations before a win

Readers reply: which are more like life, novels or films?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions considers what’s ‘realistic’ in what we read v what we watch …

Peter Bradshaw’s Oscars 2026 predictions: who will win, who should win, who should’ve been in the running?

Will Sinners and One Battle After Another sweep the board as expected, or are there surprises on the way? Our critic shares his predictions for the big-screen triumphs and disasters

The Oscars feel silly in an era of endless crisis. But film still matters

It’s hard to be transported by the glitz and glamour when it’s constantly overshadowed by some white-hot new horror

Put your phone down and focus: the four best ways to watch movies

An expert shares advice for tuning out distractions when screening films at home – plus our favorite movie snacks

Don’t denounce Timothée Chalamet for what he said about opera and ballet – prove him wrong

For these art forms to thrive, they need to attract young people. The Oscar contender’s comments are just the conversation starter they need, says actor and author Rebecca Humphries

‘You cannot unsee it’: what happened next for this year’s Oscar documentary nominees?

Films about prison abuse, ovarian cancer, women’s rights in Iran and more have impressed the Academy, but what real-world impact have they had?

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  • The Wolf of Wall Street to Creed III: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
  • I was paid to write fake Google reviews – then my ‘bosses’ tried to scam me
  • Four wives, two passports and a very elusive butterfly: one woman’s search for her lepidopterist father
  • Keep under-fives’ screen time to no more than an hour a day, UK advice says
  • ‘Accountability has arrived’: dual US court losses show shifting tide against Meta and co
  • New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK
  • Federal judge sides with Anthropic in first round of standoff with Pentagon
  • Dark Mofo: 2026 festival to show Willem Dafoe film that can only be watched by one person at a time
  • Human rights groups cheer ‘watershed’ verdict in social media addiction trial
  • Oscars to leave Hollywood for downtown Los Angeles in 2029
  • UK politics: Trump says UK’s aircraft carriers are just ‘toys’ – as it happened
  • Brussels opens investigation into Snapchat amid concern over children’s safety
  • Hook, line and cinema: why boxing films are still a knockout
  • Alexander Kluge, author and key film-maker in the New German Cinema movement, dies aged 94
  • DJ Ahmet review – totally charming tale of teen travails in North Macedonia
  • Google warns quantum computers could hack encrypted systems by 2029
  • Will Stephen Colbert’s Lord of the Rings film be Tom Bombadil’s time to shine?
  • Halle Bailey: ‘It’s a vulnerable place to be – a young woman cast as a Disney princess’
  • Starmer vows to tackle social media’s ‘addictive features’ to protect children
  • Creator of AI actor Tilly Norwood says she received death threats over project
  • The verdict against Meta and YouTube is a victory for children – and the US justice system
  • William Shakespeare’s Romeo+Juliet review – Baz Luhrmann’s joyful tragedy is still extravagantly full of life
  • Rave Culture: A New Era review – high energy testimonial to the UK’s dance revolution
  • Marriage over, €100,000 down the drain: the AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion
  • Dodging the ‘wrinkle wagon’: why a Brazilian film about ageing is inspiring older women
  • They Will Kill You review – satanic beat-’em-up offers gore, bad jokes and deja vu
  • I’m a young woman, and people keep telling me the internet has ruined my brain. Is this helpful?
  • Orwell: 2+2=5 review – documentary portrait doesn’t wholly add up
  • Charity Commission warns Alan Turing Institute of its legal duties after complaints
  • Law firms investigate possible Australian cases after US jury finds Meta and YouTube designed addictive products

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