Oscar nominations further delayed by wildfires as Grammys and Sundance set to go ahead
Entertainment industry impacted as Critics Choice awards pushed back and Academy cancels nominees luncheon
On my radar: Siobhan Finneran’s cultural highlights
The actor on the band she can’t wait to see, the best place to meet friends for food in Manchester, and performance poetry that made her laugh and cry
From Maria to Franz Ferdinand: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment in the UK
Angelina Jolie portrays the peerless operatic diva while the Scottish post-punkers return with their new album
Maria review – Angelina Jolie’s Callas commands the screen as a great diva in decline
Pablo Larraín’s strange and mordant drama portrays Callas’s haughty struggle as her voice begins to fail but her stardom remains undimmed
UK music sales hit record high as Taylor Swift tops album sellers
Spending on streaming subscriptions and physical sales hits £2.4bn as industry recovers from piracy and CD slump
Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties: The Bubbles and the Shitrockers Story review – goofs on tour
Trailer Park Boys spinoff sends the eccentric musos – and a vanload of cats – off around Europe with predictably uncertain results
‘Friends keep me tethered’: actor Joe Alwyn on fame, dating Taylor Swift and keeping his feet on the ground
Joe Alwyn has had an astonishing rise. After his breakthrough with Ang Lee, he wowed in Conversations with Friends and now stars in The Brutalist. Throw in his ex, Taylor Swift, and you have a redhot A-lister ready to go
Embracing X and a turn by Timothée Chalamet: how Bob Dylan is capturing gen Z
As Chalamet plays the singer in the acclaimed biopic A Complete Unknown, the man himself has taken, at 83, to posting on X
From Edvard Munch to Central Cee: Observer critics choose their cultural highlights for 2025
From Thom Yorke’s Shakespearean score to 25 years of Tate Modern, Bridget Jones to Leigh Bowery, our writers anticipate the most exciting shows, releases and events of the year
The big chill: warming, nourishing culture to help you hibernate until spring
Whether it’s wintry films and music, time-absorbing games or compelling telly and podcasts, with all this goodness to get stuck into there really is no reason to go outside
From Nosferatu to Patience: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment in the UK
The classic 1922 exsanguination enthusiast gets a creepy 2024 makeover, and there’s a new supercop in town in Channel 4’s crime drama
Jack Bond obituary
Film director and producer who worked with Salvador Dalí and the Pet Shop Boys
On my radar: Jasleen Kaur’s cultural highlights
The Turner prizewinner on the art of the Gaza Biennale, the joys of a queer community choir, and a poet who speaks to today’s injustices
Better Man review – Robbie Williams monkeys around in a raw and emotional biopic
Replacing Williams with a CGI ape in an otherwise human cast pays off enormously in Michael Gracey’s warts-and-all tale of the pop phenomenon
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 to The Traitors: a complete guide to the week’s entertainment in the UK
Jim Carrey is back causing mayhem as the megalomaniacal, moustachioed Dr Robotnik, and Claudia Winkleman’s top-notch reality betray-em-up returns