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items: Are you being emotionally manipulated? Why an Oscar contender is splitting opinion about emotional response
items: The Oscars completely snubbed the year's most daring film – and it doesn't make sense
items: How to watch The Secret Agent in the UK – release date for Oscar-nominated film
items: The Oscars should be about celebrating groundbreaking films – so why has Brad Pitt's unremarkable F1 movie been nominated?
items: Oscar nominations 2026: Full list of nominees as Sinners smashes record with 16 nods
items: Oscar predictions 2026: Which films could compete for Best Picture next year?
items: Oscar winners 2025: Full list as Anora wins Best Picture
items: Which film has won the most Oscars ever? Academy Award winner records
items: Oscars 2025 presenters: Which stars are presenting awards at the ceremony?
items: How to watch the Oscars 2025 in the UK
items: Oscars 2025: The case for Emilia Pérez to win Best Picture
items: Oscars 2025: The case for A Complete Unknown to win Best Picture
items: Oscars 2025: The case for Anora to win Best Picture
items: Oscars 2025: The case for I'm Still Here to win Best Picture
items: Oscars 2025: The case for Nickel Boys to win Best Picture
items: Oscars 2025: The case for The Substance to win Best Picture
items: What are the most talked-about Oscars moments ever?
items: Oscars 2025: The case for Wicked to win Best Picture
items: Oscars 2025: The case for Conclave to win Best Picture
items: Oscars 2025: The case for Dune Part Two to win Best Picture
items: Oscars 2025: The case for The Brutalist to win Best Picture
items: Oscar predictions 2025: Who will win and should win Best Director?
items: Oscar predictions 2025: Who will win and should win Best Supporting Actress?
items: Oscar predictions 2025: Who will win and should win Best Supporting Actor?
items: Oscar predictions 2025: Who will win and should win Best Actress?
items: Oscar predictions 2025: Who will win and should win Best Actor?
items: Conclave's BAFTA win puts it back in Oscar contention – but here's why it's still an outside bet
items: The Oscars have rightly acknowledged the most audacious film of the year
items: Ariana Grande sings The Wizard and I in throwback celebrating Oscar nomination

Are you being emotionally manipulated? Why an Oscar contender is splitting opinion about emotional response
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date: 2026-03-06T07:00:50.000Z
creator: Patrick Cremona
subject: Movies
subject: Comment
subject: Oscars
description: Despite critical acclaim and several Oscar nominations, Hamnet has fiercely divided some audiences – with some accusing Choe Zhao's film of 'emotional manipulation.' Are there actually any grounds for that?
encoded: If you've been following the ongoing awards race, you can't have escaped the fact that Jessie Buckley has been lavished with acclaim for her leading turn in Chloé Zhao's film Hamnet. The drama – adapted from Maggie O'Farrell's 2020 historical fiction novel of the same name – sees the Irish actress take on the role of Agnes, the wife of William Shakespeare who experiences unimaginable tragedy when her titular son dies from the bubonic plague. After debuting at least year's Telluride Film Festival, early word on the film, and especially its devastating emotional impact, was ecstatic. Our own 5-star Radio Times review was full of praise – with critic James Mottram calling it a "masterly study of loss". He added: "The finale, all set around a stage performance, lives long in the memory, making this quietly-hewn movie feel utterly wrenching." That verdict was by no means an anomaly. The film was met with a wave of extremely positive reviews, many of which emphasised the sheer visceral nature of the grief depicted by Buckley's performance as Agnes. Meanwhile, there were many reports of cinemagoers leaving their screenings in floods of tears and needing considerable recovery time before continuing about their days. Unsurprisingly, a glut of award nominations followed; for the film itself, for Zhao's direction, and of course for Buckley's leading turn – with Paul Mescal also picking up several nods for his supporting turn as Shakespeare (although he was snubbed by the Oscars). View Green Video on the source website But despite all this acclaim, a dissenting opinion soon began to emerge. A number of pieces surfaced that referred to the film as "grief porn" or "trauma porn", with some pundits revealing how they found it to be an exercise in "emotional manipulation". One particularly critical piece in The Independent described it as "artificial and manipulative Shakespeare fan fiction". As is often the way with these things, a fierce social media debate kicked off in response.…

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The Oscars completely snubbed the year's most daring film – and it doesn't make sense
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creator: Chezelle Bingham
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description: There's just one problem with this year's Oscar nominations...
encoded: Add The Testament of Ann Lee to your watchlist Every Oscars season, us film fans are met with the inevitable snubs: from films of certain genres not being considered serious enough, to quiet, brilliant performances being dropped in favour of louder ones that sit within the rigid framework of what the Academy considers 'worthy'. Of course, we’re also then often met by the rogue choices that leave everyone blinking in disbelief at their television screens. (I, for one, received a few surprised texts when one certain Best Picture nominee was read out this afternoon…). This year, however, one particular snub has stuck out like a sore thumb – Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee. And not only was Ann Lee snubbed – it was completely ignored from the nominations list, with its name not falling under a single category in this year’s slate. That’s right. Daniel Blumburg’s staggering, hypnotic score (which I actually have on in the background while writing this) was erased; Woman Clothed by the Sun, one of the most angelic original songs of the year (I challenge anyone to listen to it and try to tell me it’s inferior to any of the five nominees) was blanked, Fastvold’s writing and brilliant direction were both nowhere to be seen. Not even Best Actress, which once seemed the only category Ann Lee could get a look in, served plaudits. It is that latter snub for Best Actress that perhaps is the most shocking. Until about a month ago, Amanda Seyfried receiving an Oscar nomination for pouring her entire heart and soul into playing Mother Ann Lee felt almost inevitable. And yes, while the Best Actress category is undoubtedly stacked this year, Seyfried’s Critics’ Choice and Golden Globe nominations had me convinced that her flawless performance as the founding leader of the Shaker movement would get at least a small nod. To be clear, The Testament of Ann Lee isn’t some kind of niche, underground film that only four of your biggest cinephile friends have seen (not that obscurity…

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How to watch The Secret Agent in the UK – release date for Oscar-nominated film
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date: 2026-01-27T09:54:48.000Z
creator: Patrick Cremona
subject: Movies
subject: Oscars
description: The Brazilian political thriller is up for Best Picture and Best Actor at the upcoming Academy Awards.
encoded: For the second year on the trot, the line-up for Best Picture at the upcoming Oscars includes an acclaimed Brazilian film – with Kleber Mendonça Filho's The Secret Agent following I'm Still Here in making it onto the 10-strong shortlist for the highly coveted award. Just like that earlier film, The Secret Agent is set in the 1970s and takes place against the backdrop of Brazil's military dictatorship of that era, with Narcos and Civil War actor Wagner Moura starring as a professor fleeing persecution after he finds himself embroiled in the political turmoil. In addition to the best picture nomination – and an unsurprising corresponding nod in the best international film category – the film is also up for a further two awards at the Oscars, including the inaugural best casting gong and the best actor prize for Moura. Moura will face tough competition from major stars including Timothée Chalamet and Leonardo DiCaprio for that latter honour, but he'll no doubt have plenty of support from fans of a film which has been receiving very high praise across the board. Intrigued and wondering how you can watch The Secret Agent in the UK? Read on for everything you need to know. How to watch The Secret Agent in the UK The Secret Agent is not yet available to watch in the UK – but there's not too long to wait. It will be released in cinemas from Friday 20th February, and given the boost the film has received thanks to it's Oscar nomination it should hopefully be playing at plenty of locations around the country – just check your local cinema to double check. The UK release comes nine months after it first premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival – where star Wagner Moura was awarded the Best Actor prize and Kleber Mendonça Filho was named Best Director – and the praise for the film has only increased in the time since. It is being distributed by Mubi in the UK, which means it will eventually also be available on that streaming platform – but we're still awaiting a date for whe…

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The Oscars should be about celebrating groundbreaking films – so why has Brad Pitt's unremarkable F1 movie been nominated?
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date: 2026-01-22T17:31:23.000Z
creator: Patrick Cremona
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description: The inclusion of the formulaic sports movie from Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski is utterly baffling.
encoded: The term "Oscar-bait" is one that has been thrown around for decades when awards season rolls around. Traditionally, it was used to describe a film that was made with the express purpose of winning awards but with little thought for its lasting legacy beyond that. These films tended to be relatively safe true story period pieces or perhaps inspirational tales about an underdog overcoming terrible odds, and were generally defined by solid but unremarkable filmmaking and sentimental scripts that tended towards the formulaic. In other words, they were in-the-moment crowd-pleasers that pulled on the heartstrings but did little to truly shake up the film world. In recent years, however, the old criteria for what was considered an "Oscars film" has begun to shift, and the sorts of movies described above have largely been absent from the, admittedly, still imperfect best picture line-ups. Recent trends point to an Academy that is now more inclined towards auteur-driven cinema, international features and even films belonging to once awards-resistant genres like horror – just look at the monumental, record-breaking success of Sinners in today's nominations for one example of the latter. In keeping with these changes, this year's list of 10 films up for best picture includes plenty of nominees that deserve to be there – including Joachim Trier's incredibly moving family drama Sentimental Value and Paul Thomas Anderson's thrilling masterpiece One Battle After Another. And then, there's F1. View Green Video on the source website The racing picture's inclusion in the list has been treated by many pundits as baffling and – in this writer's opinion – with good reason: how on Earth is such a middling blockbuster worthy of a place among the finest 2025 had to offer? The film – which is directed by Top Gun: Maverick's Joseph Kosinski and stars Brad Pitt – was made in conjunction with the governing body of the titular sport, and that is very much apparent while watching: it plays as a…

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The Oscars completely snubbed the year's most daring film – and it doesn't make sense
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date: 2026-01-22T17:02:55.000Z
creator: Chezelle Bingham
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subject: Oscars
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description: Oscar nominations are out – there's just one problem...
encoded: Every Oscars season, us film fans are met with the inevitable snubs: from films of certain genres not being considered serious enough, to quiet, brilliant performances being dropped in favour of louder ones that sit within the rigid framework of what the Academy considers 'worthy'. Of course, we’re also then often met by the rogue choices that leave everyone blinking in disbelief at their television screens. (I, for one, received a few surprised texts when one certain Best Picture nominee was read out this afternoon…). This year, however, one particular snub has stuck out like a sore thumb – Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee. And not only was Ann Lee snubbed – it was completely ignored from the nominations list, with its name not falling under a single category in this year’s slate. That’s right. Daniel Blumburg’s staggering, hypnotic score (which I actually have on in the background while writing this) was erased; Woman Clothed by the Sun, one of the most angelic original songs of the year (I challenge anyone to listen to it and try to tell me it’s inferior to any of the five nominees) was blanked, Fastvold’s writing and brilliant direction were both nowhere to be seen. Not even Best Actress, which once seemed the only category Ann Lee could get a look in, served plaudits. It is that latter snub for Best Actress that perhaps is the most shocking. Until about a month ago, Amanda Seyfried receiving an Oscar nomination for pouring her entire heart and soul into playing Mother Ann Lee felt almost inevitable. And yes, while the Best Actress category is undoubtedly stacked this year, Seyfried’s Critics’ Choice and Golden Globe nominations had me convinced that her flawless performance as the founding leader of the Shaker movement would get at least a small nod. To be clear, The Testament of Ann Lee isn’t some kind of niche, underground film that only four of your biggest cinephile friends have seen (not that obscurity would have made its snub acceptable, but you g…

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Oscar nominations 2026: Full list of nominees as Sinners smashes record with 16 nods
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date: 2026-01-22T14:20:38.000Z
creator: Patrick Cremona
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subject: News
subject: Oscars
description: One Battle After Another and Hamnet also performed well.
encoded: Ryan Coogler's Sinners has become the most nominated film in Academy Awards history after receiving a staggering 16 nods – including in almost every major category. The hugely acclaimed vampire movie – which was also a major box office hit – is one of 10 films which will compete for the best picture trophy at the ceremony in March, while Coogler is up for best director, and three of its stars (Michael B Jordan, Wunmi Mosaku and Delroy Lindo) are all in the running across the various acting categories. As expected, other films that performed well included Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another and Chloé Zhao's Hamnet – which scored 13 and eight nominations respectively. Those two films are arguably still the frontrunners to pick up the top prize, although the sheer number of nominations for Sinners suggests that it could pose a major challenge as well. Elsewhere, Marty Supreme, Sentimental Value and Frankenstein enjoyed plenty of success – gaining nine nominations each – while F1 was something of a surprise entry in the best picture category. The Academy's welcome embrace of international movies also continued, with place for both Brazilian drama The Secret Agent and the aforementioned Norwegian film Sentimental Value in best picture. However others such as It Was Just an Accident and Sirat had to settle for a place in the best international feature category. View Green Video on the source website As ever there were a couple of notable snubs – including Hamnet's Paul Mescal and One Battle After Another's Chase Infiniti – while some films were looked over entirely, including The Testament of Ann Lee and No Other Choice, both of which can consider themselves incredibly unfortunate to have no place in the conversation. These nominations were also the first to include the brand new casting category, with Hamnet, Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another, The Secret Agent and Sinners the five films to receive Oscar nods in this discipline. Read on for the full list…

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Oscar predictions 2026: Which films could compete for Best Picture next year?
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date: 2025-03-04T12:02:11.000Z
creator: Patrick Cremona
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description: This year's awards season has wrapped up...
encoded: Awards season has finally wrapped up following Sunday night's Academy Awards ceremony in LA – with Sean Baker's Anora ultimately taking top honours on Oscars night ahead of rivals including The Brutalist, Conclave and Emilia Pérez. Although Baker has been an acclaimed name in indie circles for several years prior to this latest film, few would have predicted Anora as an Oscars frontrunner prior to its premiere at Cannes last May, and so the idea of guessing next year's Best Picture at this stage is self-evidently something of a fool's errand. That said, a little bit of speculation never did anyone any harm, and so we've rounded up a list of some of the films that might well be in contention when the time comes to hand out golden statuettes again next year. Of course, it should be taken into account that – with the exception of one or two films – most of the titles listed below have not yet been screened, and so we're relying entirely on the names attached to indicate which films might be in the running. It's widely likely that after some of these premiere they could drop off our predictions list entirely, and it's equally probable that several films will come out of nowhere to emerge as major contenders in the coming months. But for the time being, read on for a list of films that could be up for Best Picture in 2026. If nothing else, it certainly points to an exciting year for new releases... Sponsored by Vue Save up to 30% on the latest releases at Vue in 2025 Are you a movie lover who always wants to be up to date with the latest releases? Then you're in luck, as RadioTimes.com readers can enjoy new films at Vue Cinemas for less. Customers will receive up to 30% off films with Vue Pass, as long as they have a RadioTimes.com account. It's a great time for new releases, with films such as Wicked, Nosferatu, The Brutalist and Moana 2 taking UK cinemas by storm. Head to your nearest Vue to catch these movies and more for up to 30% less if you're signed up as a RadioT…

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Oscar winners 2025: Full list as Anora wins Best Picture
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date: 2025-03-03T10:57:14.000Z
creator: Patrick Cremona
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subject: News
subject: Oscars
description: Other big winners on the night included Adrien Brody for Best Actor and Mikey Madison for Best Actress.
encoded: Anora was crowned the latest winner of the Best Picture trophy at last night's 97th Academy Awards in Hollywood – with the film seeing off competition from the likes of Conclave and The Brutalist to follow Oppenheimer in winning the coveted prize. Meanwhile, the film's writer and director Sean Baker also equalled a longstanding record set by Walt Disney by winning a total of four Oscars in one night, receiving the gongs for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Editing in what was a hugely successful night for the indie filmmaker. Perhaps the most hotly contested of the major acting categories going into the ceremony was Best Actress, with The Substance star Demi Moore and Anora's Mikey Madison battling it out for the prize – but in the end it was Madison who was crowned winner, bringing Anora's total to five awards. And although Timothée Chalamet's win at last week's SAG Awards had seen the Best Actor race thrown wide open again, in the end The Brutalist star Adrien Brody was crowned winner, while Kieran Culkin and Zoe Saldaña both completed their hugely successful awards campaigns in Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress respectively. Elsewhere, there were also wins for the likes of Flow for Best Animated Feature, I'm Still Here for Best International Film, and No Other Land for Best Documentary Feature. Read below for the full list of nominees and winners. Sponsored by Vue Save up to 30% on the latest releases at Vue in 2025 Are you a movie lover who always wants to be up to date with the latest releases? Then you're in luck, as RadioTimes.com readers can enjoy new films at Vue Cinemas for less. Customers will receive up to 30% off films with Vue Pass, as long as they have a RadioTimes.com account. It's a great time for new releases, with films such as Wicked, Nosferatu, The Brutalist and Moana 2 taking UK cinemas by storm. Head to your nearest Vue to catch these movies and more for up to 30% less if you're signed up as a RadioTimes.com mem…

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Which film has won the most Oscars ever? Academy Award winner records
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date: 2025-03-02T12:06:00.000Z
creator: Lewis Knight
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description: Find out who's had the most nominations and wins for acting, directing, screenwriting and more.
encoded: Often discussed as one of the greatest achievements a film professional can aspire to, the Academy Awards never fail to make major headlines and hold the power to transform careers virtually overnight. While most actors, screenwriters, directors and other craftspeople will be lucky to win only one from many years of work, there are those exceptional few who can boast multiple trophies – and even more nominations. As the glitzy ceremony rolls around once again, we're taking a look at some of the biggest Oscar records, from the most-decorated film of all time to the actors who have won more than anybody else. There's even a chance, albeit slight, that we could see more records broken tonight, with Emilia Pérez managing to rack up a whopping 13 nominations in total, several of which it could convert to wins. Other films considered frontrunners with their multiple nods include The Brutalist and Wicked with 10 a piece, and Conclave and A Complete Unknown, which each have eight shots at striking gold. If you're interested to find out more about the impressive Oscar records spanning the history of the nearly 100-year-old event, read on to find out about the films and people with the most Academy Awards. Which film has won the most Oscars of all time? Three films hold the record of winning the most Academy Awards, having garnered 11 Oscars each: Ben-Hur (1959), Titanic (1997) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). Out of these, Titanic received the most nods with a total of 14 nominations. <a id="menur4co" class="fui-Link ___1q1shib f2hkw1w f3rmtva f1ewtqcl fyind8e f1k6fduh f1w7gpdv fk6fouc fjoy568 figsok6 f1s184ao f1mk8lai fnbmjn9 f1o700av f13mvf36 f1cmlufx f9n3di6 f1ids18y f1tx3yz7 f1deo86v f1eh06m1 f1iescvh fhgqx19 f1olyrje f1p93eir f1nev41a f1h8hb77 f1lqvz6u f10aw75t fsle3fq f17ae5zn" title="https://www.radiotimes.com/download-the-app/" href="https://www.radiotimes.com/download-the-app/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Link Downl…

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Oscars 2025 presenters: Which stars are presenting awards at the ceremony?
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date: 2025-03-02T11:46:10.000Z
creator: Patrick Cremona
subject: Movies
subject: Oscars
description: As ever, an impressive line-up of Hollywood royalty and former winners will be taking to the stage at the Dolby Theatre alongside host Conan O'Brien.
encoded: After months of debate, campaigning and controversy, the 97th Academy Awards are finally here to announce what Hollywood believes to be the greatest films and performances of the past year. In a shake-up to recent editions, Jimmy Kimmel has exited the long-running ceremony, with former late night host and The Simpsons golden age legend Conan O'Brien stepping up to fill the risky role of Oscar host. The glamorous event has been prone to unexpected moments in recent years, from the Will Smith slap to the mistaken announcement of La La Land as Best Picture, meaning O'Brien needs to be ready for near enough anything. Luckily, he'll have plenty of back-up from some of Hollywood's most prominent names, with recent winners Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr, Emma Stone and Da'Vine Joy Randolph among the line-up enlisted to present the individual categories. Alas, a previously confirmed name has had to drop out at the last moment, with Variety reporting that Captain America: Brave New World star Harrison Ford will no longer be appearing at the Oscars after developing shingles. He is recovering at home. Read on for the full list of Oscars 2025 presenters, ahead of the starry broadcast tonight (also, check out our full guide on how to watch the Oscars in the UK if you're hoping to tune in). Oscars presenters 2025 – full list The full list of Oscars 2025 presenters are listed in alphabetical order below: Joe Alwyn Dave Bautista Halle Berry Sterling K Brown Penélope Cruz Willem Dafoe Ana de Armas Lily-Rose Depp Robert Downey Jr Elle Fanning Gal Gadot Andrew Garfield Whoopi Goldberg Selena Gomez Goldie Hawn Samuel L Jackson Scarlett Johansson John Lithgow Cillian Murphy Connie Nielsen Amy Poehler Margaret Qualley Da'Vine Joy Randolph Alba Rohrwacher Zoe Saldaña June Squibb Ben Stiller Emma Stone Oprah Winfrey Bowen Yang Rachel Zegler Who is hosting the Oscars 2025? The man in charge of presiding over the ceremony is comedian and legendary talk show host Conan O'Brien – who was ann…

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How to watch the Oscars 2025 in the UK
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date: 2025-03-02T11:25:20.000Z
creator: Patrick Cremona
subject: Movies
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description: It's almost time to crown a new Best Picture winner.
encoded: The biggest night in showbiz has finally arrived, with the Academy Awards now mere hours away as Hollywood veterans and rising stars alike converge on Los Angeles for the glamorous ceremony. It's been a truly rollercoaster awards season with lots of surprises along the way, from the heated discourse surrounding Emilia Pérez to the AI debate triggered by The Brutalist, and the usual snubs for titles once considered top contenders. As it stands, the Best Picture race and lead actor categories remain open to speculation, with The Brutalist, Anora and Conclave deemed frontrunners, while fans are split on whether Mikey Madison or The Substance's Demi Moore will walk home with the gold. The lead actor category was thought to be going in Adrien Brody's direction, until a last minute win for Timothée Chalamet (A Complete Unknown) at the SAG Awards opened the possibility of an upset. In addition to the usual mix of gags, gaffes and hit-and-miss speeches, the Oscars will also be paying tribute to brave emergency response workers who fought the recent Los Angeles wildfires, which caused enormous damage and claimed several lives. Deadline reports that the ceremony will "honour Los Angeles as the city of dreams" and "reflect on the recent events while highlighting the strength, creativity and optimism that defines Los Angeles and our industry". If you're excited to see what the night has in store, read on for everything you need to know about how to watch the Oscars 2025 in the UK. You can also remind yourself of the 2025 Oscars nominations ahead of the main event. When are the Oscars 2025? Date and time The Oscars are scheduled to take place on Sunday 2nd March 2025 at their usual home in Hollywood's Dolby Theatre, where they have been held since 2001 (with the exception of 2021, when the ceremony was significantly downsized due to the pandemic). The three-hour ceremony will begin at 4pm PST. The delayed nominations announcement will now take place on Thursday 23rd January, wit…

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Oscars 2025: The case for Emilia Pérez to win Best Picture
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date: 2025-03-01T15:00:01.000Z
creator: James Mottram
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subject: Oscars
description: The crime drama and musical from Frenchman Jacques Audiard has been marred by controversy, but remains a fearless adrenaline shot.
encoded: A joyous and daring musical, Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez started its public journey in Cannes last May, where critics were overwhelmingly positive and the film saw the four female leads – Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and Adriana Paz – take a share of the Best Actress prize. Since then, until recently at least, this Mexican-set tale of a cartel boss named Manitas who undergoes gender reassignment has been a hot favourite in the awards season. Bought by Netflix, the film won four Golden Globes, including Best Picture in the musical or comedy category. Better still, it gained 13 Oscar nominations, the most ever by a non-English language film. But then came the backlash, from Mexican commentators complaining the film is an inauthentic representation of their country to LGBTQ+ advocates claiming it’s not a good representation of the trans community. View oEmbed on the source website Worse was to come as old social media posts by Gascón – the first ever trans performer to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar – were unearthed. To put it mildly, Gascón’s opinions were deeply problematic, ranging from offensive comments about Islam to police brutality victim George Floyd. Although she later apologised, such comments threw Emilia Pérez’s campaign into chaos, as Audiard and others backed away from Gascón. What harm Gascón’s spectacular self-sabotage has fully done to her and Emilia Pérez’s chances at the Oscars will only become clearer after the ceremony has unfolded. At the recent BAFTAs, the film took the prize for Best Foreign Film while Best Supporting Actress was won by Saldaña, whose terrific work as the campaign lawyer Rita deserves to be recognised. But without doubt, Emilia Pérez also deserves to win Best Picture at this year’s Academy Awards. <img src="https://images.immediate.co.uk/production/volatile/sites/3/2025/02/Emilia-Perez-Karla-Sofia-Gascon-Zoe-Saldana-2dcbfec.jpg" width="7200" height="4800" alt="Karla Sofía Gascón as Emilia Pérez lookin…

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Oscars 2025: The case for A Complete Unknown to win Best Picture
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date: 2025-03-01T08:00:30.000Z
creator: Terry Staunton
subject: Movies
subject: Comment
subject: Oscars
description: James Mangold's Bob Dylan biopic should be propelled to Oscars glory thanks to a charismatic Timothée Chalamet.
encoded: A much-travelled route to Oscars glory is to play a well-known figure from the music world, the familiarity of the subject enabling audiences (and, more importantly, Academy voters) to get a handle on just how good a performance is. Since 2000, five lead acting awards have gone to portrayals of real-life musicians: Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles (in Ray), Reese Witherspoon as June Carter Cash (Walk The Line), Marion Cotillard as Edith Piaf (La Vie en Rose), Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury (Bohemian Rhapsody) and Rene Zellweger as Judy Garland (Judy). View oEmbed on the source website However, none of the above films went the extra mile and took home the glittering prize of Best Picture; so, while Timothée Chalamet’s spellbinding turn as Bob Dylan has the requisite buzz of a winner, is history against A Complete Unknown itself going all the way? Its failure to snag any gongs from three nominations at the Golden Globes and six at the BAFTAs would suggest the film is an outsider, but the Oscars have an intermittent tendency to throw curveballs, and outside events may conspire to put it among the frontrunners. A release date of late December 2024 makes it the "newest" of the nominees and feasibly fresher in voters’ memories, while headline-grabbing news in early ‘25 could yet be a factor; Liberal Hollywood has its concerns about President Trump’s agenda for the next four years, and the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles have hit the community hard. In times of trouble there is a temptation for audiences to seek out uplifting fare, so the feel-good elements of A Complete Unknown and its soundtrack of iconic songs certainly fit the bill. Director James Mangold’s decision to focus on a specific, relatively short period of time in the singer-songwriter’s career results in a more forensic canvas with greater attention to detail. The nomination for Best Costume Design is key, a vital component in the evocative recreation of an era viewers of a certain age still hold dear; in addit…

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Oscars 2025: The case for Anora to win Best Picture
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date: 2025-02-28T19:00:39.000Z
subject: TV
subject: Comment
subject: Oscars
description: Catapulting Mikey Madison from rising star to leading lady, Anora puts a spiky but endearing twist on the Cinderella story.
encoded: Written by Lewis Knight From the opening titles set to a remix of Take That’s Greatest Day as strippers gyrate in the workplace of its lead heroine, Anora brings character to spare and then some. Of the films nominated for Best Picture at this year’s Oscars, none carry the same explosion of personality as Sean Baker’s film about a sex worker, Ani, who elopes with the awkward but charming son of a Russian oligarch. A vivid, empathetic, spiky and tragically comical 139 minutes, Anora feels like the answer to many classic cinema releases from yesteryear, not least the beloved romcom Pretty Woman with its Cinderella story of a sex worker finding love with a rich stranger. Of course, Anora is a totally different beast, enraptured with its lead heroine and her difficult journey, but is not divorced from realism. In exposing the delusional romantic notions of the Hollywood fairy tale, the practical realities of sex work, and the emptiness of the American Dream, Anora is never less than entertaining and vivid. View oEmbed on the source website Lead Mikey Madison is indeed a revelation as the brash and brittle titular protagonist, feeling natural, loud but totally heartbreaking. Meanwhile, Mark Eydelshteyn is also memorable as her oafish rich-kid love interest Vanya, but Best Supporting Actor nominee Yura Borisov is a magnetic "strong-silent" type as Igor, a henchman with a heart who crosses paths with Ani and offers a real meeting of souls in understated fashion. Baker’s funny, earnest and expressive film was worthy of its Palme d’Or win at the Cannes Film Festival – and thus certainly worthy of a Best Picture win. It showcases something that feels modern and fresh while demonstrates what cinema can do at its best – to step into the shoes of someone else with a sense of true authenticity. It can’t be said an Anora win here would be particularly groundbreaking, but it would certainly help shape the futures of the remarkable artists involved. Success for Anora at the Oscars h…

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Oscars 2025: The case for I'm Still Here to win Best Picture
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date: 2025-02-28T15:00:53.000Z
creator: Calum Baker
subject: Movies
subject: Comment
subject: Oscars
description: The true-life drama from Brazilian veteran Walter Salles deserves to be more than a surprise nominee.
encoded: For awards fans and professional prognosticators, perhaps the biggest single surprise on Oscar nominations day was the inclusion of the Brazilian drama I’m Still Here among the 10 best-picture hopefuls. Lead performer Fernanda Torres capitalised on her Golden Globe win to reap a nomination of her own, while the film was also cited in the international feature field. But that third and final nomination, which made this just the 11th non-English language picture to be recognised in the top category, had been considered far from likely — so its miracle of a nomination should give just one indication of the film’s deep power. This is the true story of the Paiva family, whose patriarch Rubens (played by Selton Mello) is suddenly disappeared by the country’s military during the early 1970s. Rubens’s wife, Eunice (Torres), is also arrested and interrogated, and after her release fights for information on Rubens’s whereabouts while protecting the freedom of her five children. (It is a book by son Marcelo, played here by Guilherme Silveira and Antonio Saboia, that provides the basis for the film’s brilliantly structured screenplay.) Ultimately, the story is not about that horrifying moment, but about how Eunice and her family work to move on from it for the remainder of Brazil’s military dictatorship and beyond. Per the title, it’s about the act and the ethics of survival: keeping memories alive, preserving history, pursuing truth when so much has been deliberately suppressed. View oEmbed on the source website But for all the gravity of its subject matter, and the tense, thriller-y material of its traumatic middle act, much of the film’s effect rests on a sense of intimacy often forgotten in such tales of grand political history. The opening half-hour or so (out of a riveting and richly earned 136 minutes) follows the Paiva clan in the month leading up to Rubens’s arrest. Veteran director Walter Salles, a master of pacing, takes time to show us the group dynamic of this warm…

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Oscars 2025: The case for Nickel Boys to win Best Picture
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date: 2025-02-28T08:00:37.000Z
creator: Patrick Cremona
subject: Movies
subject: Comment
subject: Oscars
description: This adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a heart-wrenching and formally daring film that has been overlooked in awards season.
encoded: On occasion, there’s a film or two in the Best Picture line-up whose inclusion feels like a minor miracle in itself; a film that, despite its undeniable merits, seems a little too artistically adventurous and radical for the notoriously safe Academy to actually honour. That’s certainly the case with RaMell Ross’s heart-wrenching and formally daring adaptation, Nickel Boys. Despite wide acclaim from critic groups, the unhelpful combination of a botched release strategy and a relatively muted awards campaign meant the film had looked almost certain to miss out on a place in the list right up until the moment its nomination was announced. But thankfully, it has made the cut. And while it is up against some terrific films in this year’s line-up – notably including Brady Corbet’s mesmerising three-and-a-half-hour epic The Brutalist – there should be no doubt that Nickel Boys would be the most deserving winner of the golden statuette. View oEmbed on the source website Taking already brilliant source material in the shape of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, director Ross – best known for his 2018 documentary feature Hale County This Morning, This Evening – made the bold approach to shoot the film entirely from the visual point of view of its leads, with the perspective regularly switching between that of the two main characters Elwood (Ethan Herisse) and Curtis (Brandon Wilson). Far from being a pointless gimmick, this unique approach lends the film an intimacy and tactility that feels like the closest cinema has come to putting the audience directly in its characters' shoes. It’s a method so unconventional that some viewers may require a brief adjustment period to get used to the way the film looks and feels, but it won’t take long to draw you under its spell: creating a profoundly immersive experience punctuated by both fleeting moments of lyrical beauty and some deeply harrowing scenes. Set in Jim Crow-era Florida, the film tells the story of Elwood, a y…

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Oscars 2025: The case for The Substance to win Best Picture
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date: 2025-02-27T19:00:49.000Z
creator: Laura Rutkowski
subject: Movies
subject: Comment
subject: Oscars
description: Horror may not be a genre often recognised by the Academy, but The Substance is no less thought-provoking, creative or entertaining than any of the other nominees.
encoded: Horror as a genre has historically been snubbed at the Oscars. Since 1929, only six horror films have ever been nominated for Best Picture: The Exorcist (1973), Jaws (1975), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), The Sixth Sense (1999), Black Swan (2010), and Get Out (2017). Of those, only The Silence of the Lambs (1991) actually won, and, if you really want to get technical, it’s more of a psychological thriller anyway. Needless to say, it would be a major surprise if The Substance took home the Best Picture Oscar this year. The appetite for horror movies has been steadily growing. More than 1,500 were released in 2023, in comparison to 1,140 in 2013, according to the Horror Movie Report. Yet, Jason Blum, of Blumhouse Productions, who produced Get Out, told Screen Daily, “I think there’s still a good section of the Academy that dismisses horror, no matter what the movie is. There’s a group of them who will not vote for, or even watch, a scary movie.” Just look at Terrifier 3, a huge box office success that became the highest-grossing unrated film of all time. It never was going to get a look-in at the awards. Whether it’s seen as too “low-brow” or too gory, it certainly doesn’t fit the “elevated” horror (a snobby term, especially for true fans of the genre) category that the Academy finds palatable. The Substance is a body-horror, with grotesquely impressive prostheses and make-up instead of CGI, and its themes run deep. When Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore) is fired by her producer from her aerobics show for being too old, she learns about The Substance, a serum that, when injected, turns her into a younger version of herself called Sue (played by a charismatic Margaret Qualley). The catch is that the pair must switch bodies every week. If they don’t, they both suffer grave physical side effects. Some critics have said that The Substance is shallow and lacks exactly what its title suggests, but that’s misguided. It’s a visceral satire of society’s obsession with youth and…

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What are the most talked-about Oscars moments ever?
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date: 2025-02-27T15:55:23.000Z
creator: David Craig
subject: Movies
subject: Evergreen
subject: Oscars
description: From Will Smith and Chris Rock's altercation to the La La Land and Moonlight Academy Awards mix-up, here are the most shocking Oscar moments of all time.
encoded: This weekend, it's time for the Oscars ceremony to roll round once again – and while film fans will be desperate to see which movie becomes the latest to be crowned Best Picture by the Academy, some fans will also be hoping for one or two unexpected moments. Over the years, the Academy Awards have provided a fair share of memorable talking points – both good and bad – that have come to dominate the conversation arguably even more than the actual results. Perhaps the most recent case to truly shock audiences came in 2022, when there was a now infamous altercation between Will Smith – shortly before he was crowned Best Actor winner – and comedian Chris Rock, which saw the latter take to the stage to slap the former. We'll be hoping that any big moments from this year's ceremony are rather less dramatic – but while we await the big night, read on for some more of the most memorable moments from recent Oscar history. Will Smith slaps Chris Rock View oEmbed on the source website Perhaps the most recent Oscar moment to dominate headlines came at 2022's 94th Academy Awards, when Will Smith slapped Chris Rock across the face after the comic made a joke referring to his wife Jada Pinkett Smith's alopecia. Rock joked that she was preparing for a role in a fictional GI Jane sequel, as the military drama is remembered for starring Demi Moore with a shaved head. Pinkett Smith looked visibly unamused by the gag, with her husband storming onto the stage moments later to strike Rock, telling him: "Keep my wife's name out your f**king mouth!" La La Land mistakenly announced as Best Picture View oEmbed on the source website The competition for Best Picture at the 89th Academy Awards had become a two-horse race over preceding ceremonies, with romantic musical La La Land and hard-hitting drama Moonlight deemed the top contenders. Ultimately, it was La La Land that was mistakenly announced as the winner by reunited Bonnie and Clyde stars Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty – but in a painful…

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Oscars 2025: The case for Wicked to win Best Picture
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date: 2025-02-27T15:00:39.000Z
creator: Alex Berry
subject: Movies
subject: Comment
subject: Oscars
description: The pressure was on for The Wizard of Oz prequel, but Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande and director Jon M Chu should be commended for adapting the stage show with such flair.
encoded: The buzz surrounding Wicked being an Oscars contender is hard to ignore, and it’s easy to see why. Beyond its dazzling musical numbers and standout performances, Wicked’s record-breaking release marked a milestone in the evolution of film musicals. Directed by Critics Choice winner Jon M Chu, of Crazy Rich Asians and In the Heights fame, the film is split into two parts, mirroring the original stage show. While we’ll have to wait until November for the full story, the first part has already earned its spot among the Best Picture nominees. The success of Wicked largely lies in its casting. Ariana Grande as Glinda and Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba bring powerhouse vocals and captivating performances. Grande, who has already earned her singing stripes, has proved herself a skilled actor with an impressive knack for physical comedy. Erivo accentuates Elphaba's emotional complexity in a performance that towers over those fellow nominees in the Leading Actress category. The chemistry between these two leads is also electric, and while their cuddly press campaign was a source of online mockery – in "holding space" and each other’s hands – they showed us how the unique friendship of the witches of Oz clearly transcended beyond the film. The supporting cast, meanwhile, only adds to the film's strength thanks to Jonathan Bailey, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum and Ethan Slater as a now-TikTok-famous munchkin named Boq. While Wicked is known for its powerful musical numbers, the story is what sets it apart. A prequel to L Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz, its themes of prejudice, rivalry, and discrimination reflect those in other nominated films, strengthening Wicked’s deserved place among them. Elphaba’s rejection by her family and peers due to her green skin is a tough but important watch, elevating the fantasy musical to a thought-provoking portrayal of identity and acceptance. Through its complex and changing characters, the film doesn’t just focus on good versus evil – it explores t…

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Oscars 2025: The case for Conclave to win Best Picture
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date: 2025-02-27T08:00:40.000Z
creator: Caroline Frost
subject: Movies
subject: Comment
subject: Oscars
description: Set within the intriguing hushed corridors of the Vatican, Conclave is a quietly brilliant contender for Best Picture.
encoded: Of all this year’s Oscar nominees for Best Picture, from the epic (Dune: Part Two) to the esoteric (Emilia Pérez), it is Conclave that carries the baton for conversational, contemplative film-making that eschews super-sentiment and sensationalism. The follow-up to All Quiet on the Western Front from German director Edward Berger leans into its majestic setting to create a deceptively serene environment for passionate power-play and all-too-human interaction, and shares a wonderful script between actors all working at the peak of their skill. In short, it’s the kind of film that used to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards in years gone by. Unlike its rivals in this category, Conclave is a story in a world kept deliberately narrow – within the corridors and private rooms of the innermost parts of the Vatican, beneath the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel – and deliberately limited in timescale. The cardinals summoned to Rome on the sudden death of the Pope are cloistered, as is the age-old custom, away from the real world and its concerns, without complete success as we learn, into the conclave of the title; they have only one job, to farewell their leader and elect his successor. The dramatisation of this ancient process is rich with detail: the red of the Cardinals’ cassocks stark against the white of the Vatican, their voting papers being carefully burnt, the smoke appearing from the chimney above. Against this background of ritual, the cardinals, in most genteel fashion, jostle for position, often in secret meetings on staircases, where alliances are formed then broken, and dilemmas arise between ideology, pragmatism and, above all, power. Robert Harris clearly found fertile soil in his 2016 bestselling novel, lovingly adapted for screen by BAFTA winner Peter Straughan. By necessity in depicting this world, it is a male-dominated film (the screen reflecting the Vatican where some lifelong serving nuns recently shared they had never met the Pontiff) but it is tellin…

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Oscars 2025: The case for Dune Part Two to win Best Picture
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date: 2025-02-26T19:00:15.000Z
creator: George White
subject: Movies
subject: Comment
subject: Oscars
description: With the Academy failing to see science fiction as serious business too often, Denis Villeneuve's sequel should be recognised for a remarkable achievement that transcends genre.
encoded: The Mahdi is too humble to say he is the Mahdi. And Denis Villeneuve is probably too humble to say he is the saviour of sci-fi. But for fans of the genre who have seen countless mind-blowing adventures into the outer depths of space ignored by awards bodies for so long, the Canadian is taking on that mantle whether he likes it or not. Most of us who sat ourselves in a cinema for the much-anticipated finale to Paul Atreides’s (Timothée Chalamet) revenge arc back in March 2024 did so with the kind of wide-eyed awe that Javier Bardem brought to his character, Stilgar, whenever the prophet known as the "Lisan al-Gaib" did as little as breathed. Yet are there enough sci-fi fans on the Academy’s voting board to make this a winner? It seems unlikely. After all, if you count Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water as more of a fantasy, then Everything Everywhere All At Once is the only sci-fi film in history to win Best Picture at the Oscars, demonstrating just how hard it is for such stories to take home the biggest prize. <a id="menur1gc" class="fui-Link ___1q1shib f2hkw1w f3rmtva f1ewtqcl fyind8e f1k6fduh f1w7gpdv fk6fouc fjoy568 figsok6 f1s184ao f1mk8lai fnbmjn9 f1o700av f13mvf36 f1cmlufx f9n3di6 f1ids18y f1tx3yz7 f1deo86v f1eh06m1 f1iescvh fhgqx19 f1olyrje f1p93eir f1nev41a f1h8hb77 f1lqvz6u f10aw75t fsle3fq f17ae5zn" title="https://www.radiotimes.com/download-the-app/" href="https://www.radiotimes.com/download-the-app/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Link Download the Radio Times app">Download the Radio Times app for more Oscars 2025 coverage – including interviews with the stars and exclusive features. This is because, unfortunately, it appears many in the Academy fail to see sci-fi as serious business. Looking back through Best Picture winners both recent and historic, there’s often a focus on proper movies – cut-and-dry dramas with powerful performances, often inspired by a real-life person, real-life event – or both. But should that always b…

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Oscars 2025: The case for The Brutalist to win Best Picture
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date: 2025-02-26T15:00:24.000Z
creator: Max Copeman
subject: Movies
subject: Comment
subject: Oscars
description: Starring Adrien Brody, the American epic from director Brady Corbet towers over the competition in more ways than one...
encoded: Like Lady Liberty on the Hudson River in its opening scene, The Brutalist looms large. The third film from American writer/director Brady Corbet is, in our RadioTimes.com review’s words, an “epic in length, weight and ambition” — and at three hours and 35 minutes, it stands aloft on this year’s ballots, as striking and bold as any of the buildings designed by its architect protagonist. A win in the Best Picture category on Oscars Sunday would make the film the longest winner since Ben-Hur in 1960 and the fourth longest in history, after William Wyler’s religious epic, Lawrence of Arabia and Gone with the Wind. But bigger isn’t always better – and, in fact, a 215-minute runtime makes the film a harder sell. In a time when our attention spans are purported to have been cut by small screens, The Brutalist being this year’s Oscar frontrunner is a testament to the film’s sweep and gripping narrative momentum. To paraphrase how Guy Pearce’s vain industrialist describes his conversations with Adrien Brody’s László Tóth, it’s simply: “persuasive and intellectually stimulating”. Download the Radio Times app for more Oscars 2025 coverage – including interviews with the stars and exclusive features. The story follows a Jewish architect from Budapest (Brody) working for a wealthy client (Pearce) after arriving in Pennsylvania having survived the Holocaust and being separated from his wife (Felicity Jones). If that sounds like it’s all about blueprints, concrete and cranes, fear not. This is a film with broad scope and rich thematic heft, with plenty to say about the tension between art and commerce, plus the myth of the American Dream. As a result, the film positions itself in the cinematic traditions of Orson Welles, The Godfather trilogy, Fitzcarraldo and There Will Be Blood – but The Brutalist was made for a fraction of the cost. Reports of a mere $10 million budget heralded Corbet’s work as a staggering feat in terms both artistic and economic. A world premiere at the Venic…

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Oscar predictions 2025: Who will win and should win Best Director?
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date: 2025-02-26T12:48:41.000Z
creator: Max Copeman
subject: Movies
subject: Oscars
description: With just a few days until the ceremony, there are two clear frontrunners for the award.
encoded: As with this year’s Best Picture Oscar, it looks to be a case of sex work versus architecture for 2025’s Best Director award. Sean Baker’s madcap screwball comedy drama Anora, about a stripper who marries the son of a Russian oligarch, has won enough film-festival and critics’-choice awards to fill any mantlepiece – and yet the writer/director has only been a bookie’s frontrunner fleetingly. That’s because Brady Corbet and The Brutalist have been at least as big a presence on the Hollywood awards’ circuit, thanks to the colossal epic starring Adrien Brody as a mid-century Hungarian architect. At first glance, the rest of the field appears strong, thanks to all the other nominees being behind the camera for Best Picture contenders. However, there is little serious threat to the Baker and Corbet, who appear to be in a tight two-horse race, according to Hollywood pundits who read the runes like ex-footballers watch replays on Match of the Day. After Walk the Line and Le Mans ’66, James Mangold is seen as an exceedingly secure pair of hands for a true-life drama, but his Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown is perhaps too unspectacular and familiar to gain traction for a direction prize. Jacques Audiard of Emilia Pérez, meanwhile, is a seasoned figure in European festivals, where he has often been feted, yet his Netflix cartel-crime-drama-cum-musical lost momentum after star Karla Sofía Gascón was discovered to have posted a number of problematic tweets – and although Audiard has distanced himself from his leading lady, he now seems an outside bet. That leaves The Substance director Coralie Fargeat, who is just the ninth female directing nominee in history – and looks like a long shot to win due to her body-horror film being arguably the most confrontational on the ballot. Sponsored by Vue Save up to 30% on the latest releases at Vue in 2025 Are you a movie lover who always wants to be up to date with the latest releases? Then you're in luck, as RadioTimes.com readers ca…

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Oscar predictions 2025: Who will win and should win Best Supporting Actress?
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date: 2025-02-26T12:31:58.000Z
creator: Jeremy Aspinall
subject: Movies
subject: Oscars
description: Zoe Saldaña and Ariana Grande are two contenders in a field dominated by first-time nominees, but are they guilty of 'category fraud'?
encoded: Only one of this year’s best supporting actress nominees has received a prior nomination, leaving four newbies to the nominee merry-go-round that will end when the coveted statuette is awarded this Sunday. And just like Kieran Culkin in the supporting actor category, it looks like there will be only one winner here, too. Flying the flag for Britain is Felicity Jones, who was previously nominated as best actress for playing the wife of Eddie Redmayne’s Stephen Hawking in Oscar winner The Theory of Everything (2014). In The Brutalist, she plays wife to another creative genius, the tormented architect and Holocaust survivor László Tóth (Adrien Brody). Like her husband, Erzsébet was sent to a concentration camp and survived, albeit with ailing health, but is unable to join him in America until years after the War. Indeed, her first appearance is halfway through in the film, and yet she is the beating heart of the 215-minute epic. All the other actresses shortlisted are first-timers, although it is hard to believe in the case of Isabella Rossellini ̶ the daughter of screen icon Ingrid Bergman (herself a three-time winner for Gaslight (1944), Anastasia (1956) and the 1974 version of Murder on the Orient Express) ̶ whose nearly 50-year career includes terrific turns in Blue Velvet (1986) and Beethoven biopic Immortal Beloved (1994). Her role in papal political thriller Conclave is as a housekeeping nun whose observations could change the outcome of the election of a new pope – and at under eight minutes, it may be brief, but it is a scene-stealing gem, nevertheless. Sponsored by Vue Save up to 30% on the latest releases at Vue in 2025 Are you a movie lover who always wants to be up to date with the latest releases? Then you're in luck, as RadioTimes.com readers can enjoy new films at Vue Cinemas for less. Customers will receive up to 30% off films with Vue Pass, as long as they have a RadioTimes.com account. It's a great time for new releases, with films such as Wicked, No…

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Oscar predictions 2025: Who will win and should win Best Supporting Actor?
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date: 2025-02-26T12:24:09.000Z
creator: Jeremy Aspinall
subject: Movies
subject: Oscars
description: After winning numerous prizes for Succession, Kieran Culkin looks set to continue his film awards season streak for A Real Pain.
encoded: Unlike some of this year’s major Academy Award categories, the hot favourite for the best supporting actor Oscar has been the frontrunner since December last year, when Kieran Culkin's puckish performance in buddy road movie A Real Pain garnered prize-winning attention from the critics' circles. As the mercurial slacker to Jesse Eisenberg’s more down-to-earth cousin, Culkin has a ball with his co-star’s sardonic yet sobering Oscar-nominated script that takes the chalk-and-cheese duo on an illuminating trip to Poland, the birthplace of their recently passed Jewish grandmother. Winner of a Golden Globe and a BAFTA, the coronation of the first-time nominee looks assured. But what of the competition? The likes of Jonathan Bailey (Wicked), Clarence Maclin (Sing Sing) and two-time winner Denzel Washington (Gladiator II) did show up in other lists, but not when it came to the Oscar nominations, leaving a quartet of three other first-time nominees and a relative veteran in Edward Norton earning his fourth. Norton was previously nominated as best supporting actor for Primal Fear (1997) and Birdman (2015), and best actor for American History X (1999). This year, the 55-year-old actor has been shortlisted for playing Pete Seeger in the music biopic A Complete Unknown, in which the folk pioneer witnesses Timothée Chalamet’s young Bob Dylan embarking on a journey from folk-music sensation in 1961 to almost pariah status for going electric in 1965. Norton is possibly second favourite. Sponsored by Vue Save up to 30% on the latest releases at Vue in 2025 Are you a movie lover who always wants to be up to date with the latest releases? Then you're in luck, as RadioTimes.com readers can enjoy new films at Vue Cinemas for less. Customers will receive up to 30% off films with Vue Pass, as long as they have a RadioTimes.com account. It's a great time for new releases, with films such as Wicked, Nosferatu, The Brutalist and Moana 2 taking UK cinemas by storm. Head to your nearest Vue to…

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Oscar predictions 2025: Who will win and should win Best Actress?
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date: 2025-02-26T12:18:18.000Z
creator: Chezelle Bingham
subject: Movies
subject: Oscars
description: It looks like it's Moore vs Madison for the golden statuette.
encoded: The race for Best Actress is undoubtedly the most controversial category in this year’s Oscars cycle. From the absence of intimacy coordinators to resurfaced problematic tweets, there has been more than enough drama to go around. But as the Academy prepares for the biggest night in film, who will walk away victorious? At the moment, Demi Moore seems to be the frontrunner. At 62 years old, Moore has defied critics who scrutinised her body, marriage and career with her electrifying, genre-defying, socially relevant performance in The Substance. Having already taken home the Golden Globe and delivered an emotional speech on Hollywood’s dismissal of her in the 1990s, a win for Moore would not only be an apology from the industry, but also an overdue victory for the horror genre and a female-directed film, both of which have long been swept under the rug by the Academy. Moore certainly faces some stiff competition, though, and none of her opponents are more formidable than fresh-faced Mikey Madison, who captivated audiences with her role as Ani in Sean Baker’s comedy-drama Anora. Then there's industry veteran Fernanda Torres, who plays a grieving wife dealing with the forced disappearance of her congressman husband in Brazilian political biography I’m Still Here. Sponsored by Vue Save up to 30% on the latest releases at Vue in 2025 Are you a movie lover who always wants to be up to date with the latest releases? Then you're in luck, as RadioTimes.com readers can enjoy new films at Vue Cinemas for less. Customers will receive up to 30% off films with Vue Pass, as long as they have a RadioTimes.com account. It's a great time for new releases, with films such as Wicked, Nosferatu, The Brutalist and Moana 2 taking UK cinemas by storm. Head to your nearest Vue to catch these movies and more for up to 30% less if you're signed up as a RadioTimes.com member. Save up to 30% with Vue Pass At only 25 years old, Madison has had a breakthrough role with Anora, and her performance is…

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Oscar predictions 2025: Who will win and should win Best Actor?
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date: 2025-02-26T11:54:01.000Z
creator: Patrick Cremona
subject: Movies
subject: Oscars
description: Despite buzz for Timothée Chalamet's Bob Dylan, Adrien Brody appears a safe bet to snag his second Best Actor prize.
encoded: It’s been more than 20 years since Adrien Brody became the youngest man to win a Best Actor Oscar for his memorably harrowing performance in The Pianist, a record which still stands to this day. And barring any major upsets, Brody now looks all but certain to add a second golden statuette to his collection at this year’s ceremony, for his monumental leading role in Brady Corbet’s epic drama The Brutalist. In László Tóth, Brody is responsible for bringing to life one of the most compelling big-screen characters of the last decade, a role that offered him the opportunity to express the full gamut of human emotions across the film’s three-and-a-half hour runtime. Whether the architect is experiencing the brief euphoria of family reunion, suffering the throes of heroin addiction or portraying the tortured psyche of a man battling deep-rooted trauma and a rigged system, Brody is always convincing and magnetic in the role. Despite a somewhat over-egged kerfuffle around the use of an AI post-production tool to correct his Hungarian accent in a tiny handful of scenes, he has consistently appeared as the clear frontrunner for pretty much the entire awards season, having won the top prize at virtually every precursor event, including the recent BAFTAs. Sponsored by Vue Save up to 30% on the latest releases at Vue in 2025 Are you a movie lover who always wants to be up to date with the latest releases? Then you're in luck, as RadioTimes.com readers can enjoy new films at Vue Cinemas for less. Customers will receive up to 30% off films with Vue Pass, as long as they have a RadioTimes.com account. It's a great time for new releases, with films such as Wicked, Nosferatu, The Brutalist and Moana 2 taking UK cinemas by storm. Head to your nearest Vue to catch these movies and more for up to 30% less if you're signed up as a RadioTimes.com member. Save up to 30% with Vue Pass Interestingly, his closest competition appears to come from a man who would unseat him as the youngest ever …

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Conclave's BAFTA win puts it back in Oscar contention – but here's why it's still an outside bet
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date: 2025-02-17T17:18:40.000Z
creator: Patrick Cremona
subject: Movies
subject: BAFTA Film Awards
subject: Comment
subject: Oscars
description: The papal thriller took top honours at last night's BAFTA Film Awards.
encoded: Whatever your views on the merits of each of the films in consideration, it can’t be denied that it’s been a funny old awards season. From hotly contested races in some of the big categories to major controversies regarding individual nominees, the campaign trail has been full of surprises – particularly when we look back on last year’s race, when a string of victories for Oppenheimer always felt like something of a foregone conclusion. The odds for the all important Best Picture trophy at the upcoming Oscars have been especially prone to fluctuation, and indeed several of the big Hollywood trade magazines have switched their chosen frontrunner almost too many times to count. Recently, it appeared as if Sean Baker’s Anora might have emerged as the consensus pick following a glut of key precursor wins, but it looks like yet another spanner could have been thrown in the works following Conclave’s Best Film win at last night’s BAFTA Film Awards. Sponsored by Vue Save up to 30% on the latest releases at Vue in 2025 Are you a movie lover who always wants to be up to date with the latest releases? Then you're in luck, as RadioTimes.com readers can enjoy new films at Vue Cinemas for less. Customers will receive up to 30% off films with Vue Pass, as long as they have a RadioTimes.com account. It's a great time for new releases, with films such as Wicked, Nosferatu, The Brutalist and Moana 2 taking UK cinemas by storm. Head to your nearest Vue to catch these movies and more for up to 30% less if you're signed up as a RadioTimes.com member. Save up to 30% with Vue Pass Or has it? In truth, although Conclave’s win certainly pushes it back into the conversation as far as the Best Picture race is concerned, this seems more likely to be one of the increasingly common years where BAFTA and the Academy opt for different winners. Indeed, although the BAFTAs can often feel like something of a dress rehearsal for the Oscars when it comes to the acting categories, the winners of the to…

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The Oscars have rightly acknowledged the most audacious film of the year
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date: 2025-01-23T17:47:35.000Z
creator: Patrick Cremona
subject: Movies
subject: Comment
subject: Oscars
description: No, it's not Emilia Pérez.
encoded: One of the words that has most frequently been used to describe Jacques Audiard's Emilia Pérez – which has just become the most nominated film at this year's Oscars with an impressive 13 nods – is 'audacious'. Those that love the film have praised it for reinventing what's possible in cinema, for deftly blending together such diverse genres as gritty cartel crime flick, camp musical melodrama, and socially conscious transgender drama into something quite unlike anything that's played on the big screen before. But while it can't be denied that this is, admittedly, a unique combination, the film also has one pretty major problem: it's a complete mess. Indeed, for all the praise that has been lavished upon Emilia Pérez by awards voters and various critics, there are many – this writer included – who found it a bizarre misfire, a film so dramatically inert and tonally all over the shop that the plaudits have been completely baffling. But there is one film in this year's Best Picture line-up – a surprising but thrilling inclusion – for which the word audacious can be applied with none of those caveats. That film is Nickel Boys, the fiction debut of filmmaker RaMell Ross, which is adapted from Colson Whitehead's superb Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and tells the story of Elwood Curtis (Ethan Herisse), an African-American teenager who is wrongly implicated in a car theft and sent to a racially segregated reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. Download the Radio Times app for more Oscars 2025 coverage – including interviews with the stars and exclusive features. While there, he strikes up a bond with a quietly rebellious student named Turner (Brandon Wilson) and tries desperately to search for hope and salvation against a backdrop of unbearable brutality, meted out both by fellow students and the school's deeply racist staff. A truly original work of heart-wrenching emotional power, what makes the film so remarkable is the highly experimental point-of-view shooting approach …

Ariana Grande sings The Wizard and I in throwback celebrating Oscar nomination
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date: 2025-01-23T15:43:03.000Z
creator: Katelyn Mensah
subject: Movies
subject: News
subject: Oscars
description: It's been a role long manifested.
encoded: Ariana Grande has received her first ever Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Galinda 'Glinda' Upland in Jon M Chu's Wicked, and has celebrated with an epic throwback. Responding to the nominations, the singer posted a carousel of images from her childhood and beyond, including one of her dressed as Dorothy, a promotional picture of her as Glinda along with a picture of her and co-star Cynthia Erivo and a video of teenage her singing The Wizard and I. She captioned the post: "Picking my head up in between sobs to say thank so much to The Academy for this unfathomable recognition. I cannot stop crying, to no one's surprise. "I'm humbled and deeply honoured to be in such brilliant company and sharing this with tiny Ari who sat and studied Judy Garland singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow just before the big, beautiful bubble entered. "I'm so proud of you tiny. Thank you again, from the bottom of my heart, for this acknowledgment The Academy." She went on to thank Jon M Chu for taking a chance on her, as well as Cynthia Erivo. "I don't quite have all my words yet, I'm still trying to breathe," she rounded off the post. "But thank you. Oh my goodness, thank you. Universal, Marc, my family, my heart." Read more: BAFTA Film Awards nominations 2025: Full list of nominees confirmed How to watch the Oscars 2025 in the UK? Everything you need to know ahead of the ceremony Wicked received a total of 10 nominations, including for Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for Cynthia Erivo and the coveted Best Picture. The other seven nominations include Best Costume Design, Best Make-up and Hairstyling, Original Score, Production Design, Film Editing, Achievement in Sound and Visual Effects. The first part of Wicked was released late last year and is to be followed up with For Good in November of this year, telling the latter half of the story of the witches of Oz. Following its cinematic release, the movie broke multiple records in its opening weekend,…

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