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The Oscars aren’t a meritocracy – there’s a complex formula for winning

Every January, Hollywood is overtaken by a massive Oscar prediction game, with studios, critics and commentators all playing a role in shaping the debate.

The Conversation

Noah Jupe shares the lesson he took from Paul Mescal — and why Sadie Sink is 'annoyingly cool' ahead of West End debut

Jupe appears in the film as Hamlet, while his younger brother Jacobi plays Hamnet, the playwright’s son whose death shapes the story opposite Bafta nominated Mescal

Evening Standard

Oscars bellwether, British awards or both? The identity dilemma facing the Baftas

Few UK nominations this year as industry tries to balance attracting global attention and celebrating homegrown projects

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‘It works on its own terms’: Literary experts give verdict on Wuthering Heights

Emerald Fennell’s new ‘Wuthering Heights’ sparked a familiar fight about book adaptations, but some Brontë experts say it still works

The Independent UK

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners has administered an almighty smackdown to critical favourites One Battle and Hamnet

Coogler’s vampire thriller swept the Oscar nominations over Chloé Zhao’s tearjerker and Paul Thomas Anderson’s counterculture thriller. This genre-defying drama about the black experience could now rule awards season

The Guardian - UK

Sinners becomes first film in history to earn 16 Oscar nominations

Ryan Coogler’s ghost story breaks records as One Battle After Another trails in second with 13 nods and Marty Supreme, Sentimental Value and Frankenstein trail with nine apiece

The Guardian - UK

The Joy That Radiates Off the ‘Hamnet’ Cast Is Beautiful

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Golden Globes 2026: 'One Battle After Another' and British series 'Adolescence' win big

'One Battle After Another' was the big winner of this year's Golden Globes, taking home four trophies, including Best Film (Comedy or Musical) and Best Director. British drama Adolescence also won four prizes in the TV categories. Here’s everything you need to know.

Euronews

Hamnet review – Oscar-primed Shakespeare film isn’t as manipulative as its critics claim

4/5 Jessie Buckley, already the Best Actress Oscar frontrunner, is remarkable as William Shakespeare’s wife Agnes in Chloé Zhao’s speculative grief drama

The Independent UK

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell audiobook review – the life and loss of the woman behind the Bard

The wife of William Shakespeare takes centre stage in a rich, sensitive examination of parental grief, sensitively narrated by Jessie Buckley

The Guardian - UK

You’re all being weird about ‘Hamnet’

Stop being weird about it!

The Mary Sue

I Loved Paul Mescal In Hamnet, But His Favorite Part Of The Movie Surprised Me

The actor talks portraying William Shakespeare.

Cinemablend

Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Mescal, Lynne Ramsay and George Clooney set for London film festival

The festival marks the return of Day-Lewis to the screen in a film directed by his son, while a roster of urgent political films also form part of this year’s slate

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