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With this year’s Oscars about to be handed out, Hollywood women of a certain age have never been more bankable or in demand. What’s behind the cultural shift?

OSCARS 2025: Will it be Demi Moore or Mikey Madison? Timothée Chalamet or Adrien Brody? And is ‘Emilia Pérez’ really, truly dead in the water? Ahead of this Sunday’s Academy Awards, Adam White predicts who will reign supreme in the show’s major categories

The field is crowded this year: who will walk away with the gongs?

Not one of this year’s nominees for best director is from the UK.

Playing a raging but inwardly terrified housewife, the actor and a fine supporting cast are the intense focus of a story that cries out for closure

4/5 The British director’s new film features a titanic performance from Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who reunites with him nearly three decades after his Oscar-nominated ‘Secrets & Lies’

4/5 Mike Leigh’s uncompromising latest film is harrowing and hilarious, centred around a fearless lead performance by Marianne Jean-Baptiste

IN FOCUS: On paper, BBC One’s weeknight light entertainment show should be one of the broadcaster’s most tedious programmes – but its jarring tonal shifts and random guest list often make for brilliantly bizarre viewing. Katie Rosseinsky explores the endearingly strange appeal of ‘The One Show’

Oscar-nominated actor says she has had to compromise because of dearth of complex roles in UK and Hollywood