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Michelle Williams and Paul Dano are spot on as the budding film-maker’s parents, yet the director’s childhood memoir plays to the awards gallery rather than to his fans

The actor is putting all her experiences into an Oscar-nominated turn as the director’s formidable mother. She talks about the dramatic changes she’s witnessed in Hollywood and beyond

Here is a look at the key controversies and surprises in the nominations for the Academy Awards.

There are always a few big surprises and heartbreaks come the morning of Oscar nominations, as much as awards strategists try to mitigate those. But the batch of nominees for the 95th Academy Awards seemed to have more than its fair share of shockers, good and bad. Here are some…

Martin McDonagh’s dark comedy and the acclaimed multiverse fantasy have five nominations each while Ozark leads the TV side

LOS ANGELES — We're a week away from the beginning of Oscar nominations voting. Motion picture academy members presumably spent the holidays unwrapping tamales, spiking the eggnog and catching up on the movies they've missed. (Or, from what I'm hearing, watching the ones they love once again instead of doing…

LOS ANGELES — Family ties take center stage in several movies this season, whether in the actor's interior process or in the actual story on the screen. For Adam Sandler, drawing heavily on his own father helped him play a longtime NBA scout in "Hustle." Paul Dano drew on what…

Forgotten amid larger successes, this tightly-wound film launched one of the most acclaimed directing careers in modern Hollywood.

Awards season greetings! What you have here is the Gold Standard's first batch of acting power rankings where, yes, this week, it's a man's man's man's world. (We'll get to the women next week.) These are the performances that people are talking about, counting down toward the ones that are…

Screwball superhero tale takes best feature honour with gongs also going to Till’s Danielle Deadwyler, Tár and Aftersun

The director’s alter ego grows up with despairing parents, inspirational mentors and a yearning to make movies.