Oscars 2011: My week with the stars
Hadley Freeman spends a surreal week in LA, bumping into her teenage heroines, sampling the gifting suites, and getting to hold Colin Firth's OscarWas there any way a movie that involved Nazis, a...
View ArticleOscars 2011: We have the success, but what now for British film?
Will the success of The King's Speech help our film industry? Well, if it manages to get older people out to the cinema, that's a start . . .The interesting thing about the success of The King's Speech...
View ArticleThe King's Speech - UK Film Council deserves direct praise
DCMS can't quite bring itself to congratulate the funding body it is scrapping. Decision 'short sighted,' said FirthMuch joy of course following the Oscar success of The King's Speech which benefitted...
View ArticleHow The King's Speech got an outside edge at the Oscars
The King's Speech's Oscars victory over studio big-hitter The Social Network is a triumph for independent film financingThe success of independent cinema at the Oscars is nothing new, but it's always a...
View ArticleOscars 2011: ABC's audience down by nearly 10%
Awards ceremony hosted by James Franco and Anne Hathaway attracts 37.6m viewers compared with last year's 41.3mThe audience for Sunday's 2011 Oscars was down nearly 10% on coverage of last year's...
View ArticleStars and stripes in our eyes: what's so special about the American way?
America's cultural influence is stronger than ever – as British excitement at the Oscar success of The King's Speech showsIt is hard to read a newspaper or newspaper site nowadays without being told...
View ArticleLucy Walker: My Oscars diary | Feature
Lucy Walker, director of the Oscar-nominated film Waste Land, kept a diary of the year leading up to the awardsThe true world premiere of Waste Land is a screening for the festival's volunteers, who...
View ArticleBankers played a leading role in the crisis, but they aren't criminals
Inside Job director Charles Ferguson caused a stir with his Oscar speech, but his suggestion that people should be jailed over the financial meltdown is simplisticIt was an easy line for an eager...
View ArticleJames Franco brings River Phoenix back to life
Eighteen years after his death, unseen footage of the My Own Private Idaho star has been crafted into a compelling new filmOn the night James Franco hosted the Oscars, the show featured a segment in...
View ArticleProducer's daughter drops The King's Speech Oscar
It was an awards bash to remember as Simon Egan's 15-month-old child damages his Academy awardIt is one of the cast-iron rules of the Academy Awards that disaster must follow triumph, that the shine...
View ArticleSpecial effects expert cleared over death on set of The Dark Knight
Oscar winner Christopher Corbould found not guilty of failing to ensure safety of cameraman killed while filming Batman movieAn Oscar-winning special effects expert has been cleared of health and...
View ArticleJames Franco ridicules Oscars writer over hosting criticism
Oscars co-host took to Twitter to mock Bruce Vilanch, who had criticised his performance at the awardsJames Franco has taken to Twitterto ridicule an Oscars writer who dismissed his widely-derided...
View ArticleThe King's Speech scriptwriter signed up for 1940 Olympics film
David Seidler, who won an Oscar for his The King’s Speech screenplay, is set to write the true story of the POW OlympicsThe Oscar-winning writer of The King's Speech is to prepare a screen version of...
View ArticleAnne Hathaway: Oscars criticism was 'tough'
Actor defends hosting of 'worst ever' Academy Awards, claiming critical response didn't match reaction she hears from publicAnne Hathaway has admitted that she found the critical response to her...
View ArticleStrangers No More celebrates Oscar win at Israel's melting pot school
Academy award-winning documentary hands round its statuettes at Tel Aviv school, despite many pupils facing deportationThere's not much that is usual about the Bialik Rogozin School in Tel Aviv – so...
View ArticleJames Franco felt 'trapped' as Oscars co-host
The actor has defended his widely-derided stint as co-host of this year's Academy Awards, saying he didn't feel comfortable with the material he was givenJames Franco has defended his co-hosting stint...
View ArticleKevin Brownlow: a life in the movies
Kevin Brownlow has won a lifetime-achievement Oscar and made superb films. So why isn't he better known?On 13 November last year Kevin Brownlow received an honorary Academy Award for lifetime...
View ArticleAnne Hathaway set to take lead in film of Les Misérables
After bizarre Oscar-night rendition of On My Own, star may appear in Tom Hooper's film version of epic musicalLast year's Oscars ceremony was especially memorable for two things: the success of The...
View ArticleBurnley celebrates victory in long campaign for direct rail links
Developers unlock £50 million for the Weavers' Triangle after government funding is guaranteed to improve connections to Manchester, London - and HollywoodThese are better days for Burnley which is...
View ArticleFilm festivals: which is top dog?
Cannes, which has announced its 2012 line-up, has some serious competition. As Tribeca begins and ahead of Sundance London, our critics examine the big hitters on the film festival circuitIt has been a...
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