From Emilia Pérez and its 13(!) nominations to the profoundly gross The Substance getting a Best Picture nod, the 2025 Oscar nominees addressed big social and political issues, all to varying degrees.

It’s almost time to roll out the red carpet for one of the most popular awards events of the season, and there have been some ...

Daniel Craig gave one of his best performances as an American expat in Mexico in the torrid May-December romance in "Queer," but it hasn't been resonating with awards voters. The Oscar snub is the ...

Movies like “Anora,” “Maria” and “The Brutalist” — which looked like sure things for slots in the big five categories only a few months ago — became less certain as late-breaking wildcard contenders ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives the performance of the year as an explosive volcano of a woman in “Hard Truths.” She tells us what it was like to be so unhinged—and win awards for it.

Gold Derby has been handicapping the 2025 Oscars since July, and each of the 23 categories has cycled through several frontrunners in the intervening months. However, some of our favorite movies, ...

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In 1997, the actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste became the first Black British woman to receive an Oscar nomination, for Mike Leigh’s suburban gut punch Secrets & Lies. She was heartbreaking in it, as a ...

In 1997, the actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste became the first Black British woman to receive an Oscar nomination, for Mike Leigh’s suburban gut punch Secrets & Lies. She was heartbreaking in it ...

Endorphins make you happy. And happiness simply would not do when it came to Hard Truths. In Hard Truths, actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a woman living in London who suffers from a ...

It follows a middle-aged North London misanthrope named Pansy, who's played, in the single greatest performance I saw in 2024, by Marianne Jean-Baptiste. You might know Jean-Baptiste from Leigh's ...