What time are the 2025 Oscars?
The biggest night in film takes place on Sunday. Here’s how to watch or stream the ceremony in the US
Oscars 2025: how to watch, nominations, predictions, and timetable
The 97th Academy Awards are almost upon us – here’s our guide to tuning in at home on Sunday and who we reckon will win the top prizes
The Observer view on the Oscars: a night of toe-curling deliciousness awaits
At such a juncture of history, Hollywood must deliver its best: melodrama, conspiracy, dreams – not to mention the films
Jacki Weaver: ‘I like to sit in fabulous bars and listen to other people’
The award-winning actor on her most embarrassing celebrity encounter, life as an introvert and her golden rule for love
‘I said there was no reason to make it a musical!’ Mel Brooks on The Producers’ West End transfer
Veteran director, who originally opposed adapting 1967 film for the stage, is ‘very proud’ as Menier Chocolate Factory production will move to London’s Garrick theatre
From Unforgiven to The Firm: Guardian writers pick their favourite Gene Hackman movies
After the death of the esteemed actor, writers highlight their favourite movies from a long and varied career
The Summer With Carmen review – crisply observed Greek film-making comedy
Two friends on a gay nudist beach are tasked with writing a low-budget movie in this fabulously frothy tale about love and a stray dog
James Bond nightclubs, vodka, aftershave: 007 writer on the spy’s future with Amazon
As the Bond franchise heads to the online giant, thriller author William Boyd foresees a slew of spin-offs and says AI is not a threat to human screenwriters
‘A chilling effect’: is Hollywood too scared to touch hot-button documentaries?
This Sunday could see West Bank-set documentary No Other Land win an Oscar but it remains without US distribution, one of many challenging films facing problems
Mark Kermode on… director Ken Russell, the king of cult classics who was so much more than a sensationalist
Half a century on from the sublimely ridiculous Tommy, the passionate abandon that distinguished Russell’s films – from composer biopics to the infamous The Devils, among other bonkers oddities – is needed now more than ever
‘I don’t know whether I’d describe it as fun’: Aimee Lou Wood on the intensity of making The White Lotus
She is the Sex Education star now stealing the show in Mike White’s hit series and about to appear in a gritty new Netflix drama. It’s all she ever wanted – but somehow, this ‘sad and shy’ actor finds folding the washing more rewarding than fame
A Wicked shame! In 2025, blockbuster success spells Oscars failure
The Oz-set blockbuster, plus the Inside Out and Dune sequels, packed out cinemas but won’t win best picture at Sunday’s Academy Awards
‘There’s something wrong about it’: Santa Fe abuzz as residents wonder what caused Gene Hackman’s death
New Mexico town shocked by deaths of actor, wife and dog – but answers to critical questions may take time to emerge
From The Last Showgirl to Gracie Abrams: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment
Pamela Anderson dazzles in a new Vegas drama, and the Taylor-supporting soft-pop practitioner gets ready for some arena-sized gigs
Carbon monoxide poisoning ruled out in death of Gene Hackman and wife, police say
Investigators say ‘good assumption’ actor died on 17 February while autopsies reveal no external trauma