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<p>‘It’s hard to be a child performer, to get out there and do the banana dance over and over and over again. It can be joyful while it can also be dehumanising’</p>

Interview

Keke Palmer: ‘I was a child actor making more money than my parents’

The ‘Nope’ and ‘One of Them Days’ actor – famed for being the star of a litany of internet memes – speaks to Adam White about the perils of online celebrity, the ‘dehumanisation’ of child stardom, and why, deep down, she’s a lot lonelier and more emotional than people might think

<p>Hollywood’s greatest everyman: Gene Hackman photographed in 1983</p>

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If Gene Hackman was a young actor in 2025, Hollywood would reject him

<p>Sean Penn, Patricia Arquette and Michael Moore are among the stars who've used the Oscar stage to make political statements</p>

Features

Actors like to get political at the Oscars – this year many won’t dare

<p>Hackman in (from left) ‘Enemy of the State’, ‘The French Connection’, ‘Unforgiven’ and ‘Mississippi Burning’. He once said that he wanted to be remembered as ‘a decent actor – as someone who tried to portray what was given to them in an honest fashion’</p>

Tribute

Gene Hackman: The brawling genius of film

Oscars 2025

<p>The big picture: (clockwise, from top left) ‘A Complete Unknown’, ‘The Substance’, ‘Emilia Pérez’ and ‘Conclave’ are among the films duking it out at this weekend’s Oscars</p>

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Who will win and who should win at this Sunday’s Oscars

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

Features

Who will win and who should win at this Sunday’s Oscars

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

<p>László (Adrien Brody) draws up his plans in Brady Corbet’s ‘The Brutalist’</p>

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Why The Brutalist deserves to win the Oscar for Best Picture

<p>Isabella Rossellini – as an all-seeing nun – in Edward Berger’s Oscar-nominated ‘Conclave’</p>

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Why Conclave deserves to win the Oscar for Best Picture

<p>Mikey Madison in Sean Baker’s Oscar-nominated ‘Anora’</p>

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Why Anora deserves to win the Oscar for Best Picture

<p>Gwyneth Paltrow with her Oscar in 1999, alongside mother-daughter actors Fernanda Torres and Fernanda Montenegro</p>

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How Brazil waited 25 years to avenge Gwyneth Paltrow’s Oscar

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How Brazil waited 25 years to avenge Gwyneth Paltrow’s Oscar

<p>The 29-year-old actor at at the Oscars Nominees Dinner</p>

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Win or lose the Oscar, Timothée Chalamet is on the path to greatness

<p>Strike a pose: Claudia Schiffer, Pierce Brosnan and Naomi Campbell present the Costume Design award at the 1996 Oscars </p>

Features

Why Hollywood hated the controversial Oscars ‘fashion show’

<p>‘“The Substance” is not a glamour role. I knew going in that I had to be vulnerable and raw’ </p>

Interview

Demi Moore on The Substance: ‘I had to let go of any parts of me that value perfection’

‘I’m in a constant state of nervousness’

Interview

Jesse Eisenberg on A Real Pain: ‘There’s just a great feeling of survivor’s guilt’

<p>Zoe Saldaña: ‘I have an energy, a fire that is very much still alive, and I want to challenge myself’ </p>

Interview

Zoe Saldaña on Emilia Pérez: ‘This is the culmination of 25 years of hard work’

<p>‘Now I do it all – I can play ambassadors and I can play shells’</p>

Interview

Isabella Rossellini on Conclave: ‘My character says what’s on the audience’s mind’

Inside Film

<p>Robert Altman was the Oscar-winning director of ‘The Long Goodbye’ and ‘Nashville’</p>

Inside Film

The enduring legacy of Robert Altman, ‘pirate king of American film’

The pioneering director behind ‘M*A*S*H*’ and ‘Gosford Park’ would have turned 100 this month. Louis Chilton looks at the life of one of cinema’s true greats – and explains why he deserves far more credit for the film landscape of today

<p>Walter Salles directs Fernanda Torres on the set of the Oscar-nominated ‘I’m Still Here’</p>

Inside Film

An Oscar frontrunner is based on a true story – but whose truth is it?

Walter Salles’s political drama ‘I’m Still Here’ – about the ‘disappearance’ of a Brazilian congressman – is just the latest in a strange sub-genre of historical fiction made by filmmakers with insider access, writes Xan Brooks – for better and for worse