Oscars 2019

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Finally nominated for an Oscar, Willem Dafoe plays Vincent van Gogh in Julian Schnabel's At Eternity's Gate – but unfortunately the rest of the picture doesn't hold up

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Everything you need to know about Free Solo, the National Geographic documentary that just won an Oscar

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Based on one of the most ridiculous stories never told, Spike Lee's Oscar-winning Blackkklansman shows he hasn’t lost his touch but that may just be out of it

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The results are in, the season is over – if you missed the original campaign, this year's Oscar winners are coming back to cinemas. Here's where to watch in London

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Based on a true story and starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali, Green Book has officially won Best Picture at the 2019 Oscars

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Lebanese director Nadine Labaki's Oscar-nominated film shows the world the arduous realities of poverty and human trafficking

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Moonlight director Barry Jenkins adapts James Baldwin novel If Beale Street Could Talk – a story of loyalty and lasting love

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The Diary of a Teenage Girl director Marielle Heller teams up with Melissa McCarthy. Lee Israel takes centre stage in Can You Ever Forgive Me?

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The Big Short Director Adam McKay's political comedy-drama Vice includes Amy Adams and Steve Carell, as they take on the White House like never before

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Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie star in Mary Queen of Scots, an upcoming historical drama charting the infamous rivalry between Elizabeth I and the titular Mary

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It won the Golden Globes for Best Picture and Best Actor, but Bohemian Rhapsody, the Freddie Mercury biopic, is still a bad film that gives a disappointing tribute act

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The Favourite, Yorgos Lanthimos' new film, lets Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz run wild in a lustful story of 18th century royalty

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54 years after the Disney classic, Mary Poppins Returns offers a fresh story which celebrates the old and welcomes in the new

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On Netflix this weekend, Alfonso Cuarón returns home with his new film Roma, a stunning and emotional story of his hometown

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In cinemas for one week before it hits Netflix, the Coen Brothers head West in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, a fun journey of cartoons and chaos

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Bradley Cooper directs and stars alongside Lady Gaga for the fourth iteration of this story – but everything about A Star Is Born still feels alive and essential

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Based on Meg Wolitzer's novel, The Wife focuses on Joan Castelman (Glenn Close) as she travels with her husband who is set to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature

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The latest film from UK-based Polish director Paweł Pawlikowski, Cold War is a chilling black-and-white melodic odyssey through Communist Europe, Paris and beyond

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The most anticipated superhero movie of all time, Black Panther, cast with up-and-coming and established black actors, manages to perfect the Marvel movie mould as well as reinvent it