Spotlight
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Abuse drama takes best picture while The Revenant makes do with director, actor and cinematography; Mad Max: Fury Road takes the most trophies
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The Academy Award ceremony saw a plethora of principled statements from the winners’ podium – with more than #OscarsSoWhite in their sights
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All the winners from the 88th Academy Awards, as they’re announced during the ceremony
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Including … everyone loves Leonardo DiCaprio, no one has a clue who’s going to win – and somehow, somewhere, Jenny ‘bag lady’ Beavan really got on the wrong side of Alejandro González Iñárritu
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The star of Spotlight, nominated at this year’s Oscars for his role in a drama about the Boston Globe’s investigation into widespread abuse of children by the city’s clergy, joins anti-abuse protestors before attending Oscars
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All the nominations for this year’s Academy Awards, which take place at the Dolby theatre in Hollywood on 28 FebruaryMore on Oscars 2016
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They earned the attention of the Academy – but which nominees married critical acclaim and commercial success?
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After Spotlight’s depiction of a heroic female reporter, here’s Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, a war zone romcom with a press card
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The Guardian film team’s round-up of Wednesday’s movie news
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Best picture is anyone’s guess, but Leonardo DiCaprio and Brie Larson look like lock-ins – our insider’s roundup of how this year’s Oscars race has unfolded across all the major categories
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Scorching word-of-mouth helps Ryan Reynolds in tussle with squeaky rodents, as Chinese comedy sensation scores exceptional site average on these shores
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Andrew Pulver makes the case for Spotlight, the true story of the Boston Globe’s investigation that exposed sex abuse by Catholic priests
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Catherine Shoard and Benjamin Lee discuss the big questions raised by the 2016 Baftas
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Stephen Fry hosted the 69th Bafta awards … and Stuart Heritage ushered us through a ceremony which featured kiss-cams, shout-outs for Leonardo DiCaprio’s mum and some dubious jokes from Fry himself and Rebel Wilson
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This Sunday marks the 69th British film awards, two weeks before the Oscars. Will The Revenant win big or could Brooklyn sail off with the prize? Join us for live coverage from 5pm GMT … but until then, here’s our chief film critic’s predictions
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17 commission members watch film about Boston Globe’s investigation into sex abuse by clergy as Pope Francis pressured to do more to combat abuse
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Leonardo DiCaprio bear epic now vying with The Martian – another Fox movie – to be highest-grossing best picture contender in UK, as critically-hated Robert De Niro/Zac Efron comedy proves popular with public
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Diversity ruled the night at the Screen Actors Guild awards on Saturday in LA, as actors of colour claimed a slew of wins after controversy over all-white acting nominees at the Oscars
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Newsroom drama gets behind the headlines of the child abuse scandal that rocked Boston’s Catholic community in 2002
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Four black actors including Idris Elba, who won twice, take home statues as Spotlight cast wins top prize and Leonardo DiCaprio continues likely march to first Oscar
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Spotlight isn’t bad – but a film on the thalidomide scandal is the real must-see journalism drama
Ian JackSunday Times editor Harold Evans faced off with Britain’s legal and political establishment, and Scottish pharmaceuticals company Distillers, to win one of our greatest victories for free reporting in the 1970s
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Peter Bradshaw and Catherine Shoard join Xan Brooks for our weekly round-up of the big cinema releases.
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Old-style journalism triumphs in the story of the real-life team who knocked on doors and scoured the cuttings library to reveal a scandal that may have begun centuries ago
Box office analysis: UK London Has Fallen stands up at UK box office as Hail, Caesar! posts golden hello