Awards and prizes
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Aubrey and the Terrible Yoot wins the award for first-time children’s authors and their editors
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South African author’s story of a sister’s struggle to protect her mentally ill sibling praised by judges as ‘multi-layered and gracefully narrated’
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Lázló Nemes’s Oscar-winning Holocaust drama puts the competition to shame
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As part of new measures, Ampas has promised merciless action if members attend ‘any screening event, party or dinner that is reasonably perceived to unduly influence members or undermine the integrity of the vote’
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The Gone With the Wind star, known for her lifelong feud with her sister as much as the bewitching brilliance of her acting, celebrates her centenary
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The creator of #OscarsSoWhite hashtag says Academy’s list of potential members is positive, but doesn’t address huge imbalance that dominates Oscars process
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The author of Ruby talks about how she immersed herself in an agonising history of abuse, echoed in her own life, to write her much acclaimed debut novel
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Check your postbox: this year the Academy has asked an unprecedented number of film industry luminaries to join their ranks as part of a drive to double diversity by the end of the decade. Here’s what we’re taking away from the RSVPs
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The shortlist for the Wainwright nature-writing prize’s third year is announced as bookshops report dramatic rise in the genre’s sales
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts’ invite list was 46% women and 41% people of color, in a substantial step to address racial diversity
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As inspiring as it was to watch black people speak up about the state of the world, it was equally as depressing to see how corporate the entire affair was
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The 2016 BET awards, celebrating achievements in black entertainment, honored a host of stars and included a stunning performance by Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar
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Watch highlights from Sunday’s BET awards which featured performances from Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, The Roots, Erykah Badu and Alicia Keys
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Prestigious science fiction and fantasy prizes also honour work by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman and George RR Martin
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George Stubbs’s radical vision, Tate Modern’s macaws, the Orbit slide and Newcastle’s buzziest nightspot ... for dung flies – all in your weekly art dispatch
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Author describes mixed feelings after being declared Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters, in a week when the UK voted to leave the EU
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The star of The Godfather trilogy, as well as a host of famed musicians, will be awarded with the prestigious lifetime achievement honor in December
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Universities loom large among the 46 winners, but Grayson Perry’s House for Essex and other deserving buildings are missing from architectural honours
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The Star Wars actor is the first named to star in Bigelow’s anticipated follow-up to Zero Dark Thirty, a crime drama set against the backdrop of the Detroit riots
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Chris Riddell is the first triple winner of the CILIP Kate Greenaway medal for his illustrations in Neil Gaiman’s retelling of Sleeping Beauty. We talk to him about how it feels to win and his love for Gaiman and libraries
Art Weekly Chairman Mao, neo naturists and the occult – the week in art