• In an interview with the actor Joe Alwyn, we referred to the director Chloé Zhao as “one of only two women to have won an Oscar for best director”. Zhao, who won in 2021 for Nomadland, is one of three such women; the others are Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker in 2010, and Jane Campion for The Power of the Dog in 2022 (“‘Friends keep me tethered’”, 5 January, Magazine, p8).
• An article referring to the Crime Survey for England and Wales said overall crime incidents “fell from 19,786 in 1995 to just 4,722 in 2024”; those figures should have been in millions, so 19.8m and 4.7m respectively. Also, to clarify: the 2024 figure excludes fraud and computer misuse cases, which were not recorded in 1995; when those crimes are included, the total given in the survey, published by the Office for National Statistics for the year to June 2024, is 9.2m (“Crime is falling, but heists that make headlines imply otherwise”, 5 January, p49).
Other recently amended articles include:
Chefs and home cooks send trout sales leaping amid farmed salmon fears
Marlon Brando fury at ‘feeling like a freak’ among revelations in new book of Hollywood secrets
Julian Lennon: ‘I’m not part of the Beatles inner circle – I never have been’
‘I couldn’t admit I was afraid’: biologist Tina Morris on her fight to save the bald eagle
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