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The US comedian told audiences, ‘I’ll tell you why I’m here, I’m here because I’m black,’ as he opened the show in Los Angeles on Tuesday evening.

Last year’s award show was made a ‘private event’ at the last minute by organisers, following heavy criticism over its lack of black members

The east Kent seaside setting for Sam Mendes’ latest film is now home to stylish restaurants and bars, and world-class artists

Last year’s award show was made a ‘private event’ at the last minute by organisers, following heavy criticism over its lack of black members.

There’s tender care in each frame, but this limp weepie is narratively ice cold

Olivia Colman plays a lonely cinema worker having an affair with two men, including a younger colleague, in her new movie, Empire of Light, which she describes as the "most terrifying" part

Between Sam Mendes’s love letter to cinema and Al Pacino hunting Hitler, our critics unpack all the culture you need to keep going for the next seven days

Empire of Light is Mendes’ most personal film to date. He and its stars, including Colman, Micheal Ward and Toby Jones, talk medication, escapism and kicking down sandcastles

LOS ANGELES — We're a week away from the beginning of Oscar nominations voting. Motion picture academy members presumably spent the holidays unwrapping tamales, spiking the eggnog and catching up on the movies they've missed. (Or, from what I'm hearing, watching the ones they love once again instead of doing…

She appeared on the Graham Norton Show on New Year's Eve

In an extraordinary career on stage and screen, the director has always pushed boundaries – and is now making his debut as a screenwriter. He answers questions from famous fans and Observer readers