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There were some extraordinary films released in 2021: Ninja Thyberg’s Pleasure, an electric neon romp through the porn world, Ildikó Enyedi’s period epic, The Story of My Wife, Paul Verhoeven’s nun-film, Benedetta.

Every film, actor and director in contention at this year’s ceremony

Adam White lists just some of the times actors and directors couldn’t stand each other

Cooper Hoffman had never wanted to act

This year’s best picture race boasts a revisionist Western, a science fiction epic, a song-and-dance musical, a grim neo-noir, a shaggy ’70s comedy, an inspirational sports drama, an apocalyptic satire and three major prize winners from the Sundance, Cannes and Toronto film festivals. Academy voters obviously didn’t plan it that…

A transformed Lily James gives us a fully rounded Pamela Anderson; Mary Beard finds no end of illicit art; and an eye-opening documentary explores vaccine hesitancy through the lens of race

The Sundance film festival revealed a growing challenge to the traditional casting of middle-aged men with much younger women

‘The reason that I didn’t give up acting is Paul Thomas Anderson,’ said the ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ star