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

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

Taken seriously, his films can be a little annoying. Are they art, pompous or just wildly idiosyncratic?

Kicking off our annual series ahead of the Academy Awards, the Guardian’s chief film critic cheerleads for Paul Thomas Anderson’s delirious, delectable retro comedy

After successfully shooting the opening sequence of Boogie Nights – an elaborate steadicam shot in which the camera tracks into and around a night club, introducing the title, setting and all of the main characters of the film – young writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson enthusiastically showed it to the ageing…

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…