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Oscars triumphs for ‘Green Book’ and Olivia ColmanFilm about pianist Don Shirley wins top gong and Briton is crowned best actressThe Truth Plus Oscars: why film is now focusing on the factsAs tales based on real life dominate the nominations, is journalism finding a new home in Hollywood?Hollywood faces sweeping changes on eve of Oscars showcaseNetflix challenges traditional studios while deals and mergers shake up industryMaria and me: a personal journey through ‘Roma’For John Paul Rathbone, the Oscar-nominated film about a Mexico City maid evokes a familiar and complex worldOscar contender Spike Lee: ‘It’s not my job to be the culture police’The director on being in the running for the big Oscars 30 years after ‘Do the Right Thing’ was snubbedRichard E Grant: ‘My first question is always: what is the sex life of this person?’The actor on getting into character, his debt to Withnail and this year’s Oscar raceMore from this SeriesFame, fear and freedom: Alex Honnold on climbing with no ropeHis ropeless ascent of El Capitan has taken climbing into the mainstream — and to the OscarsPodcast: We debate the Oscars. Plus: Tracey Emin on #MeToo‘Roma’ is channelling a changing political zeitgeistAlfonso Cuarón’s drama focuses on the ordinary Mexicans the new president has promised to represent‘Ripping off the Cheney mask’: Adam McKay on his Best Picture nominee ViceThe satirical biopic chronicles how the vice-president seized the levers of power during the Bush eraOscar nominee Pawel Pawlikowski: ‘Everything I say becomes very controversial’The Best Director contender reflects on the stormy appeal of his film ‘Cold War’ and his ‘criminal’ Oscar-winner ‘Ida’BlacKkKlansman — Spike Lee’s film has style, wit and inventivenessThe story of a black undercover cop who tricked his way into the Klan is both entertaining and chasteningBlack Panther — a crashingly enjoyable MarvelThe comic book becomes a triumph of African-American storytelling, complete with thrills, nuance and sly radical cheekBohemian Rhapsody — a stunningly bad Freddie Mercury biopicThe dialogue rarely sings in this ill-fated movie about the Queen frontmanThe Favourite — surreal history with Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz and Emma StoneYorgos Lanthimos’s absurdist take on the court of Queen Anne is wildly entertainingMahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen in Green Book — a schmaltzy makeover of real-life eventsA story of Deep South racial division that has its own audience-insulting stereotypesRoma — a modern-day neorealist classic from Alfonso CuarónThe director’s Mexico City-set film tells a vivid story in a world of social injustice and inequalityA Star Is Born — Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga in a born-again classicThe lead actor and director does his best to give the old story some new oomph
