Academy Awards

‘I’ll show the lot of you!’ Richard E Grant’s Oscar nomination

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Richard E Grant has captivated the internet. The actor greeted the news of his nomination for an Academy Award by returning to his first rental when no one had heard of him. There he whooped with childlike delight, and then shared the whole thing in an utterly disarming Instagram post. He also phoned up his co-star and co-nominee Melissa McCarthy, and together they cried. Perhaps now Grant will finally be umbilically linked in the public mind to his performance in Can You Ever Forgive Me? (pictured below), for which he has been nominated as Best Supporting Actor, as well as his career-igniting turn in Withnail and I.

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BBC: The Favourite’s bold sexual politics are rewriting history

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With 10 Oscar nominations, including best picture and best director, The Favourite leads the trend for historical films that are reinventing the genre, writes Emma Jones.

Olivia Colman, an Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winner for her performance as Queen Anne in The Favourite, tells the BBC she believes that the historical film has “reinvented the genre. It’s messy and you can almost smell the period it’s set in.”

The reputed love affair between Queen Anne and Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough has become a hot favourite for awards season too – apart from the Globe win, the film has received 10 Oscar nominations and is up for 12 Baftas

The Favourite has triumphed over an unusually large number of historical films that have been released in recent months. Period pieces can be hard to get off the ground, as costumes, castles and

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Does a silver spoon help you win a Bafta? The class gulf in British acting

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If the American actors Viola Davis and Casey Affleck win tonight for their performance in Fences and Manchester by the Sea, questions of social class will be far from the minds of most viewers. Instead, Bafta will be justifiably proud that it has continued to do better at representing the racial diversity of cinema audiences. But if British stars win, the class divisions will be easier to spot [ . . . ]

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