Bill Nighy: ‘I have danced naked in my front room, but you need shoes to really spin’
The star of The First Omen takes your questions on working as a chimney sweep, finessing his perfect sandwich – and hoping to die in a hail of bullets
The Beautiful Game review – Bill Nighy leads line in Homeless World Cup heartwarmer
Nighy is as charming as ever as the manager building a team, but he seems basically miscast and much else misfires in an underdog sports drama
The reader interview
Post your questions for Bill Nighy
There’s much more to Nighy than playing grumpy but lovable men – think Pinter, Palace and Pokémon to name just three. Get your questions in by 10am on Thursday
January 2024
Role Play review – action comedy wastes Kaley Cuoco and David Oyelowo
‘He has no understudy’: Rachel Weisz, Bill Nighy, Judi Dench and more remember Tom Wilkinson
December 2023
The week in audio: The Wombles; A Single Act; ’Twas the Nighy Before Christmas; Hanif Kureishi Guest Edits Today; Dom Joly – review
A fun and furry flashback with the original ecowarriors; a double helping of Bill Nighy; gripping revelations from Hanif Kureishi; and Dom Joly on his best behaviour
June 2023
TV tonight
TV tonight: the devastating stories of pensioners living in poverty
This powerful documentary is a must-watch. Plus: intriguing period drama The Gallows Pole continues. Here’s what to watch this evening
March 2023
All ears: here’s why Bill Nighy’s Oscars date was a small stained bunny
Peter Bradshaw’s Oscar predictions: who will win – and who should?
January 2023
Oscar nominations 2023: the full list
From The Banshees of Inisherin to Everything Everywhere All at Once, all the nominations for the 95th Academy Awards, which take place on 12 March
‘How do you have authority? Not by screaming’: Mary Nighy on misogyny, famous parents and channelling Mary Poppins
As the child of Bill Nighy and Diana Quick, she would be plonked in a rehearsal room after school – so it’s no surprise she’s stepping behind the camera. The film-maker talks about her extraordinary debut feature, Alice, Darling
Will All Quiet on the Western Front really conquer all at the Baftas?
Peter Bradshaw
The German-language film has 14 nominations, and great resonance with the Ukraine war, but I suspect a good number of the gongs will go elsewhere
November 2022
Richard Curtis: lack of diversity in Love Actually makes me feel a bit stupid
In a TV special marking the festive romcom’s 20th anniversary the director says ‘some moments … feel out of date’
Mark Kermode's film of the week
Living review – Kazuo Ishiguro elegantly adapts 1950s mortality tale
Bill Nighy and Aimee Lou Wood give deeply affecting performances in this melancholy, understated tale of mortality and lost youth based on Kurosawa’s classic film, Ikiru
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Living review – Bill Nighy tackles life and death in exquisitely sad drama
A gentle and poignant Kazuo Ishiguro-scripted remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 film Ikiru about a man dealing with a terminal diagnosis
October 2022
‘I think about death 35 times a day’: Bill Nighy on sex, social media – and still being able to manage the stairs
In his new film, Living, Nighy plays a civil servant who has six months to live – a part tailor-made for him by Kazuo Ishiguro. He talks about the power of nostalgia, keeping it minimal and his close brush with Instagram
July 2022
Cate Blanchett and Harry Styles to head to Venice for 2022 edition of film festival
Competition slots for jailed Iranian director Jafar Panahi, Martin McDonagh and Darren Aronofsky, while actors on show range from past winner Blanchett to Bill Nighy and Harry Styles
January 2022
From age-gap romances to a homemade Welsh robot: the best of Sundance 2022
Noomi Rapace as a Macedonian witch vies with Cooper Raiff’s latest gem and dapper Bill Nighy in this second virtual edition of the US indie festival
November 2021
Bill Nighy to narrate Terry Pratchett’s footnotes in new Discworld recordings
The actor will bring Pratchett’s ‘personal commentary’ to life in a star-studded re-recording of all 40 Discworld audiobooks, featuring narrators from Indira Varma to Andy Serkis
June 2021
Buckley’s Chance review – Bill Nighy’s bad accent fronts an onerous slab of outback flapdoodle
Family film conveys an old-timey, clichéd impression of life in Australia that has ‘exportable’ written all over it
