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Frances McDormand

March 2024

  • Daniel Kaluuya accepts the Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role on 25 April 2021.

    ‘The slap’, protests and tears: what makes a memorable Oscar speech?

    Daniel Kaluuya thanked his parents for having sex and Will Smith slapped the host. Academy awards bring out the best and worst in winners, but is there a right way to do it?

July 2023

  • New York City, 1969.

    ‘Singular, eccentric visions’: Lee Friedlander’s photography​ seen through the eyes of ​​Joel Coen

    The celebrated film-maker saw something of himself in the work of the American photographer. Now he’s curated a new book and exhibition

March 2023

  • ‘I admire its imagination of how cinema could respond to #MeToo’ … Claire Foy and Rooney Mara star in Women Talking.

    Best picture Oscar hustings
    Why Women Talking should win the best picture Oscar

    Let’s be real: its nomination for best movie was the win. But Sarah Polley’s film is predicated on action, a #MeToo film that questions with the aim of moving forward

February 2023

  • Still from Women Talking

    Dress sensitivity: creating the Mennonite costumes for Women Talking

    Quita Alfred tells how she designed long, dark dresses that chime incongruously with fashion
  • Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy, Michelle McLeod and Jessie Buckley in Women Talking.

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    Women Talking review – a stellar ensemble energises Sarah Polley’s timeless parable​

    The Canadian director’s finely balanced drama about the abuse, secrets and shame of an isolated religious community boasts wonderfully nuanced performances, yet the real action lies in its knotty central argument
  • Thinks its way into the darkest spaces of survival … Women Talking.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Women Talking review – ensemble drama forefronts female experience of violence

    This important film tells the story of a community battered by rape and patriarchal ideas, as a mainly female cast debate the repercussions of brutality

January 2023

  • Frances McDormand in Laurel Canyon.

    Ranked
    Frances McDormand’s 10 best performances – ranked!

    Shortly to be seen on our screens in Women Talking, the actor is enjoying a fruitful – and Oscar-hauling – career third act, creating work that is empathic, political, and often doesn’t look like acting at all

November 2022

  • Jessie Buckley stars as Mariche and Judith Ivey as Agata in director Sarah Polley’s film WOMEN TALKING An Orion Pictures Release Photo credit: Michael Gibson © 2022 Orion Releasing LLC. All Rights Reserved.

    Breaking the silence: movies grapple with the #MeToo movement

    This season sees Oscar-tipped dramas She Said, Women Talking and Tár all confront the difficulties of women dealing with the fallout of sexual assault

September 2022

  • The cast of Women Talking.

    First look review
    Women Talking review – Sarah Polley’s moving Mennonite #MeToo drama

    Toronto film festival: The actor turned director brings strong performances from a talky female ensemble, including Claire Foy and Jessie Buckley

March 2022

  • Joe Pesci, at the 63rd Annual Academy Awards, 1991, Los Angeles; Gwyneth Paltrow cries as she gives her acceptance speech after winning the Oscar for Best Actress at the 71st Academy Awards March 21, 1999; Halle Berry accepting the Oscar for best actress at the 74th annual Academy Awards on Sunday, March 24, 2002.

    No tears, blather or preaching: how to make the perfect awards ceremony speech

    The Baftas see the return of glitzy film and TV ceremonies. We want our favourites to win – but then, please, keep it snappy

February 2022

  • Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy in Mad Max: Fury Road.

    Lights! Camera! Infraction! Mad Max shows why Hollywood indulges bad behaviour

    Charlize Theron felt so threatened by Mad Max co-star Tom Hardy that she asked for a female producer as protection. Yet the industry still relies on film sets being lawless bubbles where you question macho posturing at your peril

December 2021

  • Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand in The Tragedy of Macbeth, which premiered at the New York film festival.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    The Tragedy of Macbeth review – Denzel Washington delivers a noirish nightmare

  • Frances McDormand in The Tragedy of Macbeth.

    The Tragedy of Macbeth review – Joel Coen’s stripped-down version is beautiful but bloodless

  • Abstact purple vector background pattern<br>composite for films to watch in Australia over the holidays - Boxing Day release films

    Licorice Pizza, The Matrix and Macbeth: new films to watch in Australia over the holidays

  • LIBRARY IMAGE OF NOMADLAND<br>Frances Mcdormand Film: Nomadland 11 September 2020 Director: Chloe Zhao 11 September 2020 SBC8385 Allstar Picture Library/SEARCHLIGHT/JOSHUA RICHARDS **Warning** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of SEARCHLIGHT/JOSHUA RICHARDS and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To SEARCHLIGHT/JOSHUA RICHARDS is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Best films of 2021
    The 50 best films of 2021 in the UK, No 5: Nomadland

  • Observer New Review Q&A
    Actor Kathryn Hunter: ‘I gravitated towards male roles because men are given more interesting things to do’

  • Best films of 2021
    The 50 best films of 2021 in the UK, No 10: The Tragedy of Macbeth

  • ‘A post-menopausal Macbeth’: Joel Coen on tackling Shakespeare with Frances McDormand

October 2021

  • Tilda Swinton in The French Dispatch

    The French Dispatch review – exasperating Wes Anderson portmanteau picture

    A stellar cast enliven the director’s uneven three-story anthology featuring a student protest, an insane artist and a heist thriller

July 2021

  • The French Dispatch, directed by Wes Anderson. Film still, starring Bill Murray

    The French Dispatch review – Wes Anderson’s ode to print journalism is a periodic delight

    Amazing visuals, lots of laughs and an A-list cast – including Bill Murray – make Anderson’s tribute to the New Yorker a real treat
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