Norman Jewison, director of In the Heat of the Night, dies aged 97
Canadian-born director of Moonstruck and Fiddler on the Roof was a three-time Oscar nominee
November 2021
Black British culture matters
‘I jumped for joy’: Floella Benjamin, Adrian Lester and more on their top screen moments
From In the Heat of the Night to Loose Women, Black British actors, directors and producers recall their landmark film and TV viewing experiences
July 2018
From Do the Right Thing to Swimming Pool: culture's hottest heatwaves
Tension simmers, passions rage and things are never the same again. We pick the books, film and music in which heatwaves inspire race riots, sexual abandon – and even a chainsaw massacre
November 2016
Box office analysis: UK
Fantastic Beasts sprinkles magic dust over the UK box office
How we made
How we made In the Heat of the Night
In the Heat of the Night review – still a brilliant, feverish drama
Officer and a gentleman: how Sidney Poitier united a divided America
October 2016
Sidney Poitier's Mister Tibbs voted best performance by black actor in public poll
Actor’s turn in In the Heat of the Night tops the BFI’s Black Star poll, while industry experts pick Angela Bassett’s performance as Tina Turner in What’s Love Got to Do With It
July 2016
BFI announce Black Star: a landmark UK season celebrating black cinema
With a special reissue of classic Boyz N the Hood, genre surveys, seminars, concerts and interviews, this comprehensive retrospective is well timed
February 2016
The black Oscar wins that got away
The shadow of possible Academy prejudice has loomed large over this year’s awards. So which black actors were unjustly snubbed? Whose great performance went unrewarded? The Guardian’s chief film critic on the ones that got away
