Belfast

Scrap Troubles legacy bill, Belfast actor Ciarán Hinds urges Liz Truss

Hinds says in open letter to PM that proposed laws on unsolved murders would ‘cut off any prospect of justice’

Lisa O'Carroll Brexit correspondent

11, Oct, 2022 @5:00 AM

Belfast’s Jude Hill: ‘All the celebrities at the Oscars, they were shaking with nerves!’

Jude Hill beat 300 other hopefuls to play Buddy, the boy in Kenneth Branagh’s film. The film is a glittering success – and so is the young actor whose career it launched

Rory Carroll

15, Apr, 2022 @7:00 AM

Oscars 2022: Will Smith not facing charges for slapping Chris Rock, says LAPD, as Academy releases statement – as it happened

Family drama Coda won best picture at a ceremony that was overshadowed by Will Smith attacking Chris Rock

Kevin Rawlinson (now); Stuart Heritage and Benjamin Lee (earlier)

28, Mar, 2022 @11:29 AM

‘A better deal than the Oscars’: the party celebrating the Irish in Hollywood

Jamie Dornan and Kenneth Branagh were honored at this year’s Oscar Wilde awards amid excitement over Belfast

Lois Beckett

27, Mar, 2022 @5:05 PM

Why Belfast should win the best picture Oscar

Accusations of sentimentality aimed at Kenneth Branagh’s autobiographical film are wide of the mark – it is first and foremost about the tragedy of migration forced by political strife

Claire Armitstead

21, Mar, 2022 @7:00 AM

‘I just cried’: film stirs memories on Belfast street Branagh left behind

As director’s movie is nominated for seven Oscars, residents of Mountcollyer Street recall when the Troubles started

Lisa O'Carroll in Belfast

11, Feb, 2022 @11:45 AM

Oscar nominations triumph confirms The Power of the Dog’s classic status

Like Nomadland, Jane Campion’s western speaks to the American heartland, while Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast is suffering from awards season backlash

Peter Bradshaw

08, Feb, 2022 @5:12 PM

Oscars nominations 2022: the full list

From Dune to The Power of the Dog, all the nominations for the 94th Academy Awards, which take place on 27 March

Guardian film

08, Feb, 2022 @2:01 PM

Oscar nominations 2022: The Power of the Dog leads the pack

Jane Campion’s repressed western up for 12 prizes at 94th Academy Awards, with Dune scoring 10 nominations and Belfast and West Side Story both bagging seven

Catherine Shoard

08, Feb, 2022 @1:50 PM

Tell us about your experiences of leaving Belfast in the 1960s and 1970s

We would like to hear from people who left Northern Ireland’s capital city during the 1960s and 1970s

Guardian community team

07, Feb, 2022 @12:54 PM

Branagh and Hinds: two Belfast boys on childhood and the Troubles

The actors grew up in the same city on opposite sides of the Troubles. Here, they reflect on revisiting their past in Belfast, Branagh’s highly personal new film