Mr Turner
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He is one of Britain’s favourite actors. This year, he’s been on stage in The Caretaker and is set to star in films as Ian Paisley and Holocaust denier David Irving. So why is Timothy Spall so full of doubt?
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Was Timothy Spall snubbed just because of his (fully clad) buttocks? | Catherine Shoard
He won best actor at Cannes for Mr Turner but nothing from the Globes, the Oscars or even Bafta. Indignity levels hit rock bottom with complaints about a sex scene
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14, Jul, 2015 @7:04 PM
Not one for the Romantics: why audiences were unimpressed by Mr Turner's sex scene
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Timothy Spall's clenched bottom in Mr Turner tops list of complaints
Scene in which Spall’s (clothed) character has sex in Mike Leigh biopic helped make Mr Turner movie about which British Board of Film Classification received most complaints
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DVDs and downloads: Mr Turner, Nightcrawler, Pride, The Judge and more
Mike Leigh’s Mr Turner breathes self-reflexive life into the great-painter biopic. And Jake Gyllenhaal gives good crazy in Nightcrawler
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01, Mar, 2015 @8:00 AM
Oscars 2015: why this year's nominees are about the sublime, not the ridiculous
From Boyhood to Birdman, Mr Turner to Wild, this year’s Academy Awards are in thrall to powers we can barely comprehend. But why have film-makers starting thinking so big?
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22, Feb, 2015 @1:00 PM
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Bafta bingo! Six things to look out for on the British Academy's big night
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Bafta readies its gongs – but is it more than just an Oscars bellwether?
The 2015 Bafta awards may well end up with the same major-category winners at the Academy Awards a fortnight later. Does this spell the end for the British Film Academy’s cultural distinctiveness?
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