March 2023
Michelle Yeoh makes history with Oscars win
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” swept the awards, winning best actress, best picture and five other Oscars.
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- Lisa Richwine
January 2023
At rehabbed Globes, Yeoh, Spielberg and White Lotus win
Stars and studios boycotted last year’s ceremony, which NBC opted not to televise, saying the awards needed time to make ‘meaningful reform’.
- Jake Coyle
September 2022
Queen Elizabeth is dead but she lives on as cryptocurrency
In the days following the Queen’s passing, more than 40 types of meme coins were minted, industry data and media reports show.
- Pranshu Verma
April 2022
Will Smith gets 10-year Oscars ban over Chris Rock slap
The censure followed a meeting of the academy’s board of governors; Smith said he accepted and respected the decision.
- Andrew Dalton
This Will Smith slap crypto coin has minted big winners (and losers)
Memecoins are cryptocurrency tied to viral moments and web jokes, with a fleeting value that tends to rise and fall quickly. Some backers make a tidy profit.
- Pranshu Verma
Will Smith resigns from film academy over Chris Rock slap
Will Smith has resigned from the motion picture academy following his Oscars night slap of Chris Rock and said he would accept any further punishment the organisation imposed.
- Lynn Elber
Police offered to arrest Will Smith for the slap
Police told Chris Rock the slap at the Oscars that echoed around the world was battery and offered to charge Will Smith.
- Lisa Richwine
March 2022
Will Smith refused to leave Oscars after Rock slap
The academy said the winner of the best actor award could face disciplinary action including suspension or expulsion from the Oscars.
- Jake Coyle
- Opinion
- Cinema
The slap hid this year’s big Oscars story
Apple boss Tim Cook performed a feat that stunned the industry, beating Netflix and becoming a movie mogul.
- Christopher Grimes
Study shows treatment works for the hair-loss that disrupted Oscars
As the Academy Awards were being rolled out, so new studies on alopecia were being published showing a new treatment works for the condition.
- Jill Margo
Will Smith apologises to Chris Rock for slap, academy mulls action
Smith, in a post on Instagram, said his behaviour at the televised ceremony was ‘unacceptable and inexcusable’.
- Lisa Richwine
‘CODA’ best film, as Jane Campion wins directors Oscar
The New Zealand native joins Kathryn Bigelow and Chloe Zhao as the only women to have received the honour for directing, a field still dominated by men in Hollywood.
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- Lisa Richwine
Will Smith smacks Chris Rock on stage, then wins an Oscar
The incident at first appeared to be a scripted joke but turned serious when Smith shouted: “Keep my wife’s name out of your f---ing mouth.”
- Frank McGurty and Daniel Trotta
January 2022
‘Power of the Dog’, ‘West Side Story’ lead in Golden Globes
Actors and directors largely ignored the Globes this year after criticising the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for its ethics and lack of black members.
- Lisa Richwine
August 2020
- Opinion
- US election
Why the American public has tuned out of politics
The American political class are fighting their private culture wars that have sidelined the concerns that ordinary citizens have.
- Sam Roggeveen
April 2020
Meet the oil trader who cleaned up in crude’s historic crash
Pierre Andurand, one of the world’s best-known hedge fund managers specialising in oil, cashed in on US crude’s historic crash this week, adding to strong gains in both of his main funds this year.
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- David Sheppard