Period pieces have dominated the Oscars for a decade, but this year the pattern might be broken. Mark Morris rates the nominees and wonders if time is up for history.
On Sunday the film world will turn towards Hollywood and this year's Oscars. But you will search in vain for an award for overacting, and there'll be no mention of the Best Performance By An Arse. Righting that wrong, Andrew Collins presents the Alternative Oscars.
His Dickie Greenleaf in The Talented Mr Ripley is an arrogant playboy, but in real life Jude Law is just a highly confident movie star - with an Oscar nomination. He talks to Emma Brockes.
Oliver Schmitz, director of the acclaimed Mapantsula, is making a new feature film after 13 years. But while the actors are local, the money is all foreign, reports Andrew Worsdale.
'To me the core of film-making is to stir the emotions of the audience,' says Frank Darabont, director of tear-jerking prison movie The Green Mile. Stuart Jeffries tries not to laugh.
Seventies comedian Andy Kaufman has been immortalised on celluloid in Man on the Moon, starring Jim Carrey. British comic Matt Lucas explains his fascination with America's ultimate hoaxer.