Kristin Scott Thomas, named Best Actress at the Evening Standard British Film Awards, reveals why she stripped off for the camera at 50 - and why she does her best work in France
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The Evening Standard British Film Awards have been handed out but how did the judges on our panel arrive at their decisions? Here they explain their choices... more
VIDEO: The Best Film prize went to Peter Mullan's Neds, a coming-of-age drama about teenage gangs, at the Evening Standard British Film Awards for 2010... more
Sam Taylor Wood’s work in fine art is always a bit international and self-advertisingly universal, but for Nowhere Boy, her first feature film, it seems as if she has turned to something very local. ... more
News of Patrick Swayze's death broke as the acting community was gathered at the Toronto International Film Festival, prompting a slew of red carpet tributes... more
Kristin Scott Thomas made her Broadway debut in Chekhov's The Seagull with an opening night performance that left American critics taking off on a flight of flattery... more
I've Loved You So Long has such a good performance from Kristin Scott Thomas that you don't mind a plot that turns on the kind of small details other movies ignore.
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The red carpet at Cannes was awash with blue last night as leading ladies Natalie Portman and Kristin Scott Thomas both turned up in silk ruffled indigo gowns.... more
Oscar-winning director Anthony Minghella died suddenly yesterday from a 'fatal haemorrhage' after surgery for throat cancer. The 54-year-old, who was best known for his films The English Patient, Truly, Madly, Deeply and Cold Mountain, had told only his family and closest friends about his condition... more
West End musical Hairspray has swept the board at the Laurence Olivier Awards, scooping four of the prestigious accolades. Its star, Leanne Jones, was named best actress in a musical for her role as teenager Tracy Turnblad... more
No one expected Gareth from The Office to act everyone off the stage in Chekhov. But that's just what he did at the Royal Court where The Seagull opened last week.... more
This enthralling version of The Seagull offers a series of shocks for traditional Chekhov lovers and Mackenzie Crook's transition from TV comedian to serious actor is amazing.... more
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