CULTURE

4. Best actorOnce up on a time, way back in December, this seemed to be Timothée Chalamet's Oscar to lose, and now it seems like he really will lose it. Michael B Jordan has come on strong lately for good...

Spying on the spiesThe other side of the spy ring – the communications experts – had developed the perfect cover story. Peter and Helen Kroger were, to their neighbours in sleepy suburban London, an antiquarian bookseller specialising in Americana and...

The most recent study from Annenberg also found that from Hollywood's top 100 films last year, there were only four women aged 45 plus who featured as a lead or co-lead, and one was a voice character in an animation:...

Burton used gouache to create this piece, a type of water-soluble paint that gives the painting the vivid colours it is so well-known for. Gouache is also light-sensitive and prone to fading over time if exposed to direct sunlight or high...

Since then, the phrase revenge dress has increasingly been used in celebrity culture. Revenge dresses as they are understood by the mainstream have typically been flattering,  revealing, and likely a bit risqué – a reminder of what an ex is missing...

As exceptional as Titanic was, though, it was part of a significant broader pattern: many of the 20th Century's best picture winners were also some of the most profitable films of their respective years. "From 1927 to 1976, roughly 90%...

7. Mass and motionGetty ImagesTransformed by a photographer's lens into smudgy speed lines accelerating behind the carefully calibrated push of her polished curling stone, Switzerland's Briar Schwaller-Huerlimann, competing in a mixed-doubles match against Canada on day four of the Games,...

George was set apart. Jenkins tells the BBC, "He doesn't necessarily fit into a kind of Vanderbilt mould. He doesn't really participate in New York society. He doesn't inherit any of the business responsibility for his family's railroad interests. But...

They were directed to the isolated farmhouse of racehorse breeder Jeremy Maxwell, about 30 miles outside Belfast near Downpatrick. On the way, they were in the countryside when five masked men carrying machine-guns stopped their car. Thompson said that when...

Adolescence writer Jack Thorne has adapted William Golding's classic novel for his latest TV series about murderous male youth – but it's a very different beast.Jack Thorne has long been an acclaimed and prolific playwright and screenwriter, with credits including...