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Brazilians have waited 25 years to avenge Gwyneth Paltrow’s Oscar win – Fernanda Torres might just do it

In 1999, Brazilians were left frustrated when Fernanda Montenegro, one of the country’s most famous and respected actors, was beaten to an Academy Award by the ‘Shakespeare in Love’ star. Now, almost three decades later, Montenegro’s daughter – the star of the celebrated drama ‘I’m Still Here’ – could take home the Best Actress prize herself, writes Adam White

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Amazon has taken control of Bond – and may have just killed him

Following years of rumoured tension between the historic custodians of the 007 franchise and their new corporate overlords at Amazon, Jeff Bezos’s company has assumed complete creative control of the franchise. It could be a fate worse than death, writes Adam White – and transform Bond into just another algorithm-driven content farm

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The 50 greatest TV episodes of all time, from This is England to I May Destroy You

A brilliant episode can refine the essence of the best shows into a single, self-contained moment. Here are our favourites from over the decades

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The Sundays were the dream-pop greats who disappeared without trace

Thirty-five years after the release of their debut album, which housed their seminal break-up song ‘Here’s Where the Story Ends’, the band behind a number of pretty, ethereal earworms still inspire adoration – and questions over their decision to drop out of the limelight three records into their career, writes Adam White

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Marianne Jean-Baptiste: ‘People were following a narrative that had been created to explain me’

‘Secrets & Lies’ made her the first Black British woman to be nominated for an Oscar. Now, nearly 30 years and 160 episodes of the ‘factory-like’ US cop drama ‘Without a Trace’ later, she has reunited with Mike Leigh for the blistering ‘Hard Truths’ – it’s earned her a Bafta nomination, and could send her back to the Academy Awards, too. She speaks to Adam White

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