Oscar Wilde Awards Salute Irish Connection, Honoring Kenneth Branagh, Jamie Dornan and More

Caitriona Balfe's latest project Belfast won Best Original Screenplay at the 94th Academy Awards.

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taken home the Oscar for Best Director at the 2022 Academy Awards.She is the third woman to win the award.Campion, who was the favorite, beat out contenders Kenneth Branagh for his semi-autobiographical piece “Belfast,” Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “Drive My Car,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Licorice Pizza” and Steven Spielberg’s musical “West Side Story.” “I love directing because it’s a deep dive into story yet the task of manifesting a world can be overwhelming. The sweet thing is I’m not alone,” the New Zealand-born filmmaker said in her acceptance speech.“On ‘The Power of the Dog’ I worked with actors I’m moved to call my friends.

LOS ANGELES -- Jane Campion has won the best director Oscar for “The Power of the Dog.”The 67-year-old filmmaker won the Academy Award on Sunday night for the unconventional Western starring Benedict Cumberbatch that was shot in her native New Zealand.It’s her first best director Oscar.

Covid isolation and will attend the 94th Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday night, it is being reported. Hinds, who is nominated in the Best Supporting Actor category for 'Belfast', along with Branagh had both tested positive for coronavirus and were understood to be isolating in New York. ' Belfast ' is up for seven Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, at this year's awards ceremony.

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Belfast writer-director Kenneth Branagh and actor Ciarán Hinds have tested positive for Covid-19 and missed the Producers Guild Awards ceremony Saturday, where the film is up for the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures.

review of the film from TIFF, TheWrap wrote, “Visually stunning, emotionally wrenching and gloriously human, “Belfast” takes one short period from Branagh’s life and finds in it a coming-of-age story, a portrait of a city fracturing in an instant and a profoundly moving lament for what’s been lost during decades of strife in his homeland of Northern Ireland.

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gathered together in Los Angeles and simultaneously in London on Sunday for the 2022 Critics Choice Awards, the ongoing war in Ukraine cast a looming shadow.As fans saw during this year's Screen Actors Guild Awards back in February, several stars addressed the ongoing conflict, and called for peace amid Russia's attack on Ukraine.From awards presenters using their time on stage to delivered a planned message of support to the words of unity shared by stars during their acceptance speeches, it was clear how prevalent the was was on the minds of those in attendance.Here's a look at some of the powerful messages shared by celebs throughout Sunday's awards gala.The Oscar-nominated Bulgarian actress Maria Bakalova — who earned widespread acclaim for her performance in 2020's took the stage early on during the show and shared a message of support for the people of Ukraine.«I am from Bulgaria, and my home city just a few hundred miles from Ukraine. So as we gather on this special night, I want to take a moment to acknowledge the bravery of the people of Ukraine, who are defending their right to Independence and democracy,» she shared.

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Jamie Dornan has the support of his wife Amelia Warner on the red carpet!

Colm Bairéad’s Irish-language drama An Cailín Ciúin (The Quiet Girl) was the big film winner at last night’s Irish Film and Television Academy awards with eight wins. Scroll down for the full list of winners.