The Crown star Olivia Colman and Andy Harries, the man who shepherded the royal drama to Netflix, have been honored in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. The awards are the most prestigious in the UK. Colman, who recently won an Oscar for her performance in The Favourite, has been handed an CBE for her services to drama…

Oscar-winning duo Anthony Hopkins (Westworld) and Olivia Colman (The Favourite) are to star in Florian Zeller's movie adaptation of his stage play hit The Father. Hopkins stars in the eponymous role, a mischievous and highly independent man who, as he ages, refuses all assistance from his daughter Anne (Olivia…

UPDATED… The third season of The Crown is set to launch on Netflix in the second half of the year – more than 18 months after its second season. Separately, fantasy drama The Witcher will launch in the fourth quarter. Netflix has not revealed a date for the launch, but in a letter to investors following its…

Oscar winner Olivia Colman continues to pick up awards – this time handed a BFI Fellowship. Colman, who last month won the Best Actress Oscar for her role in The Favourite, joins the likes of Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, Cate Blanchett and Martin Scorsese in receiving the…

UPDATE, 10:53 AM: A bleary eyed Hollywood is already thinking about the 92nd Academy Awards this morning and now the last announcement of last night's hostless Oscars is upon us. The final numbers are in and it looks like the presence of blockbusters, performances from members of Queen and Lady Gaga, a slightly…

A host-less Oscars was still riveting TV, though not necessarily for reasons producers or broadcast network ABC might have hoped. And, if you thought losing host Kevin Hart over homophobic tweets from his past would be Oscars biggest controversy this year, you thought wrong. Here are the best and worst moments from…

How is this for symbolism — Mahershala Ali won his second Oscar in three years for Green Book while the finale of his series True Detective was airing on HBO. For the first time ever, all four acting Oscar winners this year have current TV series, Bohemian Rhapsody‘s Rami Malek (USA’s Mr. Robot), The Favourite’s Olivia…

You know it’s a surprise when The Favourite‘s Olivia Colman is an underdog winner for Best Actress and Glenn isn’t even Close. In a night that spread the Oscar wins across the board — Bohemian Rhapsody with four, and three each for Green Book, Roma and Black Panther, Colman’s shock was evident as she went on stage…

The 91st Academy Awards went full Grammys for its opening tonight with a high-octane performance from members of Queen and Adam Lambert, but, to paraphrase a tune by the once Freddie Mercury-led classic rock band, then the hammer fell. This was the first Academy Awards not to have a host or hosts since the all-time…

The Favourite director Yorgos Lanthimos and writers Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara used sparing historical details to create an 18th century love triangle around England’s Queen Anne (Olivia Colman), her close friend Lady Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough (Rachel Weisz), and the scullery maid Abigail Masham (Emma Stone)…

Olivia Colman, a Best Actress Oscar and BAFTA nominee this year for Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite, will be the recipient of a BFI Fellowship at the BFI Chairman's dinner on March 6. The award honors and celebrates Colman’s “very special contribution” to television and film, and is in recognition of her “distinctive…

While Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite is nominated in 10 categories and up front in the Oscar race (matching Roma), there was a time, a long time actually, when it could not get financing. Partly due to its then-unfashionable period genre, but mostly because of its female-led story, its lack of major male roles and…