This year’s Oscars gave the forgotten a second chance
Jimmy Kimmel’s facetious Slapgate jokes and Angela Bassett’s snub aside, the 2023 ceremony was a (mostly) wholesome affair with deserving winners, writes Clarisse Loughrey
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Geoffrey MacnabWhy the Oscars have always been mired in scandal
With the Academy Awards happening on Sunday, Geoffrey Macnab looks back at Oscar history and says the awards have always been turbulent and continue to reflect the biases of those who greenlight the movies
Geoffrey MacnabDon’t fix James Bond’s onscreen bigotry – just live and let it die
In the wake of the news that Ian Fleming’s 007 books are being rewritten for modern audiences, Geoffrey Macnab argues that we’re mature enough to see racism and sexism for what it is. Today’s progress is good, but censorship of the past, he writes, is hardly necessary