From Parasite to Anora: how Cannes became an Oscars power player

The increasingly international Academy has warmed to more and more Cannes film festival premieres, leaving all eyes on this year’s edition

And the loser is … politics: why was this year’s Oscars so reluctant?

Taking place in the middle of a chaotic time for the US and the world at large, this year’s ceremony was light on statements and devoid of the Trump word entirely

Adrien Brody breaks record for longest ever Oscar acceptance speech

The actor, who won for The Brutalist, spoke for five minutes and forty seconds, beating Greer Garson in 1943

Jubilant Brazilians hail I’m Still Here’s Oscar as landmark in fight for justice

Walter Salles’s dictatorship-era movie turns focus on dark time in country’s history and more recent coup attempt

The main Oscars takeaway? Hollywood is as scared of the world right now as you and I are

Perhaps the Ozempic was making people light-headed, or the stars felt they should stay silent. Either way, there was a notable lack of politics, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

Fires, frocks and the president who must not be named: my very weird night in the Oscars cheap seats

After the horror of the LA wildfires and with the world in uproar, some had called for the show not to go on. But up in the mezzanine with the shouty hoi polloi, I saw that hope really does spring eternal here

Oscar winner’s shoutout for London music venue Cafe Oto stuns owner

The Brutalist composer Daniel Blumberg mentioned the experimental music space in his acceptance speech

‘Gangs charged us $200 a night to shoot on their turf’: Walter Hill on making cult film The Warriors

‘It was on its way to becoming a smash hit. Then gangs in various parts of the country clashed outside cinemas – and they began pulling the film’

Russian state propagandists overjoyed at Anora’s Oscar triumph

The film’s five Academy Awards seen as act of normalisation by commentators in country still persecuting critics of its war on Ukraine

Bonhoeffer review – solid biopic of German pacifist pastor murdered by the Nazis

If you can ignore the dodgy accents and liberties with the truth (a pacifist theologian involved in bomb plots?) then this no-frills film will hold interest

Giants of La Mancha review – kids cartoon sticks Don Quixote Jr into the modern world

Alfonso Quixote, a descendant of Cervantes’ idealistic hero, is on a mission to save his town in this unsatisfying animated adventure

Oscars fashion winners … the silver age of Hollywood, with a splash of pink and yellow

The red carpet is a tightrope walk, but Mikey Madison and Timothée Chalamet made sure-footed choices – while many mature attendees showed younger performers the way

Grey Matter review – feelgood Alzheimer’s film is well-meaning life-lesson comedy

Stephanie Beacham is reduced to comic foil in this cliche-ridden tale of the bond that forms between an ailing woman and her grumpy granddaughter

Earthquake strikes Los Angeles soon after Oscars ceremony concludes

The 3.9-magnitude quake shook the North Hollywood area late on Sunday night, but no significant reports of damage have been received

‘I can spit hot fire on Baby Got Back’: Sterling K Brown’s honest playlist

The star of new thriller Paradise loves musicals and feels mild shame at enjoying Vengaboys. But which star made him realise he could sing?