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7 min read actor Riz Ahmed learned some remarkable things when preparaing for his Oscar-nominated performance in Sound of Metal At 38, Riz Ahmed is an accomplished actor, admired rapper, committed activist – and a metric. In 2018, inspired by Ahmed’s often colour-blind roles, academics Dr Sadia Habib and Shaf Choudry constructed the Riz Test, the Muslim equivalent of the Bechdel test. Ahmed was not involved at the conceptual level of the procedure, which ticks such boxes as “s...

Who would have thought we needed a family-friendly cartoon paying homage to Sergio Leone and Akira Kurosawa? Rango is a delightfully weird animated comedy about a neurotic chameleon who wanders into a dry desert town and stumbles into the role of sheriff, eventually going scaly head to scaly head with a rattlesnake gang leader. Its not just for kids, and its off-kilter visual style will surely pop when youre under the influence. The Trip to Greece THAT THING YOU DO! (1996) Tom Hanks wrote and ...

The Labour-supporting director of a controversial TV drama about Boris Johnson’s first year in 10 Downing Street has stepped back from the big-budget series. Michael Winterbottom – who has also written the screenplay for the five-part series This Sceptred Isle, starring Sir Kenneth Branagh – has been replaced by Julian Jarrold, whose credits include The Crown. His decision to step down ‘temporarily’ is understood to have taken place last month – shortly after Sky Atlantic decided to...

Supplied Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo follows a group of young people coming-of-age in 1970s Berlin, discovering parties, drugs, sex and friendship. Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo This German series translates to We Children From Bahnhof Zoo and is based on the 1978 cult autobiography by German actress Christiane F, which has sold 5 million copies in 20 languages, and the 1981 film of the same name. It follows a group of young people coming-of-age in 1970s Berlin, discovering parties, drugs, sex ...

  Rather than the customary red carpet schmooze fest on Leicester Square, Creation Stories premiered at the virtual Glasgow Film Festival. “The best thing about the pandemic is that we didn’t have a film premiere,” says its subject, former Creation Records boss Alan McGee. “It would’ve been the bane of my life. The producer of the movie going, Have you spoken to the Gallagher brothers? Did you talk to Bobby Gillespie? Have you spoken to Kevin Shields? Did you speak to ...

Share Our photograph shows Sir Kenneth, as Boris, visiting locals in the flood-hit Worcestershire town of Bewdley last March. In reality, Boris was heckled by some who called him a traitor while others posed with him for selfies. The five-part series, directed by Michael Winterbottom, will tell the story of how the 56-year-old Prime Minister tackled the Covid pandemic, including his own hospitalisation with the virus, as well as charting his relationship with fiancee Carrie Symonds. Sir Kenneth...

SHARE Throughout his career, British-Pakistani actor Riz Ahmed has used his platform for activism and advocacy, and pushed for better representation of Muslims in the media. So it’s only natural that he’d make history as the first Muslim to be nominated in the Best Actor in a Leading Role category at the Oscars, for his powerful performance in Sound of Metal. The actor, 38, who plays a drummer who loses his hearing in the drama, has already won a number of awards and critical acclaim for ...

Meet Riz Ahmed, first Muslim actor to be nominated for Oscars Best Actor Category The Oscars will be held on April 25 (the early hours of April 26 in India). DNA Web Team Mar 16, 2021, 05:51 PM IST The nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards were announced by global star Priyanka Chopra and singer Nick Jonas on Monday. Among the long list of nominees for various categories was Riz Ahmed, a British actor and musician who created history by becoming the first Muslim to be nominated for the Academ...

In one scene in Kevin Macdonald’s Guantanamo drama, The Mauritanian, the lead character sits in his cold, cramped prison cell inside the infamous US prison in Cuba.  As his guards enter the room, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, the titular Mauritanian played by Tahar Rahim, bursts with joy, giving his captors high fives, as they greet him in turn with warmth. If not informed by Rahim’s intense portrayal of Slahi’s undiminished humanity, the scene may have appeared unsettling to the viewer. Slah...

Adnan Siddiqui worked with Angelina Jolie in film The Mighty Heart, released in 2007.