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Jane Campion, Kenneth Branagh, Benedict Cumberbatch … our critic weighs up who will leave Sunday’s ceremony with a gong

LOS ANGELES — Even with cowboys that look, at least to one pair of tired eyes, like Chippendales dancers, Jane Campion's "The Power of the Dog" is looking like it's going to win best picture when the Oscars are handed out March 27.

This year’s best picture race boasts a revisionist Western, a science fiction epic, a song-and-dance musical, a grim neo-noir, a shaggy ’70s comedy, an inspirational sports drama, an apocalyptic satire and three major prize winners from the Sundance, Cannes and Toronto film festivals. Academy voters obviously didn’t plan it that…

LOS ANGELES — On Tuesday "The Power of the Dog" received 12 Oscar nominations, the most of any film this year. Jane Campion was nominated for director, adapted screenplay and best picture. In the acting categories, Benedict Cumberbatch is up for lead actor, Kirsten Dunst for supporting actress and Jesse…

Jane Campion makes Oscars history as the first woman to land two directing nominations.

The film-maker is the first woman to be nominated twice for the best director Oscar – but thanks to her example, others will surely follow soon

"The Power of the Dog" proved the power of writer/director Jane Campion at this year's Academy Awards, leading the field with 12 nominations Tuesday.

If Netflix is the big dog in Hollywood now, then “The Power of the Dog” is the dog behind the dog at this year’s Academy Award nominations, announced Tuesday.

After a pandemic year that hobbled movie theaters and saw streaming services make new inroads into Hollywood, the Academy Awards put its strongest support Tuesday behind two films made with big-screen grandeur that were also streamed into homes: Jane Campion’s gothic western “The Power of the Dog” and Denis Villeneuve’s…