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The Spanish director’s Oscars diary relays five hours at the ‘freezing’ Dolby theatre and disparages Denzel Washington’s advice to Smith

As important to films as acting, writing, and design, music can instantly create a realistic or fantastic world, guide emotions and enhance storytelling. Yet the annual Academy Award nominations for best original score are one of the few times film music gets a look in with the general public.

Pedro Almodóvar’s poetic conviction and creative fluidity flow through this moving baby-swap drama about two single mothers and buried secrets from the Spanish civil war

The star and director reunite for their eighth film together, for a film which won Cruz Best Actress at Venice film festival and is likely to earn her an Oscar nomination.

Editorial: Pedro Almodóvar’s new film and a planned national museum both speak to the need to settle accounts with the past

The relationship between two women is at the heart of Pedro Almodóvar’s engaging new film, which also reckons with a dark period in his country’s history.

The Spanish actor on 35 years working with Pedro Almodóvar, the joy of her 80s pop band, and facing up to her country’s past

With his new film Parallel Mothers, the director dials down the camp to address the shadow of fascism hanging over his homeland