A prickly Harvard student who creates Facebook. A struggling novelist who’s definitely not drinking any merlot. A Sacramento teenager who wants to be called Lady Bird. Here are the movies up for Oscar’s biggest prize that made us laugh the most — even if they weren’t, strictly speaking, comedies
The Academy almost never gives its biggest prize to a funny movie. But there are exceptions — here’s a guide to how a handful of comedies beat the Oscar odds
‘The difference between Dudeism and the stuff it’s based on like Taoism is that it’s more palatable to a modern audience. It’s based on a modern mythos rather than an ancient mythos. It’s easier access’
The legendary comic tells us what he was wearing (a rental tux), who did his hair (himself) and what he told fellow Oscar winner Jodie Foster backstage (‘Hi!’)
