A first Oscar nomination—and now a first win for Michael B. Jordan. This Southern Gothic drama had everyone racing to the cinema. Cleverly blending horror, supernatural and toe-tapping music, Sinners is a masterclass in how to keep an audience on the edge of their seats. The film takes us to the Mississippi Delta in 1932 (and was filmed in nearby Louisiana).
We spoke to Academy Award-winning production designer and New Orleans local Hannah Beachler, the brains behind the Sinners set, to find out more about creating the eerie scenes that hooked so many viewers—and the powerful performance from Michael B. Jordan that earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor (after the film had a record-breaking 16 nominations).
“Oh my goodness. Thank you so much. I’m just a film nerd from Norway,” Joachim Trier said as he accepted the award for Best International Feature at the 2026 Academy Awards.
A tour of the Norwegian capital by way of the director’s Oscar-nominated movie.
Sentimental Value lets Oslo have a starring role, alongside acting nominees like Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, and Elle Fanning. A city that often falls to the wayside in favor of more popular European capitals, we’re expecting the Norwegian city to get an influx of film-loving travelers this year.
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Best Actress: Hamnet
Jessie Buckley has the world fighting back tears often, it seems—first, with her heart-wrenching performance in Hamnet, and then as she took to the stage to accept her first Oscar award for the film. Buckley plays Anne Hathaway, also known as Agnes, William Shakespeare’s wife and mother to his children. Based on the best-selling book by Maggie O’Farrell, the story centers Agnes, a herbal healer with spiritual, generational ties to nature and the forest.
The movie, which stars Paul Mescal as William Shakespeare, shows off the British countryside in all its brilliance.
The cast and crew took to the lush landscapes of Herefordshire to recreate England in the late 1580s, transforming medieval farmhouses and towns along the Welsh border into Shakespearean-era film sets.
