All Obituaries articles – Page 5
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NewsJean-Luc Godard, influential French New Wave filmmaker, dies aged 91
Critic-turned-filmmaker Godard is known for films including ‘Breathless’ and ‘Contempt’.
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NewsBafta leads film industry tributes to Queen Elizabeth II
The UK’s longest-reigning monarch died aged 96 on September 8.
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NewsJapanese director Kobayashi Masahiro dies aged 68
Filmmaker had four features selected for Cannes including ‘Bashing’.
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News‘Triangle Of Sadness’ star Charlbi Dean dies aged 32; Ruben Ostlund pays tribute
South African model and actor’s roles included The CW series Black Lightning.
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News‘Half Of A Yellow Sun’ director Biyi Bandele dies aged 54
Latest feature from Nigerian writer-director due to premiere at TIFF.
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NewsOlivia Newton-John dies at 73, ‘Grease’ co-star John Travolta leads tributes
Singer-actor sold more than 100m albums in glittering career.
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News‘Titanic’, ‘Tron’ actor David Warner dies aged 80
The actor passed away from a cancer-related illness.
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NewsJames Bond theme composer Monty Norman dies aged 94
His other film score credits include the Hammer film The Two Faces of Dr Jekyll and Bob Hope’s Call Me Bwana.
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NewsElspeth Tavares, The Business of Film founder and former Screen exec, dies after short illness
Trailblazing publishing executive was a former managing director of Screen International
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NewsJames Caan, ‘The Godfather’ and ‘Misery’ star, dies aged 82
The Oscar-nominated actor’s other films included Thief, Bottle Rocket and Elf.
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NewsAlex Law, Hong Kong director of ‘Echoes Of The Rainbow’, dies at 69
Filmmaker wrote nearly 20 features over a 30-year career.
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NewsVjosa Berisha, founder and director of Kosovo’s PriFest, dies aged 50
Berisha was also a producer and worked on the campaign for Kosovo’s independence.
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NewsJean-Louis Trintignant, French New Wave leading light and star of ‘Amour’, dies at 91
Celebrated actor was married three times, loved motor racing.
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NewsDutch filmmaker Heddy Honigmann dies at 70
Acclaimed Peruvian-born filmmaker had lived in the Netherlands since the late 1970s
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NewsFriends, colleagues of Mariupol-slain filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravičius evoke a singular talent
Producers, directors, and programmers recall a brave, fearless filmmaker.
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NewsCanadian documentarian and Oscar winner John Zaritsky dies at 79
Vancouver filmmaker’s career spanned more than 40 years.
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NewsWilliam Hurt, Oscar winner for ‘Kiss Of The Spider Woman’, dies at 71
Respected actor earned four Oscar nominations.
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NewsEva Zaoralova, former Karlovy Vary artistic director, dies aged 89
Zaoralova led the reboot of the festival in 1994.
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NewsIvan Reitman, Canadian director of ‘Ghostbusters’, dies at 75
Jason Reitman, sisters remember man ”who taught us to always seek the magic in life”.
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NewsDouglas H. Trumbull, VFX pioneer on ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’, ’Close Encounters’, dies at 79
Filmmaker received Academy’s honorary Gordon Sawyer Award in 2012.