Awards and prizes
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Oscars new members: eight things we learned from the 2016 invite listCheck your postbox: this year the Academy has asked an unprecedented number of film industry luminaries to join their ranks as part of a drive to double diversity by the end of the decade. Here’s what we’re taking away from the RSVPs
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BET awards diary: searing political rhetoric and bloated back-slappingAs inspiring as it was to watch black people speak up about the state of the world, it was equally as depressing to see how corporate the entire affair was
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Locus awards go to Ann Leckie, Naomi Novik and other starsPrestigious science fiction and fantasy prizes also honour work by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman and George RR Martin
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Flowers, fabric bridges and Ukip's refugee poster – the week in artGeorge Stubbs’s radical vision, Tate Modern’s macaws, the Orbit slide and Newcastle’s buzziest nightspot ... for dung flies – all in your weekly art dispatch
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RIBA awards 2016: academic buildings dominate list of UK's best architectureUniversities loom large among the 46 winners, but Grayson Perry’s House for Essex and other deserving buildings are missing from architectural honours
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Lisa McInerney's 'astounding' debut novel wins Desmond Elliott prizeA fortnight after bagging the Baileys prize for women’s fiction, The Glorious Heresies takes £10,000 honour
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And the Oscar might go to: the sure bets and underdogs critics have already seenFrom Sundance premieres like The Birth of a Nation to Ken Loach’s Cannes winner I, Daniel Blake, here are the earlybird Oscar contenders
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Chris Riddell wins the Kate Greenaway medal with The Sleeper and the SpindleChris Riddell is the first triple winner of the CILIP Kate Greenaway medal for his illustrations in Neil Gaiman’s retelling of Sleeping Beauty. We talk to him about how it feels to win and his love for Gaiman and libraries
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Sarah Crossan wins the Carnegie medal with verse novel OneA novel written in free verse takes the Carnegie for the first time in the medal’s illustrious history
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Simon Mawer's Tightrope wins Walter Scott prize for historical fictionDrama of concentration camp survivor, set in 1950s London, praised by judges as ‘a spy story in the grand tradition’
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Artists selected for John Moore painting prize shortlist unveiledFive ‘vibrant and exciting’ works in contention to win £25,000 prize, to be announced on 7 July, by a multi-generational shortlist of artists
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Women film-makers dominate Jarman award shortlist for 2016Shortlist for £10,000 film-art prize features tales of Arab culture, life with Alzheimer’s disease and a posthumous cameo from Philip Seymour Hoffman
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Margaret Atwood wins 2016 PEN Pinter prizeCanadian author says she is humbled to accept reward and is praised by judges for championing environmental and human rights causes
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Bill Murray finally wins this year's Mark Twain Prize for American HumorClown, improviser, movie star, perfect talkshow guest – the Mark Twain prize hasn’t come soon enough for the consummate funnyman, described by Jim Jarmusch as ‘an intergalactic treasure’
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Svetlana Alexievich on Orlando: 'There is not really a place you can run to'In New York, the Nobel prize-winning Belarusian writer also spoke about chronicling politics and suffering – and why she’s turning her attention to love
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Eyewitness: Broadway, New YorkThe cast of Hamilton performs during the 70th annual Tony awards at the Beacon Theatre on Broadway
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John Singleton reflects on Boyz N the Hood: 'I didn't know anything'The film-maker, who made his debut with the Oscar-nominated classic, reflected on the making of the drama during a special screening, hosted by the Academy
£10,000 Caine prize for African writing goes to Lidudumalingani