Movie critics loved Tár and The Banshees of Inisherin, but Guy Noble begs to differ, and offers his own suggestions for the awards they should have won.

From Wendy Carlos to Sergei Rachmaninov, the Moog synth to the Renaissance cornetto, the latest edition of Limelight has something for you.

Everything Everywhere All At Once dominates 2023 Academy Awards ceremony. Australians go home empty handed.

The Australian actor's journey toward another Oscar statuette for her playing of a disgraced conductor in Todd Field’s TÁR seems unstoppable.

A round-up of our recent news reports.

Cate Blanchett voices a tiger in Julian Rosefeldt's huge and elaborate multimedia installation, a keystone work in Melbourne's RISING festival.

Todd Field’s TÁR shines an uncomfortable light on some of the social and political dynamics of the world in which it is set, argues Peter Tregear.

The whole world is talking about TÁR. It’s time for Australian orchestras to join the conversation on gender, the canon and conducting.

Blanchett's turn in TÁR elevates the Australian actor into the elite rank of octo-nominees such as Marlon Brando and Glenn Close.

Conductor Natalie Murray Beale talks to Limelight about teaching Cate Blanchett to wield the baton in TÁR and the film's potential to provoke.

Cate Blanchett joins Meryl Streep, Ingrid Bergman and Jane Fonda as the only three-time winners of the honour bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

In TÁR, Cate Blanchett plays a formidable conductor at the pinnacle of her profession. She tells us how she worked intensively to prepare herself for the role.