Mary Queen of Scots (2018)
Biography | Drama | History
Mary Stuart's attempt to overthrow her cousin Elizabeth I, Queen of England, finds her condemned to years of imprisonment before facing execution.
Starring: Margot Robbie, Saoirse Ronan, Maria Dragus, Jack Lowden, Joe Alwyn, Martin Compston
Director: Josie Rourke
The Seagull (2018)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
An aging actress named Irina Arkadina pays summer visits to her brother Pjotr Nikolayevich Sorin and her son Konstantin on a country estate. On one occasion, she brings Trigorin, a successful novelist, with her. Nina, a free and innocent girl on a neighboring estate, falls in love with Boris Trigorin.
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Elisabeth Moss, Annette Bening, Corey Stoll, Brian Dennehy, Mare Winningham, Glenn Fleshler, Michael Zegen, Jon Tenney, Billy Howle
Director: Michael Mayer
On Chesil Beach (2017)
Drama | Romance
Based on Ian McEwan's novel. In 1962 England, a young couple find their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Emily Watson, Anne-Marie Duff, Samuel West, Billy Howle, Adrian Scarborough, Bebe Cave
Director: Dominic Cooke
The Host (2013)
Action | Adventure | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
When an unseen enemy threatens mankind by taking over their bodies and erasing their memories, Melanie will risk everything to protect the people she cares most about, proving that love can conquer all in a dangerous new world.
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Diane Kruger, William Hurt, Max Irons, Rachel Roberts, Marcus Lyle Brown
Director: Andrew Niccol
Lady Bird (2017)
Comedy | Drama
In 2002, an artistically inclined seventeen-year-old girl comes of age in Sacramento, California.
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Odeya Rush, Jordan Rodrigues, Laurie Metcalf, Timothée Chalamet, Kristen Cloke
Director: Greta Gerwig
The 90th Annual Academy Awards 2018 (TV 2018)
Awards
The 90th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2017 and took place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was held on March 4, 2018, after its usual late-February date to avoid conflicting with the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories. The ceremony was televised in the United States by American Broadcasting Company (ABC), produced by Michael De Luca and Jennifer Todd and directed by Glenn Weiss. Comedian Jimmy Kimmel hosted for the second consecutive year, making him the first person to host back-to-back ceremonies since Billy Crystal in 1997 and 1998. In related events, the Academy held its 9th Annual Governors Awards ceremony at the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood and Highland Center on November 11, 2017. On February 10, 2018, in a ceremony at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, the Academy Scientific and Technical Awards were presented by host Patrick Stewart. The Shape of Water won a leading four awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Guillermo del Toro. Dunkirk won three awards; Blade Runner 2049, Coco, Darkest Hour, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri won two awards each. I, Tonya, Get Out, Call Me by Your Name, A Fantastic Woman, Icarus, Phantom Thread, Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405, The Silent Child, and Dear Basketball received one award each.
Starring: Jimmy Kimmel, Chadwick Boseman, Lupita Nyong'o, Daniel Kaluuya, Saoirse Ronan, Gal Gadot, Jennifer Lawrence, Margot Robbie, Sally Hawkins, Timothée Chalamet, Emily Blunt, Frances McDormand, Sam Rockwell, Gary Oldman, Zendaya, Guillermo del Toro
Loving Vincent (2017)
Animation | Biography | Crime | Drama
In a story depicted in oil painted animation, a young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.
Starring: Helen McCrory, Saoirse Ronan, Aidan Turner, Eleanor Tomlinson, Chris O'Dowd, Douglas Booth
Director: Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman
Brooklyn (2015)
Drama | Romance
The profoundly moving story of Eilis Lacey, a young Irish immigrant navigating her way through 1950s Brooklyn. Lured by the promise of America, Eilis departs Ireland and the comfort of her mother’s home for the shores of New York City. The initial shackles of homesickness quickly diminish as a fresh romance sweeps Eilis into the intoxicating charm of love. But soon, her new vivacity is disrupted by her past, and Eilis must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent, Julie Walters, Emory Cohen, Emily Bett Rickards
Director: John Crowley
Lost River / How to Catch a Monster (2014)
Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
A single mother is swept into a dark underworld, while her teenage son discovers a road that leads him to a secret underwater town.
Starring: Christina Hendricks, Matt Smith, Saoirse Ronan, Eva Mendes, Ben Mendelsohn, Iain De Caestecker
Director: Ryan Gosling
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Comedy
This comedy recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a coveted Renaissance painting and the conflict over an enormous family fortune.
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Saoirse Ronan, Edward Norton, Willem Dafoe, Jude Law, Owen Wilson
Director: Wes Anderson
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Comedy
This comedy recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a coveted Renaissance painting and the conflict over an enormous family fortune.
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Saoirse Ronan, Edward Norton, Willem Dafoe, Jude Law, Owen Wilson
Director: Wes Anderson
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Justin and the Knights of Valour (2013)
Adventure | Animation | Family
Justin would much rather be a Knight of Valour like his grandfather than a lawyer as his father wishes, so he leaves the kingdom and sets off to begin his training. While on his journey he meets a wizard called Melquiades and a handsome knight called Sir Clorex who inspire him to do well in his training. The peace is soon disrupted, however, when former knights Sir Heraclio and Sota return to the kingdom, threatening to destroy it, which puts Justin's courage to the ultimate test…
Starring: Antonio Banderas, James Cosmo, Rupert Everett, Freddie Highmore, Saoirse Ronan, Charles Dance
Director: Manuel Sicilia
How I Live Now (2013)
Action | Drama | Thriller | War
An American girl on holiday in the English countryside with her family finds herself in hiding and fighting for her survival as the third world war breaks out.
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, George MacKay, Tom Holland, Harley Bird, Danny McEvoy
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Violet & Daisy (2011)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
When they are lured into what is supposed to be just another quick and easy job, Violet and Daisy's plum plans get complicated as the man they're supposed to kill is not what they expected.
Starring: Alexis Bledel, Saoirse Ronan, James Gandolfini, Danny Trejo, Cody Horn, John Ventimiglia, Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Director: Geoffrey Fletcher
Byzantium (2012)
Drama | Fantasy | Thriller
In director Neil Jordan's vampire thriller a mother and daughter struggle to hide their bloody secret from their adopted community. Having survived for over 200 years, itinerant single mother Clara (Gemma Arterton) and her daughter Eleanor (Saoirse Ronan) are offered shelter at the down-at-heel Byzantium guest house when they arrive at a rundown seaside resort. Whilst her cold-hearted mother plies her trade as a prostitute to keep their heads above water and indulges her bloodletting at any opportunity, Eleanor wrestles with keeping her secret from her latest love, Frank (Caleb Landry Jones). But when the truth finally spreads its way through the local population, the arrival of two strangers belonging to an all-male vampire sect known as 'The Brotherhood' heralds a reckoning neither woman is prepared for.
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Arterton, Barry Cassin, Tom Hollander, Sam Riley, Caleb Landry Joness
Director: Neil Jordan
The Host (2013)
Action | Adventure | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
When an unseen enemy threatens mankind by taking over their bodies and erasing their memories, Melanie will risk everything to protect the people she cares most about, proving that love can conquer all in a dangerous new world.
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Diane Kruger, William Hurt, Max Irons, Rachel Roberts, Marcus Lyle Brown
Director: Andrew Niccol
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Atonement (2007)
Drama | Mystery | Romance | War
In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan) and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner (James McAvoy), the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia (Kiera Knightley). Cecilia, he hopes, has comparable feelings; all it will take is one spark for this relationship to combust. When it does, Briony – who has a crush on Robbie – is compelled to interfere, going so far as accusing Robbie of a crime he did not commit. Cecilia and Robbie declare their love for each other, but he is arrested – and with Briony bearing false witness, the course of three lives is changed forever. Briony continues to seek forgiveness for her childhood misdeed. Through a terrible and courageous act of imagination, she finds the path to her uncertain atonement, and to an understanding of the power of enduring love.
Starring: James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Saoirse Ronan, Vanessa Redgrave
Director: Joe Wright
The Way Back (2010)
Adventure | Drama | History
A small group of multi-national prisoners escapes from a Siberian gulag in 1940 and travel in a journey over thousands of miles across five hostile countries.
Starring: Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, Jim Sturgess, Saoirse Ronan
Director: Peter Weir
Hanna (2011)
Action | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
A 16-year-old who was raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe, tracked by a ruthless intelligence agent and her operatives.
Starring: Eric Bana, Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, Tom Hollander, Olivia Williams
Director: Joe Wright
