Riz Ahmed: Last News

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter) and Oscar winner Riz Ahmed (The Long Goodbye) have joined Christos Nikou’s (Apples) anticipated English-language feature film debut Fingernails, we can reveal.

Riz Ahmed has branded the UK government’s Nationality and Borders Bill as “racist” and “immoral” in a video.On Wednesday (April 20), Conservative MPs rejected amendments to the bill proposed by the House Of Lords which would have softened some of its measures. The bill includes plans to offshore asylum seekers and introduce a two-tier refugee system, along with the right to deprive someone of their British citizenship without prior notification.In a video posted on Twitter ahead of the vote, Ahmed called for people to make a stand against the bill.

Sir Kenneth has notched up eight Oscar nominations over four decades of acting, writing and directing, spanning seven different award categories, itself a record, but until this year had always come away empty-handed. His win for best original screenplay, for the film Belfast, comes 40 years after he made his screen acting debut on BBC television in 1982. The Oscar for best short film went to The Long Goodbye, a 11-minute feature that was released alongside the album of the same name by British actor and musician Riz Ahmed.

Riz Ahmed is a winner!

Angelique Jackson In June 2021, Oscar-nominee and Emmy-winner Riz Ahmed and Pillars Fund’s Kashif Shaikh and Arij Mikati outlined the urgent need for more Muslim representation in the entertainment industry, both in front of and behind the camera, during an extensive interview with Variety.The trio announced plans to launch a first-of-its-kind initiative, dubbed the Pillars Artist Fellowship, with a mission to provide resources and mentorship to a group of talented Muslim artists to help them use their talents to change the game in the film and television industries. Today, Pillars Fund, Ahmed and his Left Handed Films banner unveil the inaugural cohort of fellows.“We spent months getting to know many talented candidates,” stated Shaikh, Pillars Fund’s co-founder and president.

the BandLab NME Awards 2022 for her dazzling acting debut as Alana Kane in Licorice Pizza.The rock star-turned-actress beat out Benedict Cumberbatch, Jonathan Majors, Riz Ahmed and Thomasin McKenzie for the prize.Last year, she told NME that she had “no movie star training” before taking on the role in director Paul Thomas Anderson’s film.“I jumped in at the deep end,” Alana said. “I had no experience. I asked Paul if I should and he was like, ‘No, don’t do anything.

Romeo Beckham seems to have become quite the fashionista, taking after his designer mum, Victoria. The teenager joined his mum at the Saint-Laurent fashion show for Paris Fashion Week. The fashion icon and Spice Girl, 47, posed with her middle son Romeo, 19, before a front row appearance at the Womenswear Fall/Winter 2022 show.

Romeo Beckham seems to have become quite the fashionista, taking after his designer mum, Victoria.The teenager joined his mum at the Saint-Laurent fashion show for Paris Fashion Week.The fashion icon and Spice Girl, 47, posed with her middle son Romeo, 19, before a front row appearance at the Womenswear Fall/Winter 2022 show.Romeo towered over his famous mum, even though she was wearing heels.Victoria turned heads in a vibrant ensemble of red PVC trousers, from her own brand, and a striking purple knit.While the famous designer nailed colour-blocking, son Romeo opted for a casual look.The teen donned a pastel pink wool jumper with baggy acid wash jeans and fresh white trainers. Also tagging along was Romeo’s model girlfriend Mia Regan, who sat with them at the bi-annual fashion preview. The young couple smiled for photos, with Mia rocking a leather jacket and black jean combo.Victoria and Romeo were just two of the stars in attendance, as the guest list for the exclusive event was full of celebs.Other guests included Hollywood icon Demi Moore, actor Riz Ahmed and designer Donatella Versace.The Beckham kids already seems to be making their mark in the fashion world following brother Cruz’s underwear photoshoot.The 17-year-old made headlines as he posed for i-D magazine, fronting his first cover shoot in his undies.

ITV chat show.Friday evening saw the West End star make an appearance on the show, alongside singer Gary Barlow, Grand Tour star Jeremy Clarkson, actors Riz Ahmed and Stephen Merchant as well as music icon Sting.But an insider has now claimed that the actress was left "furious" after the show had wrapped.They said: “She claimed the atmosphere was chauvinistic and there was an air of misogyny."She also claimed that she felt she had not been treated with kindness."They went on to add that the star had reportedly been spotted "shouting" at the backstage team and said she was going to sack them.They added to The Sun : "It was clear Sheridan was upset with her team backstage after filming.”Responding to the claims, a spokesperson for Jonathan

Riz Ahmed says the underrepresentation and misrepresentation of Muslim characters in movies and television have real-world consequences.

Riz Ahmed and his wife, novelist Fatima Farheen Mirza, turned heads on the red carpet of the 93rd Annual Academy Awards on Sunday.The 38-year-old British actor, who's nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (his first nomination from the Academy), looked sharp in a sleek black suit by Prada. The  star kept his look on the simple side, while his ladylove shined in an aqua caped Valentino gown.The actor revealed in January that the two had gotten married at the end of 2020.

The Sound of Metal star won everyone’s heart when he revealed the cheesy but adorable way, he asked Fatima Farheen Mirza to marry him. During an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Riz Ahmed revealed he asked his wife to marry him over a game of scrabble! The two had gone to a park on a picnic, one of the few things they could do- given the lockdown, and that’s where he popped the question.“We were actually playing Scrabble,” he said, “and I did that corny thing where I stole all the correct letters up and spelled out, ‘Will you marry me?’”Well, he says “corny”, we say absolutely charming!Ahmed says at first, she thought he was joking! “Actually, the way I proposed didn’t help… cause she’s a novelist!” he said.

Sound of Metal star Riz Ahmed has said he “got into trouble” for smashing up his trailer while filming a scene for his new film.The actor, who plays Ruben in Darius Marder’s film, recalled an early scene of panic in the film in which Ruben breaks down in the mobile home in which he lives.“Darius started rolling and all of that just kind of came tumbling out,” Ahmed told NME.

2021 Oscars, and the race is heating up.The Producers Guild just named “Nomadland” best picture of the year, meaning it’s a shoo-in for the top Oscar. And the Screen Actors Guild Awards will air Sunday and cement the front-runners in the four acting categories.

Riz Ahmed became the first Muslim actor to ever be nominated for an Academy Award, but that fact wasn’t enough to impress the “Sound Of Metal” actor’s cousins.

Actor Riz Ahmed is up for an Oscar for playing a deaf drummer... yet he was once so skint he almost quit showbiz.

Let’s hear it for the nominees! Several stars have something to celebrate after being nominated for 2021 Academy Awards on Monday, March 15.

Since his secret wedding in 2020, fans have wanted to know more about Riz Ahmed’s wife, Fatima Farheen Mirza. Ahmed, who is known for movies like Venom and Sound of Metal, confirmed in an interview on the “Grounded with Louis Theroux” podcast in January 2021 that he and Mirza had married in a secret in 2020.

In a year that has stymied many of his peers, Riz Ahmed has been incredibly prolific, with two 2020 feature releases—Darius Marder’s Sound of Metal and Bassam Tariq’s Mogul Mowgli—as well as an album, The Long Goodbye, which came with a powerful short imagining life in a racist, post-Brexit Britain. If The Long Goodbye is a showcase for the sometime musician’s eloquent wordplay, the two movies offer some of his finest acting work yet, as a heavy metal drummer coming to terms with his sudden deafness in Sound of Metal and as a rapper struck down by an autoimmune disease in Mogul Mowgli.

Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards, Features EditorWhen Eli Goree was cast as Cassius Clay, the boxer who would become Muhammad Ali, in “One Night in Miami,” he was the most prepared actor you could find. That’s because he had begun almost two years prior, when he auditioned for the role of Ali in a different film, to be directed by Ang Lee.“I started preparing by gaining weight, learning the accent, going through the audition process,” Goree says.

BBC's highest-earning stars list, will be making a comeback with a live audience and new guests.Studio changes will be taking place, including virtual interviews and a reshuffling of the set-up to allow for social distancing, but viewers can expect the same show they love.Here's all the details including the start date, celebrity line-up and the future of the famous Red chair.The BBC show starts on Friday, October 2, 2020.It will start at 22:45pm on BBC One.Graham will be joined by a star line-up for the new series, including music legend Dolly Parton and emmy-winning star Riz Ahmed who will tune in remotely.While comedian and actress Lolly Adefope and stand-up and writer Sara Pascoe will be in the studio.The musical guest is Roisin Murphy