• Jacques Audiard’s trans musical beats record for most nominations by a film not in the English language
• Star Karla Sofía Gascón becomes first openly trans actor up for an Oscar
• Snubs for Pamela Anderson, Denzel Washington, Nicole Kidman and Angelina Jolie

Emilia Pérez, Jacques Audiard’s musical about a Mexican gangster who transitions to escape the mob, has broken the record for the most Oscar nominations earned by a film not in the English language.

The film took 13 at the announcement on Thursday – three more than both Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in 2001 and Roma in 2019.

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Payne’s former One Direction bandmate will move US dates to January though UK schedule not mentioned

Zayn Malik has announced that he will reschedule his tour after the “heartbreaking” death of his former One Direction bandmate Liam Payne.

Payne, 31, died on Wednesday after a fall from a third-floor balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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JB and Amy jive to Outkast, Pete and Jowita rumba to Oasis, while Wynne and Katya quickstep to ELO. Who will get sent home? Will we see more perfect 10s? And will there be any more controversies this week?

Tick them off when they happen! Take a drink for each! Get the giggles and hiccups! Here’s this week’s 10-point spotter’s guide :

Shirley tells a celebrity “I’m going to call you Mr/Miss Something”, then never calls them that again

Craig says there was no connection between the couple but the other three judges disagree

Celebrity uses ye olde “busy week in the day job impacting our training time” excuse

Judges openly laugh at Paul Merson’s samba hip action

Claudia asks after Sarah Hadland’s cat Percy and is shown a pic of him in fancy dress

Motsi cries after Montell and Jojo’s Couple’s Choice

Someone says the quickstep “is quick with lots of steps”

Rictus grins from Wynne and Katya on the balcony, knowing cameras will be trained on them

Anton Du Beke harks back to past “saaarm-bas” he danced himself

Claudia looks to camera while Vito Coppola embarks on a rambling description of a dance step

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The novelist and short story writer on her new book about Azrael, the angel of death, her encounters with Raymond Carver and Richard Yates, and why fiction should be uncanny

Joy Williams, 80, has written five novels and four story collections and is the recipient of numerous awards. Her most recent book of short stories, Concerning the Future of Souls : 99 Stories of Azrael (Tuskar Rock), was published earlier this year. Her work ranges from the philosophical examination of being, belief and morality to urgent engagements with environmental catastrophe; James Salter wrote of her that she belongs in the company of Céline and Flannery O’Connor. Born in Massachusetts, she now lives in the Sonoran desert.

An earlier collection of yours was called 99 Stories of God , and now you’ve moved on to Azrael (the angel of death and transporter of souls) as the subject. What drew you to him?
I read in a WS Merwin collection his translation of Hadrian’s deathbed poem to his soul – Animula vagula blandula – so sorrowful and succinct. The soul, a worthy subject. And Azrael has always fascinated me: he was death, but not death exactly. He was more a gorgeous creation of Islam. I picture him as responsible for all the souls of this ensouled Earth.

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In the early 1980s, while working as an apprentice animator at Disney, a young Tim Burton channelled his creative energies into personal projects. One of these was this series of extravagantly decorated numbers, created for an unpublished children’s book; they were later repurposed as chapter headings for The Art of Tim Burton , a 2009 book bringing together 40 years of his artistry. “Anthropomorphic creatures feature heavily across Burton’s work,” says Maria McLintock, curator of a new exhibition displaying more than 600 Tim Burton designs and objects including costumes and storyboards. “He sketches voraciously, often engrossed in a pocket-sized sketchbook with a small watercolour kit in tow. The genesis of almost every shot in his films is a drawing.”

• The World of Tim Burton is at the Design Museum, London, 25 October to 21 April 2025

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Brand’s strange journey from darling of the left to cancelled crank makes for an informed podcast, while a power imbalance impairs rock groupies’ tales. Plus, writer Katherine Rundell on the power of children’s fiction

Origin Story: Russell Brand – Confidence Man ( Podmasters )
Lost Notes: Groupies: Women of the Sunset Strip from the Pill to Punk ( KCRW )
The Lion, the Witch and the Wonder (Radio 4) | BBC Sounds

Origin Story , a podcast about understanding politics (topics covered: centrism, George Orwell, No 10, among others), has just launched its sixth series. The opening episode is a 90-minute show on that renowned political powerhouse Russell Brand. Which may seem odd, but hosts Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey use Brand in a way, you could argue, that Brand has used others: as a means of getting somewhere. They look at his slide from darling of the left into gesticulating, never-off, “just asking questions” internet charlatan, and draw conclusions about why politics (big politics, presidential politics) has ended up splashing about with the conspiracy theorists.

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The singer is the latest casualty of an industry that thrusts fame on children too young to cope

Sex, drinking, smoking, gambling, joining the army, being put to work – we now take it as obvious that there should be strict laws protecting young people from certain parts of the adult world.

Of course there should. Young brains are soft, excitable and easily addled. There are many things they should be sheltered from, and some choices that should not be theirs to make.

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The chef and broadcaster on peeling prawns by the kilo, his bicultural pride and being ‘addicted’ to fish and chips

Ducks don’t like me when they look at me . I’ve cooked countless peking ducks, probably several thousand. On my first TV series [ Ken Hom’s Chinese Cookery on BBC Two, first broadcast on 29 October 1984 ] we did peking duck in the first programme and there was a run on ducks the next day in all the supermarkets. I’m their nemesis.

My father died when I was eight months old , he had a heart attack. So I grew up in Chicago with a single mum who, because she came from China, never spoke English. I had to speak Cantonese to her and it’s been a blessing in disguise. Because of that, I became bicultural. I spoke English in a western world, but at the same time, I kept my Chinese-ness, which I pride just as much. And it makes me proud too to do Chinese cooking and to have my books translated into Chinese. I mean, wow!

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The researcher spent 10 years studying how attitude affects mood and behaviour, and her new book shares ways in which we can learn to value the colder months

Kari Leibowitz holds a PhD in social psychology from Stanford University, where she studied the role of our mindsets on our health and wellbeing. For the past 10 years, Leibowitz has been investigating people’s attitudes to winter and the ways they can powerfully affect our mood and behaviour – research that has culminated in her debut book , How to Winter: Harnessing Your Mindset to Thrive in Cold, Dark Or Difficult Times .

As a Fulbright scholar , you moved from Atlanta to the University of Tromsø in Norway . The polar night there lasts for almost two months . How did that experience inform your views of winter?
I was looking for a research project, and I began writing to Joar Vittersø, who is one of the world’s leading experts on human happiness and wellbeing. He told me that he was at the world’s northernmost university, and I thought: how does the world expert on human happiness live in this place where the sun doesn’t rise for two months each winter?

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