Bill Nighy earned his first Oscar nomination as buttoned-down bureaucrat Mr Williams, prematurely buried in a drab civil-service job in post-war London, whose diagnosis of a terminal illness inspires a determination to take a fresh look at life and consider his legacy. Sex Education's Aimee Lou Wood shines as a former work colleague-turned-platonic companion, who admits to having nicknamed him 'Mr Zombie' before his revivification. The fact that South African director Oliver Hermanus' elegiac, exquisitely made film belongs among the pantheon of 'remakes that are better than the original' is doubly impressive given that the source material is Ikiru, made by Akira Kurosawa at the peak of his powers.