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The competition continues to heat up on Season 27 of The Voice as the second week of Battle Rounds took place on Monday (March 17), with the coaches faced with more tough decisions. Kelsea Ballerini, Michael Bublé, John Legend, and Adam Levine returned to the famous red chairs to watch their team members fight it out in a series of thrilling performances, but only 12 contestants moved through to the next round. The evening kicked off with Team Legend’s Ari Camille and Bryson Battle facing off in a stunning showdown as they performed “Made for Me” by Muni Long. Legend ultimately picked Battle as the winner, but the journey wasn’t over for Camille, as both Levine and Ballerini hit their Steal buttons. Even though Ballerini gave her best pitch, in the end, Camille chose to join Team Adam and will remain in the competition. Next up was Team Adam’s Hayden Grove and Lucia Flores-Wiseman,...

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The following contains spoilers for Sharp Objects. It also contains a mention of sexual assault and self-harm.

While Zack Snyder's Dceu movies might have been incohesive in terms of plot, he did nail the casting of select characters. Amy Adams as Lois Lane was one of them. She debuted in 2013's Man of Steel and helped Henry Cavill's Superman grow. She then worked to patch the rift between him and Batman.

Dceu Fans saw Lois trying to carve out a career as a journalist at the Daily Planet. It homaged DC shows like Smallville, as Snyder tried to showcase her personal and professional lives. The balance was off, unfortunately, Luckily for viewers who felt Adams was short-sold in the bigger scope of Snyder's vision, they can look to HBO's...

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Sharp Objects is a psychological mystery thriller drama series created by Marti Noxon. Based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Gillian Flynn, the HBO series follows Camille Preaker, an emotionally troubled investigative reporter who just got out of a psychiatric hospital. Camille travels to her hometown of Wind Gap, Missouri, to investigate the murder of two young girls, but she soon finds herself confronting her own childhood trauma. Sharp Objects stars Amy Adams, Patricia Clarkson, Chris Messina, Eliza Scanlen, Matt Craven, Henry Czerny, Taylor John Smith, Madison Davenport, and Sydney Sweeney. So, if you loved the intense psychological story, thrilling mystery, and compelling characters in Sharp Objects, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Life’s already a circus, right? You’re juggling work, relationships, and your own existential dread, and then someone suggests you go to the countryside for a peaceful escape. You’re thinking fresh air, calm vibes, and maybe some organic veggies on the side. But instead, what you get is a series of weirdly overenthusiastic conversations, a questionable bowl of soup, and—oh yeah—a tick bite that might just turn your whole world upside down.

Well, welcome to The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick, a film that promises tranquility but delivers tension, weirdness, and a whole lot of strange vibes. Director Pete Ohs isn’t just playing with horror here—he’s toying with your mind, nudging you into a world where nothing feels quite right. Like a bad trip to a wellness retreat, it leaves you questioning everything.

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Yvonne (Zoë Chao) needs to get out of the city and she needs to do it fast. A tragic accident has brought down on her the kind of crushing trauma response that can only be resolved by removing herself from her situation. Thankfully, her good friend Camille (Callie Hernandez) has a place in the country where she can go to rest and recuperate. However, when Yvonne arrives, she discovers that Camille is also housing two new friends, real estate agent Isaac (Jeremy O. Harris) and his boyfriend A.J. (James Cusati-Moyer). Uncomfortable with the situation, but in desperate need of a break, Yvonne sticks around, and before long, things get very strange. Camille and her buddies have given themselves over to a super hippie-dippy lifestyle, living...

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Our chronic need for self-care can sometimes feel like its own illness. Whether you’re slapping on your daily deodorant or attending a weekly therapy session, “taking care” of yourself means managing the symptoms of being a living-breathing person… forever. It’s annoying, time-consuming, and, in the world of wellness marketing, a lucrative and consumable constant. In “The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick,” filmmaker Pete Ohs examines snake oil culture as a means for exploiting both anxiety and fear.

Co-written by the director/editor/producer and the movie’s four lead actors, this sunny-yet-claustrophobic nightmare asks if the faux “healing” mentality — seen here as a stranger-danger version of a weekend getaway you only think you know — is really what’s making modern people sick. Foregoing the influencer-inspired sheen of something like the beauty thriller “Skincare,” this decidedly strange SXSW premiere follows the grieving Yvonne (Zoë Chao) into...

Wellness culture takes sinister form in “The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick,” a horror-adjacent domestic drama that can’t quite sustain its tongue-in-cheek delights. Directed by Pete Ohs (“Jethica”), and co-written by Ohs and his four lead actors, the ultra-indie SXSW discovery’s wry tone is accompanied by strange characters and even stranger sound design, and yields a wildly enjoyable initial half. However, like its grieving lead character lost in her millennial malaise, it loses itself down a rabbit hole of metaphors.

After Yvonne (Zoë Chao) experiences a personal tragedy — the surprising details of which are hinted at over a phone call, before gradually coming to light — she drives to the isolated, woodland home of her old college friend Camille (Callie Hernandez), only to discover a pair of surprise guests when she expected time alone. Camille’s real estate agent Isaac (Jeremy O. Harris) and his partner A.

For 30 years, the Power Rangers franchise has delivered fun, action-packed series to audiences both young and old. With the long-running continuity of the series, it’s easy to understand why the franchise has managed to maintain an older audience, especially given how much the series focuses on past rangers and nostalgia.

However, the Power Rangers franchise is well-known for being geared towards a younger audience. While some kids' shows, like Avatar: The Last Airbender, managed to create a story suitable for all age groups, most Power Rangers seasons tend to feature a lot of silly moments and oversimplified writing. However, some seasons have stood out as being slightly more mature, allowing both the young audience and adult fans to connect with the series.

Wild Force Was a Lighter Season With Some Dark Backstories The Red Ranger’s Parents Were Killed by the Main Villain Image via Toei

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A Wheel of Fortune contestant has left fans stunned at her puzzle-solving skills. Chelsea Hall, from San Antonio, Texas, won $62,950 in cash and prizes on the Wednesday, March 5, episode of the game show. She took part on the show a decade after her sister, Camille, competed on WoF. Hall played against Sophia Ogden, a fine arts addict from Castle Rock, Washington, and Demarland Dean, a musician and podcast listener from Ooltewah, Tennessee. She impressed host Ryan Seacrest when she solved every toss-up in the game. The John J. Pershing Elementary School counselor solved the first one with only two letters on the board. In the category “Song Title,” Hall guessed “I’m so excited!” with only a “C” and “D” solved. “How did you do that?” Seacrest asked. “That was amazing!” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wheel of Fortune (@wheeloffortune) By the second round, she was...

Paris Fashion Week just kicked off with a bang thanks to the Louvre Museum’s inaugural “Le Grand Dîner du Louvre” event, which featured a star-studded guest list!

Gigi Hadid, Tyra Banks, and the Beckhams were some of the many celebs who stepped out for the event on Tuesday night (March 4) at the Louvre in Paris, France.

“This is really the first time that the Louvre has decided to create an exhibition about the relationship between fashion and its own collections,” the museum’s director Olivier Gabet told Wwd.

Paris Fashion Week officially began on March 3 and runs through March 11. Stay tuned to see all the celeb sightings!

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Pete Ohs is bringing the horrors of domesticity to the screen in his third collaboration with Jeremy O. Harris. Ohs, who previously edited Harris’ documentary “Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play.” and is helming the upcoming indie “Erupcja” starring Harris and Charli Xcx, directs and co-writes SXSW feature “The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick.” This is the first film to be released by Harris’ new production company, bb².

Zoë Chao leads “The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick” as a grieving woman who spirals into paranoia after being (as the title teases) bitten by a tick while on vacation. Chao co-wrote the film with Ohs, Harris, and fellow actors Callie Hernandez and James Cusati-Moyer. Ohs, Hernandez (in her third collaboration with Ohs after by “Obex” and “Jethica”), and Harris and Josh Godfrey of bb² all produce as well.

The official synopsis reads: “After a tragic event,...

Emilia Perez received thirteen nominations for the 2025 Oscars, making it a notably well-regarded film as seen by the Academy, though its wins were limited. One big win was Zoe Saldaña getting the win for Best Supporting Actress, though controversial lead star Karla Sofia Gascon came up short for Best Actress, with Mikey Madison of Anora winning.

It was a night of jokes from host Conan O’Brien, and at one point, he referenced Gascon's controversy involving resurfaced social media posts. He said, "Anora uses the f-word 479 times. That’s more than the record set by Karla Sofia Gascon’s publicist... Karla, if you are going to tweet about the Oscars tonight, my name is Jimmy Kimmel."

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Caroline Vignal’s It’s Raining Men follows Iris (Laure Calamy), a Parisian dentist whose stagnant marriage propels her into a whirlwind of app-driven dalliances, blending cheeky humor with poignant introspection.

The film’s premise—middle-aged desire clashing with marital complacency—echoes the French tradition of treating infidelity as a nuanced exploration of human complexity rather than a moral failing. Vignal situates this tale within a cultural landscape where Anglo-American audiences might demand judgment, yet here, the focus remains on Iris’s liberation.

The script nods to classics like Breathless in its breezy defiance of narrative rigidity, though Vignal swaps Godard’s frenetic jump cuts for lush, surreal detours, such as a spontaneous musical sequence set to the titular anthem.

This juxtaposition of grounded realism and whimsical escapism mirrors France’s ambivalence toward tradition and modernity—a tension as relevant in today’s #MeToo era as it was in the heyday of the Nouvelle Vague.

The Oscars are the time where the entire film industry comes together to celebrate cinema, to pay homage to the people making your favorite movies, to do silly little comedy routines in-between awards. But they are also where Hollywood gets to showcase how out of tune it is with the general public, rewarding movies that are controversial at best, and despised at worst.

In 2025, the big controversial Oscar favorite was "Emilia Pérez," a horrendously bad crime musical about a Mexican lawyer who helps a sadistic murderer of a Mexican cartel boss transition into a woman, evading punishment for her crimes by faking her death and assuming a new identity. The film initially premiered at the Cannes Film Festival — an event notorious for ignoring controversies around the filmmakers whose movies they screen, and for awarding highly contentious movies. In 2024 the Jury Prize went to "Emilia Pérez," a movie that, at the time,...

Karla Sofía Gascón, nominated for her role in Emilia Pérez, shared her thoughts on social media after attending the 97th Academy Awards. In a post written in Spanish, she thanked the Academy for the recognition and highlighted moments from the night.

“Thank you to the members of @theacademy for the nomination as best leading actress, for the invitation to the gala; I liked it a lot, very entertaining and fun, especially your fabulous host Jimmy Kimmel, he is fantastic, every day he looks more like the great Conan O’Brien. ”

Her comment referenced a moment during the broadcast when Conan O’Brien, hosting the ceremony, made light of the online controversy surrounding Gascón’s resurfaced social media posts. During his monologue, he joked about the stress levels of her publicists and advised, “Karla, if you are going to tweet about the Oscars, my name is Jimmy Kimmel.”

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Looks like Karla Sofía Gascón heeded Oscars host Conan O’Brien’s words during last night’s telecast.

The Emilia Pérez star took to Instagram to thank the Academy for her recognition and the invite to the ceremony, previously in question following her tweet controversy, in which she expressed anti-Islam and racist remarks that had resulted in some tension between film distributor/streamer Netflix.

In the post shared today, the trans actress also made a winking reference to comedian O’Brien’s jokes about the matter; during the telecast, he alluded to her publicists’ expletive-laden stress and told her, “Karla, if you are going to tweet about the Oscars, my name is Jimmy Kimmel.”

Gascón began in her caption in Spanish, sharing images from the fete: “Thank you to the members of @theacademy for the nomination as best leading actress, for the invitation to the gala; I liked it a lot,...

The Emilia Pérez saga is over. Thank God. At Sunday night’s Academy Awards, the controversial film ended its fraught awards-season run with two trophies: One went to Zoe Saldaña for Best Supporting Actress; the other was for Best Original Song for “El Mal,” a track that sounds like it was written with a French-to-English-to-Spanish translation tool worse than ChatGPT.

You might recall the two people singing onstage at last night’s show as they accepted that award, inspiring a collective cringe from viewers. They were Emilia Perez‘s French musical directors,...

Karla Sofía Gascón thanked the Academy and congratulated winners from Sunday night’s Oscars in a post-ceremony message on Monday, concluding a chapter of the actress’ PR crisis which began over a month ago with a series of resurfaced racially charged social media posts.

“Thanks to the members of the Academy for the best actress nomination, for the invitation to the ceremony,” Gascón wrote in Spanish on Instagram, translated by The Hollywood Reporter. “I enjoyed it very much, it was entertaining and fun, especially the fabulous host Jimmy Kimmel — he is fantastic and looks more like the great Conan O’Brien every day.”

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Gascón went on to say she “loved hugging so many friends and colleagues on this return.”

In a follow-up post on her Instagram stories on Tuesday, Gascón shared a story that she found funny and...

At the start of Sunday's Oscars, host Conan O'Brien poked fun at Karla Sofía Gascón's highly publicized social media scandal by declaring, "Karla, if you are going to tweet about the Oscars, remember, my name is Jimmy Kimmel." Well, the Best Actress nominee for Emilia Pérez has now responded to O'Brien's Oscar joke.

"Thanks to the members of the Academy for the nomination for best leading actress, for the invitation to the gala," Gascón posted on Instagram. "I enjoyed it very much, very enjoyable and fun, especially its fabulous host Jimmy Kimmel, he is fantastic, every day he looks more like the great Conan O'Brien." She ended that sentence with a kiss emoji, suggesting there were no hard feelings.

This was O'Brien's first time hosting the Academy Awards, while Kimmel was the emcee on four different occasions.

"I loved hugging so many friends and colleagues at this homecoming," Gascón continued.

Karla Sofía Gascón thanked the Film Academy for inviting her to Sunday night’s 2025 Oscars, despite her racist tweet controversy taking up so much attention this awards season.

“Thanks to the members of The Academy for the nomination for Best Actress, for the invitation to the gala; I really enjoyed it, very amiable and funny, especially your fabulous host Jimmy Kimmel, he is fantastic, every day he looks more like the great Conan O’Brien,” the “Emilia Pérez” star joked on Instagram on Monday, translated from Spanish via Meta.

“Loved hugging so many friends and colleagues on this homecoming. Congratulations to all the winners, especially to Clément Ducol, Camille, Zoe Saldaña,” she added. “Thank you Jacques Audiard, Netflix, Why Not Productions. Thank you ‘Emilia Pérez’ for teaching me so many things.”

Speculation on whether Gascón would show up at the show was high after her awards campaign was derailed by years-old...

Awards season may be over, but “Emilia Pérez” star Karla Sofía Gascón got one last post off Monday morning to compliment Conan O’Brien for being a “fantastic” Oscars host. The emcee had some jabs for Gascón during his opening monologue, referencing the best actress nominee’s resurfaced internet posts that were interpreted as racist and cast a shadow over her film’s awards campaign.

“Thanks to the members of [the Academy] for the nomination as best leading actress, for the invitation to the gala; I really liked it, very entertaining and fun, especially its fabulous presenter Jimmy Kimmel, he is fantastic, every day he looks more like the great Conan O’Brien,” Gascón wrote on Instagram in Spanish, translated to English by Variety. The line is a callback to O’Brien’s monologue, in which the first-time Oscars host jokingly implored, “Karla, if you’re going to tweet about the Oscars, remember,...

Emilia Pérezhas faced controversy throughout this cinematic awards season, so it's no surprise that the Spanish-language French musical was a hot topic during the Oscars. Despite winning Best Original Song, however, Emilia Pérez director Jacques Audiard declined to discuss the film's numerous controversies and, perhaps most notably, failed to address the transgender community, whose plight is a primary focus of the movie.

Despite being nominated in an impressive 13 categories, Emilia Pérez won just two Oscars, with Zoe Saldaña taking the stage for Best Supporting Actress before "El Mal" winning Best Original Song. Audiard received the award during the Oscars live broadcast alongside musicians Clément Ducol and Camille. However, he did not personally address the audience; instead, he left the acceptance speech to his colleagues. Afterward, in the press room at the Dolby Theatre, Audiard was asked if there was anything he wanted to say to the transgender community, particularly in...

While this year’s Oscars marked a victory for U.S. independent moviemaking, with Sean Baker’s “Anora” nabbing four major awards, including best picture, it was also a big win for the Cannes Film Festival, which is set on the French Riviera.

Through “Anora,” “Emilia Perez,” “The Substance,” and “Flow,” the Cannes Film Festival collected a record nine statuettes out of 31 nominations, largely ahead of the Venice Film Festival with Walter Salles’ “I’m Still Here,” which won best international feature film, and three nods for Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist,” including best actor for Adrien Brody.

“Anora,” which also won best director, best actress for Mikey Madison, original screenplay and editing, is only the fourth Palme d’Or winner to have won best picture at the Oscars, after Bong Joon-ho’s “Parasite” in 2019, and Delbert Mann’s “Marty,” a New-York based crowdpleaser with Ernest Borgnine, in 1955. Billy Wilder’s...

The 2025 Academy Awards delivered some unforgettable moments, marking history on the biggest night of cinema. The Oscar ceremony saw Conan O’Brien hosting the award show for the first time as well as some powerful wins, stunning performances, and remarkable speeches that left a lasting impression.

Credits: Zoe Saldaña in Emilia Pérez / Netflix

While some winners undoubtedly made history, some awkward moments will certainly leave a lasting impression. From Best Actor Award winner Adrien Brody’s lengthy speech to a hilarious acceptance speech from Kieran Culkin, all will remain the highlights of the show. On the other hand, Emilia Pérez’s nominations were already filled with a lot of drama, but a bizarre moment by the songwriters during the acceptance speech for Best Original Song was hands down one of the cringy moments of the night.

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Following her Best Supporting Actress win at the Oscars on Sunday night, Zoe Saldaña responded to a Mexican reporter saying Emilia Pérez has been “really hurtful for us Mexicans.”

Speaking to journalists in the Oscars press room, Saldaña defended the controversial film, acknowledging, “That was never our intention. We spoke, we came from a place of love, and I will stand by that. I don’t share your opinion.”

She continued, “For me, the heart of this movie is not Mexico. We weren’t making a film about a country.

Recognition is extremely important for artists who work hard year after year to produce music that resonates with listeners and makes them feel all the feels. And when you’re denied that recognition time and time again, demotivation is just around the corner. Who would know this better than Diane Warren, the songwriter who is yet to add an Oscar to her trophy collection despite being nominated a whopping sixteen times.

Songwriter, Diane Warren | Credits: @dianewarren / Instagram

If you think about it, the odds should’ve been in her favor. After all, you’ve got to win once out of the 16 times you’ve been nominated, right? Unfortunately for Diane Warren, the Academy hasn’t been on her side since 1988.

Diane Warren loses at the Oscars for the 16th time The Six Triple Eight (2024) | Credits: Netflix

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Although people watching the Oscars broadcast on Sunday night often are waiting for the Best Picture, Actor and Actress categories, there is a reason why host Conan O’Brien shouted out another group of people at the end of his opening monologue.

“The Oscars also shines a light on an incredible community of people you will never see — craftspeople, artisans, technicians, costumers… I can’t name them all, there’re too many,” O’Brien said on stage. “Hardworking men and women behind the camera who have devoted their lives to making film, and yes many people we celebrate tonight are not famous, they’re not wealthy, but they are devoted to a craft that can in moments bring us all a little closer together.”

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Conan O’Brien hosts the live ABC telecast of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.

The independent film made for $6 million won the top prize at the 97th Academy Awards. Winning five Oscars, Anora took home the gold for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Editing, Best Actress and Best Original Screenplay.

The 97th Oscars opened with a “We Love LA” movie montage followed by “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” sung by Ariana Grande and “Home” sung By Cynthia Erivo. The standing ovation was then met by the duo singing Wicked’s “Defying Gravity”. A true show-stopping opener to the 97th Academy Awards concluded with thunderous applause from the audience in the Dolby Theatre, as well as an eruption in the pressroom.

Host Conan O’Brien welcomed everyone to the telecast and Hollywood’s Biggest Night “at 4pm in the afternoon and let’s do this thing!

There was no Oscar crafts juggernaut at the 97th Academy Awards Sunday night, despite both “Wicked” and the embattled “Emilia Pérez” coming in with seven nominations. Instead, the winners were spread out with two Oscars apiece going to “The Brutalist” (cinematography and original score), “Wicked” (costume design and production design), and “Dune: Part Two” (visual effects and sound). This was expected, as they were the standout spectacles demonstrating epic work.

The remainder of the awards went to Best Picture winner “Anora” (editing), “The Substance” (makeup/hairstyling), and “Emilia Pérez”.

‘Flow’ Sideshow and Janus Films

The Oscar for animated feature, meanwhile, was awarded to underdog “Flow” over presumptive favorite “The Wild Robot” from DreamWorks. The wordless cat survival adventure from Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis is not only the second consecutive indie win, it’s also a landmark indie triumph for the category (distributed by Sideshow and Janus Films). This means that...

Neon’s Anora and its multihyphenate filmmaker Sean Baker were the big winners at the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday night, taking five trophies including Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay, Editing — all for Baker to set an Oscar record — and Best Actress for Mikey Madison.

In his acceptance speech for Best Picture, Baker said: “If you’re trying to make independent films, please keep doing it. We need more. This is proof.”

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These were the first Oscars for Baker — who tied Walt Disney for the most Oscars in a single year, but those were for four different films — and Madison. The Best Picture prize for Palme d’Or champ Anora was presented by Quentin Tarantino at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

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You can't separate music from the movies, especially in an Oscar year like this one with two musicals nominated for Best Picture (Wicked and Emilia Pérez). As usual, the Motion Picture Academy incorporated music into Sunday's Oscars telecast, though not always in the usual way.

Wicked stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, both Oscar nominees for their roles, performed the opening number. Grande started things off, appropriately enough, with "Over the Rainbow" from The Wizard of Oz. Erivo followed that with a rendition of "Home." Fans might have revolted had they not dueted during their time on stage together, so they closed the medley with "Defying Gravity"; Grande even stepped aside to let Erivo belt those final notes in the spotlight. They received a standing ovation.

Other artists included on Sunday night were K-pop star Lisa from Blackpink, Grammy winner Doja Cat, and Grammy nominee Raye, who contributed to a...

“We are so grateful,” said Camille, letting out a great “whoo hoo” as she and Clément Ducol accepted the Oscar for Best Original Song for El Mal in Emilia Pérez. “We wrote El Mal as a song to denounce corruption and we hope it speaks to the role that music and art can play and continue to play as a force of the good and progress in the world.”

The pair wrote the music and, in a rare occurrence, shared the lyric credit with Jacques Audiard, director of the much-nominated Netflix musical crime drama

Ducol and Camille are also up for Best Original Score for Emilia Pérez. Saldana, who performs with Karla Sofía Gascón, just won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

The film received 13 nominations, the most of any in the field. But it’s been dogged by controversy over resurfaced racist tweets by trans star Gascón. She plays...

A viewing of Emilia Pérez, the musical crime thriller nominated for 13 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, is something like a fever dream of dialogue, drama, song, and dance. And perhaps no scene captures the hallucinatory excitement quite like one featuring Zoe Saldaña — who plays Rita, a hard-working lawyer with a unique assignment — performing her signature song from the film’s score, “El Mal,” which received the Oscar for Best Original Song at the 97th Academy Awards.

Directed by Jacques Audiard, with all songs written by French duo Clément Ducol and Camille, the film centers on a Mexican cartel leader’s search for self and handles its musical moments with a technicolor, operatic theatricality — the perfect context for Saldaña, who trained as a dancer before becoming an actor. “The origin of Emilia Pérez lies in the desire for an opera,” explains Audiard of the genre-bending epic. “The hazards of...

Diane Warren’s streak of Oscar losses continues, as the songwriter — on her 16th Best Original Song nomination — once again lost in the category for The Six Triple Eight’s “The Journey.”

Despite the 16 nominations — and eight consecutive Best Original Song nominations, dating back to 2017’s “Stand Up for Something” from Marshall — the 97th Academy Awards presented Warren with perhaps her best opportunity to win the category in years: “The Journey” was performed by an Oscar-winning artist, H.E.R., was in a widely seen movie, and was in a field where...

Warren, 68, lost out to the song El Mal from Emilia Pérez

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The songwriter Diane Warren has continued her record-breaking streak of losses at the 97th Academy Awards with a defeat in the best song category. The winners were the married composer Clément Ducol and singer-songwriter Camille for El Mal from Emilia Pérez.

Warren, 68, had been in contention for the song The Journey, from Tyler Perry’s Netflix film The Six Triple Eight, about the all-Black, all-female 6,888th battalion during the second world war.

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Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Perez” will not be going home empty-handed. Despite the recent controversy that has surrounded the movie and one of its stars, Karla Sofia Gascón, the Cesar Awards and European Film Awards Best Film winner has an Oscar to add to its coffers. “El Mal,” written by Clément Ducol and Camille with lyrics by Clément Ducol, Camille, and Jacques Audiard, took the 2025 Best Original Song Oscar.

Continue reading ‘Emilia Perez’ Wins The Best Original Song Oscar For ‘El Mal’ at The Playlist.

“El Mal,” the show-stopping number sung by Zoe Saldaña in Netflix’s “Emilia Perez,” won the best song Oscar Sunday night for French songwriters Camille and Clément Ducol and their co-writer, the film’s director Jacques Audiard.

Later in the evening, English composer Daniel Blumberg won the original score Oscar for his music for Brady Corbet’s epic “The Brutalist.”

The song “El Mal,” in Audiard’s operatic drama, is a three-minute tour de force for Saldaña as lawyer Rita Castro, a fantasy in which she dances around a room filled with the rich and powerful, decrying the hypocrisy of those responsible for the murders of thousands of Mexicans during the drug wars.

Mick Jagger introduced the category, taking the stage to the strains of the Rolling Stones’ 1968 classic “Sympathy for the Devil.”

After thanking the audience and saying how pleased he was to present the award, he said, “Much as I love doing it,...

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The 97th Academy Awards ceremony was held Sunday, 2 March at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood. Emmy Award-winning television host, writer, producer and comedian Conan O’Brien hosted the ceremony for the first time. The official live red carpet pre-show led into the live televised broadcast on ABC and in more than 200 territories worldwide For the first time, the ceremony was also available to stream live on Hulu.

A number of records were broken at the ceremony. Flow became the first Latvian film and the first independent film to win Best Animated Feature. Paul Tazewell became the first Black man to win an Oscar for costume design. Zoe Saldaña is the first Dominican to win an Oscar for acting. I’m Still Here became Brazil’s first Oscar win. Adrien Brody broke a record by winning both his first and his second...

The 97th Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, March 2 at 7 p.m. Et / 4 p.m. Pt. The prestigious ceremony will take place at the iconic Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, continuing the Academy’s rich tradition. The event will be broadcast live on ABC and streamed on platforms like Jio Hotstar, Oscar.com, Oscars.org, and the Academy’s social media handles.

As far as nominations are concerned, Emilia Pérez leads the 2025 Oscar race with 13 nominations, followed closely by The Brutalist and Wicked, each securing 10 nominations. Stay tuned as we update the complete list of 2025 Oscar winners in real time.

Here’s the complete list of the 2025 Oscar nominees and Winners: Best Supporting Actor Yura Borisov (Anora) Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain) – Winner Edward Norton (A Complete Unknown) Guy Pearce (The Brutalist) Jeremy Strong (The Apprentice) Best Animated Feature Film Flow – Winner Inside Out 2 Memoir of a Snail Wallace and...

The bumpy road to Oscar glory will reach its end Sunday night at the 97th Academy Awards, closing out one of the most unpredictable awards seasons in years. Ups and downs, twists and turns, mudslinging, mea culpas, tears both happy and sad — we’ve seen it all in recent weeks as the race kept us guessing what new upheaval might come next.

And that includes who wins tonight. “Emilia Pérez” might have the most nominations (13), but Jacques Audiard’s Spanish-language musical lost its frontrunner status pretty much the moment star Karla Sofía-Gascón’s history of bigoted tweets resurfaced. In stepped “Anora,” which won top prizes with both the PGA and DGA and seemed ready to sail to a Best Picture victory…until “Conclave” swept in and showed us that the race was much tighter than we’d thought.

And what looked like an unobstructed path to best actress anointment for...

The Oscar winner for Best Original Song, as predicted by Gold Derby's odds, was "El Mal" from Emilia Pérez. It was written by Camille and Clément Ducol, who also composed the film's score, and the film's director, Jacques Audiard. It's the first Oscar win for all three songwriters. Unfortunately, that meant a 16th loss for Diane Warren, who was nominated for penning "The Journey" from The Six Triple Eight and to date still hasn't won a competitive Oscar.

This year's Oscar race started at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards last fall, and it was a good night for Emilia Pérez, which won Best Music Themed Film, Biopic, or Musical; Best Song — Onscreen Performance (for Zoe Saldaña singing "El Mal"); and Best Score — Feature Film. However, "El Mal" didn't win Best Song - Feature Film. That was Warren for "The Journey," while "Never Too Late" was named the best song from a documentary.

The couples from Married at First Sight Season 18 had their big moment on Decision Day, and Karla Juarez and Juan Franco chose to get divorced.

The cute couple had so much potential when they first tied the knot, but Juan’s lack of attraction to his wife eventually caused her to lose interest.

Mafs viewers took to social media to sound off after Juan and Karla chose to divorce and applauded the pair for gracefully navigating the situation.

They were among the two couples who made it to the big event, with the other matches calling it quits before the eight-week marital experiment ended.

Camille Parsons and Thomas McDonald made it to Decision Day and had a much happier outcome than Juan and Karla.

They are the only ones who stayed married and have now been added to the short list of successful Mafs couples.

Mafs viewers react to Juan...

It’s finally time for the 97th Academy Awards, as the 2024-2025 awards season comes to a close and we hand out some Oscars. And this year, Sean Baker’s sex worker dramedy Anora ended up triumphing, winning five awards including Best Picture, Best Director, and Lead Actress for Mikey Madison.

This meant that Demi Moore, long considered the favorite to win for her work in The Substance, ended up losing out. In other categories, Adrian Brody won Lead Actor for his work in Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, while Kieran Culkin picked up his expected trophy for A Real Pain and Zoe Saldaña overcame the Emilia Pérez controversy to win for Supporting Actress.

Anora also won awards for Original Screenplay and Editing, while Conclave picked up a win for Adapted Screenplay and Dune: Part Two was recognized for Sound and Visual Effects. The Brutalist also won for Cinematography and Score,...

H.E.R. is weighing in on Oscar producers’ decision not to include performances of this year’s best original song nominees during Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony.

The singer-songwriter would have performed Diane Warren’s “Journey” from the “The Six Triple Eight” soundtrack if the traditional performances took place.

“It’s kind of weird, but I’m just happy to be there,” H.E.R., who won the original song Oscar in 2021 for “Fight for You” from “Judas and the Black Messiah,” told me Saturday night at the Chanel and Charles Finch pre-Oscars dinner at the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hill Hotel, “Performing or not, the song’s gonna live on, whether we perform it on the Oscar stage or not, I was a little bummed because I look forward to those performances, not just being in it, you know, but it’s totally fine. It’s still gonna be a great show,...

“Emilia Pérez” won Best Film from the French 2025 César Awards, a major win for the Netflix film ahead of the Oscars. Jacques Audiard’s movie had earned 13 Oscar nominations but then fell out of frontrunner status.

The film also won both Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for Jacques Audiard, though Zoe Saldaña, who has dominated the awards circuit all year, lost in an upset to Hafsia Herzi for the film “Borgo.” Saldaña though was nominated alongside Karla Sofía Gascón in the Best Actress category, and not in Best Supporting Actress.

In all, “Emilia Pérez” took home seven Césars out of 12 nominations, including Best Visual Effects, Best Sound, Best Original Music, and Best Cinematography. “The Count of Monte Cristo,” a new version of the Dumas revenge tale, led all nominees with 14, and it won two.

While the Césars this year largely did not resemble the Oscars, a few others won...

Camille Parsons and Thomas McDonald should get a little bonus on their paychecks for saving the season.

They’re the only Season 18 match who chose to stay married on Decision Day and after the disaster that was Season 17, the show needed a win.

In terms of happily married couples, the marital experiment has a very low success rate.

With the latest addition of Camille and Thomas, the show has produced 12 successful marriages despite matching over 74 couples throughout the years.

Monsters and Critics recently revealed which Mafs couples are still together, but at the time, the Season 18 duo hadn’t yet decided if they would stay married or get divorced.

Now it’s official, so let’s do a little throwback to earlier this season when Camille and Thomas were matched by the experts, Dr. Pia, Pastor Cal, and Dr. Pepper.

Here’s why the Mafs experts matched Camille and Thomas...

After laying low in the wake of several clumsy apology attempts over her offensive posts, “Emilia Pérez” star Karla Sofia Gascón made her first award show appearance on Friday at the Paris-set Cesar ceremony where Jacques Audiard’s Spanish language crime musical is vying for 12 nods.

Flanked by two men who appeared to be security, Gascón bypassed the Cesar press line and went directly inside the Olympia auditorium. She was placed on the same row as her co-star Saldana and Audiard but was not seated next to them.

Gascón, who lives in Spain, traveled to France for the Cesar, France’s equivalent to the Oscars, and will be facing Saldana in the best actress category. In France, the movie isn’t handled by Netflix but by the French company Pathé which likely covered her travel expenses.

As Variety reported this week, she’s also due to attend the Oscar ceremony...

We’re already 17 episodes into the current season of Married at First Sight and with Decision Day out the way, you might be wondering what’s next.

You’ll be happy to know that Season 18 is far from over, with new episodes scheduled until the end of March.

As usual, the reunion is one event that can’t be missed. There are other exciting events set to take place, but first, let’s recap the latest happenings.

Only two of the five original couples made it to Decision Day: Juan Franco and Karla Juarez, along with Thomas McDonald and Camille Parsons.

Juan and Karla opted for divorce but Camille and Thomas stayed married and are the only couple from the season still together.

There was also a cheating scandal and a couple swap as David Trimble and Madison Myers ditched their partners for each other.

The fifth couple, Emem Obot...

On this crazy season of Married At First Sight only one couple, Thomas McDonald and Camille Parsons said yes on decision day. Madison Myers and David Trimble waste no time going on a date with the cameras right there. Karla Juarez says no first to Juan Franco after the romantic chemistry just wasn’t there. Let’s take a closer look at what went down in this recap of Season 18, Episode 17 A Match Made in Scandal.

Married At First Sight: Camille Parsons and Thomas McDonald Say Yes on Decision Day

It’s finally decision day on Married At First Sight and only one couple chose to stay married, Thomas McDonald and Camille Parsons. After the messy couples retreat imploded, everyone went back to Chicago to regroup. Karla Juarez and Juan Franco went into decision day undecided, but leaning into not staying married. Thomas and Camille have a romantic dinner before facing the experts.

The magical girl genre of manga and anime has long captivated audiences with amazing stories of friendship, romance and epic transformations. Sailor Moon, Revolutionary Girl Utena and other popular titles revolutionized the subgenre of anime, popularizing it for audiences around the world. After a two-year hiatus, a beloved magical girl comic series is making its return, offering fresh adventures that Sailor Moon fans will absolutely adore.

Since its initial release from Boom! Studios in 2022, Flavor Girls has garnered a dedicated fanbase, despite not reaching the level of popularity that Sailor Moon has earned over the years. The series took a two-year break — and now is the perfect time for new fans to jump into the series as it makes its epic comeback in 2025. With new issues of Flavor Girls finally being released, it's a great time to be a fan of magical girl team-up stories.

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