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Sean Baker made Oscars history on Sunday by becoming the first person to win four Oscars in one night for the same movie. With his movie “Anora,” a bittersweet dramedy about a Brooklyn stripper who becomes entangled with the wayward son of a Russian oligarch, Baker won awards for best picture, director, original screenplay and editing. 

 The 97th Academy Awards were presented Sunday at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, and on a show that ran nearly four hours and saw five different films win multiple awards, “Anora” filmmaker Sean Baker was the big winner with a record-tying four Oscars. Here's the complete list of winners. 

Roberta Flack, a classically trained pianist who taught in the D.C. school system before launching a singing career that made her one of the most popular performers of the 1970s, with such No. 1 hits as “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” died Feb. 24 at her home in New York City. She was 88.

At any given moment, you're likely to find Snoop Dog wherever eyeballs (bloodshot or otherwise) wander, from T-Mobile ads and bottles of 19 Crimes wine to Radio City Music Hall for the recent "Saturday Night Live" 50th anniversary concert.

WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. – Carrie Coon lives right on the edge – of overwhelming sadness, of righteous fury, of whatever emotion bubbles inside the character she is playing, threatening to boil over. In her breakout television role as a woman who loses her family in the apocalyptic drama “The Leftovers,” Coon appears collected while always just an unwanted reminder away from anguished waterworks. In “The Gilded Age,” perceived slights often drive her character, the social-climbing wife of a robber baron, to the brink of indignant tantrums.

Former “Bachelorette” star Katie Thurston announced that she’s been diagnosed with breast cancer. The 34-year-old Season 17 alum shared the “life update” on Saturday, saying she learned of her diagnosis earlier this month but was still waiting to find out what stage her cancer is at. “I experienced a range of emotions over the past two weeks,” she wrote on Instagram. “Despair. Anger. Sadness. ...

Michael Jordan’s son Marcus Jordan was taken into custody Monday for alleged possession of cocaine and resisting arrest.

LAS VEGAS — The man accused of orchestrating the 1996 drive-by shooting that killed hip hop icon Tupac Shakur is now facing an additional battery charge. A criminal complaint was filed Sunday charging Duane Davis with a charge of battery by a prisoner. He was accused of using “force or violence” against someone else Friday while at the Clark County Detention Center, according to the court ...

Fresh from Meghan Markle and Prince Harry being called “disaster tourists” for visiting the smoldering ruins of people’s homes lost in the Eaton fire, the couple face new scrutiny over the personal, professional and reputational challenges they’ve dealt with in the five years since they left royal life and moved to California.

It’s splitsville for tennis star Naomi Osaka and rapper Cordae after a five-year relationship. The former couple, who welcomed a baby girl named Shai in 2023, are officially over, according to the four-time Grand Slam champ. “Hi everyone, just wanted to say that Cordae and I are no longer in a relationship. No bad blood at all, he’s a great person and an awesome dad,” she shared on Instagram ...

Attorneys representing multiple Sean “Diddy” Combs accusers aren’t happy with the jokes made by comedian Nikki Glaser at the Golden Globes on Sunday night. Ariel Mitchell, who represents Ashley Parham and others, told TMZ that Glaser’s jokes are the type that keep other sexual assault survivors from coming forward. Tyrone Blackburn, who represents Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, told the gossip site ...

“Spider-Man: Homecoming” co-stars Zendaya Coleman and Tom Holland are engaged according to several media reports, nearly nine years after meeting on set of the superhero film. Despite the 28-year-old ‘Dune” star’s solo appearance on the Golden Globes red carpet Sunday, eagle-eyed red carpet onlookers on Sunday spotted a ring on Zendaya’s left hand that fueled engagement speculation, especially ...

Amber Heard stepped into the Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni fray on Monday after learning that the crisis control PR firm Baldoni had hired was the same one ex-husband Johnny Depp used during their 2022 defamation trial. “Social media is the absolute personification of the classic saying ‘A lie travels halfway around the world before truth can get its boots on,’ ” she told NBC News. “I saw this ...

Reality star Paris Hilton was back on Capitol Hill on Monday, meeting with representatives in hopes of passing a bill to reform residential treatment facilities for troubled teens. Hilton, 43, has been in Washington, D.C., numerous times over the past three years to advance the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act, which passed the Senate unanimously last week. However, there is only one week ...

He kept an eye out for Selener — and now he has her for keeps. Actor and singer Selena Gomez announced her engagement to record producer and songwriter Benny Blanco on Instagram late Wednesday.

Timothée Chalamet offered to pay a $500 fine slapped on the organizer of his lookalike contest in New York City, according to the would-be recipient, who graciously declined.

Police in Minnesota may have a recording of O.J. Simpson confessing to the 1994 double murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, obtained as part of a search warrant in a separate investigation. The recording is said to be on a thumb drive that belonged to the accused killer‘s former bodyguard, according to the warrant obtained by TMZ. Police say Simpson may have also implicated a ...

MINNEAPOLIS — A storied pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in “The Wizard of Oz,” stolen from a museum display in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, then reportedly buried in a clear container in a suburban Minneapolis backyard have a high bid of $1,150,000 through Tuesday morning on Heritage Auctions’ online auction. The initial bid, when the auction opened more than a month ago, was $500,000. ...