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The Guardian
12-03-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Into the breach: inside the 14 March Guardian Weekly
Europe has changed. Call it a watershed, a turning point or, if you prefer German, Zeitenwende, but the continent is reassessing its defence priorities in response to the Trump administration's brutal shift in attitude to the 80-year-old transatlantic relationship and US support for Ukraine. This week's issue plots how, with unaccustomed speed, Paris, Berlin and London, along with the European Commission, are stepping up with a new 'whatever it takes' mentality to create a framework for their own defence. Our coverage, led by Toby Helm and with contributions from our correspondents in Kyiv, Brussels and Berlin, examines how fiscal shibboleths are being shed to allow for increased military spending, and from Berlin a growing enthusiasm for Germany's chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz to consider sheltering under France's independent nuclear umbrella. But even as leaders firm up their approach to Washington and Moscow, diplomatic editor Patrick Wintour reports on how their populist opponents, whose rhetoric has tended towards support of the strongman diplomacy of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, are left fumbling as to how to counteract this new geopolitical landscape. As we continue to navigate a world where old, postwar certainties are being upended, the Guardian Weekly is here to help make sense of the dizzying pace of global events. Get the Guardian Weekly delivered to your home address Spotlight | 'Here you will die'Mark Townsend reports from Sudan on how the retreat of rebel RSF forces has led to the discovery of a torture centre, evidence of what could be one of the worst atrocities of the civil war Technology | RoboshopCan an AI agent prove itself smart enough to help Victoria Turk with her shopping? And, if it can order groceries and a takeaway, what else might it soon be able to do? Feature | All the young Reform dudesWhat is it about Nigel Farage's Reform party that is attracting young men fed up with establishment politics? Gaby Hinsliff finds out Opinion | The Sicilian ways of Donald Trump The US president's way of doing business is uncomfortably close to the fictional Corleone method, but without the mafia's sense of honour, says Jonathan Freedland Culture | Arthouse animation moves on up Hot on the Academy Awards' success of Flow, Xan Brooks looks at how independent animators are taking on the big-budget Hollywood studios and finding audiences are falling back in love with stop-go techniques Sam Dick wrote movingly about the isolation of growing up gay in the 1990s and how a letter from his father to the Guardian demonstrated his parents' support – and inspired a career in campaigning. Clare Horton, assistant editor I loved these 10 lessons that Helen Russell has taken away from her time living in Denmark. From 'You're not all that, and that's fine', 'Work-life balance isn't a myth' and 'Less really is more', there's a lot that we can learn from the happiest people in the world. Jade Lovitt, Weekly business manager Audio | Revisited: The spy cops scandal (part 1) Video | How plastics are invading our brain cells Gallery | Give it a Polish! Classic film posters with a twist Interactive | Are Europe's undersea internet cables under attack? We'd love to hear your thoughts on the magazine: for submissions to our letters page, please email For anything else, it's Follow us Facebook Instagram Get the Guardian Weekly magazine delivered to your home address
Yahoo
03-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Judy Garland's Daughter Lorna Luft Weighs in on Ariana Grande's 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' 2025 Oscars Performance
Lorna Luft is feeling emotional from the Academy Awards' Wizard of Oz homage. The daughter of Judy Garland, who portrayed Dorothy in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz reacted to the 2025 Oscars Wicked medley, which featured Ariana Grande singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." "Thank you to @arianagrande, @cynthiaerivo, & @theacademy for honoring my mother's memory so beautifully," Luft, 72, wrote on her Instagram Stories on Monday, March 3. "Myself and my family are very grateful." "All Love, Lorna," she signed off, with a heart emoji. Related: The Best, Worst and Most Oops Moments of the Oscars 2025 For the Wicked medley that kicked off the 2025 Academy Awards, Grande, 31, who portrays Glinda in the 2024 musical adaptation, sang the classic song Garland's Dorothy sings before she's transported to Oz. Grande's dress also included a nod to Garland's character's iconic ruby slippers. The singer wore a shimmering ruby red gown with matching heels adorned with bows and a cascading tulle skirt. Designed by Daniel Roseberry, the dress had 150,000 Siam sequins. On the back of the dress was a third shoe, a tonal 3D trompe l'oeil placed between her shoulder blades. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Cynthia Erivo, who plays Elphaba, sang "Home" from the 1975 Broadway showThe Wiz. Erivo, 38, wore a strapless gown similar to the one Diana Ross wore in the musical's 1978 movie adaptation. Erivo and Grande then joined together to sing "Defying Gravity," which closes out the first act of the Wicked musical. Grande stepped aside for the final high notes. Both actresses were nominated for Academy Awards for their roles in the film. Related: Oscars 2025 Choreographer Says Her 'Biggest Job' with Wicked Medley Was to 'Get Out of the Way' (Exclusive) Wicked was nominated for 10 Oscars including best picture and best original score. The film did take home two statuettes Sunday evening — Best Costume Design for Paul Tazewell and Best Production Design for Lee Sandeles and Nathan Crowley. Tazewell made history that evening as the first Black man to win an Oscar in that category. The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now! Wicked is now available to purchase on Prime Video and Apple TV+. It will be available to stream on Peacock on March 21. The second half of the adaptation, Wicked: For Good, premieres in theaters on Nov. 21, 2025. Read the original article on People
Yahoo
03-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Find Out Who's Won the Most Academy Awards!
One of the entertainment industry's most coveted nights has finally arrived! The 2025 Oscars will take place Sunday, March 2, and given the Academy Awards' traditionally unpredictable outcomes, plenty of interesting and historic things could happen this year. Speaking of Oscar history, only a handful of Hollywood's elite have been lucky enough to win multiple times as records have been set and broken over the Oscars' more than 95-year history. Want to know more about who has racked up the most Oscars and nominations over the course of their career? Keep reading for some trivia tidbits to use at your Oscar party. It may not shock you to learn that an animation legend takes the lead in this category. Walt Disney created beloved characters and so many iconic movie moments that it's really no surprise that he's won an impressive 26 Oscars, including four honorary ones, out of 59 total nominations. That feat makes him the most awarded Oscar winner in the history of the Academy. Disney won the bulk of his awards between 1932 and 1969 in the category of Best Animated Short, receiving his first Oscar during the 5th Academy Awards for Flowers and Trees. He also received a special award during that ceremony for creating the cherished character Mickey Mouse. He also holds the record for winning the most Oscars in one night in 1954 when he won for Best Documentary Feature for The Living Desert, Best Documentary Short Subject for The Alaskan Eskimo, Best Short Subject (Cartoon) for Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom and Best Short Subject (Two-Reel) for Bear Country. In 1965, Disney was nominated for Best Picture with the classic film Mary Poppins. His last Oscar was awarded posthumously in 1969 for Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day. Screen icon Katharine Hepburn has won the Best Actress Oscar four times, making her the actress with the most Oscars. She was nominated a total of 12 times for her work and took home the statue for Morning Glory in 1934, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner in 1968, The Lion in Winter in 1969 (tied with Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl) and On Golden Pond in 1982. She actually only attended one Academy Awards ceremony, which was in 1974 when she presented an honorary Oscar to producer Lawrence Weingarten. Daniel Day-Lewis has three statuettes to his name out of his six nominations. He won Best Actor for My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989) and There Will Be Blood (2007). His latest was for Lincoln (2012), in which he played the title character and former U.S. President. Related: Visual effects artist Dennis Muren currently holds the record for most Oscars won by a person still living. He has nine Oscars to his name honoring his work on films such as E.T. (1982), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and Jurassic Park (1993). Fun fact: He's also the first visual artist to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Meryl Streep is the most Oscar-nominated actor of all time, landing her 21st Oscar nomination in 2018. Streep takes the lead ahead of Katharine Hepburn and Jack Nicholson, who are tied in second place with 12 Oscar nominations each. She earned her first nomination in 1979 for Best Supporting Actress in The Deer Hunter and was last nominated in 2018 for Best Actress in The Post. She has won three Oscars to date for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Sophie's Choice (1982) and The Iron Lady (2011). Famed film director John Ford won four Oscars from five nominations for The Informer (1935), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941) and The Quiet Man (1952). He directed over 100 films over the course of his career and was best known for directing Westerns and making a mark on the genre. Related: Three films hold this record, having won 11 Oscars. Ben-Hur (1959), Titanic (1997) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) each won 11 Oscars during their Academy Awards ceremonies, which seems fitting for these epic films. Titanic shares the record for the most nominated film of all time with All About Eve (1950) and La La Land (2016) with 14 nominations each. Only two actors have won their Oscars posthumously. Peter Finch for Network (1976) and Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight (2008). In 2021, Chadwick Boseman was the first Black actor to be nominated posthumously for an Oscar for his performance in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020). Next,
The Independent
01-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
The Brutalist: Why Brady Corbet's 215-minute masterpiece deserves to win the Oscar for Best Picture
Answer me one question,' demands Harrison Lee Van Buren, the malignant industrialist played by Guy Pearce, towards the middle of The Brutalist. 'Why architecture?' He's posing the question to László Tóth, the visionary immigrant architect at the film's centre, played with wrought fallibility by Adrien Brody. 'Nothing can be of its own explanation,' he responds. 'Is there a better description of a cube than that of its construction?' In a year when the Academy Awards' Best Picture nominees have made for rather mealy pickings, it's hard to find the right way to talk about The Brutalist, Brady Corbet's 215-minute-long period epic. Sweeping in scope, emphatically stylish, and somehow produced on a budget of less than $10m, The Brutalist is the sort of film that compels superlatives. It demands to be taken seriously, at a time when precious few films do. It's no surprise that it's a serious contender at this year's Oscars, in a host of major categories – Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor among them. (Brody's performance, as the titular architect who migrates to the US to escape the horrors of the Holocaust, has been rightly heralded as a career high.) But it's hardly a runaway favourite – and this too is unsurprising. For all its grandeur, The Brutalist is not a particularly accessible film. It's daunting in length. It's volatile in its storytelling: broad and purposely over-literal at times, slippery and ambiguous at others. It's a film that's dense with ideas, to the point of gigantism, and about so very many things at once – the immigrant experience; the dubious relationship between art and commerce; addiction; America; capitalism; architecture; obsession; Judaism; sex; trauma; Zionism. Not all are afforded equal shrift, but they're all in there. Before this, Corbet, a former actor who once played the gawky lead in the live-action Thunderbirds movie, had directed two films: The Childhood of a Leader, which looks at the early years of a future fascist, and Vox Lux, in which Natalie Portman plays a school shooting survivor who finds fame and misery as a pop star. While these films established Corbet as a gifted stylist, neither was able to gird their flair with the necessary substance. The Brutalist, a more classically minded venture in many regards, is the sort of bolshy evolution that few artists ever truly manage. Part of the reason the film coheres so well is simply down to the brilliance of its many parts – first-rate acting from Brody and Pearce (as well as Felicity Jones, also never-better as László's wife Erzsébet); captivating cinematography; a grand and remarkable score. For want of a better word, The Brutalist is also a quite literary piece of cinema, a film that rewards not just repeat viewings but close, academic scrutiny. The film's quarter-hour intermission – arriving 100 minutes in, exactly halfway through the runtime – isn't just a handy stent to alleviate leg cramps and bladders, but an important signpost for the film's structural intentions. The two-act structure is used cleverly and meaningfully – mirrors and inversions abound. One example, to illustrate: near the beginning of the film, we see László bid goodbye to a friend, before getting on a bus bound for his American future. He flips his friend a coin for good luck. Near the start of the second act, we see Van Buren make a snide remark about László 'talking like he shines shoes for a wage', flipping a coin at him in cruel humour. It's the same gesture, with vastly different significance. For all these reasons and more, The Brutalist would be a worthy winner at this year's Oscars. It is a film that has enraptured many voters, left others cold – and some will have likely been deterred from even watching it. It's been over 20 years since a film running more than three hours won Best Picture (Lord of the Rings: Return of the King in 2003); The Brutalist would be the longest winner of the award since 1962 (when the victor was Lawrence of Arabia). It is a hard film to sell to the unconverted; even writing about it now feels like I'm at risk of misrepresenting it. The solution, then, is just to watch it and decide for yourself. That is to say: what better description is there than that of its construction?
Broadcast Pro
07-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Broadcast Pro
Amin Matalqa directs new season of comedy series ‘Okhti W Khilfitha'
The upcoming 30-episode season will be available exclusively on Roya TV. The comedy series Okhti W Khilfitha, led by filmmaker Amin Matalqa, will return for a new season. Known for his distinct storytelling style, Matalqa will bring fresh energy and a visually engaging narrative to the show. With a career spanning the United States and the Middle East, Matalqa, known for his ability to balance comedy with compelling visual narratives, will bring a fresh perspective to the series. His directorial debut, Captain Abu Raed, won the Audience Award at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and became Jordan's first-ever submission for the Academy Awards' Best Foreign Language Film category. His portfolio also includes The United, Disney's first Arabic-language film, and Netflix's Jinn, where he co-wrote and directed episodes. Under Matalqa's direction, Okhti W Khilfitha evolves in both visual and narrative depth, ensuring a season filled with sharp comedy and socially relevant themes. The upcoming season features 30 episodes, each running for 30 minutes. Catch the new season of Okhti W Khilfitha exclusively on Roya TV and digital platforms during Ramadan 2025.
