What's news: Parasite shocked Hollywood and made history, inclusion was on full display, politics was a common thread throughout the night, Janelle Monae's opening and the rest of the highlights from the Oscars, 10 things you didn't see on TV, Natalie Portman and Spike Lee's fashion statements, a review and analysis of Hollywood's biggest night. Plus: Birds of Prey struggles to take flight, the Independent Spirit Awards, three more Power spinoffs in the work at Starz, Susan Zirinsky defends Gayle King. --Alex Weprin

 The Oscars

The 92nd Academy Awards ended with a surprise, as "Parasite" took home the best picture prize, serving as a capstone for a remarkable run that began with winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes last May, and concluded by making history on the Oscars stage as the first foreign language film to west best picture...

The Oscars by the numbers...

--By film: Parasite - 4... 1917 - 3... Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - 2... Joker - 2... Ford v Ferrari - 2... Judy - 1... Jojo Rabbit - 1... Marriage Story - 1... Little Women - 1... Bombshell - 1

--By studio: Neon -. 4... Disney - 4... Sony Pictures - 4... Universal - 3... Netflix - 2... A+E - 1... Lionsgate -1... Paramount Pictures - 1... Marshal Curry Productions - 1... Roadside Attractions/LD Entertainment - 1...

While Parasite and Bong Jon Ho swept the field in categories like original screenplay, best director, and best international film, the movie's lack of acting nods meant that those categories split in different directions, with favorites Joaquin Phoenix and Renée Zellweger taking home top honors, and Brad Pitt and Laura Dern taking home the supporting statuettes.

The full list of Oscars winners...

+The snubs: Despite being nominated for 10 awards, Netflix and Martin Scorsese's The Irishman was shut out. Meanwhile, Joker and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood only won two awards each, despite Joker leading all films with 11 nominations, and Once Upon a Time securing nominations in key categories like best picture, best director and original screenplay. The snubs list.

A couple of themes emerged on Oscars night...

►Parasite's historic win capped an Oscars show dedicated to inclusion. As the Oscars ushered in yet another year of mostly white male nominees, a series of surprise wins on Sunday helped to redefine the narrative of the Academy as South Korean thriller Parasite took home four statuettes, including the top accolades for best picture and director on a night where inclusion was at the core of the show, Piya Sinha-Roy writes. Despite a list of nominees that received criticism for its lack of diversity, Parasite helped push the winners list in a more inclusive direction, while on-stage performances reflected the diversity of Hollywood. The story.

+Women make history with score win, composing gig. For the first time in the Oscars' 92-year history, a female conductor, Eimear Noone, led the orchestra for the performance of the nominated film scores, while Hildur Gudnadóttir was the first women to take home an Oscar for best original score for her work on Joker. More.

►Politics dominate the conversation. Steve Martin made light of the Iowa caucus tech mishap, while best supporting actor winner Pitt nodded to the lack of witnesses at the Senate impeachment trial. Meanwhile, Jane Fonda, who has been holding weekly "Fire Drill Friday" protests to bring attention to climate change, presented the best picture winner. The political moments. The red carpet political fashion statements.

►Disappointment for Netflix. The streamer still walked away with two Oscars, Laura Dern for Marriage Story and American Factory in the documentary category, but it came into the night leading all studios in nominations with 24. More.



^The highlights: Janelle Monáe opened Sunday's 92nd annual Academy Awards with a performance of "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood," paying tribute to the late Fred Rogers... Monae, Chris Rock and Steve Martin addressed the lack of female nominees in the Oscars intro... Rock and Martin also took aim at Jeff Bezos and #OscarsSoWhite in their opening monologue... Brad Pitt used his supporting actor acceptance speech to take a jab at the Senate's impeachment trial... The Peanut Butter Falcon star Zack Gottsagen made history as the Academy Awards’ first presenter with Down syndrome...

--Idina Menzel performed Frozen 2's "Into The Unknown" alongside nine other Elsas... Eminem gave a surprise performance of his hit "Lose Yourself" from the film 8 Mile, 17 years after it won him an Oscar... James Corden and Rebel Wilson presented the top visual effects award onstage in full cat costumes...  The Mindy Project star Utkarsh Ambudkar joined Questlove at the 92nd annual Academy Awards for a rap number recapping the show... The Oscars paid tribute to Kobe Bryant and Kirk Douglas, two Academy Award winners who died recently, during this year's In Memoriam tribute, while Billie Eilish performed a cover of Yesterday... Here are the most memorable moments from the show...

►10 things the cameras missed. Rebecca Keegan writes about some of the moments that didn't happen on camera at the Oscars: At the Governor's Ball, Spike Lee looked for Bong Joon Ho at the Parasite table. "Where's the boss at?" Lee said... In the lobby after losing the adapted screenplay category to Taika Waititi, Little Women writer-director Greta Gerwig ran into Tom Rothman, chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Motion Picture Group. "Well I’m done for the night," Gerwig said to the studio chief. "You’re a long way from done, darling," Rothman said to Gerwig... The full list.



►The review: A history-making night for Parasite, plus emotional wins from Brad Pitt, Laura Dern, Joaquin Phoenix and Renee Zellweger, helped cover for a mess of a show, Daniel Fienberg writes.

Quote: "Like the Emmys back in the fall, this year's Oscars were a roller coaster of bizarre producing and directing decisions, a few of which paid entertainment dividends, but most of which contributed to a kudocast that ran far over the allotted three hours and gained more of its highlights from off-the-cuff moments than scheduled bits." The full review.

►The analysis: THR's awards analyst Scott Feinberg digs into the results to make sense of Parasite's surprise win, and the rest of the night's winners.

Quote: "[T]he Academy is not a monolith. It is an organization comprised of 8,469 individuals. Most of them are still older white men. An increasing number are not. Many of them are brilliant. Quite a few are not. Sometimes their choices surprise and delight us. And other times they do not. At the end of Sunday's ceremony, I couldn't help but feel that this was one of those times that the Academy — and really all of us in Hollywood — should feel good about it." The column.

 On The Red Carpet...

Two particular red carpet style choices made the rounds on social media ahead of the awards...

►Natalie Portman honored snubbed female filmmakers at the 2020 Oscars. She embroidered the cape of her Dior Haute Couture ensemble (pictured above) with the last names of directors in gold: Scafaria, Wang, Gerwig, Diop, Heller, Matsoukas, Har'el and Sciamma. The names referencing the directors who were snubbed in the directing category. More.

►Spike Lee paid tribute to Lakers legend Kobe Bryant on the red carpet. The BlacKkKlansman director sported a custom purple Gucci suit with gold trim and patches of Bryant's jersey number, 24, stitched on the lapels and on the back of the jacket. The two-button notch lapel Heritage suit was worn with a white shirt and black grosgrain bow tie. More.

+Also: The 15 most memorable fashion looks... The color pink took the red carpet by storm... Also popular: black and white monochrome... The 6 best beauty looks... Billy Porter stunned in a Giles Deacon gold feather ensemble... The red carpet political fashion statements... The best jewelry looks... All the red carpet arrivals...

+Finally: The Oscars got off to a wet start, as Los Angeles was hammered by rain, while a leaking tent caused the red carpet to get wet... South Korea erupted in celebration as Parasite won best picture... Luke Perry and Sid Haig were among the names left out of the Oscars In Memoriam segment... Read the transcript for Steve Martin and Chris Rock's not-a-monologue...

►Inside the Night Before party: Leonardo DiCaprio, Bob Iger, Greta Gerwig help raise $5.4 million for MPTF. Laura Dern, Margot Robbie, Evan Spiegel, Steven Spielberg and Taika Waititi also were among the A-listers who turned out for the invitation-only fundraiser — one of Hollywood's glitziest gatherings of Oscar weekend. The story. The photos.

+Long lines, K-pop, and Bong Joon Ho. The scene from inside Neon's party for Parasite, which was held at SoHo House

►The Academy Museum has an opening date. Eight years since it was announced, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will finally open on Dec. 14, 2020. Tom Hanks, a museum trustee and co-chair of the Academy Museum campaign, made the announcement during Sunday's live Oscars telecast. "There is plenty of culture to be found in the City of Angels," he said, noting that Los Angeles even had a selfie museum, "but there has never been a museum dedicated to the art and science of motion pictures" — until this upcoming winter. The details.

The Independent Spirit Awards...



The Film Independent Spirit Awards often position themselves in direct contrast to the Oscars — and this year was no different. The Spirit Awards ceremony, which took place on the beach in Santa Monica, promoted the diversity that is infamously lacking in the 2020 Academy Awards.

"We actually honor female directors," said host Aubrey Plaza during her opening monologue, giving a dig at the Oscars, which lacks women directing nominees for yet another year, as the camera panned to Honey Boy director Alma Har’el.

+The winners: The Farewell took best picture, while other winners included Adam Sandler for best male lead, Renée Zellweger for best female lead, the Safdie brothers for best director and Noah Baumbach for best screenplay. The full list of winners.

+The snubs: Jennifer Lopez, Hustlers, and Honey Boy were among those that failed to score any awards. The snubs list.

+And: Host Aubrey Plaza took aim at Netflix's Ted Sarandos and Oscar snubs in her monologue... Here are the 10 most memorable moments from the awards... Watch all the acceptance speeches here... From Nicolas Cage to the Moonlight reunion: 9 things the cameras missed at the Spirit Awards Ceremony...

And now the rest of the day's news...

 Slow Start For 'Birds of Prey'

►Box office: Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn failed to gain altitude in its box office debut over the weekend, earning a tepid $33.3 million from 4,236 theaters to mark one of the lowest domestic launches in modern times for a studio superhero pic. The female-led film also struggled overseas, where it bowed to $48 million from 78 markets for a global start of $81.3 million.

--The pic was never meant to score a mega-opening since it is a spinoff and sports an R rating. Still, the Warner Bros. and DC title had been tracking to start off with at least $50 million to $55 million in North America and $60 million or more offshore. The full box office chart.

►CBS News chief calls threats against Gayle King "reprehensible." CBS News president Susan Zirinsky made the comments on Saturday as backlash grew against rapper Snoop Dogg and others critical of King for an interview where she asked about a sexual assault charge against the late Kobe Bryant. Snoop Dogg had threatened King online this week following her interview with WNBA player Lisa Leslie about Bryant, the former Los Angeles Lakers star killed in a helicopter crash on Jan. 26. The story.

►Three more Power spinoff series are set at Starz. Showrunner Courtney A. Kemp and 50 Cent will executive produce what is now a total of four offshoot shows as the flagship wrapped its run Sunday after six seasons. Power Book III: Raising Kanan, Power Book IV: Influence and Power Book V: Force join the previously revealed Power Book II: Ghost and bring the franchise to a total of four upcoming offshoots. More.

►Netflix, Liberty Global strike new multi-year deal. Financial terms weren't disclosed. The new multi-year agreement brings such Netflix originals as The Irishman, Sex Education and The Witcher to Netflix users among Liberty Global's subscribers and complements the licensed content on the cable company's video service. More.

►Disney's National Geographic unveiled a first-look national teaser for the scripted anthology series Genius: Aretha, with Cynthia Erivo starring as Aretha Franklin, during the 2020 Oscars telecast on Sunday night. More.

►On Saturday Night Live: The cold open parodied the latest Democratic debate, with Larry David, Jason Sudeikis and Rachel Dratch returning to play Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, and Amy Klobuchar... The host was RuPaul, who played himself in a couple of sketches, and also parodied Designing Women. All the sketches...

Obituaries: Robert Conrad, the athletic, two-fisted actor who starred as Secret Service agent James West and did his own spectacular stunts on the 1960s futuristic CBS Western The Wild Wild West, has died. He was 84... Orson Bean, the witty New Englander who starred on Broadway, was a longtime panelist on To Tell the Truth and played the dour owner of the general store on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, died Friday night after being hit by a car in Venice, California, authorities said. He was 91...

►Here's a podcast to listen to today: Disney CEO Bob Iger is the guest on The Bill Simmons Podcast. 

What else we're reading...

--"[Carlos] Ghosn hires legendary agent Michael Ovitz for TV, film deals" [Bloomberg]

--30 second Oscars ads sold for as much as $2.8 million [Ad Week]

--"How Netflix plans to use animation to challenge Disney Plus" [CNBC]

--More flex scheduling could be coming to the NFL in the near future [Sports Business Journal]

--"Black News Channel is a venue for missing African American voices, co-founder says" [NPR]

Today's birthdays: Laura Dern, 53, Robert Wagner, 90, Mark Spitz, 70, Roberta Flack, 83, George Stephanopoulos, 59.