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What's news: The 93rd Oscar nominees, the snubs and surprises, most diverse slate of acting nominees ever, female directors smash a record, a first for best actor noms, Chadwick Boseman's posthumous nomination. Plus: All the winners and performances from the 2021 Grammy Awards, Raya wins the weekend box office, Avatar retakes crown from Avengers: Endgame, Outlander renewed. --Alex Weprin  Oscar Nominations The nominees for the 93rd Oscars were announced Monday morning by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra Jonas revealed the nominees live from London. The Oscars are slated to be held April 25, from two different locations: the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, and from Union Station in Los Angeles. The nominations by the numbers... +Mank, 10 nominations... The Father; Judas and the Black Messiah; Nomadland; Minari; The Sound of Metal; The Trial of the Chicago 7; 6 nominations each... Ma Rainey's Black Bottom; Promising Young Woman; 5 nominations each... News of the World, 4 nominations... One Night in Miami; Soul; 3 nominations each... Another Round; Borat Subsequent Moviefilm; Collective; Emma; Hillbilly Elegy; Mulan; Pinocchio; Tenet; 2 nominations each... The full list of Oscar nominees... +History-making and notable nominations: For the first time in the Academy Awards' nearly century-old history, more than one female director has been nominated in the best director category, thanks to Chloé Zhao and Emerald Fennell... A pair of actors received historic best actor Oscar nominations on Monday. Riz Ahmed, nominated for his role in The Sound of Metal, became the first Muslim actor nominated in the category, while Minari's Steven Yeun became the first Asian American actor to receive a best actor nomination... For their work on Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson became the first Black women to be Oscar nominated in the makeup and hairstyling category... --Chadwick Boseman on Monday was posthumously nominated for an Academy Award for his work in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom... Nine Inch Nails multihyphenates Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross scored a pair of Oscar nominations on Monday, for the score of David Fincher's Mank, the 1940-set biopic about Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, available on Netflix; and Pixar's jazz-inspired animated film Soul, a nomination that they share with Jon Batiste... Glenn Close on Monday received an Academy Award nomination for her work in Hillbilly Elegy. She also received a Golden Raspberry (Razzie) Award nomination for the same role... +"Diverse field sees Asian actors shatter a bamboo ceiling." The 93rd Academy Awards finally gives Asian performers credit for their movies, while the two actor categories are the most diverse yet, Rebecca Sun writes. The story. +Ths snubs and surprises: Spike Lee, Stacey Abrams, Malcolm & Marie, Palm Springs, Da 5 Bloods, News of the World and First Cow were among the surprising snubs this year. The snubs list.  The Grammy Awards It was a historic night for women at the 63rd Grammy Awards on Sunday night, as Beyoncé set a new mark for Grammy wins by a woman and Taylor Swift became the first woman to win the prestigious album of the year category three times. ►The winners: Megan Thee Stallion won best new artist, the first female rapper to claim that honor since Lauryn Hill in 1999, and also nabbed best rap song and best rap performance for "Savage," sharing the award with Beyoncé. Female artists won honors in all four of the top categories. Swift won album of the year for Folklore and became the only female solo artist to win that honor three times. Billie Eilish won record of the year for "Everything I Wanted," H.E.R.'s "I Can't Breathe" was named song of the year and Dua Lipa's Future Nostalgia won best pop vocal album. --In the film categories, Joker won best score soundtrack for visual media, JoJo Rabbit won best compilation soundtrack for visual media and Billie Eilish's "No Time to Die" won for the forthcoming James Bond movie of the same name. CNN's documentary Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice nabbed the best music film win. The full list of winners. +The snubs: The most nominated male artist of the year, Roddy Ricch, failed to win a single award despite landing six nominations, the same as winners Swift and Dua Lipa. Other notable artists who were shut out despite scoring four nominations include Phoebe Bridgers and DaBaby, though the latter did perform on the awards ceremony. The snubs list. +The review: "This was perhaps the most consistent Grammys telecast I can remember," Daniel Fienberg writes. "The Grammys often try to take big swings, to produce unlikely pairings, daring musical mashups and unlikely tributes to legends; those big swings frequently result in indelible moments discussed for years to come, and they just as often lead to fiascos. This year, the big swing was putting on the show at all, much less staging over a dozen performances in multiple venues, giving out a handful of awards in another venue and doing it all without jaw-dropping technical gaffes or running overtime." The review. +Trevor Noah's monologue: Noah introduced a very different Grammy Awards show on Sunday. "Tonight is going to be the biggest outdoor event this year besides the storming of the Capitol," said Noah, taking an outdoor stage in front of the Stapes Center in downtown Los Angeles to a small, socially distanced crowd of the star-studded nominees. "Tonight's about bringing us all together as only music can. I mean — music and vaccines." The monologue. --Contrast Noah to comedia Bill Burr, who hosted the Grammys premiere ceremony. The comedian drew criticism on social media over remarks he made while presenting a series of awards at the 2021 Grammy Awards premiere ceremony. More. +The Performances: A racy performance of "WAP" by Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B will likely draw some FCC complaints... Harry Styles opened the show with a jazzy performance of "Watermelon Sugar"... Taylor Swift returned to the Grammys stage in an enchanted forest setting... Kendrick Sampson appeared in Lil Baby's performance of the politically fueled "The Bigger Picture"... Billie Eilish, who won earlier in the evening for "No Time To Die," performed "Everything I Wanted"... BTS performed "Dynamite"... +Memorable moments: Beyonce and Taylor Swift set Grammys records... The Grammys took advantage of its Southern California location in mid-March to stage an outdoor, socially-distanced awards presentation with some of the biggest stars in the music industry wearing masks and sitting at small, safely spaced tables... All the top moments...  'Raya' Wins The Week ►Disney's family film Raya and the Last Dragon stayed atop the domestic box office chart in its second weekend with $5.5 million. The good news: the computer-animated film fell only 35 percent, while roughly half of indoor theaters in North America are now open. The bad news: capacity is capped at 25 percent at New York City theaters, which began reopening a week ago, while Los Angeles County cinemas won't be back online until this week. --Overseas, Raya grossed another $11.5 million for a subdued global total of $52.6 million. A number of major circuits both abroad and internationally refused to play the title after asking for more lucrative terms since Raya is also available on Disney+ for a premium price of $30. The story. ►There's a new (old) box office champion. James Cameron's 2009 epic blockbuster Avatar has passed up Marvel's 2019 superhero extravaganza Avengers: Endgame to once again rule as the top-grossing film of all time at the global box office, not adjusted for inflation. Avatar's surprise victory is a result of the movie's re-release in China this weekend, where it earned more than $8 million through Saturday afternoon alone, according to Disney. That puts Avatar's total box office at $2.8 billion, versus $2.797 billion for Endgame, which was released in 2019. The story. ►Rest easy, Outlander fans. Starz has handed out an early seventh-season renewal for its time-traveling drama starring Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan. Season seven, which will again consist of 12 episodes, will be based on the seventh of author Diana Gabaldon's eight-book series, An Echo in the Bone. More. In other news... --Nomadland and The Queen's Gambit took top honors at the 33rd annual — and first virtual — USC Libraries Scripter Awards on Saturday night. --Justin Bieber, Millie Bobby Brown, BTS and Ariana Grande were the big winners at Saturday's Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards, where Kenan Thompson served as host and Vice President Kamala Harris addressed viewers at home. --CBS' The Talk is taking a brief hiatus from live shows after the network launched a review stemming from last Wednesday's heated debate between Sharon Osbourne and Sheryl Underwood. --New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees retired from the NFL on Sunday, and joined NBC Sports as an analyst this morning. --Ahead of HBO's final installment of Allen v. Farrow, directors Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick and lead investigative producer Amy Herdy sat down for a Zoom interview with THR to discuss the chilling close to the docuseries and address criticism from Allen that their project is one-sided. --Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, has promoted vice president of public affairs and special events Wanda Witherspoon into the newly created role of Chief DEI Officer. --The Balkan war drama Quo Vadis, Aida? by director Jasmila Žbanić picked up the top jury prize and the critics award at the 38th edition of the Miami Film Festival, which handed out trophies on Sunday. --The Tokyo International Film Festival unveiled a range of operational changes Monday, including the appointment of a new programming director and a move of locations within the Japanese capital. --One of the great middleweights in boxing history, "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler died Saturday at the age of 66. His wife, Kay, announced his death on the Facebook page for Hagler's fans. What else we're reading... --"Zack Snyder's rough and tumble ride with Justice League" [NY Times] --""A king among men: Letitia Wright pays tribute to her Oscar-nominated costar & dear friend, Chadwick Boseman" [Vogue UK] --"The Grammys got it right... Until it all went terribly wrong" [The Ringer] --"Piers Morgan can't wait to bring the worst of America home" [NY Times] Today's birthdays: Sly Stone, 78, David Cronenberg, 78, Eva Longoria, 46, Bret Michaels, 58, Lil Dicky, 33. 
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