The 2024 Academy Awards marked a noted anniversary: It was a half century since a streaker crashed the Oscars stage. David Niven was in the midst of presenting one of the night’s awards when a nude man came running behind him. Niven even dreamt up a withering quip about his “shortcomings.” Fifty years later John Cena tried to top him.
Host Jimmy Kimmel brought up the moment while introducing the presenter for the Best Costume award. Who was the presenter? It was John Cena, and he was, of course, in his birthday suit. Alas, unlike the Niven streaker, he was a bit nervous.
“I changed my mind,” he pleaded with Kimmel from behind the set, which obscured most but not all of his nakedness. “I don’t want to do the streaker bit.” He said it didn’t feel right. “The male body is not a joke.”
Kimmel said he thought Cena wrestled in the buff. “I don’t wrestle naked,” Cena said. “I wrestle in jorts.”
So they worked out a compromise: Cena would present the award, naked, his naughty bits blocked by the giant award envelope. Sadly, that meant he couldn’t open the envelope, so while the show cut to a montage of the nominated films, they got him a curtain for a makeshift robe.
The most popular celebrity at the 2024 Oscars isn’t Margot Robbie, or Emma Stone, or Cillian Murphy. It’s Messi the dog from Anatomy of a Fall. He even made a cameo during host Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue, looking like a fancy lil’ gentleman. “Even though he’s a dog, [Messi] may have given the performance of the year in Anatomy of a Fall,” Kimmel said. “He has an overdose scene. I haven’t seen a French actor each vomit like that since Gérard Depardieu.”
This is a good way to raise ratings for the future: invite fewer humans and more dogs.
“All of this attention began at Cannes,” Messi’s trainer Laura Martin told the Hollywood Reporter (Anatomy premiered at Cannes). “There were a few interviews in France, but what we’ve been experiencing here in America — with the attention to this dog and his acting — it’s beyond anything we anticipated. It’s probably the maximum that you can accomplish in this field.” The biggest interaction between human and dog was with “Billie Eilish, who bonded with Messi for almost 10 minutes,” she continued. “They were hugging and petting and they really had a vibe. Then Bradley Cooper bumped into him in the hallway. The dog went right to him, so they also had a connection.”
Anatomy of a Fall, which is up for five Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director, comes to Hulu on March 22.
Better late than never? That’s the spirit of this year’s Oscars ceremony, for which we prepared predictions and analysis as we head into the gold standard of awards season. Beyond the wide array of nominations for Oppenheimer, Poor Things, Barbie (justice for Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig), and Killers of the Flower Moon, there are plenty of musical performances (including Ryan Gosling with “I’m Just Ken”) up for grabs. The real question, however, is this: will it finally be Paul Giamatti’s year?
Let’s get on with this evening, too. We’ll be updating this complete winners list all night as more awards are announced, so make sure to keep checking back. Winners will be marked in bold.
Best Adapted Screenplay American Fiction
Barbie
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest
Best Original Screenplay Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers
Maestro
May December
Past Lives
Best Animated Feature The Boy and the Heron
Elemental
Nimona
Robot Dreams
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Best Animated Short Film War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko
Letter to a Pig
Ninety-Five Senses
Our Uniform
Pachyderme
Best Supporting Actress Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple
America Ferrera, Barbie
Jodie Foster, Nyad
Best Picture American Fiction
Anatomy of a Fall
Barbie
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Past Lives
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest
Best Director
Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest
Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall
Best Actor
Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Colman Domingo, Rustin
Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction
Best Actress
Annette Bening, Nyad
Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall
Carey Mulligan, Maestro
Emma Stone, Poor Things
Best Supporting Actor
Sterling K. Brown, American Fiction
Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things
Best Costume Design Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Best Makeup and Hairstyling Golda
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Society of the Snow
Best Live-Action Short Film The After
Invincible
Knight of Fortune
Red, White and Blue
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Best Original Song
“The Fire Inside,” Flamin’ Hot
“I’m Just Ken,” Barbie
“It Never Went Away,” American Symphony
“Wahzhazhe, A Song For My People,” Killers of the Flower Moon
“What Was I Made For?” Barbie
Best Original Score American Fiction
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Best Documentary Bobi Wine: The People’s President
The Eternal Memory
Four Daughters
To Kill a Tiger
20 Days in Mariupol
Best Documentary Short Subject The ABCs of Book Banning
The Barber of Little Rock
Island in Between
The Last Repair Shop
Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó
Best International Film Io Capitano, Italy Perfect Days, Japan Society of the Snow, Spain The Teacher’s Lounge, Germany The Zone of Interest, United Kingdom
Best Production Design Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Best Film Editing Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Best Production Design Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Best Sound The Creator
Maestro
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Oppenheimer
The Zone of Interest
Best Visual Effects The Creator
Godzilla: Minus One
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning, Part One
Napoleon
Best Cinematography El Conde
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Fans and ticketholders alike are excited to see the buddies joining forces. But one concertgoers used Drake and J. Cole’s bromance as inspiration for their outfit. In a now-viral video, one supporter sported a customized t-shirt of the musicians’ faces. But the tee was just a normal top, the fan transposed Drake and J. Cole’s faces onto the promotional image for the 2008 movie, Step Brothers, starring Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly.
Immediately after spotting the fan and their shirt from the crowd, Drake couldn’t help but laugh at the hiliarous mashup. What makes it even funnier is Drake’s friendship with Ferrell.
In 2013, during an appearance on Chelsea Lately, Drake spoke about his cameo in Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, which starred Ferrell. “I reached out to him [Will] because ‘Anchorman’ was a huge part of my life,” he said. “So I asked him if I could do it and him and [director Adam Kay] were phenomenal about it,” he continued. “They let me be part of the scene, I got to improve, I got to interact with [Christina Applegate] and [Will Ferrell].
When also gushed about being a fan of the film’s predecessor. “I used to have this car that would allow you to play DVDs illegally through the front dash,” he said. “It had a little screen where you could play movies. It would allow me to play movies so I would have ‘Anchorman’ on loop in my car. No music, just like ‘Anchorman’ consistently looping over and over and over. So, people would get in my car and you’d be mid-sex panther scene in ‘Anchorman.’”
Benches cleared and a player’s brother was arrested late in the SEC Championship game between No. 1 South Carolina and No. 8 LSU after South Carolina’s Kamilla Cardoso knocked Flau’Jae Johnson to the ground.
The Gamecocks led by 7 points with 2:08 to go when MiLaysia FulWiley stole the ball and started heading the other way. Johnson grabbed FulWiley’s jersey and then pushed both forearms out at South Carolina’s Amani Bartlett as she passed by.
Cardoso did not like that, and ran in and two-hand-shoved the smaller Johnson, who tumbled quickly to the ground.
LSU and South Carolina players got into a scuffle in the fourth quarter of the SEC Championship. pic.twitter.com/rXw1tb1jWM
Johnson’s brother, who was sitting near courtside, made it on to the court after leaping over the scorer’s table but was intercepted quickly and arrested.
Players ran out from both benches, some to hold back and some to defend their respective teammates, but the coaches were able to get everyone separated relatively quickly and it did not escalate beyond that.
The officials then had to sift through what had happened and who would be ejected. They elected to give Johnson an intentional foul and eject Cardoso for fighting. All of the players that left the bench were also ejected, leaving LSU basically without one.
There was immediate concern that ejected bench players would be suspended for their next game — which is the first round of the NCAA Tournament — but ESPN issued a clarification and said only Cardoso would be suspended.
After 10 minutes, they’ve finally sorted out the decisions following the scuffle at mid court.
LSU’s Johnson intentional foul, Gamecocks Cardoso ejected, every member of both benches ejected except for Gamecocks PaoPao.
South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley — whose Gamecocks took home the SEC crown, 79-72 — talked to ESPN sideline reporter Brooke’s Weisbrod after the game and brought it up herself to apologize.
“I just want to apologize to the basketball community. When you’re playing in championship games like this in our league, thins get heated,” Staley said. “No bad intentions. Their emotions got so far ahead of them that sometimes these things happen. So I want to apologize for us playing a part in that because that’s not who we are and not what we’re about.”
Dawn Staley spoke about the scuffle between LSU and South Carolina following the Gamecocks’ SEC championship win. pic.twitter.com/vnF8WD3boW
Weisbrod asked Staley how she’d address it with her team, and Staley said she constantly reiterates that you can’t leave the bench and you have to keep your cool. But she seemed to acknowledge everyone’s human side as well.
“It’s hard when you’re playing,” Staley said. “I’ve played this game a long time and I can’t tell you I was a saint at all times. Your emotions get the better of you.”
Drake’s latest album, For All The Dogs, serves as a witty double entendre. Not only is the body of work dedicated to the “Rich Baby Daddy” rapper’s male companions, but it is also a manifesto to those who had ever been called ‘a dog’ in past romantic relationships. But it looks like there’s a third component to the project.
Yesterday (March 9), a fan revealed that the musician might’ve introduced a dog-like mascot. During Drake’s recent It’s All A Blur Tour — Big As The What? stop, he was joined on stage with a furry figure. Many attendees assumed that the faux wolf was, in fact, a robot. But a concertgoer took to TikTok to reveal that their friend was tasked with dressing up in the costume each night.
The news shocked uusers online, and they quickly chimed in on the reveal under the video.
“You could not pay me to do this for someone. I don’t care who it is,” penned one user.
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“Easy money if I just gotta sit there,” wrote one user.
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“Wait! That was an actual person,” asked one user.
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Drake isn’t the first rapper to introduce a mascot for an album. Early in Kanye West’s career, each album featured his now-infamous Dropout Bear (more commonly referred to by fans as the Graduation-era bear).
A mystery teacher has become an internet scholar after imgur user SharkyTheSharkDog shared photos of the extra credit questions on their exams.
While the first six are really fun—you should see if you can get them all correct—the last one is pure torture in the form of public humiliation.
Don’t read too quickly, students.
1. How many seasons was “Full House” on the air?
2. Complete the verse… “I been in the game for ten years makin’ rap tunes…”
3. What color pants does Jake from State Farm wear?
4. Okay, this one’s going to be tough for you.”Yesterday, during my lecture, I quickly mentioned that only a pink pen will save you tomorrow. Draw a stick figure below in that pink pen.”
5. Describe the dumbest conversation you overheard recently.Guy: Do you like Bon Jovi?Girl: No thanks, I don’t eat Italian Food.
6. Including “The Revenant,” how many times has Leo DiCaprio been nominated for an Academy Award?
7. And this one’s a true test of your reading strategy.
First person to read this, stand up proudly on your chair, and yell at the top of your lungs, “Oh Captain, My Captain!” will receive a 95% on this exam. … … … *Just kidding. Name the drummer for The Beatles.
These mustached Canadians decided to treat older shelter cats like used cars.
Why?
Because in a world where around 8 million pets enter shelters and only around 4 million get out, that’s a lot of sad math.
In an attempt to stop that sad math, the kind folks from the Calgary Humane Society got creative.
The fastest domestic cat running speed appears to be 29.8 mph. This salesman knows his product!
They got weird.
They discovered some very adept cat performers.
Call Hollywood!
They pulled out all the stops to help future cat owners realize that pre-owned cats are the way to go!
And in addition to the commercial, the cats were priced to go on a very special Saturday.
Kittens are popular. There’s no way around it. They’re kittens! I used to be kitten-crazy (I was a child!), but I’ve adopted older cats and so have my friends. They’re special. They’re cute. They’re soulful. And instead of adorably biting your fingers until they grow up past kittenhood, older cats chill out on your couch and teach you about relaxing.
I’m sharing this because it might save a pre-owned cat.
We missed the Big Sale Saturday (but let’s be real, pre-owned cats are always priced to go), but the love for pre-owned cats continues. And this commercial, well … it’s timeless.
Douglas Scott grew up on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula in the dying shadow of the timber industry that had supported the region for decades.
“Nearly every home had a bright orange or yellow sign reading ‘This home supported by timber dollars,'” Scott wrote on Outdoor Society.
While the region has also been recognized for its succulent seafood, temperate climate, and stunning natural formations, nothing shaped the community — or the physical landscape — quite like logging did.
The tension in the air between the loggers and the environmentalists throughout the 1980s was thicker than the trees being cut down.
“I heard from old timers in the Harbor about how environmentalists were ruining the region, and I was told by environmentalists that loggers were killing everything in sight,” Scott recalled.
But to understand the full impact of deforestation on the region, it helps to take the bird’s eye view.
Here’s a satellite image of the Olympic Peninsula from 1984. The white region in the center are the mountaintops in Olympic National Park; you’ll also notice the grey and brown areas along the western and northern coasts of the peninsula.
“When I moved away from the area in 1997, there wasn’t much of a logging or mill economy in dozens of towns around the region,” Scott said.
By that time, tourism had begun to take the place of timber as the region’s major industry — which was probably helped along by the fact that the trees were slowly but surely starting to recover, enhancing the already stunning vistas that drew visitors.
Here’s how the Olympic Peninsula looked by the time that Scott and his family left the area; you’ll notice the western and northern coasts are just a little bit greener than they were 13 years prior…
Those great green arbors continued their gradual recovery into the 2000s…
And they’re still going today.
But those isolated moments don’t tell the whole story of the region’s recovery. It’s even more remarkable when you can see it in action…
We don’t always notice the world changing right before our eyes, but the decades-long view of the Olympic Peninsula shows the true power of nature.
It’s not just the trees, either; according to Scott, the replenished forests have also had a positive impact on the local salmon population and other treasured natural resources.
That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t use the natural world, of course. We still need wood, for example, but now we know there are sustainable ways to use it without recklessly damaging to the planet.
The Earth was built to take care of itself. We just need to let Mother Nature do her thing.
When we think about the era of American slavery, many of us tend to think of it as the far distant past. While slavery doesn’t exist as a formal institution today, there are people living who knew formerly enslaved black Americans first-hand. In the wide arc of history, the legal enslavement of people on U.S. soil is a recent occurrence—so recent, in fact, that we have voice recordings of interviews with people who lived it.
Many of us have read written accounts of enslavement, from Frederick Douglass’s autobiography to some of the 2,300 first-person accounts housed in the Library of Congress. But how many of us have heard the actual voices of people who were enslaved telling their own stories?
ABC News’ Nightline with Ted Koppel aired a segment in 1999 in which we can hear the first-person accounts of people who had been enslaved taken from interviews conducted in the 1930s and 40s (also housed in the Library of Congress). They include the voice of a man named Fountain Hughes, who was born into slavery in 1848 and whose grandfather had “belonged to” Thomas Jefferson.
As Koppel says in the segment, “The results of these digitally enhanced recordings are arresting, almost unbelievable. The idea of hearing the voices of actual slaves from the plantations of the Old South is as powerful—as startling, really—as if you could hear Abraham Lincoln or Robert E. Lee speak.”
Indeed, hearing formerly enslaved people share their experiences of being bought and sold like cattle, sleeping on bare pallets, and witnessing whippings for insubordination is a heartbreaking reminder of how close we are to this ugly chapter of our history. The segment is well worth ten minutes to watch:
This article originally appeared on 03.09.20
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Would y’all do something like this for your favorite rapper
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