1 hour ago Al Pacino was 'horrified' by nickname he was given on set so made major change

Hollywood legend Al Pacino was left 'horrified' by a nickname he was given on the set of a film in the 1990s - and it prompted him to make a drastic lifestyle change

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65 minutes ago Sibling rivalry: parents favour older children and daughters, study finds

International research also reveals conscientious or agreeable children are likely to receive preferential treatmentAs Philip Larkin once noted, your mum and dad have a lasting effect on you. Now, researchers have revealed which siblings in a family are more likely to be favoured: it is bad news for sons.Researchers have found daughters, older children and those who are more conscientious or agreeable are likely to receive preferential treatment. Continue reading...

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58 minutes ago Film company of the son of Welsh tech billionaire Sir Terry Matthews tipped for Oscar success

Brookstreet Pictures set up by Trevor Matthews co-produced the acclaimed and Golden Globes winning film The Brutalist which is being tipped for Oscar nomination and potential success at the Academy Awards in March.

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15 hours ago ‘Inspiring’ biopic featuring Jennifer Lopez ‘losing herself’ in ‘beautiful’ role is now streaming

The unbelievable true story of one of the world’s most inspiring living athletes comes to life in a gripping biopic, now streaming on Prime Video

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12 minutes ago Police probe after blogger accesses and films house where Virginia McCullough murdered her parents and kept their bodies for four years

McCullough was handed a minimum 36 year jail term for poisoning her father John, 70, and killing her mother Lois, 71, in a hammer and knife attack in June 2019.

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3 hours ago Netflix now showing classic family movie with near perfect rotten tomatoes score

The film is now available to stream on Netflix

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8 hours ago Road to the Oscars 2025: Our league table to predict who are our favourites to win at this year’s ceremony

With the road to the Oscars underway, follow our league tables to find out who could win big at the 97th event 🏆

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2 hours ago Parents calling for new Welsh medium school in Cardiff gather at County Hall again

Parents in the south of Cardiff said the balance of Welsh medium education provision in the city is not fare, with all Welsh medium secondary schools being north of the A48

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4 hours ago Finally, a cure for screen addiction that's turning our teens into the basket case generation: Respected neuroscientist's solution offers hope for despairing parents

The research is clear: screens are making us stupid. And the ones suffering the most are Gen Z and Gen Alpha. But there's hope, with experts saying they have found a cure to 'brain rot'.

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27 hours ago Bank of Dave's Burnley Savings and Loans in real life after film made big change

Netflix's Bank of Dave: The Loan Ranger is out now and tells the story of businessman Dave Fishwick, whose company Burnley Savings and Loans was at the centre of the two films

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21 hours ago Gutted One Direction fans left staring at blank screen after charity concert film suddenly cancelled

A technical issue caused the one-off showing to be cancelled at the last minute

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17 minutes ago Moment killer dumps knife after stabbing Elianne Andam to death in row over a teddy bear

Hassan Sentamu, 18, has today been found guilty of murder as Elianne's devastated father says his world has been 'shattered' by the senseless killing.

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12 hours ago ‘I didn’t sleep for days’: readers on the TV shows that went way too far

From fish and chip shop-induced trauma to programmes packed with relentless death and gore, here are the television moments that had you reaching for the remote‘Just too horrifying’There are two specific scenes that have forced me to stop watching a show or movie, both involving infants. One is the final scene from the fourth series of Dexter, where he finds his wife’s murdered body in the bathtub and their young son sitting in a pool of his mother’s blood. As a parent, this scene was just too horrifying for me to contemplate. Cushla, 52, Dunedin, New Zealand Continue reading...

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29 hours ago A twist of Lime: Timothée Chalamet rode a rental bike on to the red carpet. But how long had he been in the saddle?

The actor’s choice of transportation to the premiere of A Complete Unknown give him a fresh everyman spin. Yet there was a distinct lack of puddle to his trousersLast night, at the London premiere of A Complete Unknown, Timothée Chalamet defied convention by turning up on a Lime bike. He rode the bike on to the red carpet, ended the ride on his phone and then carried on with the rest of the premiere as if nothing had happened. What a man.You can tell a lot about someone by the way in which they arrive at their own film premiere. The default is to arrive in a limo, looking beautiful with someone of equal beauty in tow, as a demonstration of status. Sometimes a star will bring their mother as a date – as Henry Cavill did to the premiere of The Witcher a few years ago – when they want to project an image of cosy, relatable approachability. Then there are those who will lean into the premiere as an opportunity to redefine their own personal brand, as Ryan Gosling did when he turned up t...

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3 hours ago When is the WWE Royal Rumble on? How to watch the wrestling event, format, matches and history

It’s the first time ever that the event will be available at no extra charge to streaming subscribers.

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5 hours ago I slept in the garden SHED as a teenager as my parents' house was too small for five kids

Megsie Wilkinson, who is from Wales but now lives in London, said she loved having her own space as a teenager in the garden of her family's home in North Cardiff.

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28 hours ago UK's most wanted list from rapist pensioner to killer with £10k bounty on his head

Many of the UK's worst criminals have been on the run for several years with some having huge bounties on their heads, as Crimestoppers hopes to see them locked up

Economics

30 hours ago Netflix fans told to watch 'one of the best slashers of the 90s' starring a young Joshua Jackson

The 1998 horror film has become a cult classic and is loved by fans of the genre - and it's available to watch on Netflix

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25 minutes ago Tragic Elianne Andam's killer warned fellow prisoner 'Do you want to end up 6ft under?'

Hassan Sentamu, 18, made the chilling claim as he awaited trial for murdering 15-year-old Elianne Andam in a row over a teddy bear in Croydon back in September 2023

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23 hours ago ‘Homecoming’ show for artist Frank Auerbach to be held at Berlin gallery

Exclusive: First show of figurative painter’s work to be displayed in city he fled in 1939 to escape Nazi regimeFrank Auerbach is to be the subject of what has been billed as a homecoming show in Berlin, at which some of his final paintings will be displayed in the city he fled as a child.Auerbach, who died in November last year, never had a show in the city of his birth, which he left due to persecution by the Nazis. Both of his parents were later killed in Auschwitz. Continue reading...

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3 hours ago UK parents worry as 75% of kids feel unprepared for work life, new study reveals

A new study has found that 75% of kids don't feel prepared for the world of work, with a quarter having no idea what to do after leaving education

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24 hours ago JENNI MURRAY: I can't think of anything worse that a child could do to a dead parent than this. If my sons ever did it to me, I'd haunt them!

Michael Parkinson and I had a great deal in common. Working-class kids from Barnsley, we knew instinctively how to carry out a great interview. But his fate has given me the shivers.

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29 hours ago Bridget Phillipson dodges question on impact of private school tax raid

As parents and schools complain of chaos, Ms Phillipson refuses to spell out details of the assessment made by the department for education

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53 minutes ago ITV Emmerdale fans rumble 'secret serial killer' as first death of 2025 confirmed

Fans believe they've found a secret killer amongst the residents of the Dales

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24 hours ago The Crow Girl cast, plot, trailer, release schedule as new Paramount series airs

Based on the best-selling novel by Erik Axl Sund, The Crow Girl follows the investigation into bodies of unidentified and beaten young men across Bristol, who are all full of the anaesthetic lidocaine.

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4 hours ago ‘I hate this movie, and I haven’t even seen it’ – Americans won’t let a chimp Robbie Williams entertain them

Better Man is a genuinely good movie but it’s bombing – and now his song has been disqualified from the Oscars tooDespite the terrible box office performance, and movie theatres cancelling screenings, Americans are at least talking about the Robbie Williams biopic, Better Man.“I hate this movie, and I haven’t even seen it it makes me angry and I don’t know why!” complains TikTokker Jasmine Dayra, one of thousands posting similar videos. Others claim they’ve been “gaslit” into believing he’s a huge star, or that the film is the result of “the Mandela effect”, a false memory shared by a large group of people. “I just found out Robbie Williams is real,” says one angry poster. Continue reading...

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27 hours ago Uproar as adult child porn suspect is released into custody of his parents

‘Given the serious nature of these charges, which involve the safety and well-being of children, we find this decision troubling and concerning’

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29 hours ago Hackers boast of health workers visa data breach, sparking police probe

The hacker claimed to be selling details of people’s passports, work permits, UK visas, and bank statements belonging to healthcare workers

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69 minutes ago Elianne Andam’s parents vow knife crime and violence ‘will not go unanswered’

Hassan Sentamu, 18, has been found guilty of murdering the 15-year-old in 2023.

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28 hours ago The mystery behind the Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise divorce celebration meme deepens as star claims viral pictures are actually 'from a film'

The series of photos have since become an iconic meme and have been circulated the internet for more than two decades.

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4 hours ago Keir Starmer's new City minister WILL be allowed to make decisions about China despite Emma Reynolds having previously 'lobbied against tougher rules on Beijing'

Emma Reynolds was this week appointed as Economic Secretary to the Treasury to replace Tulip Siddiq, who quit following a sleaze probe.

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31 hours ago Ncuti Gatwa to virtually read play scripts with fans for National Theatre Live

Members of the public will be able to sit back at the Vue cinema in Manchester Arndale Centre and connect with an actor based at the National Theatre.

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77 minutes ago Labour backs down over grooming gangs: Whitehall fixer to undertake 'rapid audit' into scale of child sex abuse in Britain

Yvette Cooper told MPs she had asked Baroness Louise Casey to oversee a three-month review into gang-based child sexual exploitation.

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5 hours ago Timothee Chalamet says he was fined £65 for riding Lime bike to London premiere

The Hollywood star cycled down the red carpet of the event held at BFI Southbank in London on Tuesday.

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36 hours ago Parental mental health biggest cause of child protection referrals in England

Public service cuts and ‘stark impact of poverty’ are causing worse outcomes for children, according to surveyPoor parental mental health has overtaken domestic violence as the most commonly reported factor in social worker assessments into whether a child is at risk of serious harm or neglect, according to new research.Growing rates of mental illness – in both parents and children – were an increasingly important driver of child safeguarding interventions in England, the latest comprehensive survey of children’s social care pressures found.In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In the US, you can call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 988, chat on 988lifeline.org, or text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis counselor. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org Continue reading...

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82 minutes ago Keir Starmer warns MPs not to leave drinks unattended in parliament amid spiking probe

Police are investigating an alleged spiking incident in a parliamentary bar

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5 hours ago Lottie Tomlinson gives birth to second child with Lewis Burton and shares sweet snap

Louis Tomlinson's sister Lottie Tomlinson has given birth to her second child with her fiancé Lewis Burton. The couple are already parents to their son, Lucky

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41 hours ago Parents may be ‘fuelling obesity’ by encouraging one eating habit in children

Nutritionists have warned of one food habit which might be fuelling Britain’s obesity crisis

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86 minutes ago 'The real me is evil': Elianne Andam's killer Hassan Sentamu was troubled child with history of violence

Teenager had a history of violence before he murdered schoolgirl in row over teddy bear

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5 hours ago Egyptian Queen's tomb dug up by archaeologists – and it could 'reconstruct history'

Experts have said that new findings from the tomb of an Egyptian Queen could 'reconstruct history'. The haul includes ancient weapons, coffins and even the body of a young boy

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41 hours ago Parents’ mental health now most common factor in children’s social care need

A report said the pandemic, a housing crisis and health challenges contributed to safeguarding pressures.

Society

87 minutes ago ‘Bro I can’t let this slide’: The chilling warning of troubled teenage killer who murdered schoolgirl

Hassan Sentamu had warned his friend ‘Bro I can’t let this slide’ before launching his murderous attack on schoolgirl Elianne Andam

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6 hours ago Timothée Chalamet fined £65 for parking Lime bike at A Complete Unknown premiere

The Bafta nominee told a French chatshow he used the ebike to avoid traffic but the red carpet is not an authorised parking spaceTimothée Chalamet’s choice of vehicle to the London premiere of the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown on Tuesday night won him a new legion of fans – and a few sceptics.The actor, who was Bafta nominated for his role on Wednesday, rode on to the red carpet on a Lime bike – one of the capital’s popular rental bicycles, which you can hire via an app. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago ‘A ton of unknowns’: months ago, LA residents lost wildfire insurance. Then the fires came

After insurers like State Farm dropped policies, to switch to the state’s Fair plan was prohibitively pricey for manyWhen James Borow realized last Tuesday that his Palisades house was on fire, he was 300 miles away in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show. The power was out at his house but a friend suggested he remotely turn on his Tesla and see if the cameras showed anything.From the car camera, he watched in a panic as his house burned. As he drove home from Vegas to LA, he called his parents and told them: “You’ll see it on the news tomorrow, but the house is totally gone. I just watched it.” Continue reading...

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6 hours ago Timothée Chalamet claims he was fined £65 for parking Lime bike at A Complete Unknown premiere

The Bafta nominee told a French chatshow he was issued with a penalty, but it is unclear who charged him for the red carpet offenceTimothée Chalamet’s choice of vehicle to the London premiere of the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown on Tuesday night won him a new legion of fans – and a few sceptics.The actor, who was Bafta nominated for his role on Wednesday, rode on to the red carpet on a Lime bike – one of the capital’s popular rental bicycles, which you can hire via an app. Continue reading...

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3 hours ago Family of murdered teenager Michelle Stewart 'gutted' after learning killer has been granted parole

The family of the 17-year-old who was killed by ex-boyfriend John Wilson in 2008, have fought tirelessly to keep him behind bars.

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7 hours ago A Complete Unknown: What led to Bob Dylan being called Judas and is the moment in the Timothée Chalamet film?

Ahead of the opening of A Complete Unknown, learn why Manchester fans of Bob Dylan turned on him during a 1966 performance 🎶🎞

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12 hours ago ‘I can’t lose hope’: families await news of trapped miners in South Africa

Police operation to stamp out illegal mining by blocking food supplies has turned to tragedy as relatives wait for loved ones to be rescuedAlmost three days into a South African government operation in which 78 bodies and 218 miners had been pulled out of an illegal goldmine, Zinzi Tom still had no news of her brother, Ayanda.“I’m not coping, but I need to be strong. I need to put my feelings aside, I will deal with them after,” said Tom, 31, who has become a de-facto leader for relatives of the trapped miners. “I can’t lose hope. It’s something that I just can’t do.” Continue reading...

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4 hours ago Amanda Palmer ‘profoundly disturbed’ by sexual assault allegations against ex

The singer-songwriter posted a statement on Instagram after multiple women accused the author of sexual misconduct in a New York Magazine article this weekNeil Gaiman’s ex-partner Amanda Palmer has publicly acknowledged the allegations of sexual misconduct made against the author for the first time.Posting on her Instagram account, the American singer wrote: “As there are ongoing custody and divorce proceedings, I am not able to offer public comment. Please understand that I am first and foremost a parent. I ask for privacy at this time.” Palmer and Gaiman, who married in 2011, and have one child together, are currently in the process of getting divorced. Continue reading...

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24 hours ago Renee Zellweger bemoans ‘notorious and famous’ becoming the same thing

The actress is making a return as Bridget Jones in the fourth instalment of the movie series.

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4 hours ago Symptoms of UK's fastest rising cancer killer as death rates double in 20 years

This disease killed around 81,300 people across the UK in the past two decades.

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24 hours ago One of Them Days review – Keke Palmer and SZA take a bumpy but fun ride

The stars shine in bright and boisterous new buddy comedy, executive produced by Issa Rae, that only stumbles when it leans into cartoonI will be the first to say: I miss Insecure, which left a dynamic duo-sized hole in the TV landscape since it concluded in December 2021. Issa Rae’s era-shaping series was about many things – the Black community in south Los Angeles, the diversity pablums of the 2010s, millennial dating, for starters – but at its core, it was a seminal portrait of longstanding, complex female friendship in one’s late 20s, the kind forged by time, ridiculous escapades and plenty of meaty conflict for viewers to hash out at the proverbial water cooler.The shadow of the erstwhile HBO series looms large over One of Them Days, a boisterous new buddy comedy executive produced by Rae and penned by the former show writer Syreeta Singleton. Also set in south Los Angeles – albeit on one sweltering, no-good first of the month, when the rent is due and tenancy is in flux – One ...

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6 hours ago Jimmy Mizen's mother blasts BBC for 'playing songs of murderer' who killed her son on radio

Jake Fahri was given a life sentence in 2009 with a minimum term of 14 years for killing the schoolboy by throwing a glass oven dish at him inside a London bakery.

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24 hours ago Love Island All Star Rules: These are the weird rules the islanders have to follow

It’s not all fun in the villa - there are a whole list of rules that are enforced by telly chiefs.

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6 hours ago 'All I'm seeing is maggots': Cop who investigated grisly murder of mother lured into sex work by her drug addict boyfriend reveals he's haunted by sight of her dismembered body

The murder of Natalie Clubb, a mother-of-three lured into sex work, and subsequent conviction of her boyfriend and killer Darren Adams shocked investigating officer Paul Davison (inset).

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25 hours ago Director Audrey Diwan: ‘I understand why remaking Emmanuelle is dangerous... but let them shout, I don’t care’

The award-winning director on taking on the X-rated film that still carries cultural baggage and making the film ‘I probably needed as a woman’

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6 hours ago Renée Zellweger: Bridget Jones characters would be in trouble today over work romance

Speaking before fourth film’s release, Hugh Grant says his Daniel Cleaver character would be ‘re-educated’ by HR The workplace romance shown in Bridget Jones’s Diary would not withstand modern-day scrutiny from human resources, Renée Zellweger has said.Speaking with co-star Hugh Grant before the release of the fourth Bridget Jones film, Zellweger was asked if Jones’s boss was exploiting his powerful position when he made overtures to a junior employee. Continue reading...

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26 hours ago Keir Starmer refuses to say if his new City minister will work on China policy after she previously 'lobbied the Tories not to impose tougher rules on Beijing'

Emma Reynolds was yesterday appointed as Economic Secretary to the Treasury to replace Tulip Siddiq, who quit following a sleaze probe.

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7 hours ago Asda urgently recalls children's toy over fears it could 'pose a risk of choking'

Parents are being warned that the George Home Baby Walker that may be unsafe for little ones to play with.

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27 hours ago Kneecap make light of ‘handy’ acting business after film earns six Bafta nods

The film about the Irish language rap trio from Belfast has already been shortlisted for two Academy Awards.

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7 hours ago The Traitors UK Episode 7 Latest: Who's been banished, who's been murdered, who's still in, next episode

The BBC’s hit reality game show has returned to our screens - and it’s been a great first week.

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27 hours ago Supernanny Jo Frost says parents are making common mistake that 'stresses kids out'

Jo Frost, aka Supernanny, has shared some of her top parenting tips on her Instagram page - and a few mums and dads may be surprised to hear what she had to say

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7 hours ago Oscar Best Director Odds 2025: Here are the 11 favourites for the Academy Award

Here are the filmmakers in the running for the biggest prize in the movie industry.

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