'My Octopus Teacher' wins the Oscar for best documentary

A teacher at an upstate New York high school is coming under fire this week after she told students that George Floyd died of a heart attack and a drug overdose.

This is a wild one, folks!

Childish Gambino is being sued over claims that he stole the Grammy award-winning song This Is America from another artist. Emelike Nwosuocha, known as Kidd Wes, has blamed Gambino, real name is Donald Glover, for copying his single Made in America.

NEW YORK -- The voice on the phone is steady and clear. “It is unnatural to kill anything,” the man says.

The Battle for Britney: Fans, Cash and a Conservatorship at the weekend on iPlayer, which will be broadcast on BBC Two on Wednesday. In February, the New York Times released a television film Framing Britney Spears which examined her career, her celebrity and the conservatorship she has been living under since 2008.

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Britney Spears has criticised documentaries being made about her life and career in the spotlight, describing them as "so hypocritical". Spears has been subject to a conservatorship since 2008 following a series of public breakdowns captured by paparazzi cameras, with the arrangement now being explored in two recent films - one by the New York Times earlier this year and another recently released by the BBC.

Britney Spears has slammed the documentaries made about her as “so hypocritical”. The singer, who has been subject to a conservatorship since 2008 when she had a series of public breakdowns captured by paparazzi cameras, is the subject of two recent films, one by the New York Times and one by the BBC.

Britney Spears' life has become a major point of discussion, ever since the Free Britney movement gained support as fans began to discuss the singer's conservatorship. The New York Times documentary, Framing Britney Spears further took a deeper look at the pop star's career, her imminent rise to fame and her tumultuous fall.

Amazon’s free streaming service IMDb TV has unveiled a sizeable development slate with projects from the likes of The Good Place creator Mike Schur, All American showrunner Nkechi Okoro Carroll and CSI: New York star Melina Kanakaredes.

Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar, the creators of the hit show Dark, available to stream now on Netflix, have a brand new show coming out titled 1899!

Olympia Dukakis, the dignified actress who received a supporting Oscar for her performance as Cher's nitpicking Brooklyn mother in Moonstruck, died Saturday. She was 89.

NEW YORK -- Twenty-time Grammy winner Al Schmitt, whose extraordinary career as a recording engineer and producer included albums by Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and many other of the top performers of the past 60 years, has died at age 91.Schmitt's family announced on Facebook that he died Monday, without identifying a specific cause. Schmitt lived in the Los Angeles area.

Oscar win via Zoom, but the Academy refused.The actor won the award for Best Actor at the 93rd Academy Awards on Sunday (April 25), and was singled out as one of the only winners who was not present in Los Angeles or at one of the Oscars hubs around the world.Hopkins’ absence was particularly notable as the award for Best Actor was presented last (where usually it would be the award for Best Picture) and many said the night ended on an “anti-climactic” note.A new report in the New York Times

Daniel Kaluuya for a different Black actor minutes after he won an Oscar. Margaret Gardiner, a South African journalist and member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, confirmed on Monday (26 April) that she had been involved in the interaction with Kaluuya in the Academy Awards press room the night before.

Chloe Zhao made Oscar history over the weekend when she won the Best Director award, as well as Best Picture, at the 2021 Oscars.

My Octopus Teacher wrapped its tentacles around the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, corralling a win for Netflix in that category for the second year in a row and third time in the last four years.