Oscar nominations being announced ahead of next month's Academy Awards
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The nominees for this year's Oscars are being announced Tuesday morning. Following the presentation, the contenders for the top awards in film will have to wait until the end of March to find out if they've won an Academy Award.
At last month's untelevised Golden Globes, "The Power of the Dog," starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst, and Steven Spielberg's version of "West Side Story" were named best picture drama and best picture comedy or musical, respectively. Jane Campion won the best director award for "The Power of the Dog."
In the best acting categories, Golden Globes went to Nicole Kidman, who portrayed Lucille Ball in "Being the Ricardos," and Rachel Zegler, who played Maria in "West Side Story." Will Smith's portrayal of Richard Williams, the father of Serena and Venus Williams, in "King Richard" earned him the award for best actor in a drama, and Andrew Garfield's performance as "Rent" creator Jonathan Larson in "tick, tick...BOOM!" won for best actor in a comedy or musical.
President Joe Biden said France was America's "first friend" at its founding and is one of its closest allies more than two centuries later as he was honored with a state visit Saturday by French President Emmanuel Macron aimed at showing off their partnership on global security issues and easing past trade tensions.
The Consumer Federal Protection Bureau last week launched an inquiry into what the agency is calling "junk fees in mortgage closing costs." These additional fees, involving home appraisal, title insurance and other services, have spiked in recent years and can add thousands of dollars to the final cost of buying a home.
Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic "Earthrise" photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90.