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Will Smith gets 10-year Oscars ban for slapping Chris Rock.

Will Smith gets 10-year Oscars ban for slapping Chris Rock.
Will Smith has been banned from attending the Oscars for 10 years, the academy that hands out the awards announced, less than two weeks after the American actor slapped comedian Chris Rock on stage. After a meeting of its board of governors, the Academy of Motion Picture Art…
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Oscar-winning filmmaker John Zaritsky passes away.

Oscar-winning filmmaker John Zaritsky passes away.
Veteran filmmaker John Zaritsky, well known for winning an Oscar in 1983 for best documentary feature for 'Just Another Missing Kid', has passed away. As per The Hollywood Reporter, Zaritsky passed away on March 30 due to heart failure at the Vancouver General hospit…
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Country music singer Jeff Carson dies.

Country music singer Jeff Carson dies.
Country music singer and songwriter Jeff Carson, who scored hits with “Not On Your Love” and “The Car” , has died at age 58. He has died of a heart attack at a hospital in Franklin. Carson was born Jeffrey Lee Herndon in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1963, Westby said in a news release…
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UNEP Annual Frontier Report - 2022.

UNEP Annual Frontier Report - 2022.
Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, has been ranked as the most noise polluted city globally, according to the recent ‘Annual Frontier Report, 2022’ published by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). As per the report, the city recorded noise pollution of 119 …
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Oscars Awards 2022: 94th Academy Awards 2022.

Oscars Awards 2022: 94th Academy Awards 2022.
The 94th Academy Awards returned to the Dolby Theater in Hollywood as the top films from the last year were honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The show was hosted by Regina Hall, Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes, the first time the award ceremony has had…
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Poland's Karolina Bielawska crowned as the Miss World 2021.

Poland's Karolina Bielawska crowned as the Miss World 2021.
At the grand finale of Miss World 2021, Karolina Bielawska of Poland was crowned the winner, while Shree Saini of USA and Olivia Yacé of Cote D'Ivoire emerged as the first and second runners-up, respectively.  The contest, conducted in two parts, one in December and agai…
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Oscar-winning Director Steve McQueen honoured with Royal Knighthood.

Oscar-winning Director Steve McQueen honoured with Royal Knighthood.
On Tuesday, March 15, Oscar-winning filmmaker and artist Sir Steve McQueen has been recognised with a royal honour at Windsor Castle.  The filmmaker is known for some of his best works including Hunger,12 Years A Slave, Deadpan, Lovers Rock and many others. He won several ac…
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75th BAFTA Award 2022 Announced.

75th BAFTA Award 2022 Announced.
British Academy Television Awards are presented annually to recognize the outstanding work in British Television. It is being given annually since 1955. It is mainly given to British programs. The 75th edition of the British Academy Film Awards, also known as the BAFTA Award…
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“The Newspaper” bags award at Bengaluru International Film Festival.

“The Newspaper” bags award at Bengaluru International Film Festival.
Sinhala drama thriller “The Newspaper” has bagged the award for the best movie in the Asian Cinema Competition at the 2022 Bengaluru International Film Festival (BIFFes). The film festival is organized by the Karnataka Chalanachitra Academy for the Government of Karnataka. T…
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Oscar-Winning Actor William Hurt for ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman,’ Dies.

Oscar-Winning Actor William Hurt for ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman,’ Dies.
William Hurt, who became a top leading man in the 1980s, winning an Oscar for 1985’s “Kiss of the Spider Woman” and starring in “The Big Chill” and “Body Heat,” died Sunday 13 March 2022 of natural causes. He was 71.  His son Will said in a statement, “It is with great sadne…
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Oscar-winning producer Alan Walbridge Ladd Jr passes away.

Oscar-winning producer Alan Walbridge Ladd Jr passes away.
The Oscar-winning producer, Former Executive at Twentieth Century Fox, who greenlit ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Braveheart’, Alan Ladd Junior has passed away at the age of 84 years. He was affectionately known as “Laddie”. He won the Academy Award (Oscar award) for Best Picture ‘Braveh…
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Hybrid form United Nations Environment Assembly held in in Nairobi, Kenya.

Hybrid form United Nations Environment Assembly held in in Nairobi, Kenya.
The United Nations Environment Assembly was hosted by the UN Environment Programme. It brings together representatives from the UN’s 193 member countries, corporations, civil society, and other stakeholders to agree on policies to address the world’s most serious environmen…
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Veteran actor and comedian Berty Gunathilake passes away.

Veteran actor and comedian Berty Gunathilake passes away.
Veteran actor and comedian of Sri Lankan cinema and television, Berty Gunathilake passed away on March 06. Gunathilake, who was receiving treatment at the Kahawatte Base Hospital, was aged 98 years at the time of his demise. Born on August 02, 1924 at Ampitiya in Kandy, Mr Gu…
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NASA launches latest satellite to track hazardous weather.

NASA launches latest satellite to track hazardous weather.
NASA launches latest generation satellite to track hazardous weather. In a big development, NASA has successfully launched the third in a series of next-generation weather satellites for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The newest Geostationary Ope…
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Legendary singer and music composer Bappi Lahiri passed away.

Legendary singer and music composer Bappi Lahiri passed away.
Veteran Indian singer and composer, Bappi Lahiri has passed away at the age of 69. He was lovingly called Bappi Da in the industry is known for delivering iconic songs in several films of the late 1970s-80s like Chalte Chalte, Disco Dancer, and Sharaabi. His last Bollywood …
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Bollywood star of Siddhartha movie enters monkhood in Bangkok.

Bollywood star of Siddhartha movie enters monkhood in Bangkok.
Indian movie superstar Gagan Malik has entered the monkhood at a temple in Bangkok recently. Malik was ordained at Wat Thatthong and will spend the next 15 days as a monk.  He said in another post that he wanted to learn Dhamma and to promote the religion in India. “Time to le…
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Oscar winning VFX artist Robert Blalack passes away.

Oscar winning VFX artist Robert Blalack passes away.
Oscar and Emmy award-winning visual effects artist Robert Blalack has died at the age of 73. Robert died on Wednesday 09 February 2022 of cancer at his home in Paris, his wife, writer Caroline Charron-Blalack, told The Hollywood Reporter. The Industrial Light and Magic co-fou…
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Sushmita Sen conferred International Association of Working Women Award for ‘Aarya 2’.

Sushmita Sen conferred International Association of Working Women Award for ‘Aarya 2’.
Bollywood actress and former Miss Universe Sushmita Sen is elated on being conferred the International Association of Working Women Award for outstanding performance by a female actor in a TV series for her show ‘Aarya 2’. The award is presented by the DC South Asian Film Fe…
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Louie Anderson, comedian and Baskets actor dies.

Louie Anderson, comedian and Baskets actor dies.
Louie Anderson, whose more than four-decade career as a comedian and actor included his unlikely, Emmy-winning performance as mom to twin adult sons in the TV series Baskets, died on Friday. He was 68. Anderson died at a hospital in Las Vegas of complications from cancer, sa…
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Comedian and “Full House” star Bob Saget dies.

Comedian and “Full House” star Bob Saget dies.
Bob Saget, the comedian and actor arguably known best by audiences as wholesome patriarch Danny Tanner on the sitcom "Full House," has died, his family confirmed in a statement to CNN. He was 65. Saget was found dead in a hotel room on Sunday at the Ritz-Carlton Or…
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