David Byrne is in the running for an Oscar. The Talking Heads frontman earned a Best Original Song nomination for “This Is a Life,” the song he wrote with Mitski and Ryan Lott for Best Picture nominee Everything Everywhere All at Once.
The tune does have some stiff competition, however. Other nominees in that category include the Diane Warren-penned song “Applause,” from Tell It Like a Woman, Lady Gaga’s “Hold My Hand,” from Top Gun: Maverick, Rihanna’s “Lift Me Up,” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and the Golden Globe winner “Naatu Naatu” from the Indian film RRR.
Byrne was previously nominated and won a Best Original Score Oscar in 1987 for his collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Cong Su on Bernardo Bertolucci’sThe Last Emperor.
The 95th annual Academy Awards, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, airs March 12 live on ABC from the the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood.
Lisa Marie and Priscilla in June, 2022 – Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images
Priscilla Presley is sharing a message for fans following her daughter Lisa Marie Presley‘s memorial at their family’s Graceland estate.
“Thank you all for your condolences, you have touched me with your words. It has been a very difficult time but just knowing your love is out there makes a difference,” the 77-year-old matriarch wrote in a Facebook post and tweet late Monday.
Lisa Marie Presley, the only daughter of the legendary singer Elvis Presley and Priscilla, died on Jan. 12 at the age of 54 due to cardiac arrest.
Her death came two days after she attended the Golden Globes, where actor Austin Butler won the Golden Globe for best actor in a motion picture-drama for his portrayal of the king of rock ‘n’ roll in Baz Luhrmann‘s Elvis. Butler remembered Lisa Marie Presley for her warmth, love and authenticity after news of her death broke.
“My heart is completely shattered for Riley, Finley, Harper and Priscilla at the tragic and unexpected loss of Lisa Marie. I am eternally grateful for the time I was lucky enough to be near her bright light and will forever cherish the quiet moments we shared. Her warmth, her love and her authenticity will always be remembered,” Butler said in a statement at the time.
She was celebrated Sunday in a public memorial held at Graceland– the Memphis, Tennessee, estate she had inherited from her late father — where fellow singer-songwriters Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins, Axl Rose, and Alanis Morissette performed in her honor.
(LONDON) — Princess Eugenie, granddaughter of the late Queen Elizabeth II, is pregnant.
Eugenie, 32, and her husband Jack Brooksbank are expecting their second child, Buckingham Palace confirmed Tuesday.
Eugenie, the daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, and Brooksbank are already parents to a son named August, who will turn 2 in February.
Eugenie spoke recently in Davos, Switzerland, about her son and how becoming a mom has changed how she thinks about the world and preserving the environment.
“As a mother, you totally change. Now I’m scared of flying where I’d never be before. It’s the same with how you view the world,” she said. “Now all I think about is what happens to rising sea levels and the communities that are on the beaches who depend entirely on the sea, as well as what August can do about it in the future.”
“Everything is for them, right? Every decision we now make has to be about how August is going to be able to live his life,” Eugenie said.
Eugenie’s son and now his future sibling count Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan’s children, Archie and Lilibet, and Prince William and Princess Kate’s children, George, Charlotte and Louis, among his second cousins.
Eugenie’s older sister, Princess Beatrice, is the mother of a daughter, Sienna Elizabeth Mapelli Mozzi, who was born in September 2021.
The baby will be the second grandchild for Sarah and Andrew, who continues to face scrutiny over his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Eugenie and Brooksbank wed at St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle in 2018.
On Tuesday morning, Academy Award winner Riz Ahmed and star of the hit thriller M3GAN, Allison Williams, announced the nominees for the 95th Academy Awards from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Los Angeles.
The modestly-budgeted multiverse adventure Everything Everywhere All at Once led the pack with 11 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actress for Michelle Yeoh, Best Supporting Actor for Ke Huy Quan, and Best Supporting Actress for Jamie Lee Curtis. Yeoh makes history as the first Asian actress to earn a Best Actress Oscar nomination.
Hosted once again by Jimmy Kimmel, the 95th Annual Academy Awards will air on ABC on March 12 and can also be streamed on ABC.com, Hulu Live TV and YouTubeTV.
95th Academy Awards Nominees
Best motion picture of the year
All Quiet on the Western Front Avatar: The Way of Water The Banshees of Inisherin Elvis Everything Everywhere All at Once The Fabelmans Tár Top Gun: Maverick Triangle of Sadness Women Talking
Performance by an actor in a leading role
Austin Butler in Elvis
Colin Farrell in The Banshees of Inisherin
Brendan Fraser in The Whale
Paul Mescal in Aftersun
Bill Nighy in Living
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Brendan Gleeson in The Banshees of Inisherin
Brian Tyree Henry in Causeway
Judd Hirsch in The Fabelmans
Barry Keoghan in The Banshees of Inisherin
Ke Huy Quan in Everything Everywhere All at Once
Performance by an actress in a leading role
Cate Blanchett in Tár
Ana de Armas in Blonde
Andrea Riseborough in To Leslie
Michelle Williams in The Fabelmans
Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All at Once
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Angela Bassett in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Hong Chau in The Whale
Kerry Condon in The Banshees of Inisherin
Jamie Lee Curtis in Everything Everywhere All at Once
Stephanie Hsu in Everything Everywhere All at Once
Best animated feature film of the year
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio Marcel the Shell with Shoes On Puss in Boots: The Last Wish The Sea Beast Turning Red
Achievement in cinematography
All Quiet on the Western Front Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths Elvis Empire of Light Tár
Achievement in costume design
Babylon Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Elvis Everything Everywhere All at Once Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Achievement in directing
The Banshees of Inisherin — Martin McDonagh Everything Everywhere All at Once — Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert The Fabelmans — Steven Spielberg Tár — Todd Field Triangle of Sadness — Ruben Östlund
Best documentary feature
All That Breathes All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Fire of Love A House Made of Splinters Navalny
Best documentary short subject
The Elephant Whisperers Haulout How Do You Measure a Year? The Martha Mitchell Effect Stranger at the Gate
Achievement in film editing
The Banshees of Inisherin Elvis Everything Everywhere All at Once Tár Top Gun: Maverick
Best international feature film of the year
All Quiet on the Western Front — Germany Argentina, 1985 — Argentina Close— Belgium EO— Poland The Quiet Girl— Ireland
Achievement in makeup and hair styling
All Quiet on the Western Front The Batman Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Elvis The Whale
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
All Quiet on the Western Front — Volker Bertelmann Babylon — Justin Hurwitz The Banshees of Inisherin — Carter Burwell Everything Everywhere All at Once — Son Lux The Fabelmans — John Williams
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
“Applause” from Tell It Like a Woman
“Hold My Hand” from Top Gun: Maverick
“Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
“Naatu Naatu” from RRR
“This Is a Life” from Everything Everywhere All at Once
Achievement in production design
All Quiet on the Western Front Avatar: The Way of Water Babylon Elvis The Fabelmans
Best animated short film
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse — Charlie Mackesy and Matthew Freud The Flying Sailor — Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby Ice Merchants — João Gonzalez and Bruno Caetano My Year of Dicks — Sara Gunnarsdóttir and Pamela Ribon An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It — Lachlan Pendragon
Best live action short film
An Irish Goodbye — Tom Berkeley and Ross White Ivalu — Anders Walter and Rebecca Pruzan Le Pupille — Alice Rohrwacher and Alfonso Cuarón Night Ride — Eirik Tveiten and Gaute Lid Larssen The Red Suitcase — Cyrus Neshvad
Achievement in sound
All Quiet on the Western Front Avatar: The Way of Water The Batman Elvis Top Gun: Maverick
Achievement in visual effects
All Quiet on the Western Front — Frank Petzold, Viktor Müller, Markus Frank and Kamil Jafar Avatar: The Way of Water — Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon and Daniel Barrett The Batman — Dan Lemmon, Russell Earl, Anders Langlands and Dominic Tuohy Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — Geoffrey Baumann, Craig Hammack, R. Christopher White and Dan Sudick Top Gun: Maverick — Ryan Tudhope, Seth Hill, Bryan Litson and Scott R. Fisher
Adapted screenplay
All Quiet on the Western Front — Screenplay by Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson & Ian Stokell Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery — Written by Rian Johnson Living — Written by Kazuo Ishiguro Top Gun: Maverick — Screenplay by Ehren Kruger and Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie; Story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks Women Talking — Screenplay by Sarah Polley
Original screenplay
The Banshees of Inisherin — Written by Martin McDonagh Everything Everywhere All at Once — Written by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert The Fabelmans — Written by Steven Spielberg & Tony Kushner Tár — Written by Todd Field Triangle of Sadness — Written by Ruben Östlund
Panic! At the Disco, which at this point is essentially Brendon Urie, is disbanding after its upcoming European tour, Urie announced.
“I am going to bring this chapter of my life to an end and put my focus and energy on my family, and with that Panic! At The Disco will be no more,” Urie posted on Instagram, noting that he and his wife are expecting their first child.
In his lengthy statement, Urie writes, “Well, it’s been a hell of a journey…Growing up in Vegas I could’ve never imagined where this life would take me. So many places all over the world, and all the friends we’ve made along the way.”
“But sometimes a journey must end for a new one to begin. We’ve been trying to keep it to ourselves, though some of you may have heard…Sarah and I are expecting a baby very soon!” he continues. “The prospect of being a father and getting to watch my wife become a mother is both humbling and exciting. I look forward to this next adventure.”
Urie goes on to thank fans “for all your immense support over the years,” adding, “It has been a pleasure to not only share the stage with so many talented people but also share our time with you.”
He concluded, “I love you. I appreciate you. Thank you for existing.”
The tour starts in Vienna, Austria on February 20 and wraps up March 10 in Manchester, England.
Since their 2005 debut album A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out, Panic! At the Disco has scored hits like “I Write Sins Not Tragedies,” “High Hopes” and “Hey Look Ma, I Made It.” Their most recent album, Viva Las Vengeance, came out in August of 2022.
Taylor Swift didn’t make the cut, but Lady Gaga and Rihanna did.
Both superstars are up for the Academy Award for Best Original Song: Lady Gaga for co-writing “Hold My Hand,” from Top Gun: Maverick, and Rihanna for co-writing “Life Me Up,” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
They’re up against “Applause,” written by Diane Warren for the film Tell It Like a Woman, “Naatu Naatu” from the film RRR, and “This Is a Life,” from Everything Everywhere All at Once, written by David Byrne, Mitski and Son Lux.
The 95th Academy Awards will air live on ABC on March 12.
The upcoming Ben Affleck-directed film Air, which chronicles the birth of the Air Jordan brand and the partnership between Nike and Michael Jordan, has been given an April 5 theatrical release date before heading to Prime Video, according to Variety. The movie, co-produced by Affleck and Matt Damon, stars Damon as Nike executive Sonny Vaccaro and Affleck as Nike co-founder Phil Knight. Jason Bateman, Marlon Wayans, Viola Davis and Chris Tucker also star…
Deadline reports Pretty Little Liars alum Lucy Hale has been tapped to star in the pilot for FX’s adaptation of Catherine Lacey’s novel The Answers. The story follows “a heartbroken young woman, Mary — played by Hale — [who] joins an enigmatic experiment that promises to hack love, but after moving into an idyllic, secluded location with her fellow female participants, she and the other women start questioning what’s really happening in the experiment, and why they’ve all been tasked with dating the same mysterious man, Christopher Skye — portrayed by David Corenswet,” per Deadline…
CBS has renewed The Neighborhood for a sixth season. The comedy — starring Cedric the Entertainer, Max Greenfield, Beth Behrs, Tichina Arnold, Sheaun McKinney, Marcel Spears and Hank Greenspan — averages 6.13 million viewers per episode with a week of delayed viewing and 7.3 million with an additional four weeks of viewing across all platforms and is the top-rated comedy on all of TV among Black viewers. The show is currently filming its 100th episode, set to air later this season…
(NEW YORK) — Potentially more lives were saved Sunday when a man disarmed the alleged Monterey Park, California shooter after he had allegedly killed 11 people and wounded nine others at a nearby location.
Brandon Tsay told ABC News’ Good Morning America Monday that “something came over me” when he managed to wrestle the gun away from the alleged assailant in Alhambra, California, and forced him to leave.
It was reminiscent of the deadly Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in November, during which two patrons tackled the shooter to the ground after killing five people and wounding 17 others, disarming him and holding him down until police arrived.
But what possesses some people to charge in the face of danger?
Psychiatrists told ABC News part of this is due to the fight-or-flight response, which is a psychological reaction that occurs in response to an event that is stressful, frightening or life-threatening.
“Seeing somebody with a weapon and being certain that there is an immediate threat to one’s life, we all have pretty much the same response,” Dr. Emmanuel Maidenberg, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles, told ABC News. “It’s an activation of the physiological system and it’s one of the mechanisms that we all have built in that helps us to fight or escape from a danger. So, that’s universal for all of us.”
In response to this danger, the sympathetic nervous system — which regulates unconscious actions in the body — is activated, leading to a release of hormones, and preparing the body to either fight or flee.
“Once it’s triggered, you get characteristic physical and emotional responses,” Dr. Richard Friedman, a professor of clinical psychiatry and director of the Psychopharmacology Clinic at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, told ABC News.
“Your heart rate goes up, your blood pressure goes up, you pump out cortisol, the stress hormone, and epinephrine and norepinephrine — which is adrenaline and noradrenaline — rise and you’re supercharged, and you are ready to either flee, to defend yourself, or fight if you’re trapped, and you can’t flee,” he continued.
Friedman said a person can’t know how they’re going to respond in that situation, because it’s a primal instinct.
However, if a person is confronted by a threat and does not have the capacity to run away — such as what appears to have happened with Tsay and the shooter — they are more likely to fight, experts said.
“If you’re literally cornered, you’re much more likely to defend yourself by attack than you are by fleeing and, under the influence of stress hormones, you’re capable of tremendous acts of aggression and self-defense,” he said. “People are capable of doing things that they’re not aware of, in normal circumstances, when they’re activated by the fight or flight response.”
Sometimes the occupation of the person that disarms a gunman can play role in their choice to do so. For example, in the Club Q shooting, it was a current U.S. Navy petty officer and a US. Army veteran who subdued the gunman.
“It’s reasonable to assume because it’s not a theoretical thing; it’s practice,” Friedman said. “So, if, let’s say you have extensive experience in law enforcement or military service, in which you actually were in situations of danger, and responded, and so you had practiced it, you might be much more effective and much more likely to act in an effective way when confronted and surprised by a shooter.”
“It’s a learned response,” Maidenberg said. “They’ve gone through a process of adding through a learning process, that behavioral response as available to them.”
Although, this is not always the case. Friedman brought up the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, in May 2022, where students who survived waited for more than an hour before officers entered classrooms.
“The police did not go into the school, and were roundly criticized for not doing it,” he said. “You wonder, were these police with less experience? Did they have very little actual real-life experience with disarming aggressive people?”
Being involved in a mass shooting — and especially being a person who disarmed the perpetrator — can be traumatic, but not everyone needs counseling, the experts said.
Even though about 60% of men and 50% of women will experience at least one trauma in their lifetime, not everyone develops post-traumatic stress disorder after.
In fact, only about 6% of the U.S. population will have PTSD at some point in their lives, according to the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
Friedman said it’s much more beneficial to tell a survivor some things they will experience over the next few days and to leave the option open to talk or seek counseling if they need, but not to push it.
“Forcing people to talk about it, what we’ve learned is, you can actually make traumatic events more upsetting and burn them in, by making people talk about it when they either don’t want to or not ready to,” he said. “The notion of universal debriefing, where people are aggressively encouraged to relive something, can actually be harmful and, although it’s well intended, it’s the wrong way to do it.”
(WASHINGTON) — It was a Ticketmaster meltdown that sent millions of Taylor Swift fans spiraling: lockouts, delays, hours of confusion and soaring aftermarket prices amid reports of scalpers.
During the November presale for Swift’s upcoming “Eras” tour, Ticketmaster was forced to halt purchases for her shows, citing “extraordinarily high demands” and “insufficient remaining ticket inventory,” drawing outcry from Swifties — and the artist herself.
At the time, Ticketmaster said that “every ticket was sold to a buyer with a Verified Fan code.”
“While it’s impossible for everyone to get tickets to these shows, we know we can do more to improve the experience and that’s what we’re focused on,” the company said in November.
Now they will face lawmakers: On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing to examine “how consolidation in the live entertainment and ticketing industries harms customers and artists alike,” according to a statement — addressing the bad blood between Ticketmaster and musicians, fans and the industry.
Lawmakers will focus on Live Nation and Ticketmaster’s 2010 merger, which has given the company an outsized influence on the market — with critics highlighting how they can raise ticket prices, shut out smaller venues and smaller artists and sideline rival ticket companies. The merger drew particular scrutiny from some members of Congress in the wake of the Swift ticketing fiasco.
“If it’s Taylor Swift fans that move some of my colleagues on monopolies, great,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a member of the committee, told ABC News’ Rachel Scott ahead of Tuesday’s hearing.
“Some of the things that came out of the Taylor Swift concert were larger than life because it’s Taylor Swift. But many of the things were things we’ve been hearing for years [about ticketing issues], and it’s time to take this on. The fees are too high, and there’s not enough competition,” Klobuchar, D-Minn., said.
Top executives from the ticketing industry are set to testify, including the president and CFO from Live Nation, Joe Berchtold, and SeatGeek CFO Jack Groetzinger.
During Berchtold’s opening statement, which was obtained by ABC News, he will point the blame at ticket-scalping, arguing that “breaking the law using bots and cyberattacks to try to unfairly gain tickets contributes to an awful consumer experience.”
“There are problems in the ticketing industry — problems that we believe can and should be addressed through legislation. Many are the direct result of the industrial-scale ticket scalping that goes on today, which is a $5 billion dollar industry in concerts alone and is fueled by practices that run counter to the interests of artists and fans,” Berchtold plans to say.
Singer-songwriter Clyde Lawrence, from the band Lawrence, is also expected to testify with his bandmate Jordan Cohen. They say it’s the overwhelming control Live Nation has over the industry that leads to lopsided deals.
“Our place is to tell some of the experiences that we have from the unique perspective of artists that are really hands on … and just talk about some of the ways that we’ve run into road bumps about trying to get a fair deal for ourselves,” Lawrence told Rachel Scott.
The musicians said that, as one example, they receive no profit from the fees Ticketmaster adds onto tickets: “We have zero say in setting what they are and we have zero participation in any of that money,” Cohen said.
“We are looking to Live Nation, as the leader of the industry, to just give us a crumb, give us some breadcrumbs. I don’t know if the government needs to get involved. That’s, again, not our area of expertise,” Cohen said. “But we would just hope that the industry leaders make a little bit of change.”
(WASHINGTON) — A Fulton County, Georgia, judge is hearing arguments Tuesday regarding whether or not to publicly release the long-anticipated report submitted recently by the special grand jury investigating efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
The special grand jury submitted its confidential final report earlier this month, according to court records, after probing the matter for months.
Though the grand jury does not have the ability to return an indictment, it can make recommendations concerning criminal prosecution. Another grand jury would bring any possible charges, should they be recommended.
The central question regarding the report: Did the grand jury recommend criminal charges for Donald Trump and his allies?
Attorneys for Trump said in a statement on Monday that they would not be participating in Tuesday’s hearing — and did not expect charge recommendations.
“On behalf of President Trump, we will not be present nor participating in Tuesday’s hearing regarding the possible release of the special purpose grand jury’s report,” said the statement. “To date, we have never been a part of this process. The grand jury compelled the testimony of dozens of other, often high-ranking, officials during the investigation, but never found it important to speak with the President. He was never subpoenaed nor asked to come in voluntarily by this grand jury or anyone in the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office.”
Attorneys in the statement said they therefore “assume that the grand jury did their job and looked at the facts and the law, as we have, and concluded there were no violations of the law by President Trump” — although there’s no indication if that’s true or not.
A spokesperson for the DA’s office declined to comment on the status of the investigation ahead of the hearing. The office also had not yet filed a motion in court indicating its position on whether the report should be publicly released.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis officially launched the probe in February 2021, sparked in part by the now-infamous Jan. 2, 2021, phone call Trump made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which Trump pleaded with Raffensperger to “find 11,780 votes,” the exact number Trump needed to win Georgia.
Trump has repeatedly defended his call to Raffensperger, calling it “perfect.”
