Month: March 2026

Michael B. Jordan and Jessie Buckley won best actor and best actress. Paul Thomas Anderson received best director. Cassandra Kulukundis won the Academy’s first ever casting award.

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See looks from best actor Michael B. Jordan, best actress Jessie Buckley and more stars on the Oscars red carpet on Sunday night.

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The Oscars are tonight, and not everyone will be happy with who wins and loses. But what if we had a chance to pick the Oscars? This week, we’re looking into Oscars past and relitigating some wins.

In rural Kentucky, people recently celebrated the meat shower of 1876. That’s when mysterious pieces of meat fell from the sky onto a farm, sparking all kinds of theories.

The Academy Awards are tonight and critics are predicting what will win Best Picture and who will win Best Actor and Actress. We hear about the nominees and our critic’s picks.

Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with KCUR listener Justin Marciniak and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

Associated with the Frankfurt School, Habermas was a world-renowned thinker on modernity and democracy who helped shape German post-war and post-reunification political discourse.

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The surveillance industry version of HG Wells’ 1898 classic sci-fi novel stars Ice Cube, and won accolades for worst picture, actor, director and more.

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Best picture nominees are spending less time in wide release. But indie theater owners say Oscar season is still a draw.

The Oscars start at 7 p.m. Eastern, 4 p.m. Pacific on Sunday, airing on ABC and streaming on Hulu.

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