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Eva Marie Saint, a pioneering actress who bridged live television and classic cinema, has died at age 102. She won an Academy Award for 'On the Waterfront' and starred in Alfred Hitchcock's 'North by Northwest,' with a career spanning over eight decades.
Oscar-winning singer Glen Hansard died in a single-vehicle motorcycle crash near Dublin early Wednesday after attending a trad music session at the Wren’s Nest pub; he was 56 and leaves his wife Maire Saaritsa and a son born in 2022. Police will investigate the crash and perform a post-mortem. Tributes poured in from the pub and Irish leaders; Hansard rose to fame with The Frames and for the film Once, for which he won the Oscar for Best Original Song, Falling Slowly.
Glen Hansard, the Irish singer-songwriter behind the Frames and the Oscar-winning Once, has died at 56 after a motorcycle crash near Dublin's Lucan. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for Falling Slowly from Once, which was adapted into a stage musical, and led the Frames on six studio albums including Burn the Maps.
Oscar-winning Irish actress Brenda Fricker has died at 81. Renowned for her Best Supporting Actress win for My Left Foot (1990), she also appeared as the pigeon lady in Home Alone 2 and as nurse Megan Roach on BBC’s Casualty, among many film and stage roles. Born in Dublin, Fricker’s career spanned theatre, TV and cinema, and her agent paid tribute to her enduring impact on fans worldwide.
Fans are buzzing that Tom Cruise's dramatic prosthetic makeover for Alejandro G. Iñárritu's Digger could land him his first Oscar, after the trailer and posters reveal an almost unrecognizable oil tycoon opposite Jesse Plemons; the dark comedy opens in theaters October 2.
Taylor Swift’s Toy Story 5 track “I Knew It, I Knew You” gained early traction on country radio, closing Mediabase’s panel at 157 reporting stations, signaling strong eligibility for a Best Original Song Oscar. Variety analyzes the Oscar history around Toy Story songs and country music, Swift’s ongoing chart dominance, and the potential impact of an Oscar nod (and Swift’s possible on-stage involvement) on the Academy’s willingness to honor a country-leaning tune from a cross-genre superstar.
At Cannes, Rami Malek—the first actor of Egyptian descent to win Best Actor—describes his Oscar milestone as a global source of inspiration as he promotes Ira Sachs’s The Man I Love, a late-1980s New York drama about a theater artist facing an AIDS diagnosis featuring Tom Sturridge, Rebecca Hall, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach; the film premieres in competition on May 20.
An Oscar statuette belonging to Pavel Talankin, co-director of 'Mr. Nobody Against Putin,' vanished after TSA barred him from carrying it onboard, forcing him to check the trophy; it disappeared after landing in Germany, but Lufthansa later located it, apologized, and said the statue is safely in their care and will be returned soon.
Lufthansa says it has located the Oscar statuette for the documentary Mr. Nobody Against Putin that Pavel Talankin was forced to check on a JFK–Frankfurt flight; the trophy went missing in Frankfurt, and the airline apologized, arranging its return to Talankin.
At JFK, TSA agents allegedly treated Pavel Talankin’s Oscar for Mr Nobody Against Putin as a potential weapon and ordered it be checked as cargo. Lufthansa later disclosed the statue was located and is being returned to Frankfurt, with the airline apologizing for the inconvenience. Talankin had previously carried the award on flights without incident, and the incident prompted Lufthansa to review its handling of guests’ belongings. The documentary centers on Putin’s propaganda and led to Talankin seeking exile after Russia banned the film.
Pavel Talankin’s Oscar statuette for Mr. Nobody Against Putin went missing after an airport security hold at JFK, where a TSA agent warned it could be used as a weapon and it was placed in a cardboard box for the flight to Frankfurt. Lufthansa later said the statuette has been found and is safely in Frankfurt under their care, with the airline apologizing and coordinating reunification with Talankin as an internal review continues.
Lufthansa says it has found Pavel (Pasha) Talankin’s Oscar statuette, which TSA had prevented him from carrying on a JFK→Frankfurt flight. The box was later located in Frankfurt and the airline is coordinating a swift return to the filmmaker, who co-directed Mr. Nobody Against Putin, after an incident that drew attention to how the award was treated on those travels.
Oscar winner Pavel Talankin's statuette for the documentary Mr Nobody Against Putin disappeared after being boxed for a flight from New York to Germany; JFK security had blocked it in carry-on, leading to it being checked, and it vanished upon arrival in Germany. Lufthansa is conducting an internal search as the Academy and TSA monitor the case, while Talankin had been showing the Oscar at a New York university screening.
The Oscar statue for Mr Nobody Against Putin, awarded to co-director Pavel Talankin, disappeared after a TSA agent at JFK confiscated it as a potential weapon and required it to be checked; Talankin arrived in Frankfurt to find the statue missing, prompting a plea from his fellow director David Borenstein and noting replacement statues exist for damaged or lost awards.
Talankin, co-director/star of the Oscar-winning documentary Mr Nobody Against Putin, says the Oscar statuette he brought on multiple flights was confiscated by TSA at JFK for security reasons and could not be carried onto the plane. Lufthansa reportedly offered to hold the trophy at the gate, but TSA refused, and the statuette was boxed for checked baggage; the box never arrived in Frankfurt, leaving the prize missing. Talankin’s team questions how an Oscar could be treated as a weapon, while the film and its creator remain in exile amid ongoing controversy surrounding Russia’s portrayal in media.