Casey Affleck, who won the best actor Oscar last year, will not be attending the Academy Awards this year. Traditionally, the previous best actor winner presents the best actress award at the show. Affleck’s decision to not attend comes after criticism of past allegations of sexual harassment. Allegations he has denied. And concerns that his presence will be a distraction as Hollywood deals with widespread allegations of abuse.
News of Ed Sheeran’s death has been greatly exaggerated by an Icelandic newspaper. The news outlet mistakenly printed Sheeran’s picture next to an obituary for an 82-year-old mechanic who worked for Swedish car giant Volvo. A number of people jokenly tweeted saying that they were sad to the see the news of Ed Sheeran passing and where unaware of the fact that was also an 82-year-old mechanic.
Get Out and Dunkirk are returning to some theaters from a victory lap after receiving a handful of Oscar nominations, including best picture. Variety reported that Dunkirk was already hitting some theaters and Get Out is returning to some theaters starting today.