The nominations for the 91st Academy Awards were announced on Tuesday. Alfonso Cuarón’s black and white drama, Roma, and Yorgos Lanthimos’ period drama The Favourite jointly lead the nominations this year with 10 nods each. The 91st Oscars will be held on February 24 at Samuel Goldwyn Theatre in Beverly Hills, California.
Roma is the first Netflix film to earn Best Picture Oscars Roma has had a great run this awards season. Now, it has become the first ever Netflix film to score a Best Picture Oscar nomination. Roma also leads in the total number of nominations alongside The Favourite with ten nominations.
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Spike Lee on Tuesday received his first nomination in the Best Director category for his Ku Klux Klan comedy-drama BlacKkKlansman. Lee has previously been nominated in the Best Original Screenplay and Best Documentary Feature categories.
Lady Gaga scored two nominations this year – one in Best Actress category (A Star is Born) and the other in Best Song category for Shallow. She is only the second person to do so. Interestingly, Mary J Blige is the first person to get this honour, and she did that just last year.
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Priyanka Chopra and her future sister-in-law Sophie Turner went out for a dinner outing in Los Angeles on Wednesday. The ‘J Sisters’, as Priyanka addresses herself and Turner, looked chic as photographers spotted them walking out of a restaurant. While Priyanka opted for a black top and pants paired with an animal print coat, Turner wore a t-shirt with black tights and boots.
This is not the first time that the two stars have been seen chilling together. Earlier, they have been clicked going out on double dates with Nick Jonas and Joe Jonas. The Game of Thrones star also attended the Quantico actor’s bachelorette parties in New York and LA and flew to India to attend her wedding festivities. She stole all the attention in her glamorous traditional avatar at the Nickyanka wedding.
Sophie Turner is engaged to Nick Jonas’ elder brother Joe Jonas since 2017. She is looking forward to the eighth and the final season of HBO series Game of Thrones where she plays the role of Sansa Stark. In her recent interview to InStyle magazine, the 22-year-old actor revealed that from season five onwards she was forced to not wash her hair which is why she chose to wear a wig in the upcoming season.
“For the first few seasons, I was allowed to wash my hair because I was an aristocratic young girl. Towards season five, they started asking me to not wash my hair and it was really disgusting. In the final season, I wear a wig, so I can wash my hair whenever I want, which is nice. But yes, for a couple of years I was living with pretty greasy hair,” she said. Priyanka Chopra, on the other hand, is working on her next Bollywood project The Sky Is Pink with Farhan Akhtar and Zaira Wasim. Her Hollywood film Isn’t It Romantic is scheduled to hit the screens on February 14.