Zoë Saldaña won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Emilia Pérez making history as the first American of Dominican heritage to win an Academy Award.

Today (March 3) at the 97th Academy Awards ceremony, Zoe Saldaña won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Rita Mora Castro – the defense lawyer of cartel leader – in musical crime film Emilia Pérez – and dedicated the award to her fellow cast and crew alongside her grandmother.

During her acceptance speech for the award, she said: “I am floored […] Thank you to the Academy, for recognizing the quiet heroism and the power in a woman like Rita, and talking about powerful women. Jacques, you are a beloved character in my life. Thank you for taking the interest, thank you for being so curious about these women to tell this story.

“To my cast and my crew of Emilia Pérez. I’m sharing this award with you.”

Saldaña went on to thank her ‘mom and dad and sisters’. “Everything brave, outrageous and good that I’ve ever done in my life is because of you,” she added, also praising her husband, Marco Perego-Saldaña and it being ‘the biggest honor’ of her ‘life’ to have him as a partner.

She said: “You hung the moon in our beautiful perfect sons, Cy, Bowie and Zen. They fill our skies every night with stars.”

She then dedicated the award to her grandmother who ‘came to this country in 1961’.

Zoë Saldaña won best supporting actor (Pathé Distribution)

The actor continued: “I am a proud child of immigrant parents. With dreams and dignity and hard-working hands, and I am the first American of Dominican origin to accept an Academy Award, and I know I will not be the last, I hope.

“The fact that I’m getting an award for a role where I got to sing and speak in Spanish – my grandmother, if she were here, she would be so delighted, this is for my grandmother.”

The award not only marks Saldaña’s first Oscar win but, as she pointed out, also sees her make history as the first American of Dominican origin to win an Academy Award.

Also up for the category were Monica Barbaro for her role as Joan Baez in A Complete Unknown, Isabella Rossellini for Conclave, Felicity Jones for The Brutalist and Ariana Grande for Wicked.

Emilia Pérez went into the 97th Academy Awards with a staggering 13 nominations and, at the time of writing, has taken home the award for Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Song too.

A man who is accused of spending more than four decades on the run by allegedly using someone else’s identity has recently been caught out after he made one crucial mistake.

Wyoming man, Stephen Craig Campbell, now 76, was arrested in 1982 after he allegedly planted a bomb and injured his ‘estranged’ wife, according to the Department of Justice.

The fugitive was accused of attempting first-degree murder by leaving the bomb in a toolbox outside her boyfriend’s house in Wyoming.

The device detonated when she opened it, severing one of her fingers while the blast set fire to the home and neighbouring property.

Campbell is accused of using a dead man’s identity for 40 years (US Attorney’s Office District of New Mexico)

Campbell was arrested and released on bond in 1983, after which he appeared to vanish into thin air.

He never appeared before court and was listed as a target on the US Marshals Most Wanted list.

However, Campbell was finally tracked down in New Mexico as of February 19 this year after officials grew suspicious of his identity.

Court documents have accused the alleged conman of assuming the identity of a former classmate, Walter Lee Coffman, who died in a car crash in 1975 when he was 22, and fraudulently claiming tens of thousands of dollars in government benefits.

The pair had both studied engineering degrees as the University of Arkansas and graduated two months before Coffman died.

He allegedly acquired a passport in Coffman’s name (US Attorney’s Office District of New Mexico)

The DOJ says this suggests a ‘likely connection’ between the two.

Records indicate Campbell first applied for a passport in Coffman’s name in 1984 and managed to renew it several times throughout the decades that passed by with his own photograph and address.

More than 10 years later in 1995, he secured a new Social Security card in Coffman’s name by using an Oklahoma driver’s license, again in the name of his former classmate, police say.

In 2003, he allegedly purchased a property in Weed using Coffman’s identity and renewed his passport in 2005 and again in 2015.

But the mask started to slip in 2019 when he allegedly presented the swathe of fraudulent documents before the New Mexico Motor Vehicle Department in Cloudcroft in a bid to renew his driver’s license.

His web of lies started unravelling in 2019 in New Mexico (US Attorney’s Office District of New Mexico)

While he was reportedly granted the license, agents from the National Passport Center’s Fraud Prevention Unit grew suspicious after discovering records of the real Coffman’s death.

An investigation uncovered Campbell’s alleged web of sham activity using the dead man’s name, which included pocketing $140,000 in Social Security retirement benefits.

After being rumbled, police descended on the apparent fraudster’s 44-acre home on February 19, where he allegedly refused to surrender by concealing himself with a rifle.

Officers coaxed him out with flashbang stun devices and FBI investigators uncovered his weapon was loaded and ready to fire high-powered ammunition that can pierce body armour.

Further inspection of his home uncovered 57 firearms and large quantities of ammunition which he is prohibited from owning, the DOJ notes.

The weapons seized from his property (US Attorney’s Office District of New Mexico)

SCSO spokesperson Jason Mower said: “Campbell’s wanted poster has been on the wall at our office since I started here nearly 20 years ago. I’ve worked hundreds of fugitive cases, helping track down and capture fugitives all across the country. But never Campbell – every lead went cold, no matter what tools we used. Now, I finally understand why.”

Campbell was arrested and charged on suspicion of misusing a passport which could cost him 10 years in prison before standing trial for the 1982 crime.

Law enforcement are also currently evaluating the possibility of additional charges because of the weapons in his home.

New York City is home to many high-rise buildings—the American city is only third behind Hong Kong and Shenzhen, China, for most skyscrapers—so there are bound to be a few that no one really knows why they’re there.

Especially if it’s got ZERO windows, too – talk about unique architecture.

33 Thomas Street in New York has baffled residents and the internet for a while, leading to many speculating as to what may be going on within its four walls.

Some have even been so brave as to attempt to enter the building to discover for themselves. But to be honest, you’re not going to have a clue unless told by someone that has worked in the building who is willing to spill the beans, and indeed that has happened.

33 Thomas Street has a lot of mystery that surrounds it (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)

Speaking to the Daily Mail in 2023 under the condition on anonymity, the man says that he was invited, along with his son, in the early 2000s to work as a steamfitter – which involves someone installing wiring and pipes within a building.

According to the son, they were forbidden from entering into certain rooms.

He said: “There were rooms we couldn’t get into. They specifically told us not to enter, and we couldn’t ask what’s inside or why we can’t go in.”

He claimed that him, his father and the rest of the team were ultimately forced to install wires around the room.

He further claimed that crew supposedly came across confidential papers in a cabinet in the basement – and what makes it even more interesting is the documents supposedly detailed what to do in the event of a radiation attack.

If you were to look into it further, you’ll find the official use of the building is as a telephone interchange, and it was formerly known as the AT&T Long Lines Building – so basically just a place to wire up tons of phone lines.

A man who claimed to have worked in the building has revealed all (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)

According to a TikToker, the building ‘has enough gas, water and electricity to be able to continue running independently for up to two weeks and is supposed to be able to actually withstand a nuclear blast… within reason’.

However, despite this knowledge, people have come up with their own wild predictions as to the building’s use.

One theory has suggested that the building is some sort of nuclear shelter – which seems a pretty wild conclusion even for conspiracy theorists.

While another theory is that it’s a supposed listening post for the National Security Agency (NSA), called ‘Titanpointe’ – with an investigation by The Intercept claiming that parts of the building were dedicated to surveillance.

However, until anyone tells us otherwise, the simplest explanation is probably the correct one in that the building is, in fact, used for telephone interchange.

Eminem has admitted that he ‘cringes’ every time he hears one of his own songs now after releasing it earlier in his lengthy career.

Ever since the release of his debut album, Infinite, in 1996, Eminem has gone on to establish himself as one of the best-known rappers of all time. He’s got a catalogue of more than 300 songs touching on a whole range of topics, so it’s understandable that he’d come to have his favorites – as well as those he’s less proud of.

While some fans might not particularly like the pacing or lyrics in certain Eminem songs, for the rapper, it’s the emotional impact of one particular track that’s left him regretting it.

The track features on his 2002 album Without Me, and features details about Em’s fraught relationship with his mother, Debbie.

Eminem released his debut album in 1996 (Kevin Mazur/WireImage)

Just three years prior to the song’s release, Debbie had sued her son as she accused him of slander and defamation. She sought to get $10 million out of her famous son, but eventually settled for $25,000.

Eminem then dropped his track ‘Cleanin’ Out My Closet’, in which he uses some choice language to describe the woman who brought him into the world.

In the track, he calls his mom a ‘selfish b**ch’ and says he hoped she would ‘burn in Hell’.

The Slim Shady rapper also described her ‘popping prescription pills’ and vowed not to let her meet his daughter.

The song was apparently a reflection of how Eminem felt about his mom at the time, but as his feelings changed, so too did his thoughts about the track.

In 2013, Eminem followed-up with an apology track towards his mom in which he revealed how he had come to feel about ‘Cleanin’ Out My Closet’.

In his song ‘Headlights’, he said: “My mom probably got it the worst / The brunt of it, but as stubborn as we are, did I take it too far? /’Cleaning Out My Closet’ and all them other songs / But regardless, I don’t hate you ‘cause ma.

“You’re still beautiful to me, ‘cause you’re my mom.”

Eminem later apologized for the track about his mom (Mark Weiss/Getty Images)

The heartfelt apology continues: “But I’m sorry mama for ‘Cleanin’ Out My Closet,’ at the time I was angry. Rightfully maybe so, never meant that far to take it though, ‘cause now I know it’s not your fault and I’m not making jokes. / That song I no longer pay at shows and I cringe every time it’s on the radio.”

Em goes on in the track to say he ‘forgives’ his mom, adding that she ‘did [her] best’ to raise him and his brother, Nathan.

Rounding off the heartfelt apology, he says: “But I love you Debbie Mathers, oh what a tangled web we have.

“And I’m mad I didn’t get the chance to thank you for being my mom and my dad.”

Debbie died in December 2024 at the age of 69.

An astronaut who spent 178 days in space has revealed the ‘big lie’ he discovered while he was up there.

Former NASA astronaut Ron Garan spent 178 days in space and has accumulated more than 71 million miles in 2,842 orbits of Earth.

Basically, he’s spent a lot of time up in space, and has since spoken about one moment in particular, in which he looked down at our planet – which is known as the ‘Overview Effect’.

The ‘Overview Effect’ often takes place when astronauts go into space and look down and see Earth from that perspective for the first time.

The experience ‘shift[s] […] the way astronauts view and think about our planet and life itself,’ NASA explains.

Garan explained that it was during this time that ‘certain things become undeniably clear’.

In an interview with Big Think, Garan explained: “We keep trying to deal with issues such as global warming, deforestation, biodiversity loss as stand alone issues when in reality they’re just symptoms of the underlying root problem and the problem is, that we don’t see ourselves as planetary.

“When I looked out of the window of the International Space Station, I saw the paparazzi like flashes of lightening storms, I saw dancing curtains of auroras that seemed so close it was as if we could reach out and touch them and I saw the unbelievable thinness of our planet’s atmosphere.

Ron Garan spent 178 days in space and has accumulated more than 71 million miles in 2,842 orbits of Earth (Erika Goldring/Getty Images)

“In that moment I was hit by the sobering realization.”

Garan was hit by the realization that our planet – and every living thing on it – is being kept alive by a ‘paper thin layer’.

“I saw an iridescent biosphere teaming with life, I didn’t see an economy, but since our human-made systems treat everything including the very life-support systems of our planet as the […] subsidiary of the global economy, it’s obvious from the vanish point of space that we’re living a lie,” he continued.

Garan spoke about experiencing the ‘Overview Effect’ (Getty Stock Photo)

The astronaut reflects on the moment as being a ‘light bulb that pops up’ when he realized ‘how interconnected and interdependent we all are’.

Since returning from his mission, Garan ‘continues to work towards a cleaner, safer and more peaceful planet,’ urging others: “We need to move from thinking, economy, society, planet to planet, society, economy. That’s when we’re going to continue our evolutionary process.

“[…] We’re not going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.”

One of the greatest directors of all time fired off his list of who he believes are the five greatest actors of all time in quick succession.

When it comes to who are the best of the best to feature on our screens, there are so many illustrious actors that it would difficult to give a top five – but not for Steven Spielberg who showed no hesitation.

Director Steven Spielberg has worked with esteemed actors Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, but neither received a mention (Dave J Hogan/Dave J Hogan/Getty Images)

Although why are we surprised? He lives and breathes cinema.

Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan, Jurassic Park, Jaws, the Indiana Jones franchise… the 78-year-old will leave a legacy behind when he finally decides to fold away his director’s chair, and those films are just out of the 20th century.

Since the 21st century, he has directed a further 19 to date, with Catch Me If You Can, Lincoln, Bridge of Spies, and The Post also making up that list.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, Liam Neeson, Harrison Ford, and Whoopi Goldberg are just some of the talent that Spielberg has worked with on his movies, but who does the acclaimed filmmaker single out as his top five favourite actors?

In an interview, Spielberg recalled a conversation he had with fellow director Stanley Kubrick after he’d watched a screening of The Shining, and didn’t much like it on the first watch.

Spielberg explained to the director that he thought that, while Jack Nicholson is a talented actor, the way he played the role of Jack Torrance in Kubrick’s movie was over the top, and compared it to Japanese Kabuki theatre – in which actors are heavily stylised and made up with larger-than-life costumes and makeup.

Defending Nicholson’s performance, Kubrick asked Spielberg to list his five favourite actors of all time.

And surprisingly, none of the actors Spielberg had collaborated with himself made the list.

He said: “So, I quickly went ‘Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant, Clark Gable’.

Two-time Oscar-winning actor Spencer Tracy, who died in 1967, made the cut (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

“He stopped me and said, ‘Stop, okay, where was James Cagney on that list?’

“And I thought, he’s up there high, and he said, ‘Ah, but he’s not in [your] top five. You don’t consider James Cagney one of the five best actors around, but I do.

“‘And this is why Jack Nicholson’s performance is a great one’.”

So essentially, Kubrick’s point was that just because Nicholson’s style of acting in The Shining wasn’t to Spielberg’s taste, it doesn’t mean it’s a bad movie.

Spencer Tracey is perhaps best known for his roles in the 1961 movie Judgement at Nuremberg and 1967’s Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, while Henry Fonda was most well known for the 1940 film The Grapes of Wrath and 12 Angry Men (1957).

One-time Oscar-winner Cary Grant, who passed away in 1986, also got the nod (Herbert Dorfman/Corbis via Getty Images)

Jimmy Stewart was famed for roles in Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Vertigo (1958), and The Philadelphia Story, alongside another Spielberg favourite Cary Grant.

Clark Gable, meanwhile, is well known for the 1939 romance-drama Gone with the Wind.

Kubrick’s preferred actor James Cagney, meanwhile, was known for his high energy performances, which bore similarities to Nicholson’s turn in The Shining.

He is known for his roles in 1938’s Angels with Dirty Faces and 1949’s White Heat.