The Marty Supreme star has been in the headlines over comments he made about ballet and opera

Oscars viewers are claiming that Timothee Chalamet ‘lost himself’ the Best Actor award after he was once again snubbed at the Academy Awards.

Heading into the annual ceremony at LA’s Dolby Theatre on Sunday night (March 15), Chalamet was looking to finally take home his first golden statue. He was nominated this year for his work on Marty Supreme.

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Chalamet was nominated last year for playing Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown as well as in 2018 for his breakout performance in Call Me by Your Name. The 30-year-old’s fans felt he was outright snubbed after his performances in Little Women and Dune failed to get him nominations at past ceremonies.

The star was the favourite to win this year’s Best Actor Oscar for several months, having won at The Golden Globes and at Critics’ Choice Awards in recent months. However, he landed himself in hot water earlier in the month over comments he made about ballet and opera.

Speaking to Variety he said: “I don’t want to be working in ballet, or opera, or things where it’s like, ‘Hey, keep this thing alive, even though like no one cares about this anymore. All respect to all the ballet and opera people out there.”

His comments arrived after he had already drawn criticism for his unusual awards campaign, which saw him feature on a song with Liverpool rapper EsDeeKid and bring in a host of athletes to promote Marty Supreme.

Towards the end of the 2026 Oscars, last year’s winner Adrian Brody announced that Sinners star Michael B Jordan beat Chalamet, One Battle After Another’s Leonard DiCaprio, Blue Moon’s Ethan Hawke and The Secret Agent’s Wagner Moura.

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Jordan, who played twins in vampire flick Sinners, said after his name was read aloud: “I stand here because of the people that came before me, Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Jamie Foxx, Forest Whitaker, Will Smith and to be amongst those giants, amongst those greats, amongst my ancestors, amongst my guys.

“Thank you, everybody in this room and everybody at home for supporting me over my career. I feel it. I know you guys want me to do well and I want to do that because you guys bet on me. So thank you for keep betting on me, and I’m gonna keep stepping up, and I’m gonna keep being the best version of myself I could be.

“Thank you for everybody in this room that has something to do with my success. I love you guys and everybody at home who supported Sinners, who went to go see the movie, once, twice, three, four or five times, thank you, because you guys made this movie what it is. I love you. I love you. I love you.”

Despite many people being happy to see Jordan, who rose to fame on The Wire and Friday Night Lights, win, many took to X, previously known as Twitter, to have their say on why they feel Chalamet may have cost himself.

@JukeTTV said: “This dude Timothee Chalamet really lost himself the Oscar with all this extra s*** bro I’m sick.” @bigmonkeong added: “wow so timothee chalamet truly is the next leonardo dicaprio.”

@dkmsully wrote: “Timothee Chalamet hive, we will continue to fight for Dune 3.” @keyon stated: “Timothee you’ll get your Oscar when you do little women sequel I think.”

@cheytheratgirl commented: “timothee chalamet went too method with marty supreme and exactly what happened in the movie has happened to him on the oscar’s stage.” @Beratorrrr claimed: “I think what’s worse about this timothee loss is he’s gonna lose next year’s awards as well to tom cruise.”

When Sean Penn won his third Oscar at the 2026 ceremony, he didn’t show up to collect the award – and Kieran Culkin made a dig at his expense.

Penn won the Best Supporting Actor trophy for his role in Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, having previously won Best Actor for Mystic River and Milk in 2004 and 2009, respectively.

However, after last year’s winner, A Real Pain star Culkin, announced six-time nominee Penn’s victory, he revealed that the actor wasn’t there to claim the award.

According to The New York Times, Penn was visiting Ukraine instead. The actor has been one of the most high-profile supporters of Ukraine’s President Zelensky during his country’s war with Russia.

In his usual wry tone, Culkin poked fun at Penn’s absence, telling the crowd: “Sean Penn couldn’t be here this evening. Or didn’t want to. So I’ll be accepting the award on his behalf.”

Viewers laughed along at Culkin’s comment at home, with one writing on X/Twitter: “Funniest thing said tonight. Kieran Culkin saying it like it is.”

“Oh Kieran you are iconic for this!” another added.

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Host Conan O’Brien then joked about the situation, sarcastically stating: “We had a no-show in Sean Penn – this thing’s a humdinger; you’ve got to stay tuned!”

Penn’s victory arrives despite expressing disdain for the ceremony in the past. In 2024, he accused the Oscars of “limiting different cultural expressions” and said that ceremonies like the Oscars should be viewed as “television shows first”.

While receiving a career tribute at Marrakech Film Festival, he said: “The Academy have exercised really extraordinary cowardice when it comes to being part of the bigger world of expression, and in fact, have largely been part of limiting the imagination and very limiting of different cultural expressions.”

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He beat his One Battle After Another co-star Benicio Fel Toro, Delroy Lindo (Sinners), Stellan Skarsgård (Sentimental Value) and Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein), who were all present at the ceremony.

Penn also didn’t show up at several awards ceremonies in the run-up to the Oscars, including the Baftas, where he also won Best Supporting Actor. His win makes him the fourth male actor in history to receive three acting Oscars in total, joining Walter Brennan, Jack Nicholson and Daniel Day-Lewis.

The 2026 Oscars saw One Battle After Another also take home Best Picture and Best Director for Paul Thomas Anderson. Hamnet star Jessie Buckley won Best Actress while Michael B Jordan won Best actor for Sinners. Meanwhile, Amy Madigan took home Best Supporting Actress for her role in horror film Weapons.

The man was found drowned on the A10 near Milton

Some investigations into people who have been killed or gone missing remain as cold cases for many years. Over the last few decades, there have been several murders that have remained unsolved, including some in Cambridgeshire.

One unsolved case that marks its 30th anniversary this month is the death of 29-year-old Russell Marsom. Russell was a hairdresser from Heacham, Norfolk.

Russell was an openly gay man, and visited Cambridge frequently for its LGBTQ+ nightlife. He left his home in Heacham on March 30, 1996 to go clubbing in Cambridge.

On that day, his mother Mrs Marsom has spoken to Russell on the phone. She asked him to pick up a bread and butter pudding she had made for him, but he never turned up.

On March 31, a dog walker found a partially-clothed body in a water-filled ditch next to the A10 in Milton. The body was Russell’s.

After a post-mortem, it revealed he drowned and a murder investigation was launched by Cambridgeshire Police. At first, police linked Russell’s death to witchcraft, as it had been a full moon on the night of his death.

Officers believed Russell had looked into occult, which are supernatural beliefs. However, his mother confirmed Russell had borrowed a book from a friend and there was no links to occult.

No one was arrested, and no leads led police to anything. In 2007, a 34-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder, but he was later released on bail.

In 2021, on the 25th anniversary of his death, Cambridgeshire Police relaunched an appeal to try and find more information on Russell’s murder. Police reached out to the LGBTQ+ community.

They were keen to speak to anyone who may have been in the Jesus Green and surrounding areas of Cambridge city, including the Dot Cotton Club, between 10pm on March 30, and 10am the following day.

They were also keen to speak to anyone who may have travelled along the A10 at Milton that night. The murder still remains unsolved.

Who is to blame for these late points dropped – and why so many poor performances after winning last season’s Premier League title?

“Awful performance, considering the opposition. With the incentive of the other results, to put a performance in like that – but it’s been like this all season,” said Carragher.

“The big question is, is that down to the manager or the make-up of the squad? I’m not too sure.”

What is causing it? The problem is, if Liverpool knew, they would have sorted it by now.

In a bid to find a theme, Dutchman Slot pointed out all the goals were not similar.

“Again in the last minute, again after an opportunity to score ourselves and again we leave the pitch with a disappointing result,” he told Sky Sports.

“The way we concede is not always the same in the last minute. You cannot compare the deflected shot against Wolves with the shot today. All of the moments they had came from long balls and second balls and we were not able to clear the ball fast enough.

“As this season is going, it is not a complete surprise we are conceding in the last moments. “

Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, Slot added: “Every time it happens in the last minute it is an enormous frustration.

“How many times does it need to happen? And it happened again today. This time it didn’t come as a complete surprise – the last 15-20 minutes of the game were the most equal part of the game.”

And the booing from the Anfield faithful?

Both Slot and Szoboszlai said they understood it – but the midfielder added they should “support us in a difficult time”, with a 1-0 deficit to overcome on Wednesday in the Champions League last-16 second-leg tie at home to Galatasaray.

“I’m 100% sure that if they show up on Wednesday that they will be supportive again from the start, but if the team doesn’t perform to the standards that they are used to, I think it is completely normal that they are frustrated,” added Slot.

“Arne Slot has to have a look at himself,” said ex-Republic of Ireland striker Clinton Morrison on BBC Radio 5 Live.

“If Liverpool play like this midweek, then they will be knocked out of the Champions League.”

Jessie Buckley won Best Actress at the 2026 Oscars for her role as Agnes in Hamnet, a film about the death of William Shakespeare’s son based on the book by Maggie O’Farrell

Jessie Buckley has taken home the award for Best Actress at the Oscars. The Irish star won for her role as Agnes in Hamnet, the wife of William Shakespeare who must deal with the heartbreaking death of their son.

This was Jessie’s first win, though she was previously nominated for her role in The Lost Daughter. She used her speech to thank her husband, her family and her daughter, Isla, pointing out that her win came on Mother’s Day. She added a thank you to Chloe Zhao, Hamnet’s director, and Maggie O’Farrell, who wrote the book.

Jessie said: “This is the greatest honour, I can’t believe it.” She also dedicated the award to the “chaos” of a mother’s heart.

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Jessie swept the awards leading up to the Oscars. winning the SAG Award, BAFTA, Critics’ Choice and Golden Globe for the film. Her wins at these awards made her a firm favourite to take home the Oscar as well, with many feeling her only competition was Rose Byrne, who had also won at the Golden Globes.

Both Rose and Jessie were able to win, as Rose was nominated for Female Actor in a Comedy, whilst Jessie was nominated for Female Actor in a Drama. The awards are not split by genre at the Oscars, meaning there can be only one winner, unless there is a tie.

There was a tie earlier in the show, as The Singers and Two People Exchanging Saliva both won Best Live Action Short. As per Oscar rules, films and stars must win the exact same number of votes for a tie to happen.

This has happened in the Best Actress category before, as in 1969, both Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand won the award with exactly 3,030 votes each. Katharine won for her role in The Lion In Winter, while Barbra won for Funny Girl.

Elsewhere at the awards, Amy Madigan won Best Supporting Actress. This was her first Oscar, which she won aged 75. Meanwhile Sean Penn won Best Supporting Actor, but chose not to show up to the awards. This was his third Oscar, and last year’s winner, Kieran Culkin, accepted the award on his behalf.

The first ever Oscar for Best Casting was awarded as well. Casting directors had not been recognised at the awards before, despite the Oscars being in it’s 98th edition. However, this year, the category was introduced and the first award went to Cassandra Kulukundis for One Battle After Another.

She thanked all the casting directors who came before her and “never got the chance” to be nominated for an Oscar. She also thanked those who “fought tirelessly” for the category to be added to the Oscars.

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CHICAGO (AP) — A broad and erratic patchwork of severe weather rumbled across much of the U.S. on Sunday, dumping heavy snow and making roads impassable in the Upper Midwest while damaging high winds swept across the Plains.

Hawaii continued to be affected by severe flooding.

And portions of the mid-South readied for late-day thunderstorms.

Forecasters said the storms would spread eastward by Monday, with mid-Atlantic states and Washington, D.C., at greatest risk for high winds and tornadoes.

Successive punches of snow, wind and severe weather were set to impact the eastern half of the United States, said AccuWeather senior meteorologist Tyler Roys.

Beyond the threat to lives and property, “whether it’s wind gusts from a squall line, blizzard or snow, or just wind because of the storm, you’re looking at several major airports being impacted,” Roy said.

Big snows in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan

An area from central Wisconsin to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula was likely to see over 2 feet (60 centimeters) of snow, with higher isolated totals on the peninsula, Roys said. Lower snow accumulations in places su ch as Chicago and Milwaukee will likely create trouble for commuters on Monday, he added.

Over 20 inches (51 centimeters) of snow fell in some portions of southeastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin as of Sunday afternoon, according to National Weather Service reports. Transportation officials warned of worsening conditions with low visibility and snow-covered roadways.

Wisconsin snowplow driver Aaron Haas said it was one of the worst storms he had seen in years. On Sunday around the town of Marshfield, Haas was stacking piles of snow as high as his truck.

“You can’t see anything when you’re on the highways outside of the city,” he said.

Jim Allen, 45, who lives on the Upper Peninsula, said his family stocked up on necessities and he was ready to clear snow several times Sunday with a shovel and snowblower.

“We’re basically prepared to just kind of hunker down for a few days if we need to,” Allen said.

More than 600 flights were canceled at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport Sunday, according to FlightAware, which tracks flight disruptions. Dozens more through Detroit were also scrapped. O’Hare and Midway international airports in Chicago, where rain and snow was expected overnight into Monday, reported more than 850 cancellations.

Landslides, rescues, collapsed home on Maui

Rain continued falling on Sunday in Hawaii, where acres of farmland and homes have been flooded, roads have been closed and shelters opened. PowerOutage.us, which tracks outages nationwide, reported almost 40,000 electric customers in Hawaii without power by midday Sunday.

Flash flooding has been a major problem in recent days in places like Maui, Molokai and the Big Island, where rain had been falling from 1 to 2 inches (2.5 to 5 centimeters) an hour overnight, according to the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency.

Some areas of Maui received more than 20 inches (51 centimeters) of rain, Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen said in a social media post late Saturday.

“We’re seeing flooding, landslides, sinkholes, debris and downed power lines across the county,” he said. Expressing gratitude in the Hawaiian language, the mayor added, “mahalo for continuing to look out for one another.”

Video footage with Bissen’s post showed washed out or collapsed roads, a car stuck by floodwaters and raging waterways. National Guard members and fire department workers made multiple floodwater rescues, Bissen said.

Tom and Carrie Bashaw said they could do little to prevent part of their home in Maui’s Iao Valley from collapsing beneath rising waters. On Friday, the water’s force starting overtaking nearby trees.

“When we lost the mango and monkey pod, we started throwing stuff in bags and packing up,” Tom Bashaw told HawaiiNewsNow. They returned Saturday morning and “the whole backside of the house” was gone, he said.

Maui resident and real estate broker Jesse Wald, who recorded video of a coastal road’s collapse Saturday, said other parts of road were flooded out by mud and sediment.

“In the 20 years I’ve been here I’ve never seen this much rain,” Wald said. “I’m from Wisconsin and we get thunderstorms, you know pretty often in the summer, so it felt like a Wisconsin thunderstorm but times 10.”

Maui County later on Sunday downgraded an evacuation notice and said crews were pumping water from retentions basins to keep them at safe levels.

Power outages remain, some from earlier high winds

More than 210,000 utility customers in six Great Lakes states were without electricity as of Sunday afternoon, according to PowerOutage.us. Some originated on Friday when gusts in the region reached 85 mph (137 km).

In Nebraska, about 30 National Guard members were deployed to combat multiple wildfires across a broad swath of range and grassland, state officials said.

Three of the largest wildfires had damaged more than 900 square miles (2,331 square kilometers) as of Saturday, officials said. One fire-related fatality was reported Friday. Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen urged residents to follow locally-issued evacuation orders, adding that winds were “supposed to be extraordinary.”

The weather service issued a high-wind warning for most of Nebraska, with gusts of up to 60 mph (97 kph) possible amid falling snow. Roys said high winds would affect a region stretching from the U.S.-Mexico border to the Great Lakes, and from Denver eastward to the Appalachian Mountains.

Forecasters warn about line of storms, tornadoes

The weather service warned that a line of severe storms with damaging winds would cross much of the Eastern U.S. by late Monday. It was to begin Sunday afternoon and cross the Mississippi, Tennessee and Ohio valleys.

The storm threat was expected to enter the Appalachians early Monday, then move toward the East Coast, where “severe thunderstorms with widespread damaging winds and several tornadoes” were expected Monday, the service said.

A stretch from parts of South Carolina to Maryland appeared most likely to experience the greatest damaging winds Monday afternoon, the weather service said. That could include Raleigh, North Carolina; Richmond, Virginia, and the nation’s capital. It said an increased — albeit much lower — risk stretched north to New York and south to Florida, with thunderstorms possible in New England.

Officials said schools in Raleigh and Chapel Hill, North Carolina would be closed Monday and the state’s governor urged residents to enable emergency alerts on their phones ahead of expected wind gusts of 74 mph (119 kph).

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Robertson reported from Raleigh, North Carolina. Associated Press writers Julie Walker in New York and Matthew Brown in Billings, Montana, also contributed to this report.

Police were called to Market Cross Jewellers on Saturday (March 14) after a man smashed the front window of the Westgate store with a hammer.

The suspect then took handfuls of jewellery and fled the scene – but not before brave members of the public gave chase and managed to detain him before police arrived. 

Cleveland Police confirmed a 29‑year‑old man had been arrested on suspicion of robbery and was taken into police custody.

Market Cross, which has been based in the town since 1980, has since issued a statement thanking those who helped. 

It said: “We are sending out a huge, heartfelt thank you to the people of Guisborough who  helped to apprehend the [suspect] who smashed the diamond window, threatened a member of staff and made away with quite a lot of stock from our Guisborough store. 

“The town of Guisborough was where we opened our first store in 1980. 

“We couldn’t afford to be on the High Street at the time and opened in a small shop situated behind the town’s Market Cross and called ourselves Market Cross Jewellers so that people would know where to find us.

“We have since moved to a better position but have remained a part of the Guisborough community for over 40 years. 

“We are often serving the children and grandchildren of our original customers.

“We are so grateful to all those who took chase and apprehended the man and recovered stolen goods. We are also grateful for all the lovely messages that we have received asking about how the staff are.

“The four ladies who were working at the time had been so happy after a lovely, busy day serving customers with Mother’s Day gifts and this incident left them extremely shaken and upset: it was quite terrifying for them, as you can imagine.  

“All your messages will be passed on to them. Again, thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all the help and support: It really does mean the world to us.”

Temporary Detective Sergeant Brayfield of Redcar CID said: “I’d like to thank the public‑spirited people who bravely chased and held onto the suspect until we arrived at the scene.

“I’m appealing for anyone who witnessed today’s incident, or anyone with dashcam, mobile phone or CCTV footage, to get in touch.”

Anyone with information is asked to call 101 quoting reference SE26048090.

Sabalenka opted to take some time away from competitive action after suffering Grand Slam heartbreak at the start of the year, and that decision appears to have paid off.

She has put in some dominant performances across the past two weeks and stood up to serious pressure against an opponent she tends to struggle against.

The 27-year-old had lost four of her previous five meetings with Rybakina in finals but dug deep to land her second trophy of the year.

It is not just against Rybakina that Sabalenka has struggled, though, with six of her previous 10 finals appearances ending in defeat.

Sabalenka’s last two appearances in finals at Indian Wells also ended in defeat – losing to Rybakina in 2023 and Mirra Andreeva last year.

After losing the opening set – the first she had dropped all tournament – Sabalenka could be excused for thinking she was destined for another defeat, but the four-time Grand Slam singles champion showed incredible character to force her way back in proceedings.

Sabalenka has been known for letting her frustration get in the way, but she channelled any frustrations in a positive manner to break twice in succession and save four break points before wrapping up the second set.

That momentum continued into the decider and an early break appeared to be enough for Sabalenka when she had the chance to serve for the match.

However, Rybakina struck back and then went on to save five break points of her own.

In a match full of twists, the conclusion lived up to the billing, with Sabalenka holding firm in a superb tie-break to come out on top.

Ludvig Aberg arrived on Sunday with a three-shot lead, but the Swede, who still led the field by three with nine to play, imploded; his hopes sunk in a couple of the course’s many lakes.

The European Ryder Cup star’s seemingly serene march to the title – he had one birdie, one bogey and eight pars in his opening 10 holes – was abruptly halted by visits to water on the 11th and 12th, costing him those three shots.

“The back nine was not good, but that’s the way it goes sometimes,” was Aberg’s philosophical take on his demise.

“It got away from me quickly. It was just poor swings. I tried to press a little bit on 12, hitting driver, but it was a really poor swing, and it stings a bit.”

Meanwhile, Fitzpatrick, who had missed makeable birdie chances from 15, 11, 11 and seven feet on four successive holes from the eighth, birdied the 12th and 13th to surge into the lead on 13 under.

But Young stuck with him, also picking up a shot on the short 13th to stay one back.

Up ahead, Schauffele set the clubhouse target at 11 under, while MacIntyre was left to rue an errant shot on the 16th.

He had started the final round six shots off the pace but after five birdies in his opening 11 holes lifted him to 11 under he thought he “was in with a shout”.

A three-putt bogey on the 14th was followed by a birde on the next, with the par-five 16th offering the chance of another birdie. However, after hitting his second shot into greenside rough, he could only hack his ball out and watch helplessly as it trundled across the green and into the water, leading to another bogey.

“It’s a sore one right now,” he said. “On 17 and 18 we played aggressive but smart. That was the caddie’s words. I was wanting to go straight at that pin on 17, just throw the dice at it.

“But I wouldn’t have wanted to walk off there with a bogey on 16, a double on 17, and then probably a bogey on 18 with my head off. Overall a decent week.”