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LaVar Ball’s only rival might be the late Joe Jackson.
For Drake, his next move better be his best move. The 6 God revealed he’s back in the studio as he turns the page to a clean slate in the new year. Drizzy took to Instagram for a colorful post on Tuesday night (Jan. 7) as he got back to work while showing off his […]
Jonathan Bailey and Selena Gomez were the only actors to receive 2025 Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for both film and television work. Bailey was nominated twice for Wicked, as member of the ensemble cast and in the supporting actor category, and once for Bridgerton, as a member of the ensemble cast. Gomez was nominated as a member of the casts of both Emilia Pérez and Only Murders in the Building.
Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo each received both ensemble and individual nominations for their work in Wicked. Likewise, Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton and Monica Barbaro each received two nods for their work in A Complete Unknown. Chalamet plays Bob Dylan, Norton plays Pete Seeger and Barbaro plays Joan Baez.
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Wicked received a total of five nominations, tying the all-time record for most nominations by a film. Previous films that received five SAG Award nods were Chicago, Doubt, Shakespeare in Love, The Banshees of Inisherin and Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Other films with multiple nominations were A Complete Unknown and Emilia Pérez with four each; Anora with three; and Conclave and The Last Showgirl with two each.
Shōgun was the most nominated TV program with five nods, followed by The Bear with four and The Diplomat with three.
Twenty actors received their first individual acting nods this year. Bailey and Grande are among them, as are such veterans as Harrison Ford, Demi Moore and Daniel Craig. Pamela Anderson, Tadanobu Asano, Monica Barbaro, Kristen Bell, Adam Brody, Yura Borisov, Nicola Coughlan, Richard Gadd, Karla Sofía Gascón, Jessica Gunning, Mikey Madison, Cristin Milioti, Zoe Saldaña, Hiroyuki Sanada and Anna Sawai were among the acting nominations.
Bell, nominated for outstanding performance by a female actor in a comedy series for the Netflix hit Nobody Wants This, will host this year’s SAG Awards. Legendary actress and activist Jane Fonda will be presented with the Life Achievement Award, SAG-AFTRA’s highest honor.
The 31st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, produced by Silent House Productions in partnership with SAG-AFTRA, will stream live globally on Netflix Sunday, Feb. 23, at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT from the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall in Los Angeles.
Here’s the complete list of nominations.
Outstanding performance by a male actor in a leading role
Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
Daniel Craig, Queer
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
Outstanding performance by a female actor in a leading role
Pamela Anderson, The Last Showgirl
Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez
Mikey Madison, Anora
Demi Moore, The Substance
Outstanding performance by a male actor in a supporting role
Jonathan Bailey, Wicked
Yura Borisov, Anora
Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice
Outstanding performance by a female actor in a supporting role
Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown
Jamie Lee Curtis, The Last Showgirl
Danielle Deadwyler, The Piano Lesson
Ariana Grande, Wicked
Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez
Outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture
A Complete Unknown — Monica Barbaro, Norbert Leo Butz, Timothée Chalamet, Elle Fanning, Dan Fogler, Will Harrison, Eriko Hatsune, Boyd Holbrook, Scoot McNairy, Big Bill Morganfield, Edward Norton
Anora – Yura Borisov, Mark Eydelshteyn, Karren Karagulian, Mikey Madison, Aleksey Serebryakov, Vache Tovmasyan
Conclave – Sergio Castellitto, Ralph Fiennes, John Lithgow, Lucian Msamati, Isabella Rossellini, Stanley Tucci
Emilia Pérez – Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz, Zoe Saldaña
Wicked – Jonathan Bailey, Marissa Bode, Peter Dinklage, Cynthia Erivo, Jeff Goldblum, Ariana Grande, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Michelle Yeoh
Outstanding action performance by a stunt ensemble in a motion picture
Deadpool & Wolverine
Dune: Part Two
The Fall Guy
Gladiator II
Wicked
Outstanding performance by a male actor in a television movie or limited series
Javier Bardem, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
Colin Farrell, The Penguin
Richard Gadd, Baby Reindeer
Kevin Kline, Disclaimer
Andrew Scott, Ripley
Outstanding performance by a female actor in a television movie or limited series
Kathy Bates, The Great Lillian Hall
Cate Blanchett, Disclaimer
Jodie Foster, True Detective: Night Country
Lily Gladstone, Under the Bridge
Jessica Gunning, Baby Reindeer
Cristin Milioti, The Penguin
Outstanding performance by a male actor in a drama series
Tadanobu Asano, Shōgun
Jeff Bridges, The Old Man
Gary Oldman, Slow Horses
Eddie Redmayne, The Day of the Jackal
Hiroyuki Sanada, Shōgun
Outstanding performance by a female actor in a drama series
Kathy Bates, Matlock
Nicola Coughlan, Bridgerton
Allison Janney, The Diplomat
Keri Russell, The Diplomat
Anna Sawai, Shōgun
Outstanding performance by a male actor in a comedy series
Adam Brody, Nobody Wants This
Ted Danson, A Man on the Inside
Harrison Ford, Shrinking
Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building
Jeremy Allen White, The Bear
Outstanding performance by a female actor in a comedy series
Kristen Bell, Nobody Wants This
Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary
Liza Colón-Zayas, The Bear
Ayo Edebiri, The Bear
Jean Smart, Hacks
Outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series
Bridgerton — Geraldine Alexander,Victor Alli, Adjoa Andoh, Julie Andrews, Lorraine Ashbourne, Simone Ashley, Jonathan Bailey, Joe Barnes, Joanna Bobin, James Bryan, Harriet Cains, Bessie Carter, Genevieve Chenneour, Dominic Coleman, Nicola Coughlan, Kitty Devlin, Hannah Dodd, Daniel Francis, Ruth Gemmell, Rosa Hesmondhalgh, Sesley Hope, Florence Hunt, Martins Imhangbe, Molly Jackson-Shaw, Claudia Jessie, Lorn MacDonald, Jessica Madsen, Emma Naomi, Hannah New, Luke Newton, Caleb Obediah, James Phoon, Vineeta Rishi, Golda Rosheuvel, Hugh Sachs, Banita Sandhu, Luke Thompson, Will Tilston, Polly Walker, Anna Wilson-Jones, Sophie Woolley
The Day of the Jackal — Khalid Abdalla, Jon Arias, Nick Blood, Úrsula Corberó, Charles Dance, Ben Hall, Chukwudi Iwuji, Patrick Kennedy, Puchi Lagarde, Lashana Lynch, Eleanor Matsuura, Jonjo O’Neill, Eddie Redmayne, Sule Rimi, Lia Williams
The Diplomat — Ali Ahn, Sandy Amon-Schwartz, Tim Delap, Penny Downie, Ato Essandoh, David Gyasi, Celia Imrie, Rory Kinnear, Pearl Mackie, Nana Mensah, Graham Miller, Keri Russell, Rufus Sewell, Adam Silver, Kenichiro Thomson
Shōgun — Shinnosuke Abe, Tadanobu Asano, Tommy Bastow, Takehiro Hira, Moeka Hoshi, Hiromoto Ida, Cosmo Jarvis, Hiroto Kanai, Yuki Kura, Takeshi Kurokawa, Fumi Nikaido, Tokuma Nishioka, Hiroyuki Sanada, Anna Sawai
Slow Horses — Ruth Bradley,Tom Brooke, James Callis, Christopher Chung, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Rosalind Eleazar, Sean Gilder, Kadiff Kirwan, Jack Lowden, Gary Oldman, Jonathan Pryce, Saskia Reeves, Joanna Scanlan, Kristin Scott Thomas, Hugo Weaving, Naomi Wirthner, Tom Wozniczka
Outstanding performance by an ensemble in a comedy series
Abbott Elementary – Quinta Brunson, William Stanford Davis, Janelle James, Chris Perfetti, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Lisa Ann Walter, Tyler James Williams
The Bear — Lionel Boyce, Liza Colón-Zayas, Ayo Edebiri, Abby Elliott, Edwin Lee Gibson, Corey Hendrix, Matty Matheson, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Ricky Staffieri, Jeremy Allen White
Hacks — Rose Abdoo, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Paul W. Downs, Hannah Einbinder, Mark Indelicato, Jean Smart, Megan Stalter
Only Murders in the Building — Michael Cyril Creighton, Zach Galifianakis, Selena Gomez, Richard Kind, Eugene Levy, Eva Longoria, Steve Martin, Kumail Nanjiani, Molly Shannon, Martin Short
Shrinking — Harrison Ford, Brett Goldstein, Devin Kawaoka, Gavin Lewis, Wendie Malick, Lukita Maxwell, Ted McGinley, Christa Miller, Jason Segel, Rachel Stubington, Luke Tennie, Michael Urie, Jessica Williams
Outstanding action performance by a stunt ensemble in a television series
The Boys
Fallout
House of the Dragon
The Penguin
Shōgun
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Aldis Hodge is emerging as one of entertainment’s top leading men and many are pointing to the success of his new show Cross as adding a big boost to his standing. At a recent Consumer Electronics Show event, Aldis Hodge and Lauren Anderson, head of content and brand innovation at Amazon MGM Studios, discussed the finer points of Cross, getting the authentic Washington, D.C. slang right, and more.
As reported by Deadline, Aldis Hodge and Lauren Anderson sat down and discussed how a producer for Cross “stamped” the show for sticking to the DMV area’s proper use of casual honorifics and how it gave weight to the show not only with area residents but the wider audience as well.
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When scripts for the Washington-set show underwent a “D.C. pass,” Hodge recalled, a producer hailing from the city insisted on a character calling another one “Slim,” as opposed to “son” or “dog,” as they might in other cities. “That one word generated, I would say, millions of viewership value,” Hodge said. “So many people commented and said, ‘The moment I heard “Slim” I was in.’”
Anderson said specific details can give a production “universality,” enabling it to be enjoyed by wider audiences. Hodge said Washington in particular gets reduced on screen to simple cutaways of the U.S. Capitol building or politcos walking down hallways. “We only see a political idea. Not a political truth, but just an idea. … That’s just one sector of what Washington, D.C. is.”
Fans of Cross have probably noted that the show has cut scenes of the Nation’s Capital and features an eatery that has played host to many celebrities, including President Barack Obama, over the years in Ben’s Chili Bowl.
Cross debuted last November and has been renewed for a second season.
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“Singer gets first national chart ink exclusively in Billboard,” read a caption on page 65 of the issue dated July 1, 2006. “Song title name-checks fellow artist.” The blurb included an arrow pointing directly to the single debuting at the No. 60 anchor spot on the Hot Country Songs chart: “Tim McGraw,” by then-16-year-old Taylor […]
Corridos singer-songwriter Netón Vega is igniting curiosity with new single “Loco.” His first venture into reggaetón, the track rallies 18-2 on Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs chart (dated Jan. 11), to become his fourth top 10 and ties his best rank. The chart blends streams, airplay and sales to rank the most popular Latin songs of the week in the U.S.
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The Mexican singer-songwriter (from La Paz, Baja California Sur) is set to release his debut album, De Mi Vida Mi Muerte, on Jan. 20 (his birthday), which will house “Loco” as its first single. The song traces its new No. 2 peak largely to 8 million official U.S. streams (up 166%) registered during the Dec. 27-Jan. 2 tracking week, according to Luminate. It unlocks Vega’s second No. 1 on Latin Streaming Songs. With the percentage increase, “Loco” also launches at No. 44 on the all-genre Streaming Songs chart and locks a No. 50 debut on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100.
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Vega, known more for corridos and penning songs for Peso Pluma and Tito Double P, has also collaborated with Natanael Cano, Gabito Ballesteros, Luis R Conriquez and other regional Mexican greats, with songs that have earned him three other top 10s on the Hot Latin Songs chart. Among them are “Si No Quieres No” with Conriquez and “La Patrulla” with Pluma; both reached a No. 2 high in June and September 2024, respectively.
In comes “Loco,” released Dec. 20 via Josa Records, for Vega’s first Hot Latin Songs top 10 of the new year and a new sound that has conquered the Latin rhythm audience. The reggaetón track has generated a combined 63,000 videos on TikTok. No video for the song has been released yet.
On a global leval, “Loco” earns Vega his highest debut on the Billboard Global 200, starting at No. 57, the Hot Shot debut of the week, with 20.3 million streams worldwide. Plus, it launches at No. 132 on the Global Excl. U.S. chart, with 12.4 million clicks outside the States.
Further, following his change of sound, Vega secures his first appearance on the Billboard Artist Hot 100. The chart measures artists’ activity across key metrics of music consumption: album sales, track sales, radio airplay and streaming. Using a methodology comprising those metrics, the chart provides a weekly multi-dimensional ranking of artist popularity.
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Also on Hot Latin Songs, two songs from Bad Bunny’s sixth solo studio album, Debí Tirar Más Fotos, rank in the top 10.
“El Clúb” moves 10-9 with 4.6 million audience impressions and 4.5 million official U.S. streams. “Pitorro de Coco,” meanwhile, visits the chart for the first time, starting at No. 10, for Benito’s record-extending 79 career top 10s. The song registered 5.2 million official streams, suffice for a No. 9 debut on Latin Streaming Songs.
Elsewhere, “Pitorro de Coco” makes its debut across four other charts: No. 91 on Billboard Hot 100, No. 103 on Billboard Global 200, No. 135 on Global Excl. U.S. and No. 2 on Latin Digital Song Sales.
From a new album to a new tour, Billboard tries to deduce what Queen Bey’s mysterious announcement will entail.
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Remy Ma and Eazy The Block Captain have become a central focus in the battle rap scene after details were revealed regarding their relationship and commentary from Papoose about their union. In a recent Chrome23 battle event, Eazy Tha Block Captain enacted a lyrical scheme asking Remy Ma if she loved him during the heat of the battle against his opponent, Shotgun Suge.
Over the weekend, Chrome23 hosted the “Read The Room” battle with Eazy The Block Captain, and Shotgun Suge as the main event. As is the custom in the battle rap arena, private details, and jarring insults are par for the course. In that regard, Suge took some of the strongest shots possible at Eazy, with several angles centered on his relationship with Remy Ma.
Fans are largely saying that Suge vanquished Eazy on his home turf of New Jersey but the Philadelphia native has never ducked any sort of smoke on the stage. During a scheme where he names the alphabet, thought largely to be a dig at Remy’s estranged husband Papoose’s “Alphabetical Slaughter” song, Eazy flipped bars asking Remy if she loved him and in the back, a resounding “yes” could be heard in the clips that surfaced online.
Eazy The Block Captain asked Remy Ma “Don’t you love me?”
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While the moment got a big pop from the crowd, fans who study the culture said that Eazy has used this scheme before and are accusing him of recycling. Others thought the dig was clever but the consensus is that Shotgun Suge emerged victorious.
In the aftermath of the clash, fans on X have their comments on Remy Ma professing her love for Eazy The Block Captain in battle rap fashion. Check out the replies below.
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After previously flubbing a Taylor Swift question on Jeopardy!, contestant Drew Goins got smarter in the nick of time before appearing on the show again Monday (Jan. 6).
The Washington Post writer first appeared on the show in September, during which he drew a blank space at the prompt, “The first of Taylor Swift’s record 4 AOTY Grammys was for this album in 2010.”
The answer — as countless Swifties were undoubtedly screaming at their televisions in the moment — is Fearless, but in the moment, Goins simply shook his head, stumped. Four months later, the journalist reflected on the moment with host Ken Jennings.
“Yeah, so I got a Taylor Swift question wrong and went home worried that the Swifties would come rip me out of my bed at night,” Goins said on Monday’s episode. “But it turns out that the angriest Swiftie was my brother. The night before taping, he had prepared an entire practice board for me … and it was entirely Taylor Swift.”
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Jennings then joked that Goins might get his shot at redemption — and that he did. During a category titled “Albums,” the contestant stumbled on the following prompt as audience members started laughing in surprise: “In 2014, Taylor Swift gave us this album named for a different year.”
This time, Goins was ready. “What is 1989!” he cheered excitedly.
“Redemption for Drew!” the host congratulated him. “That is correct.”
The 14-time Grammy winner often inspires questions on the beloved game show, at one point lending herself to an entire board of categories in January 2024. The sections were named “Love Story,” “Our Song,” “Bad Blood,” “Shake It Off,” “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” and “The Errors Tour” at the time.
In November, Swift again popped up in a Jeopardy clue, this time alongside her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. “Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity? is hosted by this man who’s maybe more famous as a bf than as a 3-time Super Bowl champ,” read the prompt, at which a contestant named Derek correctly guessed, “Who is Travis Kelce?”
Watch Goins redeem himself in the eyes of Swifties on Jeopardy! below.
Weeks after Cardi B warned a federal bankruptcy judge that Tasha K was hiding money to avoid paying a multi-million dollar defamation verdict, the gossip blogger is now complaining that the superstar rapper is trying to “sabotage” her career and “silence” her.
In a response motion, attorneys for Tasha (Latasha Kebe) deny that she “acted in bad faith” and say attorneys for Cardi (Belcalis Marlenis Almanzar) “did not identify a cent of undisclosed value.” Instead, they say Cardi is simply trying to derail the bankruptcy case, a move they say would effectively destroy her ability to earn money.
“[Cardi B] is not acting in her economic interest,” writes Tasha’s bankruptcy attorney Chad Van Horn in the motion, lodged in court on Tuesday. “She seeks to sabotage debtor’s career.”
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The filing is the latest wrangling in Cardi’s long-running efforts to collect on a huge judgment she won against Tasha for making false claims about drug use, STDs and prostitution on YouTube and social media. In 2022, a federal jury found that those statements were defamatory and ordered the blogger to pay the star $3.9 million in damages.
Since then, Cardi has repeatedly vowed to recover that money by any means necessary — saying “imma come for everything” and “bitch better have my money.” Tasha filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2023, saying she still owed $3.4 million to Cardi and had less than $60,000 in assets. But the rapper has pursued her, later winning a ruling that Tasha couldn’t use the bankruptcy process to “discharge” the judgment.
In a motion last month, Cardi’s attorneys demanded that the bankruptcy case be dismissed entirely, accusing Tasha of orchestrating a “long-running fraudulent scheme to shield debtor’s assets and income from creditors.” They said she had fraudulently transferred and concealed money, and had lied to both Cardi and the federal courts.
“It is clear and irrefutable that debtor has admittedly and repeatedly engaged in bad faith conduct to hinder, delay, and defraud Ms. Almánzar from collecting on the amended defamation judgement,” the star’s lawyers wrote “This court should not allow debtor to further abuse the bankruptcy process.”
A day after Cardi filed her motion to dismiss, the court-appointed trustee – a neutral third party who helps shepherd a bankruptcy case toward a repayment plan – filed her own motion endorsing Cardi’s arguments and urging the judge to dismiss Tasha’s bankruptcy case.
With Monday’s response filing, Tasha’s attorneys urge the bankruptcy court to refuse those requests. Among other things, they argue that Cardi’s filing is merely retaliation after Tasha refused to sign a gag order that would bar her from ever discussing Cardi again. That order, they say, would impose “unreasonable restrictions on her First Amendment rights” and prevent her from earning a living as a social media creator.
“Having failed to bully debtor into accepting an overarching non-disparagement clause, Claimant filed the motion to dismiss to harm debtor’s career and end debtor’s bankruptcy case,” Tasha’s lawyers write in Tuesday’s motion. “Claimant is not acting in her economic interest, but seeks to silence debtor by ending her bankruptcy case and her career.”
Attorneys for both sides did not return requests for comment on Wednesday.