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Image Source : FILE Google introduces enhanced tools for supporting elections in India Google has announced new measures to support the general elections in India, claiming to provide high-quality information to the voters, safeguard its platforms from abuse and help people navigate content which is AI-generated. In the run-up to elections, the tech giant is…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeViewers of the 2024 Oscars ceremony claim to have spotted a coded dig at Marvel in Robert Downey Jr’s acceptance speech.The actor, who starred as Tony Stark (aka Iron Man) in 10 Marvel Cinematic Universe films between 2008 and 2019, took home the prize for Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards on Sunday night (10 March).Downey won the award for his role as politician Lewis…

Robert Downey Jr has won the Oscar for best supporting actor for his role in Oppenheimer, at the 96th Academy Awards in Los Angeles.Downey Jr plays Lewis Strauss, J Robert Oppenheimer’s nemesis in the Christopher Nolan-directed biopic of the pioneering atomic-weapons scientist, played by Cillian Murphy. It is Downey’s first Oscar win, having previously been nominated for best actor in 1993 for Chaplin, and for best supporting actor in 2009 for Tropic Thunder.The actor was the favourite for the award, having already won a…

Da’Vine Joy Randolph has won the Oscar for best supporting actress for her role in The Holdovers at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles.Randolph, who played the school’s head cook Mary Lamb in the film, was the strong favourite for the award, having won nearly every best supporting actress prize in the run-up to the Oscars, including the Golden Globe, Bafta, Critics’ Choice, Independent Spirit and Screen Actors Guild awards. In the end she saw off competition including Jodie Foster (for Nyad), Emily Blunt (for Oppenheimer)…

Though Mark Ruffalo had been nominated for an Oscar three times before Poor Things hit movie theaters last year, Robert Downey Jr’s nomination for Oppenheimer may be more momentous, simply because it has felt like his time. But there was another year in which both men starred in a movie together that could have –and probably should have – led to nominations for each. That year would have been the 2007-2008 movie awards season, and the movie was a little David Fincher movie called Zodiac. (Image credit: Paramount)The…

Former President Trump signaled his opposition Thursday to legislation that could ban TikTok in the U.S. despite his previous support for banning the social media app. In a post on Truth Social, the former president claimed a TikTok ban would benefit Facebook and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, who serves as CEO of its parent company, Meta. “If you get rid of TikTok, Facebook and Zuckerschmuck will double their business,” Trump said. “I don’t want Facebook, who cheated in the last Election, doing better.…

Long ago, Netflix stopped allowing users to sign up for the streaming service on the iPhone or iPad app due to the fee Apple imposes on every App Store transaction. Anyone who signed up through Apple was grandfathered in, but according to The Streamable, Netflix subscribers who still pay through Apple will soon need to find a new payment method.The Streamable reports that Netflix has begun sending out emails to customers who are paying through the App Store that support for the payment method is ending. For now,…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new group of young children has just started school for the first time, with many excited about new friends, uniforms and being at "big school." But for trans kids, starting school can be a much more daunting process. They have likely gone from preschools and daycare where they had the freedom to wear what they…

Hollywood actor Robert Downey Jr bagged the Best Supporting Actor award at the BAFTA Film Awards 2024 for his performance in the biopic film `Oppenheimer`. The award ceremony is currently underway at London`s Royal Festival Hall. In his acceptance speech, Downey Jr. took a walk down memory lane and shouted out "that dude" Christopher Nolan. "When I was 15, I wanted to be Peter O`Toole. When I was 25, I worked for Richard Attenbourgh and Anthony Hopkins. When I was 35, I finally understood why Dickie thought Tony would…

Sterling K Brown is grateful for his first Oscar nomination, but he knows he won't be winning. The actor, who is nominated in the Best Supporting Actor category for his performance in American Fiction, was on The Graham Norton Show, where he predicted that Robert Downey Jr will win in the category. He called Robert ‘an incredible actor’ who deserves to win for his work on Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer. (Also read: Oscars 2024 full list of nominations: Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer leads with 13 nods) Sterling…