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And the 2026 Oscar nominees are…. Nominations for the 98th Academy Awards were announced live Thursday morning from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Science’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Los Angeles by actors Lewis Pullman and Danielle Brooks. While horror films have traditionally been left out of the Oscars, Ryan Coogler’s vampire tale “Sinners” made history with 16 nominations, including Directing, Best Picture and Best Actor for Michael B. Jordan, his first Oscar nomination. No movie has ever landed more than 14 nominations — something achieved only by “All About Eve,” “Titanic” and “La La Land.” Paul Thomas Anderson’s father-daughter revolutionary saga “One Battle After Another,” trailed in second with 13 nominations. This year, the Academy is recognizing casting directors for the first time, adding the new category last year. The last time a competitive category was added was in 2001, with best animated film. The Oscars will take place on March 15 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles and will be televised live on ABC and Hulu at 7 p.m. ET on ABC. Conan O’Brien is returning as host. See the full list below: Best Actor Timothée Chalamet, “Marty Supreme”Leonardo DiCaprio, “One Battle After Another”Ethan Hawke, “Blue Moon”Michael B. Jordan, “Sinners”Wagner Moura, “The Secret Agent” Best Actress Jessie Buckley, “Hamnet”Rose Byrne, “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”Kate Hudson, “Song Sung Blue”Renate Reinsve, “Sentimental Value”Emma Stone, “Bugonia” Best Director Chloé Zhao, “Hamnet”Josh Safdie, “Marty Supreme”Paul Thomas Anderson, “One Battle After Another”Joachim Trier, “Sentimental Value”Ryan Coogler, “Sinners” Best Cinematography “Sinners”“One Battle After Another”“Train Dreams”“Frankenstein”“Marty Supreme” Best Picture “Bugonia”“F1”“Frankenstein”“Hamnet”“Marty Supreme”“One Battle After Another”“The Secret Agent”“Sentimental Value”“Sinners”“Train Dreams” Best Supporting Actress Elle Fanning, “Sentimental Value”Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, “Sentimental Value”Amy Madigan , “Weapons”Wunmi Mosaku, “Sinners”Teyana Taylor, “One Battle After Another” Best Supporting Actor Benicio Del Toro, “One Battle After Another”Jacob Elordi, “Frankenstein”Delroy Lindo, “Sinners”Sean Penn, “One Battle After Another”Stellan Skarsgård, “Sentimental Value” Best Makeup and Hairstyling “Frankenstein”“Kokuho”“Sinners”“The Smashing Machine”“The Ugly Stepsister” Best Original Score “Bugonia”“Frankenstein”“Hamnet”“One Battle After Another”“Sinners” Best Live Action Short Film “Butcher’s Stain”“A Friend of Dorothy”“Jane Austen’s Period Drama”“The Singers”“Two People Exchanging Saliva” Best Animated Short Film “Butterfly”“Forevergreen”“The Girl Who Cried Pearls”“Retirement Plan”“The Three Sisters” Best Adapted Screenplay “One Battle After Another”“Hamnet”“Bugonia”“Train Dreams”“Frankenstein” Best Original Screenplay “Blue Moon”“It Was Just an Accident”“Marty Supreme”“Sentimental Value”“Sinners” Best Casting Nina Gold, “Hamnet”Jennifer Venditti, “Marty Supreme”Casandra Kulukundis, “One Battle After Another”Gabriel Domingues, “The Secret Agent”Francine Maisler, “Sinners” Best Costume Design “Avatar: Fire and Ash”“Frankenstein”“Hamnet”“Marty Supreme”“Sinners” Best International Feature Film “It Was Just an Accident”“The Secret Agent”“Sentimental Value”“The Voice of Hind Rajab”“Sirat” Best Original Song “Dear Me” from “Diane Warren: Relentless”“Golden” from “KPop Demon Hunters”“I Lied to You” from “Sinners”“Sweet Dreams of Joy” from “Viva Verdi!”“Train Dreams” from “Train Dreams” Best Production Design “Frankenstein”“Hamnet”“Marty Supreme”“One Battle After Another”“Sinners” Best Documentary Feature Film “The Alabama Solution”“Come See Me in the Good Light”“Cutting Through Rocks”“Mr. Nobody Against Putin”“The Perfect Neighbor” Best Film Editing “F1”“Marty Supreme”“One Battle After Another”“Sentimental Value”“Sinners” Best Visual Effects…

A teen was injured after several shots were fired into a residence in Hamden, according to police. Officers responded to Bowen Street around 8:50 p.m. on Wednesday for a report of gunfire. When officers arrived, they found the victim suffering from gunshot wounds to his legs. He was transported to Yale New Haven Hospital and is currently in stable condition. Police said that multiple unknown individuals entered a residential driveway and fled after firing several rounds into a residence that was occupied at the time. Detectives are actively investigating this incident. According to police, there is no known ongoing threat to the public. Anyone with information about this incident to contact Detective Nutcher of the Hamden Police Department.

A public school district north of Minneapolis said ICE agents detained four of its students in recent weeks, including a 5-year-old. Zena Stenvik, superintendent of Columbia Heights Public Schools, said in a Wednesday news conference that four of the district’s students had been “taken” by ICE agents in recent weeks, Two of the students were on their way to school, she said. On Tuesday afternoon, 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, were taken into custody by ICE agents in their driveway, just after the child returned home from preschool that day, Stenvik said. She added that another adult who lived in the home and was present at the time of the incident “begged” the agents to let him take care of the kid, but the agents refused. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement that “ICE did NOT target a child.” McLaughlin said that ICE agents were targeting the boy’s father, and that during the arrest, Conejo Arias “fled on foot — abandoning his child. For the child’s safety, one of our ICE officers remained with the child” while agents apprehended the father. “Parents are asked if they want to be removed with their children, or ICE will place the children with a safe person the parent designates,” McLaughlin said in a statement. “This is consistent with past administration’s immigration enforcement.” A bystander took this photo of Conejo Ramos with agents on Tuesday and provided it to the school district, giving them permission to share with the media. (Courtesy Columbia Heights Public Schools) Marc Prokosch, an immigration attorney representing the family, said he believed both father and son are being held in Texas currently. “I’m exploring whether we file a habeas corpus petition to get him out,” he said at Wednesday’s news conference. “We’d have to actually file that down in Texas now and then, also continuing to look through the family’s overall immigration case, because obviously, Liam doesn’t have his own individual case. It’s the family as a whole.” NBC News reached out to Prokosch for further comment but he did not immediately respond. Stenvik noted that the family involved “is following U.S. legal parameters and has an active asylum case with no order of deportation.” “Why detain a 5-year-old?” Stenvik asked Wednesday. “You can’t tell me that this child is going to be classified as a violent criminal.” The Columbia Heights Public Schools released a statement saying that 20 minutes after the boy and his father were taken “the middle school brother came home to a missing dad, a missing little brother, and a terrified mother.” Conejo Ramos is escorted by a federal agent on Tuesday in a photo taken by a bystander who gave the school district permission to share with the media. (Courtesy Columbia Heights Public Schools) Conejo Ramo’s teacher Ella Sullivan said that his removal has been a shock. “He comes into class every day, and he just brightens the room,” she said. “His friends haven’t asked about him yet, but I know that they’ll catch on, and it’s just a very unfortunate situation. It should not be happening.” Additionally, on Tuesday, Stenvik said a 17-year-old student was removed from their car and “taken by armed, masked agents alone.” Stenvik said no parents were present. Two weeks ago, a 10-year-old student was “taken by ICE agents” while she was on her way to school with her mom, Stenvik said. She called her dad during the arrest to let him know what was happening, and by the end of the school day, both the girl and her mother were in a detention center in Texas, where they remain, the superintendent added. And last week, agents “pushed their way into an apartment” and detained a 17-year-old student and her mother, Stenvik said. NBC News has asked DHS for…

The impending weekend snowstorm is forcing a change for the UConn women’s basketball team. Their game at Seton Hall that was originally scheduled for Sunday is being moved to Saturday at 12 p.m. There is expected to be significant snow in the Northeast on Sunday. While it’s still too early to tell how much snow will fall, it is likely that travel in New Jersey, where Seton Hall is located, will be treacherous on Sunday afternoon. The game will air on Peacock and the NBC Sports Network. The No. 1 Huskies are in Washington, D.C. on Thursday to take on Georgetown at 7:30 p.m.

Combined, this year's best picture nominees have earned nearly $1.4 billion at the global box office.