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For most of the 93rd Academy Awards,  the night went pretty much as expected . Movies like  Sound of Metal ,  Nomadland , and yes, even  Tenet  racked up wins with very little surprises to either outrage or elate. However, when it came to handing out the award for Best Actor, Chadwick Boseman not winning the Oscar might have been the biggest shock of the night. Instead of the  Ma Rainey's Black Bottom  star winning a posthumous award,  Anthony Hopkins' performance in  The Father's  titular role  was what ended up taking home the Academy Award for Best Actor. This was a huge surprise in an evening that already departed from the usual formula of an awards show with a scaled down version of what Oscar audiences are used to seeing. Not to mention, the ending of the 93rd annual proceedings ended in a switch up from the usual order of operations. The last three Oscars were presented in the following order: Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best Actor (an odd thing given that Best P...

The Turkish government, as well as human rights activists and ethnic Armenians, had a muted response to the news, describing the move as largely symbolic.     WASHINGTON — President Biden on Saturday recognized the mass killings of Armenians more than a century ago as   genocide , signaling a willingness to test an increasingly frayed relationship with Turkey, long a key regional ally and an important partner within NATO. "Each year on this day, we remember the lives of all those who died in the Ottoman-era Armenian genocide and recommit ourselves to preventing such an atrocity from ever again occurring," Mr. Biden said in a statement issued on the 106th anniversary of the beginning of a brutal campaign by the former Ottoman Empire that killed 1.5 million people. "And we remember so that we remain ever vigilant against the corrosive influence of hate in all its forms." The declaration by Mr. Biden reflected his administration's commitment to human rights, a pill...