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Emma Stone won her second Oscar in less than ten years and joined a very exclusive club of actors who have won more than one Academy statuette, but she still has a long way to go if she wants to break the record.

The American actress had won in 2017 for “La La Land” and this year she took the award for her starring role in “Poor Things”.

Only a few have more Oscars than Emma Stone: Katharine Hepburn (4), Meryl Streep (3), Jack Nicholson (3), Ingrid Bergman (3), Daniel Day-Lewis (3), Frances McDormand (3) and Walter Brennan (3).

Stone joins legends such as Bette Davis, Jane Fonda and Elizabeth Taylor in the group of women who won two Oscars for best leading actress.

“Oppenheimer”, which won seven awards, remains one of the multi-winning films, although it does not enter the top of the productions with the most awards.

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The best director award at the Oscars this year was perhaps one of the least surprising in decades and was taken for granted from the beginning — and the course — of the awards season: Christopher Nolan took the Academy Award, the Golden Globe, the Bafta, the Critics Choice, the Directors Guild and many others in a year dominated by his film “Oppenheimer”.

Nolan is a singular case: he built a name in commercial cinema with films considered auteur and critically acclaimed, reinvented the superhero genre (with Batman’s Dark Knight trilogy) with immensely popular commercial films leaving his own stamp and has created a cinematic style in high-budget productions with complex temporal structures that cross the lines of science fiction (such as Interstellar, Inception and Tenet) and history (such as Dunkirk and Oppenheimer) from unique angles.

The British-American director, who writes all his films, has also teamed up perfectly with his wife Emma Thomas to produce the films.

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Anyone for a red or blue pill?

The celebrated ‘Matrix’ film franchise is set to expand with an upcoming fifth instalment. The film’s original co-writer and co-director, Lana Wachowski, will be at the helm as executive producer.

According to a press release from film studio Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group sent out Wednesday, Oscar-nominated screenwriter Drew Goddard will write and direct the film with his producing partner, Sarah Esberg. (Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group is part of the same parent company as CNN, Warner Bros. Discovery).

Jesse Ehrman, president of production at Warner Bros. Motion Pictures, said in a statement Wednesday that Goddard ‘came to Warner Bros. with a new idea that we all believe will be an incredible way to continue the Matrix world, honouring what Lana and Lilly (Wachowski) started more than 25 years ago, and offering a unique perspective based on his own love of the series and the characters’.

Details about the plot and cast have not yet been released. It is also not known if ‘Matrix’ franchise star Keanu Reeves will return as his iconic character Neo.

A representative for Reeves did not respond to CNN’s request for comment on the new project.

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Star Wars fans have a lot to look forward to in terms of new content.

What’s the problem? The stories all take place at different points in time in the galaxy far, far away. ‘The Mandalorian’ is set between the original trilogy and the latest sequels. ‘Andor’ is a prequel to ‘Rogue One’, itself a prequel to ‘A New Hope’. Meanwhile, ‘Ahsoka’ takes place after the original trilogy. And the newly released Disney+ series ‘The Acolyte’ takes place hundreds of years before the Skywalker saga.

Don’t worry, padawans: CNN put together a complete chronology of Star Wars canon so you can follow all the franchise’s time jumps without getting lost in space.

This information was pulled from official ‘Star Wars’ resources known as ‘Ultimate Star Wars’ and ‘Star Wars Character Encyclopedia,’ as well as experts from media outlets such as USA Today and AV Club. Anthology series such as ‘Star Wars Visions’ and ‘Tales of the Empire’ were omitted.

Many Star Wars fans mark the passage of time in the galaxy with the Battle of Yavin, the fateful battle in ‘A New Hope’ in which the first version of the Death Star is destroyed. “The Phantom Menace takes place more than 30 years before this battle. But for ‘Star Wars’ fans who are still sorting out the differences between the Republic, the Rebellion and the Resistance, let’s measure the chronology in Earth time.

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‘Fire in space?’, the strangest criticism of The Acolyte’s debut and it completely misses the point of Star Wars.
Star Wars audiences are in an uproar because Star Wars: The Acolyte shows a ship on fire in space, but that reaction ignores the very nature of the galaxy far, far away. The Acolyte was released with a two-episode premiere on 4 June and has already received plenty of reviews and praise as the newest of the Star Wars films and TV shows. However, not all the criticisms are constructive, nor do they all take into account the long history of Star Wars playing fast and loose with the laws of physics.

In the first episode of The Acolyte, Osha, the Rebel Padawan of The Acolyte, is working on a ship when it catches fire. Viewers have since taken to social media to point out that this is not physically possible; fire, which requires oxygen, cannot happen in space.

However, these answers overlook George Lucas’ intention for Star Wars and the countless examples of Star Wars choosing to ignore real-life physics.

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