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Eight surprise takeaways from the Oscar nominations54 minutes agoShareSaveSteven McIntoshEntertainment reporterShareSaveBritish actor Delroy Lindo says he was half-asleep when he found out he got his first Oscar nominationAwards pundits were taken by surprise from the first two words spoken at the Oscar nominations on Thursday.
“Elle Fanning, for Sentimental Value,” said hosts Danielle Brooks and Lewis Pullman, as they kicked off the nominations with the best supporting actress category.
Fanning's appearance got things off to a spicy start from the earliest possible moment – she had received praise for her performance in the Norwegian family drama, but few had predicted a nomination.
The opening category set the tone for a string of snubs and surprises, which started coming thick and fast. Here are eight of the big takeaways.
1. Some hot favourites missed outGetty ImagesPaul Mescal and Chase Infiniti were two of the day's biggest acting snubsAlthough Hamnet and One Battle Aft..

Could Trump's bid to become peacemaker-in-chief sideline the struggling UN?9 hours agoShareSaveLyse DoucetChief international correspondentShareSaveBBC”Together we are in a position to… end decades of suffering, stop generations of hatred and bloodshed, and forge a beautiful, everlasting and glorious peace for that region and for the whole region of the world.”
Such was the soaring promise of US President Donald Trump as he inaugurated his new Board of Peace on the stage of stages that is the Davos Economic Forum this week.
The world of all too much suffering and strife badly wants to believe him.
But for many observers and officials in capitals the world over, it is yet more proof of Trump's drive to dismantle the post-war international architecture and replace it with new institutions – dominated by him.
“We will not let anyone play us,” Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned tersely on social media.
ReutersThe idea – born last year in US-led efforts to end the war..

Trump says 'framework of a future deal' discussed on Greenland as he backs off tariffs threat3 hours agoShareSaveBernd Debusmann JrWhite House reporterShareSaveWatch: The BBC's Faisal Islam on how Trump's Davos speech was receivedPresident Donald Trump says the US is exploring a potential deal on Greenland after talks with Nato as he backed off threats to tariff European allies that had opposed his plans for America to acquire the island.
On social media, Trump offered few details about a discussion that both he and Nato described as “very productive”.
After rattling the transatlantic alliance with weeks of rhetoric, the US president said the meeting had led to the “framework” of a potential agreement.
But there was no suggestion of a deal that might meet Trump's demand for “ownership” of Greenland, an ambition he restated at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, while also ruling out military force.
On Truth Social on Wednesday, the US president said: “We..

Trump's jibes are wearing thin for many of Europe's leaders11 hours agoShareSaveNick BeakeEurope correspondent, BrusselsShareSaveAFP via Getty ImagesDonald Trump delivered a wide-ranging speech at the Davos summit in Switzerland”Without us, right now you'd all be speaking German,” President Donald Trump told his audience at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss Alps on Wednesday.
He may well have forgotten German is the most widely spoken of the four official languages in Switzerland.
Many people – from Brussels to Berlin to Paris – will have found his speech to be insulting, overbearing and inaccurate.
In it, he presented the idea that Europe is careering down the wrong path. That is a theme Trump has frequently explored, but it has a different impact when delivered on European soil to the faces of supposed friends and allies.
There is undoubtedly huge relief across Europe that the US president ruled out the use of military force to take Greenland at the forum in Davos…