All the world's a stage, we are merely players...: The Oscars, politics, and death elbow for the most attention.
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| 1 | Michelle Trachtenberg |  |
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A former child actress better known for her roles in popular TV shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Gossip Girl, Michelle Trachtenberg died at the age of 39, possibly of complications that emerged from a liver transplant (her family denied an autopsy on religious grounds). In the 97th Academy Awards right after the week covered here, Trachtenberg was not in the in memoriam segment, raising complaints from her fans, but she was on the extended obituary in the Oscars' website and possibly got excluded for being less prominent in movies compared to TV (her most popular film role is EuroTrip!). |
| 2 | Gene Hackman |  |
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A very acclaimed actor who died at 95, with a career of five decades mostly spent playing gruff people (including the roles that gave him two Academy Awards, Best Actor as a rough cop and Best Supporting Actor as a morally questionable sheriff) in movies such as Bonnie and Clyde, Superman, Mississippi Burning, Enemy of the State, and Runaway Jury, before being forced to retire in 2004 for health reasons (meaning that sadly his last movie is Welcome to Mooseport), only reappearing for a few narration gigs while dedicating himself to writing. Hackman's death had an element of surprise in that his wife and dog were also found dead at his home, with no indication of foul play or carbon monoxide poisoning. |
| 3 | Pope Francis | |
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While the awards circuit recognizes Conclave, the possibility of a real-world pope election for the first time in 12 years is being raised, as the pontiff remains in a serious condition due to respiratory problems. |
| 4 | Chhaava |  |
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The latest Bollywood box-office hit chronicles the adventures of #10 as he battles Mughal forces. |
| 5 | 2025 German federal election | |
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The centre-right/conservative CDU/CSU won the most seats, with its leader, Friedrich Merz, projected to be Germany's next chancellor. The far-right Alternative for Germany, which received support from #6, doubled its vote share to place its best results ever, becoming the biggest party in all five former East German states. The SPD, the leading party of the ruling coalition, posted its worst results for more than 130 years. Its junior partner, the Greens, also lost seats, while former coalition partner the FDP lost all its seats and failed to reach the 5% threshold for representation in the Bundestag. The Left Party significantly improved its voting share and gained seats. The parties will now hold negotiations to form a governing coalition, though all relevant parties have continued to rule out involvement with the AfD. |
| 6 | Elon Musk |  |
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As Musk calls for the US withdrawal from the United Nations and NATO, Tesla Takedown protests broke out in several Tesla dealerships across the US, and an arson attack on a dealership in France destroyed about a dozen cars. It was also reported that Tesla sales have fallen significantly in several countries in Europe as well as Australia. On March 6, Starship flight test 8, the eighth flight test of the SpaceX Starship, was destroyed about 8 minutes after launch, with the vehicle breaking up in the atmosphere over the Atlantic Ocean. |
| 7 | Zero Day (American TV series) | |
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This American political thriller miniseries following the chronicles of a former US president, played by Robert De Niro (pictured), put in charge of investigating a zero-day cyberattack with major damage across the country was released on February 20 on Netflix. Reviews were mixed, with a rating of 53% on Rotten Tomatoes by both critics and users. |
| 8 | Deaths in 2025 |  |
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As our #2 once said, "Getting old is like being a car. Eventually, the parts start to wear out, and you're just hoping the engine holds up." |
| 9 | The White Lotus season 3 | |
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The third season of this HBO show was ordered in 2022 and premiered last week and will continue to release a new episode on Sundays for the next seven weeks. This installment features an ensemble cast, led by Leslie Bibb (pictured), and follows the lives of the staff and guests at a posh wellness resort in Thailand. Early critical reviews have been favorable. |
| 10 | Sambhaji | |
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The son of the famed ruler Shivaji, this guy was a real-life warrior who was killed by the Mughal ruler Aurangzeb's men. |
| Rank | Article | Class | Views | Image | Notes/about |
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| 1 | Anora | |
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The biggest winner of the 97th Academy Awards was a modest production made for only $6 million with a crew of 40, following a stripper's love story with the son of a Russian oligarch, although halfway through it becomes a search for the guy as he runs away once daddy's henchmen arrive. Critical acclaim and heavy promotion by distributor Neon ensured 5 Oscars, 4 to director Sean Baker (Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay and Editing) and Best Actress to leading lady Mikey Madison, who has already been a Manson family member in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and a Ghostface in the fifth Scream. Some people were not very acceptive of Anora's glory, such as puritans objecting about telling the story of a sex worker — and ignorantly saying the film is soft porn simply for having sex scenes — and fans of both Demi Moore and Fernanda Torres dismissing Madison's win. |
| 2 | Mikey Madison | |
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| 3 | Adrien Brody | |
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22 years after winning Best Actor for The Pianist, Adrien Brody again got an Oscar playing an Eastern European survivor of the Holocaust in #7. While his acting was good, no one liked how he called off the "get off the stage" music and proceeded to make a 5-minute speech of mostly rambling. |
| 4 | 97th Academy Awards | |
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AMPAS awarded what they perceived to be the best movies of 2024, with Conan O'Brien hosting the ceremony. Along with all the entries here there were Oscars for the script of Conclave, the effects and sound of Dune: Part Two, the sets and costumes of Wicked, the make-up effects of The Substance, Latvian cartoon Flow upsetting The Wild Robot for best animated feature, and Best International Film providing the first Brazilian win with I'm Still Here (though sadly the country focused less on celebrating its victory than spewing gratuitous hate upon Anora, including making spiteful and unfair comparisons of #2 to Gwyneth Paltrow). |
| 5 | Gene Hackman | |
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The in memoriam segment of the above was preceded by Morgan Freeman mourning his Unforgiven co-star Gene Hackman, and ended with a clip of the two time Oscar winning actor. Investigations on his death painted some depressing final days: Hackman's wife Betsy Arakawa suddenly died of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, he didn't notice due to advanced Alzheimer's disease only for his heart to stop a week later, and another week passed before the police entered the house and discovered their corpses. (along with one of a dog in a crate not far from Arakawa, presumably left forgotten once the two people who cared for it were unable to let it out) |
| 6 | Kieran Culkin | |
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Who would've thought that 35 years after Home Alone, the bedwetting cousin would have an Emmy and an Oscar to his name? Breaking even further from the shadow of brother Macaulay Culkin, Kieran Culkin won Best Supporting Actor at #4 for A Real Pain, where he plays the cousin of Jesse Eisenberg (who also wrote and directed the movie) who is taken by him on a trip to discover the family's roots in Poland. |
| 7 | The Brutalist | |
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This ambitious tale of a Hungarian-Jewish architect/Holocaust survivor who goes to the United States is exceptionally made and acted, but its three and a half hour runtime is basically an endurance test, even if theaters added a 15 minute intermission for audiences to rest. Nevertheless, #4 gave this movie three Oscars, Best Actor for #3, Best Cinematography, and Best Original Score. |
| 8 | Al Green (politician) | |
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A Democratic Party representative from Texas, he repeatedly interrupted Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress on March 4. Green was removed from the chamber by the House Sergeant at Arms, and two days later he was censured by a vote in the House of Representatives. |
| 9 | Georgina Chapman | |
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When #3 won Best Actor for the first time, he kissed Halle Berry on the stage (she delivered some payback in this year's red carpet). This time around the kiss was before leaving the seat on this fashion designer and actress, whose ex-husband Harvey Weinstein was an important and controversial figure in Hollywood before lots of women denounced him for lewd behavior. Part of Brody's unending speech was thanking Chapman's children ("Dash and India, I know it's been a roller coaster but thank you for accepting me into your life. Popsie’s coming home a winner."). |
| 10 | Zoe Saldaña | |
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Lots of movie fans like this actress for – among other things – three interstellar franchises: Star Trek, Avatar, and Guardians of the Galaxy. So her winning Best Supporting Actress at #4 was widely celebrated. Though many would've preferred Saldaña's recognition came from something other than the controversial Emilia Pérez, where she plays a lawyer enrolled by a cartel kingpin to help fake his death while arranging his sex change. |
| Rank | Article | Class | Views | Image | Notes/about |
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| 1 | Mark Carney | |
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Following the resignation of #10, Carney won the 2025 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election with over 85% of the vote to become the leader of the party, and consequently the prime minister of Canada, though he does not hold a seat in the House of Commons of Canada. An economist by trade, he served as Governor of the Bank of Canada from 2008 to 2013, then as the Governor of the Bank of England from 2013 to 2020. Carney is expected to lead his party into the 2025 Canadian federal election amid the backdrop of an escalating trade war with the US, and continuing threats of annexation from Donald Trump. |
| 2 | Deaths in 2025 | |
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I guess what I'm tryin' to say is I need the deep end Keep imaginin' meetin', wished away entire lifetimes... |
| 3 | ICC Champions Trophy | |
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The ninth edition of this cricket tournament concluded on March 9 with India emerging victorious in the final by defeating New Zealand (who were eyeing their second title after 2000), thus becoming the first team to win the tournament three times after 2002 and 2013. After 2013 victory, it took 11 years for India to claim title in any ICC tournaments last year; The 2017 final of this tournament was also contested by India, but they lost to Pakistan who hosted the tournament this year, although the final was held in Dubai. This marks India's second consecutive title in ICC events. |
| 4 | Mickey 17 | |
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After winning three Oscars for Parasite, South Korean director Bong Joon Ho returns with his third Hollywood film, an adaptation of the sci-fi novel Mickey7. Robert Pattinson stars as the "Expendable" Mickey, a disposable worker who gets cloned every time he dies for research purposes in the colonization of a distant planet, and an incident with the local wildlife ends up causing the 17th and 18th Mickeys to live simultaneously. Reviewers liked the movie and it opened atop the U.S. box office, but the numbers were low compared to the high expenses (an $118 million budget, along with estimated $80 million in marketing) and raised the possibility of a flop. |
| 5 | Severance (TV series) | |
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This American science fiction psychological thriller Apple TV+ series created by Dan Erickson and primarily directed by Ben Stiller (pictured) released its ninth episode of the second season, setting up the stage for the season 2 finale. |
| 6 | March 2025 lunar eclipse | |
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The first North American total lunar eclipse comes 11 months after the April 8 total solar eclipse. I was living in the path of totality for both of them, although the one on April 8 easily took the crown. A lunar eclipse happens when the Moon moves into Earth's shadow, causing it to glow an orange-red color. Incredibly, Blue Ghost Mission 1 captured the lunar eclipse on the Moon, as you can see to the left. It looks exactly like a total solar eclipse, because it is! |
| 7 | Gene Hackman | |
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One more week for the deceased actor who – despite an underwhelming last movie, Welcome to Mooseport – had a respectable filmography of 5 decades, winning Oscars for The French Connection and Unforgiven, and having other notable roles like Lex Luthor in Superman and its sequels. Hackman's will ignored his three children and had his equally deceased wife Betsy Arakawa (who died a week prior to him, only advanced Alzheimer's made Hackman not notice) as his sole inheritor. |
| 8 | Kim Sae-ron | |
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One month after this South Korean actor died of suicide, members of her family claimed that Kim Soo-hyun had been in a six-year relationship with her beginning in 2015, when she was 15 and he was 27. Dating rumors first surfaced in 2024 after she posted then deleted a photo of the two of them. To add more fuel to the fire, she died on the same day as his birthday. After initially denying the relationship, his agency eventually published a statement claiming that they dated from 2019 to 2020, when she was 19 to 20 and he was 31 to 32. |
| 9 | Elon Musk | |
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Amidst Elon's political moves, his most famous company, Tesla, has seen a dramatic fall in stock price. Since its peak around Inauguration Day, it has fallen by about 40%, wiping out over $100 billion from Elon's net worth. This has been caused due to a variety of factors, including rapidly declining sales in Europe and China, protestors worldwide vandalizing any Teslas they can find, and the fact that his political stances make him despised by the company's main demographic |
| 10 | Justin Trudeau | |
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After 10 years as prime minister of Canada, Trudeau has called it quits. On the domestic front, his government introduced measures such as child benefit payments for families, legalized euthanasia, legalized recreational cannabis, and introduced a carbon tax. The Aga Khan affair in 2017, SNC-Lavalin affair in 2019 and WE Charity scandal damaged his reputation, though he survived. Following the 2020 Nova Scotia attacks, his government implemented an assault-weapons ban. In 2022, he invoked the Emergencies Act in response against the Canada convoy protest, and following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he imposed sanctions on Russia and authorized military aid to Ukraine. His popularity declined even further in the last few years of his tenure, as Canada experiences high inflation, increased cost of living and a housing crisis. In 2023, he and his wife announced their separation, and after his party lost several by-elections and his deputy unexpectedly resigned in 2024, Trudeau announced on January 6, 2025, that he would resign after his party elects a new leader, which was won by #1. Trudeau regained some popularity in the last few weeks in office, as he responded to tariffs and threats of annexation from Donald Trump with counter-tariffs and strong words. |
For the February 17 – March 17 period, per this database report.
| Title | Revisions | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Deaths in 2025 | 2059 | Our version of the Academy Awards' In memoriam. Only without apocalyptic chants, unexplainable dance performances and the like. |
| Department of Government Efficiency | 2026 | Elon Musk spearheads this initiative that is supposed to cut down government spending, mostly through mass layoffs and cutting the funding of selected projects. It has been divisive. |
| List of plays adapted into feature films | 1408 | Now split into three pages (A to I, J to Q, R to Z) because there are so many of those movies. |
| 2025 Trump–Zelenskyy meeting | 1128 | On February 24, the third anniversary of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the president of Ukraine was welcoming a dozen leaders at Kyiv, many of whom were finally taking the opportunity to announce further financial and military aid. Zelenskyy then traveled to Washington, D.C. for a meeting with Donald Trump, which devolved into a tense confrontation. Trump threatened to withdraw US support if Ukraine did not make a ceasefire agreement with Russia, in which Zelenskyy replied that such a deal is unacceptable to Ukraine without security guarantees. Trump also accused Zelenskyy of "gambling with World War III", while vice president JD Vance accused Zelenskyy of being "disrespectful" and not showing enough gratitude for US help. With Trump demanding an apology from Zelenskyy and further US-Ukraine cooperation facing an uncertain future in the aftermath of the fiery meeting, Zelenskyy flew to London, where he received a much warmer reception from Charles III and prime minister Keir Starmer, and attended a summit with more than a dozen countries to formulate a peace plan to take to the US. |
| Gene Hackman | 1031 | Frequent updates were required as more was learned regarding the beloved actor's death. |
| 2025 massacres of Syrian Alawites | 970 | Ever since the Assad regime fell in December, its old loyalists and the incumbent Syrian transitional government have been in conflict in Western Syria, and once the fighting escalated on March 6, so did the killings of the Alawites living in the region, with numbers that might be as high as 1,700 deaths. |
| Timeline of the Gaza war (19 January 2025 – present) | 878 | As the ceasefire took place with hostages-and-prisoners exchanges, isolated instances of conflict happened, leading accusations of Israel not respecting the armistice. Proposals for extension were rejected. Humanitarian aid to Gaza was blocked again. And then more Israeli bombs hit Gaza. In short, after a brief respite this resumed being terrible and can't end soon enough. |
| 2024 YR4 | 798 | This asteroid continues to be observed, particularly for the possibility of an impact with Earth or the Moon. |
| Career of Lionel Messi | 796 | One year after its creation, this page has a template warning that it's too big (currently at over 350 KB), given Messi has been active for 20 years with basically all accomplishments a football player can get. A proposal to split between a page for his club career and another for him with Argentina's national team was shot down. |
| 2025 German federal election | 786 | As mentioned above, voters in Europe's biggest economy have chosen the next members of the Bundestag. |
| 2025 ICC Champions Trophy | 732 | This cricket tournament concluded on March 9 with India emerging victorious in the final by defeating New Zealand (who were eyeing their second title after 2000), thus becoming the first team to win the tournament for a third time, after their 2002 and 2013 feats. |
| 97th Academy Awards | 724 | Hollywood's biggest night. It had the good (Brazil and Latvia's first wins, Sean Baker becoming the first director, and only the second person after Walt Disney, with four Oscars in the same night), the bad (awarding Best Original song to Emilia Pérez when either Elton John or 16 time loser Diane Warren could win instead, not helped by some awkward impromptu singing at the podium) and the weird (why a James Bond tribute, complete with three song performances? If only the opportunity also served to announce the 007th 007 it would be justified!). |
| Delta Connection Flight 4819 | 705 | A plane that crashed and turned when landing in Toronto, with no casualties but 21 injuries. |
| List of Tau Beta Pi members | 699 | One user is expanding this article to note which of the over 635,000 members of this American honor society for engineering are particularly notable. |
| ICC Champions Trophy | 681 | A cricket tournament that was revived after 8 years and will have its tenth edition in 2029. |
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