RIHANNA TO PERFORM AT THE OSCARS®

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Executive producers and showrunners Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner announced today that music superstar Rihanna will perform the Oscar®-nominated song "Lift Me Up" from "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" at the 95th Academy Awards®.

Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler, and Ludwig Goransson composed the music for "Lift Me Up," and Tems and Ryan Coogler wrote the lyrics. Rihanna has received her first Academy Award nomination.

Rihanna is a nine-time Grammy Award winner who has eight multi-platinum albums and 14 number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

In the coming weeks, the producers will continue to announce new cast members for the show.

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Ram Charan,Jr NTR will compete against Tom Cruise & Brad Pitt at the 2023 Critics Choice Super Award

Los Angeles [United States], Feb 23: Woah! SS Rajamouli's 'RRR' is not slowing down. Following its nomination at the 95th Academy Awards, the film has now been nominated for Best Action Movie in the Critics Choice Super Awards, alongside Top Gun: Maverick and Bullet Train.

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On February 23, the nominees were announced on the Critics Choice Awards website. On March 16, the winners will be announced. The team RRR won an award for Best Original Song at the Golden Globes Awards 2023 last month in January. Meanwhile, Ram Charan recently appeared on Good Morning America, where he discussed RRR's massive success. "It's about friendship, brotherhood, camaraderie, and the relationship between these two characters (RRR). And I believe it is one of my director Rajamouli's finest works; he is known as India's Steven Spielberg "He stated. Ram Charan also hinted on the show that Rajamouli is interested in directing an international project.

The actor said, "Everybody calls him that, and I hope he's going to make his way to the global cinema very soon, with the next film."

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Vivienne Tam introduces NFTs to New York Fashion Week.

With a collection that brought the digital world right onto the physical runway, CFDA member Vivienne Tam offered an alternative take on metaverse incorporation.

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Vivienne Tam AW23, NYFW. Image: Vivienne Tam

The designer was inspired by a utopian vision of Hong Kong in her AW23 collection, 'Weaving into the Metaverse,' where Web3, blockchain, and gaming worlds already run rampant. Images of China's 12 zodiac symbols sat alongside visuals of Web3 NFTs, which Tam saw as weaving "the cradle of civilisation into the metaverse" on a number of pieces.

"From the beginning of civilisation, humanity has used pictures to communicate and document our history; now, humanity uses pictures to create new currencies, communities, environments, and even worlds," the designer said in a statement.

Tam's New York Fashion Week presentation was mirrored in an after party where guests could access both the in-person and metaverse worlds via live portals.

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