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| 1 | Michelle Trachtenberg |  | 6,388,444 |  | A former child actress better known for her roles in popular TV showsBuffy the Vampire Slayer andGossip 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 the97th Academy Awards right after the week covered here, Trachtenberg was not in thein memoriam segment, raising complaints from her fans, butshe 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 isEuroTrip!). |
| 2 | Gene Hackman |  | 5,430,970 |  | 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 asa rough cop and Best Supporting Actor asa morally questionable sheriff) in movies such asBonnie and Clyde,Superman,Mississippi Burning,Enemy of the State, andRunaway Jury, before being forced to retire in 2004 for health reasons (meaning that sadly his last movie isWelcome 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 | | 1,355,265 | .jpg) | While the awards circuit recognizesConclave, 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 |  | 1,348,629 |  | The latest Bollywood box-office hit chronicles the adventures of #10 as he battlesMughal forces. |
| 5 | 2025 German federal election | | 1,317,670 |  | The centre-right/conservativeCDU/CSU won the most seats, with its leader,Friedrich Merz, projected to be Germany's next chancellor. The far-rightAlternative for Germany, which received support from #6, doubled its vote share to place its best results ever, becoming the biggest party in allfive former East German states. TheSPD, the leading party of the ruling coalition, posted its worst results for more than 130 years. Its junior partner, theGreens, also lost seats, while former coalition partner theFDP lost all its seats and failed to reach the5% threshold for representation in theBundestag. TheLeft Party significantly improved its voting share and gained seats. The parties will now hold negotiations to form agoverning coalition, though all relevant parties have continued torule out involvement with the AfD. |
| 6 | Elon Musk |  | 1,242,921 | | As Musk calls for the US withdrawal from theUnited Nations andNATO,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 theSpaceX 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) | | 1,101,430 |  | This Americanpolitical thrillerminiseries following the chronicles of a formerUS president, played byRobert De Niro (pictured), put in charge of investigating azero-day cyberattack with major damage across the country was released on February 20 onNetflix. Reviews were mixed, with a rating of 53% onRotten Tomatoes by both critics and users. |
| 8 | Deaths in 2025 |  | 1,074,700 | .jpg) | As our #2once 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 | | 877,544 |  | The third season of thisHBO show was ordered in 2022 andpremiered last week and will continue to release a new episode on Sundays for the next seven weeks. This installment features an ensemble cast, led byLeslie 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 | | 874,937 |  | The son of the famed rulerShivaji, this guy was a real-life warrior who was killed by the Mughal rulerAurangzeb's men. |
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| 1 | Anora | | 4,026,527 | .jpg) | 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 aRussian 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 distributorNeon ensured 5 Oscars, 4 to directorSean Baker (Best Picture,Director,Original Screenplay andEditing) andBest Actress to leading lady Mikey Madison, who has already been aManson family member inOnce Upon a Time in Hollywood and aGhostface inthe fifthScream. Some people were not very acceptive ofAnora's glory, such as puritans objecting about telling the story of a sex worker — and ignorantly saying the film issoft porn simply for having sex scenes — and fans of bothDemi Moore andFernanda Torres dismissing Madison's win. |
| 2 | Mikey Madison | | 2,923,905 | ||
| 3 | Adrien Brody | | 2,270,748 |  | 22 years after winningBest Actor forThe 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 | | 2,061,407 | .jpg) | AMPAS awarded what they perceived to be the best movies of 2024, withConan O'Brien hosting the ceremony. Along with all the entries here there were Oscars for thescript ofConclave, theeffects andsound ofDune: Part Two, thesets andcostumes ofWicked, themake-up effects ofThe Substance, Latvian cartoonFlow upsettingThe Wild Robot forbest animated feature, andBest International Film providing the first Brazilian win withI'm Still Here (though sadly the country focused less on celebrating its victory than spewing gratuitous hate uponAnora, including making spiteful and unfair comparisons of #2 toGwyneth Paltrow). |
| 5 | Gene Hackman | | 1,734,494 |  | Thein memoriam segment of the above was preceded byMorgan Freeman mourning hisUnforgiven 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 wifeBetsy Arakawa suddenly died ofhantavirus pulmonary syndrome, he didn't notice due to advancedAlzheimer'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 | | 1,419,241 | _(54065186044)_(cropped).jpg) | Who would've thought that 35 years afterHome Alone, the bedwetting cousin would have an Emmy and an Oscar to his name? Breaking even further from the shadow of brotherMacaulay Culkin, Kieran Culkin wonBest Supporting Actor at #4 forA Real Pain, where he plays the cousin ofJesse 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 | | 1,413,210 |  | 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, andBest Original Score. |
| 8 | Al Green (politician) | | 1,337,742 |  | ADemocratic Party representative from Texas, he repeatedly interruptedDonald Trump'saddress to a joint session of Congress on March 4. Green was removed from the chamber by theHouse Sergeant at Arms, and two days later he wascensured by a vote in theHouse of Representatives. |
| 9 | Georgina Chapman | | 1,094,611 | .jpg) | When #3 won Best Actor for the first time, he kissedHalle 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-husbandHarvey Weinstein was an important and controversial figure in Hollywood beforelots 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 | | 1,051,880 | .jpg) | Lots of movie fans like this actress for – among other things – three interstellar franchises:Star Trek,Avatar, andGuardians of the Galaxy. So her winningBest Supporting Actress at #4 was widely celebrated. Though many would've preferred Saldaña's recognition came from something other than the controversialEmilia Pérez, where she plays a lawyer enrolled by a cartel kingpin to help fake his death while arranging his sex change. |
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| 1 | Mark Carney | | 1,977,660 | _(cropped).jpg) | Following the resignation of #10, Carney won the2025 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election with over 85% of the vote to become the leader of the party, and consequently theprime minister of Canada, though he does not hold a seat in theHouse of Commons of Canada. An economist by trade, he served asGovernor of the Bank of Canada from 2008 to 2013, then as theGovernor of the Bank of England from 2013 to 2020. Carney is expected to lead his party into the2025 Canadian federal election amid the backdrop of anescalating trade war with the US, and continuing threats of annexation fromDonald Trump. |
| 2 | Deaths in 2025 | | 984,431 |  | 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 | | 959,698 |  | Theninth edition of thiscricket tournament concluded on March 9 withIndia emerging victorious in thefinal by defeatingNew Zealand (who were eyeing their second title after2000), thus becoming the first team to win the tournament three times after2002 and2013. After2013 victory, it took 11 years for India to claim title in any ICC tournaments last year; The2017final of this tournament was also contested by India, but they lost toPakistan who hosted the tournament this year, although the final was held inDubai. This marks India's second consecutive title in ICC events. |
| 4 | Mickey 17 | | 826,441 |  | After winning three Oscars forParasite, South Korean directorBong Joon Ho returns with his third Hollywood film, an adaptation of the sci-fi novelMickey7.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) | | 823,523 | _(cropped)_2.jpg) | This Americanscience fictionpsychological thrillerApple TV+ series created byDan Erickson and primarily directed byBen Stiller (pictured) released itsninth episode of thesecond season, setting up the stage for theseason 2 finale. |
| 6 | March 2025 lunar eclipse | | 763,361 | .jpg) | The first North Americantotal lunar eclipse comes 11 months after theApril 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 intoEarth'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 seehere. It looks exactly like a total solar eclipse,because it is! |
| 7 | Gene Hackman | | 740,790 |  | 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 forThe French Connection andUnforgiven, and having other notable roles likeLex Luthor inSuperman and its sequels. Hackman's will ignored his three children and had his equally deceased wifeBetsy Arakawa (who died a week prior to him, only advancedAlzheimer's made Hackman not notice) as his sole inheritor. |
| 8 | Kim Sae-ron | | 739,116 | .jpg) | One month after this South Korean actor died of suicide, members of her family claimed thatKim 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 | | 720,946 | .jpg) | 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 worldwidevandalizing any Teslas they can find, and the fact that hispolitical stances make him despised bythe company's main demographic |
| 10 | Justin Trudeau | | 685,770 | _(3).jpg) | After 10 years as prime minister of Canada, Trudeau has called it quits. On the domestic front, his government introduced measures such aschild benefit payments for families, legalizedeuthanasia, legalizedrecreational cannabis, and introduced acarbon tax. TheAga Khan affair in 2017,SNC-Lavalin affair in 2019 andWE Charity scandal damaged his reputation, though he survived. Following the2020 Nova Scotia attacks, his government implemented an assault-weapons ban. In 2022, he invoked theEmergencies Act in response against theCanada convoy protest, and following theRussian 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, asCanada experiences high inflation, increased cost of living and a housing crisis. In 2023, he andhis wife announced their separation, and after his party lost severalby-elections and his deputyunexpectedly 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, perthis database report.
| Title | Revisions | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Deaths in 2025 | 2059 | Our version of the Academy Awards' In memoriam. Only withoutapocalyptic 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 throughmass 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-scaleRussian 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 withWorld War III", while vice presidentJD 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 fromCharles III and prime ministerKeir Starmer, and attended asummit 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 theAssad regime fell in December,its old loyalists and theSyrian transitional government have beenin conflict in Western Syria, andonce the fighting escalated on March 6, so did the killings of theAlawites 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 thenmore 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 theBundestag. |
| 2025 ICC Champions Trophy | 732 | Thiscricket tournament concluded on March 9 withIndia emerging victorious in thefinal by defeatingNew Zealand (who were eyeing their second title after2000), thus becoming the first team to win the tournament for a third time, after their2002 and2013 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 afterWalt Disney, with four Oscars in the same night), the bad (awarding Best Original song toEmilia Pérez when eitherElton John or 16 time loserDiane Warren could win instead, not helped bysome awkward impromptu singing at the podium) and the weird (why aJames 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. |
