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Bad Bunny, born Benito Martínez Ocasio, has shared previously with multiple outlets howgrowing up in his close-knit family outside of San Juan, Puerto Rico, has shaped his music, including his recent album "Debí Tirar Más Fotos," which took home theGrammy Award for Album of the Yearlast weekend.

Before Bad Bunny takes the stage at Super Bowl LX, here's a look at his family and how he's said they have influenced him.

Bad Bunny accepts the album of the year award for "DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS" onstage during the 68th Grammy Awards on Feb. 1, 2026, in Los Angeles

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Bad Bunny poses with the album of the year, best música urbana album and best global music performance awards during the 68th Grammy Awards.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny performs onstage during the first show of his 30-date (which ended up being 31 in total) concert residency at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on July 11, 2025.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Bad Bunny thanked his fans for "letting me sing in my home in front of my friends, my family and my people" on what was the final night of his residency in September 2025. "Thank you for that," he said. "I love you, thank you for being a part of this."

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> On top of his Puerto Rico residency, Bad Bunny was also juggling life as a Hollywood actor attending the premiere of "Caught Stealing" on Aug. 26, 2025, in New York City.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Bad Bunny starred alongside Austin Butler in the movie.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Earlier in summer 2025, Bad Bunny was spotted at Netflix's "Happy Gilmore 2" premiere on July 21, 2025, in New York City, which he starred alongside Adam Sandler.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Bad Bunny at the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 5, 2025. Bad Bunny gave a playful Puerto Rican twist to the Black dandy theme with a crisp espresso brown suit. He paired the custom-made Prada ensemble with a brimmed hat resembling a pava, a traditional straw hat made from leaves of the Puerto Rican hat palm.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Bad Bunny onstage at the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards at Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on March 17, 2025.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Bad Bunny onstage at the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards at Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on March 17, 2025.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Bad Bunny onstage at the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards at Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on March 17, 2025.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> In February 2025, Bad Bunny attended "SNL50: The Anniversary Special" in New York City.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Bad Bunny performs during his Most Wanted Tour at the Kaseya Center in Miami on May 24, 2024.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Bad Bunny attends the Dior Homme Menswear spring/summer 2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on June 21, 2024.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Bad Bunny performs at the Crypto.com Arena during his Most Wanted tour in Los Angeles, March 13, 2024.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" />  Cardi B, Chencho Corleone, Ivy Queen and reggaeton duo Jowell y Randy." style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> declaring Oct. 1 as the official Bad Bunny Day. " style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> two new wax figures at Orlando and New York's Madame Tussauds on April 19, 2022. The figure at Madame Tussauds New York is wearing the iconic all-silver look from the Grammy-winner's 2020 Super Bowl performance alongside Jennifer Lopez, Shakira, and J Balvin, complete with the same silver jacket he wore. The wax figure in Orlando is wearing an outfit originally from his WWE Royal Rumble performance and is featured in his "Booker T" music video. For the figure, Bad Bunny donated his trenchcoat, vest, trousers, and pants. " style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Bad Bunny is set to portray the title role in "El Muerto," making history as Marvel's first Latino lead in a live-action film. He calls the film the "perfect role" for him.

Before suiting up as the super-powered wrestler, the Puerto Rican rapper will make his big-screen acting debut in the neon-drenched "Bullet Train" (in theaters July 29), doing battle with Brad Pitt. " style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> April 2021 at WWE's WrestleMania 37. In this photo, taken Jan. 29, 2022, Bad Bunny jumped into the ring again during the Royal Rumble match at The Dome at America's Center. " style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 22nd Latin Grammy Awards. That night he took home the award for best rap/hip hop song for "Booker T" and best urban music album for "El Último Tour del Mundo." " style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" />

Bad Bunny makes history at the Grammys. The Puerto Rican star's career in photos.

Bad Bunny accepts the album of the year award for "DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS" onstage during the 68th Grammy Awards on Feb. 1, 2026, in Los Angeles

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What to know about Bad Bunny's siblings, parents

Bad Bunny's immediate family consists of his mother, Lysaurie Ocasio, and father, Tito Martínez, and his two brothers, Bernie and Bysael. His mother was an English teacher while his father was a truck driver,People reported.

Bad Bunny is the eldest of the three children. He was born in 1994, while Bernie was born in 1997. Bysael, the youngest, was born in 2002.

Bernie has also chosen to pursue a creative career by going into the fashion industry, where he hasbecome a model. Bernie's modeling debut came during New York Fashion Week in 2023.

Bysael, the youngest son and brother of Bad Bunny, has also joined the fashion world andstarted hisown clothing line and brand, BMO.CTI.

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Bad Bunny toldApple Music in a January 2025interview that he grew up surrounded by his family, including his grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins.

Bad Bunny says he had a 'beautiful' childhood

In the same interview with Apple Music, Bad Bunny shared that he went to public school and his mother often stressed the importance of good grades. He said he remembered a happy, family-oriented childhood filled with laughter.

"If you ask me about my childhood, I remember it as a very beautiful one. I never lacked anything. Obviously, my parents…worked so we had everything we needed and I saw their effort. I saw how they worked so hard to give everything to us, to me and my brothers," Bad Bunny said in the interview.

The artist added in the interview with Apple Music that he gained important life lessons from his parents while growing up.

"I'm sure that I learned a lot of things from my parents: responsibility, punctuality, I learned that from my mom…I remember my dad was always giving and helping like the people from the neighborhood and that part of me, like to give to others, definitely I learned from my dad," he said in the interview.

Bad Bunny's family, his parents especially, are extremely proud of his music career,he told Rolling Stone in January 2025. His mother cried listening to multiple songs on his "Debí Tirar Más Fotos," including the single "PIToRRO DE COCO."

How to watch Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime performance

Bad Bunny is set to headline the Super Bowl LX halftime show on Sunday, Feb. 8, following the completion of the game's second quarter. Viewerscan catch the broadcast nationallyon NBC. There are also multiple streaming services available for the game, includingPeacock, DirecTV Stream, Sling TV, YouTube TV, Hulu with live TV, and others.

Kate Perez covers national trends and breaking news for USA TODAY. You can reach her at kperez@usatodayco.com or on X @katecperez_.

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BeforeKatherine LaNasawas whipping the ER into shape as Nurse Dana onThe Pitt, the actress made a memorable impression onSeinfeldviewers.

The fan-favorite season 6 episode "The Beard" sees LaNasa play a no-nonsense NYPD sergeant who goes from flirting withJerry Seinfeldto putting him through a lie detector test after he unconvincingly claims he's never seenMelrose Place. Ironically, LaNasa herself wasn't a big TV viewer at the time.

"I had never seenSeinfeld, nor had I seenMelrose Place, which is hilarious," LaNasa admitted in a recentinterview with ETalk. "Yes, I was living under a rock."

LaNasa, who was early in her acting career at the time, explained that she was too busy taking care of her young son to keep up with popular TV shows.

"I was a single mom, my son's dad was an older guy, and we didn't watchMelrose Place," she explained, referencing her marriage to late Hollywood iconDennis Hopper. "I just didn't watch a lot of TV. I know it sounds crazy, I was just starting out in television."

As fate would have it, LaNasa is now married to Grant Show, one of the stars ofMelrose Place. They wed in 2012 and welcomed a daughter two years later.

Despite going intoSeinfeldblind, LaNasa fit right in on the iconic sitcom. After deciding to put Jerry through the polygraph test, she pushes him into a complete — and hilarious — meltdown. Looking back on it now, thePittactress says she still "remembers how creative they were" while shooting the episode.

"There was a whole scene in that where Jason Alexander is talking with the rest of them about this girl that he's dating and how when she took off her wig or her wig came off and she was bald," LaNasa recalled. "He was like, 'She's bald, treeless!' This and that, and he just kept riffing and it was so funny and so magical just to see them rehearse and ad-lib."

Though she wasn't familiar withSeinfeld, LaNasa said it was immediately clear that the cast was "unbelievably talented." She added, "It was just a big bucket full of talent and I was pinching myself. I couldn't believe I was a part of it or witnessing it."

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Seinfeld, which also starred Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Michael Richards, was quite the phenomenon throughout the '90s and ultimately ran for 10 seasons. LaNasa continued to find success on the small screen, appearing on such hit shows as3rd Rock From the Sun,Touched by an Angel,ER, andGrey's Anatomy.

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Her role inThe Pitthas marked a high point in her career, with LaNasa taking home an Emmy at last year's ceremony for her work in the show's debut season.

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Three government-vetted judges in Decemberconvicted Lai, 78, of conspiring with others to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiracy to publish seditious articles. Lai, who pleaded not guilty to all charges, faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment under Hong Kong's security law that Beijing deemed necessary for the stability of the Chinese special administrative region.

The democracy advocate's arrest and trial have raised concerns about thedecline of press freedomin what was once an Asian bastion of media independence. The government insiststhe casehas nothing to do with a free press, saying the defendants used news reporting as a pretext for years to commit acts that harmed China and Hong Kong.

Lai's sentencing could heighten Beijing's diplomatic tensions with foreign governments. His conviction has drawncriticism from the U.S.and the U.K.

U.S. President Donald Trump said he felt "so badly" after the verdict and noted he spoke to Chinese leader Xi Jinping about Lai and "asked to consider his release." British Prime MinisterKeir Starmer'sgovernment also has called for the release of Lai, who is a British citizen.

Lai's daughter, Claire, told The Associated Press that she hopes the regime sees the wisdom in releasing her father, a Roman Catholic. She said their faith rests in God. "We will never stop fighting until he is free," she said.

Judges ruled Lai was the mastermind

Lai founded Apple Daily, a now-defunct newspaper known for its critical reports against the governments in Hong Kong and Beijing. He was arrested in August 2020 under thesecurity lawthat was used in a yearslongcrackdownon many of Hong Kong's leading activists.

During his 156-day trial, prosecutorsaccused himof conspiring withsix former Apple Daily staffers, two activists and others to request foreign forces to impose sanctions or blockades or engage in other hostile activities against Hong Kong or China. Laitestified for 52 daysin his own defense, arguing he had not called for foreign sanctions after the law's introduction.

In December, the judges ruled Lai was the mastermind of the conspiracies and never wavered in his intention to destabilize the ruling Chinese Communist Party. They took issue with what they called his "constant invitation" to the United States to bring down the Chinese government with the excuse of helping Hong Kongers.

Urania Chiu, lecturer in law at Oxford Brookes University, said the case is significant for its broad construction of seditious intent and application of the term "collusion with foreign forces" to certain activities by the media. The implication is particularly alarming for journalists and those working in academia, she said.

"Offering and publishing legitimate critiques of the state, which often involves engagement with international platforms and audiences, may now easily be construed as 'collusion,'" Chiu said.

Lai is serving anearly six-yearjail term over fraud allegations in a separate case and has been in custody for more than five years. In January, lawyer Robert Pang saidLai suffered health issuesincluding heart palpitations, high blood pressure and diabetes. Although Lai's condition was not life-threatening, Pang argued his client's health, age and solitary confinement, which the prosecution said Lai requested, would make his sentence "more burdensome."

The prosecution said a medical report noted Lai's general health condition remained stable. Hong Kong's government had said no abnormalities were found in a subsequent medical exam following his complaint of heart problems.

Co-defendants may get reduced sentences

The former Apple Dailly staffers and activists involved in Lai's caseentered guilty pleas, which could help reduce their sentences to be handed down Monday. Under the security law, reporting on offenses committed by others may result in reduced penalties and some of the staff members served as prosecution witnesses.

The convicted journalists are publisher Cheung Kim-hung, associate publisher Chan Pui-man, editor-in-chief Ryan Law, executive editor-in-chief Lam Man-chung, executive editor-in-chief responsible for English news Fung Wai-kong and editorial writer Yeung Ching-kee.

The two activists convicted in the case, Andy Li and Chan Tsz-wah, also testified for the prosecution.

Before sunrise, dozens of people were in line outside the court building to secure a seat in the courtroom, with some arriving on Thursday.

Former Apple Daily employee Tammy Cheung said she could only support them spiritually by seeing them. Cheung hopes the defendants will be released from prison soon, saying it would be great if they could reunite with their families before the Lunar New Year next week.

"Whatever happens, it's an end — at least we'll know the outcome," she said.

Case considered a blow to Hong Kong media

Lai founded Apple Daily in 1995, two years before Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule after 156 years as a British colony. The publication drew a strong following with reports that were occasionally sensational, investigative scoops and short, animated video reports. Articles supporting the city's democracy movement, including anti-government protests that rocked the city in 2019, attracted many pro-democracy readers.

Lai was one of the first prominent figures to be arrested under the security law in 2020. Within a year, some of Apple Daily's senior journalists also were arrested. Police raids, prosecutions and a freeze of its assets forcedthe newspaper's closurein June 2021. Thefinal editionsold a million copies.

In 2022, Hong Kong plunged 68 places to 148th out of 180 territories in the press-freedom index compiled by media freedom organization Reporters Without Borders. The city's latest ranking was 140th, far from 18th place in 2002.

Saturday's assault in Kauru district highlights persistent insecurity in the region, and came days after ‌security services rescued all 166 worshippers abducted in attacks by gunmen on two churches elsewhere in Kaduna.

Such attacks have drawn the attention of U.S. President Donald Trump, who has accused Nigeria's government of failing to protect Christians, a charge Abuja denies. U.S. forces ⁠struck what they described as ‌terrorist targets in northwestern Nigeria on December 25.

The Catholic Diocese of Kafanchan named the kidnapped clergyman as Nathaniel Asuwaye, parish priest of ‍Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Karku, and said 10 other people were abducted.

Three residents were killed during the attack, which began at about 3:20 a.m. (0220 GMT), the diocese said in a ​statement.

A Kaduna police spokesperson confirmed the incident, but said five people had been ‌abducted in total and that the three people killed were members of the security forces.

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"Security agents exchanged gunfire with the bandits, killed some of them, and unfortunately two soldiers and a police officer lost their lives," he said.

Rights group Amnesty International said in a statement on Sunday that Nigeria's security crisis was "increasingly getting out of ⁠hand". It accused the government of "gross incompetence" and ​failure to protect civilians as gunmen kill, abduct ​and terrorise rural communities across several northern states.

A presidency spokesperson could not immediately be reached for comment.

Pope Leo, during his weekly address to ‍the faithful in St. ⁠Peter's Square, expressed solidarity with the victims of recent attacks in Nigeria.

"I hope that the competent authorities will continue to act with determination to ensure ⁠the security and protection of every citizen's life," Leo said.

(Reporting by Ado Hazzard, Hamza Ibrahm and ‌Ahmed Kingimi; Additional reporting by Crispian Balmer in Rome;Writing by Ben Ezeamalu; ‌Editing by Emelia Sithole-Matarise and Helen Popper)

In the capital, Kyiv, temperatures well below zero and bitterly cold winds are expected for the next four days at least.

"We must get through the next few days, which will be very difficult for Kyiv," the city's mayor, Vitaliy Klitschko, said Sunday. "Severe frosts are again forecast in the capital, especially at night," he said onTelegram.

Klitschko said Ukraine's energy infrastructure was in "an extremely difficult situation" and that he had issued instructions for communal "heating points," powered by generators, to be fully functional. Some of these shelters allow people to stay overnight.

According to the energy ministry, residents of the capital are receiving electricity only for one and a half to two hours a day.

During a Russian strike in early January, one Kyiv resident who lived in an apartment at the top of a 16–story building at the time said he and his wife had lost heating, power and water.

The next Russian strike hit the power plant providing heat to the apartment block, as well as 1,100 other buildings in the capital, and he said about half of the residents had moved out of the building, including his family.

The average temperature in the apartment had fallen to just 3 degrees Celsius (37.4 degrees Fahrenheit), he added.

Residents were told that repairs could take two months – during the coldest part of the year.

Businesses also suffer. The Backstage Beauty Salon network says it invested $400,000 in back-up systems, including generators, fuel and batteries. But a drone had hit one of its salons, shattering a heating pipe and flooding the premises.

"Despite all this spending, weather conditions and Russian attacks prevail over the system," the company posted on Instagram Saturday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said onTelegramSunday: "Almost every day, the (Russians) strike energy facilities, logistics infrastructure, and residential buildings… Over 2,000 strike drones, 1,200 guided aerial bombs, and 116 missiles of various types were launched by Russia at our cities and villages this week alone."

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Ukrenergo, the national grid company,said Sundaythat it continued dealing with the aftermath of two massive missile and drone attacks on the power grid this week.

"The level of power shortages and damage to the electricity transmission and distribution networks currently prevents the lifting of emergency blackouts in most regions," but repair work had made power cuts less severe in some regions, it said.

"Restoration work is continuing at both power plants and high-voltage substations that supply power to nuclear power plants."

Another Ukrainian power operator, DTEK, said Saturday that damage to high-voltage substations had caused a reduction in output at nuclear power plants, leading to a significant loss of available electricity.

The latest Russian strikes followed a short-lived moratorium on attacks by each side on the other's energy infrastructure, agreed at the urging of the United States.

Zelensky said Saturday that Washington had proposed "that both sides once again support the US President's energy de-escalation initiative. Ukraine has agreed, but Russia has not yet responded."

The Washington-based Institute for the Study of War said Saturday: "The fact that Russia conducted two sets of strikes with over 400 projectiles within six days of the lapse of the energy strikes moratorium demonstrates the Kremlin's determination to maximize the suffering of Ukrainian civilians and unwillingness to de-escalate the war or seriously advance the US-initiated peace negotiations."

"Russian forces have also modified their drones and missiles to inflict more damage, including by equipping Shahed drones with mines and cluster munitions, and such measures have disproportionately affected civilian and energy infrastructure," the institute added.

The consequences of Russian strikes are aggravated in many urban areas by reliance on centralized heating systems, a legacy of the Soviet era. Heat is generated at thermal or combined heat and power plants before being distributed, so if such facilities are targeted many residential blocks are impacted.

The destruction of central heating pipes can affect an entire neighborhood. When temperatures drop below freezing, a long power outage can lead underground heating pipes to fracture if the water inside them freezes.

Some analysts have noted that Russia's war planners try to take advantage of this vulnerability in their targeting.

"I think the Russian military is being advised by their energy specialists and they are explaining how to cause maximum damage to the energy system," DTEK CEO Maxim Timchenko said in 2022.

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Kicking off the annual event, Nanjiani, 47, pointed out from the Beverly Hills Hotel podium that the guild's lifetime achievement award was known for five decades as the D.W. Griffith Award − named after the director most famous for the 1915 film "The Birth of a Nation."

" 'The Birth of a Nation' glorifies theKu Klux Klanas the heroic force that maintains white supremacy. It has been called the most reprehensibly racist film in Hollywood history," Nanjiani said. "So of course, we had to change the name of the award as soon as we could, which was 1999."

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Nanjiani expressed surprise that it took so long and noted that"The Matrix"was released the same year as the change.

"We were like, 'The KKK, let's see how things play out,' " he said. "They changed the name at the 51st DGA Awards. It was the first time something has turned 51 and gotten less racist."

Nanjiani also elbowed director Ryan Coogler's "Sinners,"which has a record 16 Academy Award nominations.

"Every bad guy in 'Sinners' is a white person, which makes it the most realistic movie of the year. No offense ... to almost anyone here," he said, looking over the audience. "No film has so effectively captured the true horror of white people dancing."

A small group of entertainers can say they have won all of the big awards: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony (EGOT). Read on to see when and how various Hollywood stars achieved the coveted status.

Steven Spielberg won his first Grammy Award Feb. 1, 2026 as a producer on the documentary "Music by John Williams," which was named best music film. It also marked Spielberg's first Grammy nomination in his decadeslong career.

Accepting the Grammy at the non-televised event, director Laurent Bouzereau thanked Spielberg as well as Williams, the iconic film composer "who arguably scored the story of my life and scored all of us." He also called the movie "the story of one of our greatest music voices ever." 

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Elton John joined the club Jan. 15, 2024 when he won an Emmy for outstanding variety special for "Elton John: Farewell From Dodger Stadium."

"I am incredibly humbled to be joining the unbelievably talented group of EGOT winners tonight. The journey to this moment has been filled with passion, dedication, and the unwavering support of my fans all around the world," John said.

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"I wrote this book to honor the 6-year-old Viola, to honor her life, her joy, her trauma. It has been such a journey. I JUST EGOT!" Davis said in her acceptance speech." style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> John Legend was the first Black man to join the prestigious club. He completed it in 2018 with his Emmy win for his producer role on NBC's "Jesus Christ Superstar," which won live variety special." style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" />

Stars with EGOT status: See who's won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony

A small group of entertainers can say they have won all of the big awards: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony (EGOT). Read on to see when and how various Hollywood stars achieved the coveted status.

Steven Spielbergwon his firstGrammy AwardFeb. 1, 2026 as a producer on the documentary "Music by John Williams," which was named best music film. It also marked Spielberg's first Grammy nomination in his decadeslong career.

Accepting the Grammy at the non-televised event, directorLaurent Bouzereauthanked Spielberg as well as Williams, the iconic film composer "who arguably scored the story of my life and scored all of us." He also called the movie "the story of one of our greatest music voices ever."

Kumail Nanjiani calls for one person on the Epstein list to be shot into space

During one segment, Nanjiani looked to revered director Steven Spielberg, the most decorated DGA member.

The host called Spielberg "not only perhaps the greatest filmmaker of all time, he's also clairvoyant. He's made movies about everything we're talking about right now: AI, Nazis ('Raiders of the Lost Ark'), the government coming after harmless aliens ('E.T.')."

"It's like you've predicted the last 10 years of our lives," Nanjiani said. The comedian,who has previously mocked President Trump, then seemed to reference him: "Steven, can your next movie be about an 80-year-old onthe Epstein listwho gets shot into space?"

Trump is one among many famous names that have appeared in the Epstein files. The president has denied any wrongdoing and has not been charged in relation to Epstein, a wealthy and well-connected financier who was charged with sex trafficking girls.

Nanjiani got serious about the importance of directors making movies in a troubled world before dropping one more zinger.

"In this challenging moment, it is more important than ever, and I genuinely, sincerely thank you for doing it. You remind us of our shared humanity while also celebrating our differences, because our commonality may make us human, but our differences make us beautiful," said Nanjiani. "And that is what D.W. Griffith represents."

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