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  Will Taylor Swift make history by becoming the first singer to win album of the year four times? Will she perform? The "Midnights" artist is nominated for six Grammy Awards at Sunday's show on CBS. Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon and Taylor Swift have each won album of the year thrice. Sinatra was the first to win back-to-back years, and Wonder won all three of his awards in four years. Three engineers have won album of the year four times for their work on albums with Swift, Adele and Bruno Mars: Şerban Ghenea, John Hanes and Tom Coyne. Swift thanked Ghenea in her acceptance speech when she won the award for "Folklore." He is nominated as part of the "Midnights" team so could see his total album of the year wins rise to five if Swift wins. Swift has won 12 Grammys. She's been nominated 52 times, including for six awards this year: "Anti-Hero," pop solo performance, Taylor Swift "Karma," pop duo/group performance, Tay...

Greta Gerwig’s motion picture starring Margot Robbie earned eight Oscar nominations, but not for its director or its leading actress in an unexpected and surprising move that says a lot about the industry’s duality Hollywood has never loved Barbie as much as it has despised her. After six months of talking about the movie (and as many months discussing its arrival), about the doll, about feminism, about marketing, about what is frivolous and what is profound, about what is high culture and what is low culture, about what is valid for the world’s most powerful movie industry, which has been setting the standard for a century, everything seems to have become clear in the past week. The cards have been laid on the table. Or have they? The film written and directed by Greta Gerwig and starring Margot Robbie (who also produced it) received eight Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. That’s nothing to sneeze at. But given the debate ignited by the snubs of both women in their main categ...