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 2010
- Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first woman to win best director
at the Oscars for "The Hurt Locker", a low-budget Iraq war drama
that also beats blockbuster "Avatar", directed by ex-husband
James Cameron, to the best picture award.
- Model Naomi Campbell testifies at former Liberian leader
Charles Taylor's war crimes trial, saying she was given "dirty
looking pebbles" but did not know if they were blood diamonds.
- Fashion designer Alexander McQueen and actors Dennis Hopper
and Tony Curtis die.
2011
- Britain's Prince William marries Kate Middleton.
- Designer John Galliano loses his job at fashion house
Christian Dior after a widely-shared video shows him hurling
anti-Semitic abuse in a Paris bar.
- Michael Jackson's personal doctor, Conrad Murray, is convicted
of involuntary manslaughter in the singer's 2009 death from a
fatal dose of the powerful anaesthetic propofol.
- Actress Elizabeth Taylor and singer Amy Winehouse die.
2012
- Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie get engaged.
- Beyonce and rapper Jay-Z welcome their first child, daughter
Blue Ivy.
- Actress Katie Holmes files for divorce from Tom Cruise after
nearly six years of marriage.
- Singers Whitney Houston and Robin Gibb die.
2013
- William and Kate welcome their first child, son George, as do
reality TV star Kim Kardashian and rapper Kanye West, who name
their daughter North.
- Singer Miley Cyrus takes the stage at the MTV Video Music
Awards in a latex bikini and twerks with a foam finger during a
performance with Robin Thicke, sparking a media furor.
- Singer Lou Reed, actors Peter O'Toole, Paul Walker, James
Gandolfini and Cory Monteith die.
2014
- Jolie and Pitt tie the knot in France, George Clooney marries
human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin in Venice and Kardashian and
West wed in Florence.
- Actors Robin Williams, Philip Seymour Hoffman and comedienne
Joan Rivers die.
2015
- Comedian Bill Cosby is criminally charged with indecent
assault against one woman after dozens accuse him of sexual
misconduct dating back decades. He denies the allegations.
- Former Olympic athlete Bruce Jenner, stepfather of Kim
Kardashian, becomes the most high-profile American to publicly
come out as a transgender woman, taking the new name Caitlyn
Jenner.
- Johnny Depp marries Amber Heard.
- Actors Omar Sharif and Leonard Nimoy and director Wes Craven
die.
2016
- Director Spike Lee and actress Jada Pinkett Smith boycott the
Oscars because no black actors are nominated for a second
straight year. The ensuing uproar leads the Academy of Motion
Pictures to expand membership to more women and people of color.
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- Jolie and Pitt split; Heard files for divorce from Depp.
- Kardashian is robbed of millions of dollars of jewelry at gunpoint
in Paris.
- Music stars David Bowie, Prince and George Michael, and actors
Alan Rickman, Carrie Fisher and Gene Wilder die.
2017
- A blunder overshadows the Oscars as "La La Land" is wrongly named
best picture. African-American drama "Moonlight" is the actual
winner. PricewaterhouseCoopers, which oversees the ballots, says
presenter Warren Beatty had been given the wrong envelope.
- The New York Times and the New Yorker publish accounts by numerous
women accusing film producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct,
fuelling the #MeToo movement across entertainment, politics and
business. Weinstein denies any non-consensual sex.
- A suicide bomber kills 22 people at the end of an Ariana Grande
concert at Manchester Arena. Grande later holds a benefit concert
for the victims.
- After winning six Grammys five years earlier for smash hit album
"21", Adele triumphs again, taking five awards for follow-up "25".
- Actors John Hurt, Roger Moore and Bill Paxton, and musician Chuck
Berry die.
2018
- Cosby becomes the first celebrity to be convicted of sexual abuse
since the #MeToo movement began.
- Weinstein is arrested in New York and charged with rape and sexual
assault. He will stand trial in January 2020 on charges involving
two of the more than 80 women who have accused him of sexual
misconduct. He denies any non-consensual sex.
- Britain's Prince Harry marries U.S. actress Meghan Markle.
- Singer Aretha Franklin, actor Burt Reynolds, comicbook supremo
Stan Lee, designer Hubert de Givenchy and chef Anthony Bourdain die.
2019
- Documentary "Leaving Neverland", in which two men say they were
abused as children by Michael Jackson, renews scrutiny of the
singer's legacy. Jackson's estate calls it a "rehash of dated and
discredited allegations".
- Prosecutors drop a sex assault case against Oscar winner Kevin
Spacey after the alleged victim refuses to testify.
- Harry and Meghan welcome their first child, Archie.
- Hit medieval drama "Game of Thrones" wraps up after eight seasons.
The ending divides fans.
- The Rolling Stones temporarily postpone their North American tour
after singer Mick Jagger undergoes heart surgery.
- Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, actors Doris Day, Peter Fonda,
Carol Channing and Luke Perry and Nobel Prize-winning author Toni
Morrison die.
(Editing by Marie-Louise Gumuchian and John Stonestreet)
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