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Normally, Academy Award nominations mean an Oscar bump in box office. This year, streaming services and digital rental platforms may get a bounce. Many of this year's best-picture nominees have already been released on various home-viewing platforms.

TORONTO — It's been an emotional start to the week for Halifax-raised filmmaker Ben Proudfoot.

Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.

It’s a rare year when most of the Oscar nomination surprises are good ones, but 2020 was also a rare year for moviegoing and awards campaigns.

LOS ANGELES — Reactions from some of the nominees for the 93rd Academy Awards: —— “I owe Sam everything for this role. I leaned into Sam Cooke’s signature confidence and signature swagger to make this believable.

NEW YORK — A night after winning the top Grammy Award for songwriting, R&B singer H.E.R. and her collaborators Tiara Thomas and D'Mile have become Oscar-nominated songwriters. H.E.R.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of March 21-27: March 21: Actor Kathleen Widdoes (“As the World Turns”) is 82. Singer-guitarist Keith Potger of The Seekers is 80. Actor Marie-Christine Barrault is 77.

NEW YORK — Half a year after his death, Chadwick Boseman was posthumously nominated for an Academy Award on Monday for his final performance in “Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.” The nomination for best actor was widely expected but still historic.

Jill Fletcher has spent much of the last year waiting to have both knees replaced while dealing with "brutal" pain after her cortisone shots were reduced to every six months from three to prevent further deterioration of the little cartilage she has

Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish made history at the Grammy Awards. Just as joyously, dozens of creators largely sidelined for a year due to the pandemic got to make music again.