Works by Soa Ratsifandrihana and Robin Orlin evoked Malagasy line dances and Zulu rickshaw drivers.

After the hit song from “KPop Demon Hunters” made Oscars history, a snare drum and a crashing cymbal mercilessly drowned out the winners.

Ahead of a vote on whether to close the center for two years of construction, the president criticized its previous financial management and physical condition.“What I know best in the world is construction,” President Trump said at a news conference about planned renovations at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Enamored of stars like Charlie Chaplin, he matched outdoor scenes from their movies to contemporary locales, creating a visual record of vanished cityscapes.Mr. Bengtson, in 2001, standing at the same San Francisco location where Buster Keaton (seen in the enlarged movie still he is holding) shot a silent film a century earlier.

The ceremony figured out how to celebrate movies and the people who make them. It even understood Robert Redford’s place in American cinema.Part of the Oscar haul for “One Battle After Another,” which took six trophies.