Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/February 26 to March 4, 2017

| Bill Paxton

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| style="text-align:right;"| 4,823,745

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| The American actor, known for his roles in films such as Aliens, Titanic and Twister, died this week at the age of 61.

| Moonlight (2016 film)

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| style="text-align:right;"| 3,098,888

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| Winner of three Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The first all-black Best Picture and the first LGBT Best Picture; the win was unfortunately overshadowed by an envelope mixup, resulting in La La Land holding the award for about five minutes. Director Barry Jenkins pictured.

| {{nobr|89th Academy Awards}}

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| style="text-align:right;"|1,982,265

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| The main page for the week's big award show (pictured: host Jimmy Kimmel) was unsurprisingly popular, with readers likely trying to catch up on the list of winners or the envelope mixup.

| Logan (film)

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| style="text-align:right;"| 1,862,573

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| The 10th movie associated with the X-Men and the final appearance for Hugh Jackman (pictured) as Wolverine; Logan opened this week to near-unanimously positive reviews and almost $250m worldwide gross.

| Casey Affleck

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| style="text-align:right;"| 1,574,510

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| The American actor won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Manchester By the Sea.

| Get Out (film)

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| style="text-align:right;"| 1,400,249

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| Jordan Peele's directorial debut, the satirical horror movie has received, if anything, even more unanimous positivity from reviewers than Logan; and sits second in the US box office.

| La La Land (film)

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| style="text-align:right;"| 1,253,551

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| The other half of the envelope mixup (see #2); the incident did rather overshadow the rest of the night, which saw the musical pick up six Awards, including Best Director for Damien Chazelle. (pictured)

| Mahershala Ali

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| style="text-align:right;"| 1,217,057

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Won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Moonlight (#2); Ali is the first Muslim actor to win an Oscar.

| Emma Stone

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| style="text-align:right;"| 1,119,576

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| Another Academy Award winner, this time for Best Actress. It is interesting to note that Wikipedia readers seem more interested in the actors than the actresses, isn't it?.

| Manchester by the Sea (film)

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| style="text-align:right;"| 874,133

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|Rounding off our cinematic top 10, Kenneth Lonergan's drama won two awards from six nominations, including Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor.

| Ash Wednesday

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| style="text-align:right;"| 736,930

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| The first day of Lent in the Western Christian calendar was observed this year on March 1. Views have increased by 137,067 from 2016's occurrence.

| Deaths in 2017

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| style="text-align:right;"| 650,355

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| Wikipedia readers continue to keep an eye on the list of those no longer with us.

| Remy Ma

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| style="text-align:right;"| 654,281

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| The American rapper released ShETHER, a diss track against fellow rapper Nicki Minaj on 25 February. The interest does not yet appear to have transferred to sales, with Ma's song sitting 119th on the Billboard charts.

| Warren Beatty

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| style="text-align:right;"| 627,731

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The fourteen-time Oscar nominee (and one-time winner) was given the responsibility of announcing the Best Picture Oscar winner alongside Bonnie and Clyde co-star Faye Dunaway. If anything went wrong, it was under-reported. Dunaway, incidently, sits 49 places below Beatty on the raw list.

| Ryan Gosling

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| style="text-align:right;"| 619,114

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| Best Actor nominee for his role in #7; lost out to #5

| Donald Trump

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| style="text-align:right;"| 612,530

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| Continuing our film theme, the star of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York remains President of the United States. This week, he made a speech to Congress and accused his predecessor of wiretapping him, very much running the whole gamut of Presidential behaviour.

| Hacksaw Ridge

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| style="text-align:right;"| 611,495

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| Based on the experience of Desmond Doss (pictured), Mel Gibson's war film won two Awards from six nominations, for Best Sound Mixing and Best Film Editing.

| Damien Chazelle

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| style="text-align:right;"| 602,783

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| The American director became the youngest person to win the Best Director Academy Award, for La La Land.

| Mel Gibson

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| style="text-align:right;"| 596,875

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| The... ahem... controversial Australian failed to win a second Best Director Award for his first film in a decade, beaten by Damien Chazelle.

| O. J. Simpson

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| style="text-align:right;"| 591,262

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| The former American footballer and current felon was the subject of O.J.: Made in America; winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

| Lion (2016 film)

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| style="text-align:right;"| 569,893

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| Despite being the best film yet made about Google Earth, Lion failed to convert any of its 6 nominations, including Best Supporting Actor for Dev Patel (pictued), into wins.

| Viola Davis

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| style="text-align:right;"| 555,754

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| The winner of Best Supporting Actress for her role in Fences, Davis does not seem to have interested the readers as much as Affleck, Ali & Stone.

| Rice

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| style="text-align:right;"| 542,230

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| [https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/5wp70u/til_water_is_used_in_rice_fields_to_prevent_weeds/ The good burghers of Reddit] this week learned about the vital (and surprising) role water plays in the production of rice. And now, so can you!

| Ben Affleck

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| style="text-align:right;"| 535,548

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| The current Batman announced the winner of the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay; before sitting back and watching his brother (#5) pick up the Best Actor award. Ben didn't necessarily leave the weekend empty-handed, though; depending on how keen he is to pick up his Razzie Award for Worst Screen Combo.

| Two Ocean Pass

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| style="text-align:right;"| 513,849

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| [https://www.reddit.com/r/Map_Porn/comments/5wf37z/two_ocean_pass_a_mountain_pass_in_wyoming_where_a/ Another Reddit boost], this time from the world of cartography! The Two Ocean Pass is a point in Wyoming where a stream splits into two tributaries - one heading to the Atlantic Ocean, the other the Pacific. A fish could therefore take advantage of this Pass in order to cross between the two major oceans. What is not yet known is why such a fish would want to.