Absurdist fiction
Genre of novels
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| 2025 | Rick and Morty received a nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Casting at the Artios Awards for Animated Program for Television, with Robert McGee, Ruth Lambert, and Sara Jane Sherman recognized for their casting work. |
| 2025 | Comic Book Resources ranked the film at number 10 on its list of '10 Great Dramas From the 2020s That Are Already Instant Classics', praising its artistic success and non-formulaic storytelling. |
| March 2025 | The New York Times listed Everything Everywhere All at Once among 'The Movies We've Loved Since 2000', further cementing its cultural significance. |
| 2025 | Eighth season is scheduled to be released. |
| February 2 2025 | Lisa Sessions Morgan, Beth Mickle, and Bradley Rubin were nominated for Best Achievement in Décor/Design of a Comedy or Musical Feature Film by the Set Decorators Society of America. |
| January 20 2025 |
Joe Biden
Biden completes his term as President of the United States.
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| January 5 2025 | Jesse Plemons was nominated for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy at the Golden Globe Awards. |
| 2024 | Series renewal announced through the twelfth season. |
| December 20 2024 | Willem Dafoe was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Florida Film Critics Circle. |
| September 14 2024 | 'Kinds of Kindness' was nominated for the Emeric Pressburger Prize at the Miskolc International Film Festival. |
| June 21 2024 | Limited theatrical release of the film in the United States by Searchlight Pictures. |
| June 16 2024 | 'Kinds of Kindness' was nominated for Best Film at the Sydney Film Festival. |
| May 17 2024 | Kinds of Kindness had its world premiere at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, screening in-competition. |
| January 2024 | Production was delayed due to the Writers Guild strike, pushing the eighth season's release to 2025. |
| January 1 2024 | Rolling Stone ranks the film at number 49 on its inaugural list of 'The 150 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time'. |
| 2023 | Butler wrote the screenplay for 'Hemet, or the Landlady Don't Drink Tea', which critics later used as a comparative reference point for 'Friend of the World'. |
| 2023 | Distributed by Cineverse and released internationally on Apple TV and iTunes. |
| 2023 | Participates in his first interview under his own name, published in The Ringer, further confirming his identity as Paul Dochney. |
| 2023 | Dril created an account on Bluesky during its invite-only early access phase, becoming the first notable celebrity user on the platform according to Forbes. |
| 2023 | Screen Rant ranks the film as the 'Best Movie of the 2020s (So Far)' and includes it in a list of films 'Destined To Become Classics'. |
| 2023 | The film appears as an easter egg in the animated film Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, with a parody billboard featuring a bagel. |
| October 2023 |
Terry Pratchett
A collection of lost stories published under the pen name Patrick Kearns in regional newspapers during the 1970s and 1980s were discovered and published as 'A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories'.
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| October 15 2023 | Seventh season premiered with Ian Cardoni as Rick and Harry Belden as Morty, officially introducing the new voice actors. |
| October 15 2023 | Seventh season of Rick and Morty premieres with new voice actors Ian Cardoni and Harry Belden replacing Justin Roiland as Rick and Morty. |
| September 2023 | Adult Swim revealed new voices for Rick and Morty in the seventh season trailer. |
| April 2023 | Dril revived the #BlockTheBlue campaign, expressing hope for Twitter's downfall and criticizing Twitter Blue subscribers as 'dead-eyed cretins'. |
| April 2023 |
Terry Pratchett
Podcast 'Imaginary Worlds' released an episode 'Entering Discworld Population' to mark the 75th anniversary of Pratchett's birth.
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| April 22 2023 | Twitter unexpectedly gave dril a blue checkmark despite not subscribing to Twitter Blue. Dril repeatedly changed his display name in an attempt to remove the checkmark, ultimately settling on 'slave to Woke'. |
| March 2023 | Adult Swim cuts ties with Justin Roiland amid domestic abuse allegations. |
| March 2023 | Orange County District Attorney's office dropped all criminal charges against Roiland due to insufficient evidence. |
| March 12 2023 | Won seven Academy Awards, including historic wins for Michelle Yeoh (first Asian Best Actress), Ke Huy Quan (first Vietnam-born actor to win an Oscar), and Jamie Lee Curtis (first Oscar of her career). |
| January 2023 | Roiland was charged with felony domestic battery and false imprisonment in Orange County, California. |
| January 2023 | The series was confirmed to be renewed through to a tenth season. |
| January 2023 | Adult Swim announced they cut ties with Justin Roiland and fired him from Rick and Morty, deciding to recast his roles. |
| January 27 2023 | Re-release in U.S. theaters on 1,400 screens to celebrate the film's Oscar nominations. |
| 2022 | Recognized as one of Video Librarian's 'Top 15 Best Narrative Films'. |
| 2022 | Released on Tubi and Xumo streaming platforms, and acquired by Troma Entertainment for their Troma Now streaming app. |
| 2022 |
Terry Pratchett
Rob Wilkins wrote the official biography 'Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes'.
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| 2022 | Everything Everywhere All at Once receives widespread critical acclaim, with numerous reviewers praising Michelle Yeoh's performance as potentially the best of her career. |
| 2022 | Ke Huy Quan became the first Vietnam-born actor to win an Academy Award, winning Best Supporting Actor. |
| 2022 | Everything Everywhere All at Once received 11 Academy Award nominations, winning seven, including unprecedented achievements in multiple categories. |
| 2022 | Sweeps top prizes from Directors Guild of America, Producers Guild of America, Writers Guild of America, and Screen Actors Guild Awards. |
| 2022 | Jamie Lee Curtis won her first Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, helping the film win three out of four acting categories. |
| 2022 | Everything Everywhere All at Once was named one of the top 10 films of the year by the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute. |
| 2022 | The New York Times names the character Jobu Tupaki (played by Stephanie Hsu) as one of the 93 Most Stylish 'People' of the year. |
| 2022 | The film became the first science-fiction film to win Best Picture and the first to win five of the top six Academy Awards. |
| 2022 | Film's opening weekend earned $509,600 from ten venues, with a theater average of $50,965, the second-best platform release average since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2022 | Release of the film 'Everything Everywhere All at Once', a groundbreaking independent cinema work by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert that explores multiverse themes and Asian American representation. |
| 2022 | Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian Best Actress winner at the Academy Awards, the second woman of color to win after Halle Berry, and the first Malaysian to win any Academy Award. |
| 2022 | Film grossed $77.2 million in the United States and Canada and $66.2 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $143.4 million. |
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