This Week in Pop Culture: January 19 - 25, 2019

If you're a Las Vegas aficionado, you know a thing or two about the trend for big-name performers to sign on for a string of concerts that command high ticket prices and often sell out. Drake is the latest artist to sign on for a Vegas residency, and he's rumored to be earning $2 million per show.

Cardi B. will also have a Las Vegas residency starting this spring. Above and Beyond, G-EAZY, Kaskade and Skrillex will join her on stage when she performs at the new amphitheater at The Palms resort.

Not to be outdone, Lady Gaga is now performing in two different Vegas shows. Her new act, which opened this week, features Gaga at the piano, singing standards like the ones on her duet album with Tony Bennett. In her debut concert, Gaga gave some of her own pop hits the full orchestral treatment, including “Paparazzi.”

Green Book won the Producers Guild of America award for Best Picture this week, and picked up five Oscar nominations to boot. In the past ten years, eight of the PGA Best Picture winners have gone on to win the Best Picture Oscar.

RBG, the movie about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, was nominated for a Best Documentary Oscar. The filmmakers reached out to Ginsberg to tell her the news, and she responded that the nomination was “eminently well deserved.” Something that's eminent stands out because it is so well done.

The Oscars celebrate the best in film. The Golden Raspberry Awards, on the other hand, commemorate the worst movies of the year. John Travolta, Will Ferrell and even the President himself are up for Razzies this year. (The President was featured in a few documentaries.) Fun fact: Melissa McCarthy is nominated for both an Oscar and a Razzie this year, but for different films.

The film Roma scored ten Oscar nominations this week, including one for Best Picture. A foreign-language film has never won Best Picture in the history of the Academy Awards. The dialog in Roma is a combination of Spanish and Mixtec, a native language of Mexico. If Roma were to win Best Picture, it would be the first time since 1993 that a black and white film took the top award. Schindler's List was the last film to earn that distinction.

M. Night Shyamalan’s superhero thriller Glass was number one at the box office last week, but the bigger story is how Aquaman keeps raking in the money. The action movie, starring Jason Momoa and Amber Heard, took in another $10 million even though it's already been in theaters for five weeks.

When A Star is Born was released last summer, fans and critics alike praised Lady Gaga’s performance, and Bradley Cooper’s acting and directing. It was no surprise that the film received eight Academy Award nominations, but it was a shock that Cooper wasn't on the list for Best Director. The word snub is often used when someone or something is left out intentionally. Ouch.

Conan O’Brien’s show relaunches this week, and a lot has changed. The show is only a half-hour, there is no band, and you won't see any more musical guests. O’Brien says that he will keep doing pre-taped comedy bits and remotes, like his well regarded trips to Cuba and Japan.