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July is Disability Pride Month, which is important for the Golden Globes to recognize: The entertainment industry has been working hard to be more inclusive, but disabilities are too frequently overlooked. The Globes has extensive archives, since the awards go back to the 1940s.

As senior programmer of Tribeca Festival, seasoned film curator and culture critic Faridah Gbadamosi does not just see movies. She breathes them all year around, starting with watching the Golden Globes Awards in early January.

Ebru Ceylan, a noted Turkish photographer and the wife of director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, brought her unique vision and artistic sensibility to the jury at this year's Cannes Film Festival.     Along with Nuri Bilge Ceylan, she has co-written screenplays for a best director award winner ("Three Monkeys," 2008), a Grand Prix winner, "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia," 2011), a screenplay winner ("About Dry Grasses," 2023) and a Palme d’Or winner ("Winter Sleep," 2014) at the Festival de Cannes.

"Girl," the story of a young trans dancer, was nominated as best foreign film at the 2018 Golden Globes. "Close," about the friendship of two teenagers who are tragically separated, was nominated for foreign film at the 2023 Golden Globes.

"Girl" sur l’histoire d’une jeune danseuse trans avait été nominé dans la catégorie du meilleur film étranger aux Golden Globes 2018. "Close" sur l’histoire d’amitié de deux adolescents séparés, de manière tragique, faisait partie des nominés pour le meilleur film étranger aux Golden Globes 2023.

The official poster of the 77th Festival de Cannes is a scene from "Rhapsody in August" by the great Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. It's a fitting choice because Asia is strongly represented at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

Six years ago, his stage name was Juan Carlos Gascón. Today she calls herself Karla Sofia Gascón, the transgender actress who arrived at the Cannes Film Festival starring in the film “Emilia Perez,” by French director Jacques Audiard, which also stars Zoe Saldaña, Edgar Ramirez and Selena Gomez, among others.

Hace seis años su nombre artístico era Juan Carlos Gascón. Hoy se hace llamar Karla Sofia Gascón, la actriz transgénero que llegó al Festival de Cine de Cannes protagonizando la película “Emilia Perez”, del director francés Jacques Audiard, en donde además actúan Zoe Saldaña, Edgar Ramirez y Selena Gomez, entre otros.

It’s been 20 years since Kevin Costner attended the Cannes Film Festival.  However, after the long standing ovation he received at the premiere of his new film, “Horizon: An American Saga,” it seems clear audiences won’t need to wait another two decades before the Golden Globe-winning actor-director returns to the French Riviera.

Scandinavian films have a long history at Cannes, and this year the lineup is especially strong, with two films in the main competition (“The Girl With the Needle” and “The Apprentice”), and two others ("Armand" and "When the Light Breaks") in the Un Certain Regard section. Swedish director Magnus von Horn’s film, “The Girl with the Needle,” is a fictionalized crime-horror based on a real Danish baby-killer case from the 1920s.