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More than a hundred films were submitted for consideration for the 2023 Golden Globe Awards’ Non-English Language Film (NELF) field. These are entries to the category, renamed Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language (formerly Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language).

At this point in an already established journey — from an improvised get-together, 31 years before, to well-organized galas in the International Ballroom of the Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills — the Golden Globes had become an awards season staple, marking the elements that speak loud and clear: things are changing. Yes, there was an Earthquake among the nominees of the 32nd Golden Globe Awards ceremony, on January 25, 1975 — two of them, in fact: Best Motion Picture – Drama, and Best Original Score, by John Williams.

Maniacs with chainsaws, killers in ski masks, poltergeists, vampires, zombies, murderous clowns, homicidal puppets, or a grotesque figure like Freddie Krueger torturing kids in their dreams — this entire procession of freaks and shrieks can rely on the adoration of insatiable fans. Yet horror films typically scare away awards jurors.

Hildur Guðnadóttir was the first female composer to win a Golden Globe for her original score for Joker in 2020. This opened up many doors for her, but the Icelandic composer was very selective in her choices.

India’s Last Film Show, about a little boy who watches a movie for the first time and is instantly captivated by the light that comes out of a projector and the stories it tells, won the Snow Leopard Award for best film in the recently concluded 8th Asian World Film Festival (AWFF). The awards night, held November 18 at the Beverly Hills Saban Theater, feted the competition winners, and previously announced honorees in the festival, which ran from November 9 to 18 in Los Angeles.

Hitting the global benchmark of $500 million – $546. 3 million, to be exact – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever seems to be rallying moviegoers to the movie theaters in droves with the word that the film’s warriors chant: “Yibambe (hold fast)!” The domestic box office, where the sequel stayed on top in its second week, contributed $288 million to that $500 million-plus worldwide total so far.

The goal of being the No. 1 film territory in the world (which it held in 2020 and 2021) no longer seems a priority for the Chinese administration.

She was television’s golden girl in the early to mid-1970s. But actress Gail Fisher traveled from meager beginnings in central New Jersey to acting in bit parts in Hollywood before taking center stage as Tinseltown’s “it girl” in 1973.

Christina Ricci played Wednesday, the daughter of Anjelica Huston as Morticia and Raul Julia as Gomez, in The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993) directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. She has a supporting role in Wednesday, the 8-part television series directed by Tim Burton, also based on the cartoon series by Charles Addams.

Alice Krige is best known for a variety of roles in films such as the Academy Award-winning Chariots of Fire and Ghost Story. She starred opposite film legends Fred Astaire and Douglas Fairbanks and became iconic for her role as the “Borg Queen” in Star Trek.