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Golden Globe winner and three-time nominee Diahann Carroll had one of the most unexpectedly successful careers, given the times and the country in which she was born. The decision of Richard Rodgers, of Rodgers and Hammerstein fame, to cast the young African American actress in the musical No Strings in 1962 was one of those moments when a huge barrier was broken in the entertainment business.

  To celebrate the 80 days leading up to the 80th Golden Globes (one year every day), today we are focusing on the 1968 Golden Globes, at which comedy icon Carol Burnett won her Best TV Star Award. In her honor, we are replaying our 2019 conversation when she sat down with HFPA member Meher Tatna to talk about her career from humble beginnings to breakout success with The Carol Burnett Show, her five Golden Globes wins, and the newly created Carol Burnett Award for Lifetime Achievement in Television, which she had just received in 2019 at its inaugural presentation.

There is a significant moment in the life of director Steven Spielberg that does not appear in his last feature film, the semi-autobiographical film The Fabelmans (2022. ) The director preferred to recount this memory in interviews and recollections about the origins of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), one of his most popular films and which is marking its 45th anniversary this year.

Mile markers and anniversaries are always a good time to showcase what makes an organization special. And 1968, the 25th Golden Globes celebration, was a year that showed the world how good the Hollywood Foreign Press Association could be at tuning into the zeitgeist.

Inland is a modern fairy tale about an unnamed young man (Rory Alexander) grappling with identity issues, loss and despair after his mother's mysterious disappearance a decade earlier. When we first see Rory, he returns from a stint in a psychiatric unit.

Brawler, hellraiser, hedonist, world-class carouser, indiscriminate lover, drunkard, and drug addict. Errol Flynn was all these things, but he was also a good writer, had a magnetic personality, and was a charismatic actor.

The 24th Golden Globes were held on February 15, 1967, at the Cocoanut Grove at the Ambassador Hotel, one of the hottest social spots for in-the-know Angelenos in the 1960s. Multiple Grammy-nominee Andy Williams hosted the ceremony in the company of Corinna Tsopei, Miss Universe 1964 turned Miss Golden Globes 1967.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) was founded with the mission of advancing the art of film. Over the last 28 years, the association has donated more than $55 million to organizations related to the entertainment industry as well as to humanitarian causes, has offered more than 2,200 scholarships to film students, and has funded the restoration of 138 films.

As expected, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever made a smashing debut and raked in $330 million globally. In the domestic box office race, director Ryan Coogler’s sequel to his 2018 blockbuster bowed with $180 million, the second biggest opening this year and the third in the COVID-19 era, after Spider-Man: No Way Home and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

Sony reported last Wednesday that Where the Crawdads Sing has been approved for release in China on November 25. The film was released in the US in July and has made $50 million in international markets with a total gross of $140 million.