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In the room devoted to a Spike Lee exhibit at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, which opened to the public in 2021, there hang three posters of movies that inspired the lauded director: Breathless (1960), by Jean-Luc Godard; Seven Beauties (1975), by Lina Wertmüller; and The Bicycle Thief (1948), by Vittorio De Sica. The Bicycle Thief was the very first movie to win a Golden Globe as Best Foreign Language Film, in a ceremony held February 23, 1950, in the Embassy Room of the Ambassador Hotel, the 1950 Golden Globes.

More than seven years after his acclaimed thriller debut D'Ardennes, Belgian film director Robin Pront (36) is back with an ambitious biopic. Zillion tells a true story of computer genius Frank Verstraeten, who opened his own futuristic mega-discotheque named Zillion and became a key figure of the Antwerp nightlife, with the most beautiful women in Belgium and forging an alliance with Dennis Black Magic, the porn king.

Svandis Dora Einarsdottir stars as the female Chief of the Narcotics Division in the Netflix crime series Entrapped (2022). In Entrapped, the third season of the Scandi noir series, the Icelandic police force is investigating the brutal murder of a young man who lived in rural Iceland with a pagan cult which is engaged in a land dispute with a motorcycle gang with ties to Denmark.

Black Adam is the new number-one movie in France. Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra with Dwayne Johnson, Aldis Hodge, and Pierce Brosnan, the movie is about the slave Black Adam who is freed from his earthly tomb and ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world by using the almighty powers he got from the Egyptian gods.

It’s happened only once in the history of the Golden Globes: A father and his son each won the golden statuette for their individual work on the same film. This singular event took place on March 16, 1949, at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.

Walt Disney received several special awards in the early days of the Golden Globes. The first came in 1948, for Furthering the Influence of the Screen, after he co-created the cartoon character of Mickey Mouse in 1928 and produced animated classics like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Pinocchio (1940), Fantasia (1940), Dumbo (1941), and.

  On our 80-day countdown to the 80th anniversary of the Golden Globes, this week we celebrate the 5th Golden Globes, which took place in 1948 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel and featured a special award to Walt Disney for “Furthering the Influence of the Screen” with his classic early animated movie, Bambi. Animation has grown in directions Walt could never have imagined in the past 74 years and this week, on our Golden Globes Around the World Podcast, HFPA member Rocio Ayuso sat down with Japanese animation director Daisuke ‘Dice’ Tsutsumi to talk about his new four-episode Netflix limited series, Oni: Thunder God’s Tale, which takes a playful look at the oddball gods and monsters of Japanese mythology.

By 1947, the fledgling Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association (HFCA), founded a few years earlier by a little more than a dozen international journalists, had slowly expanded. There had been relatively informal celebrations of achievements in film, mostly small gatherings with the attendance of the prize winners.

At the 3rd Golden Globes ceremony, held Saturday, March 30, 1946, at the Hollywood Knickerbocker Club, a special award was given to Frank Sinatra by the Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association (HFCA), which in 1955 merged with the Foreign Press Association of Hollywood (FPAH) to form the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). The award, for the Picture With the Best International Feeling, honored the 1945 short film The House I Live In, directed by Mervyn LeRoy.

Star power is back at the box office as Dwayne Johnson, Julia Roberts, and George Clooney returned with movies that dominated the box office domestically and internationally. Johnson’s Black Adam scooped up $67 million, which was bigger than predicted and ended up being his strongest North American debut as a solo star.