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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.

The Communist Party Congress that concluded in Beijing on October 22 reinstalled Xi Jinping as China’s leader for an unprecedented third term. As regards the entertainment sector, it is clear that the policies already in place from his previous term will continue.

On April 16, 1945, as a festive Hollywood crowd gathered in the Terrace Room at the Beverly Hills Hotel, the end of World War II in Europe was only three weeks away. There was a feeling of relief in the air, of hope and happy endings.

Anne Hathaway won a Golden Globe as Best Supporting Actress in a musical in 2013 for her performance as Fantine in Les Misérables, directed by Tom Hooper with Hugh Jackman playing Jean Valjean, which would later earn her an Academy Award.  She gave the first of many exclusive interviews to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 2001, when she was only 18, talking about her feature film debut in The Princess Diaries, directed by Garry Marshall, and co-starring Julie Andrews.

The 17th annual Rome Film Festival, which ran from October13-23, 2022, welcomed numerous artists and celebrities to one of the largest red carpets in the world at the Auditorium Parco della Musica. The festival, led by new artistic director, former RAI executive Paola Malanga and president Gian Luca Farinelli, hosted 130 titles on 28 screens across Rome.

When The Song of Bernadette romped off with three major awards at the first-ever Golden Globe Awards in 1944, the winners received simple certificates, not trophies. Still, by way of its pioneering triumphs, the biographical drama etched its place in history.

Ichiyama Shozo (Japan 1963), the Programming Director of the Tokyo International Film Festival since last year, was also in charge of selecting their films from 1992 to 1999. Then in 2000 he launched the Film Festival Tokyo FILMeX and served as its director.

Aside from the glamorous supper clubs on the Sunset Strip, Hollywood had many elegant restaurants that catered to the rich and famous for decades. Three legendary ones were Chasen’s, Perino’s, and the Brown Derby.

Marta Natalia Filomena Cisternas Holley, who later shortened her name to Marina Cisternas, was one of a small group of international correspondents covering Hollywood in the 1940s. She was born into a traditional Chilean family, and her father was Chief Justice of the country for a time.