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Playing one of the most intriguing figures in the smashing TV series Squid Game, South Korean actor Oh Young-soo received his very first Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role on Television. His character, Player 001, is an elderly man with a brain tumor who seems to prefer the mortal dangers of a brutal game to the routine of the outside world.

It was just one year after his tragic death, and on January 11 Heath Ledger was honored for his amazing work in “The Dark Knight” with a Best Supporting Actor trophy at the 2009 Golden Globe Awards. Director Christopher Nolan accepted the award for his late friend/colleague, telling the audience, "On behalf of all of us who worked with Heath on Dark Knight, I accept this with mix of sadness and incredible pride.

Hannah Waddingham, a London native, whose work encompasses television, film, and musical theater, received her first Golden Globe nomination this year for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role on Television. She plays Rebecca Welton, the new owner of AFC Richmond, in the Apple TV+ comedy series and Golden Globe winner Ted Lasso.

The 79th Golden Globe awards will mark Elizabeth Olsen’s first nomination for her role as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch in the Disney+ miniseries WandaVision in the category of Best Performance as an Actress in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television.   Olsen, 32, was born and raised in Los Angeles.

If a world of increased specialization has led to a decline in renaissance-type professional exploration, word of that thankfully somehow hasn’t reached Mark Duplass. His varied career has served as an outward manifestation of his boundless intellectual curiosity.

The year 2021 might well be called Oscar Isaac’s year: this year, the Golden Globe winner has been seen in three critically acclaimed projects, all of which premiered globally at the Venice Film Festival: The Card Counter by Paul Schrader, Dune by Denis Villeneuve and HBOs Scenes from a Marriage – it was the last that brought him his third Golden Globe nomination. This year he was nominated for Best Actor – Limited, Series, Anthology or a Motion Picture made for Television – for the role of Jonathan Levy in an English-language remake of Ingmar Bergman’s iconic television series of the same name created by Hagai Levi.

“Succession is the mountain that I would like to climb for the rest of my life,” said Jeremy Strong in an interview with the HFPA about the show that has led to his first Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Television Series, Drama. In Succession, Strong plays Kendall Roy, the eldest of the Roy siblings, Roman, Shiv, Connor, and Kendall, who all fight to take over their father’s conglomerate, Waystar Royco.

The word fearless is a term often used to describe multi-Golden Globe and Oscar award-winning actress and producer, Nicole Kidman. In fact, she has always gravitated towards the most challenging roles, be it a beaten and battered police detective in Destroyer, the victim of domestic abuse in Big Little Lies, or emulating America’s beloved icon Lucille Ball in Being the Ricardos, for which she is currently nominated for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama.

Truth be told, 2016 was a good year for Golden Globe nominee Mahershala Ali. He had been playing the role of President Francis Underwood’s press secretary on the Golden Globe-winning series House of Cards for three seasons.

In When Pomegranates Howl, the second feature film from Iranian-Australian Granaz Moussavi, the film’s main character, Hewad (portrayed by Arafat Faiz), is forced to become the breadwinner in the family at the age of nine on the death of his father. Hewad sells trinkets, snacks, and pomegranates in a heavy wooden cart in the harsh streets of Kabul.