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Even with his start in Royal Shakespeare Company and BBC productions, Paul Bettany himself probably did not dream that someday, he would play a red-skinned android on WandaVision. And that he would earn his first Golden Globe nomination for portraying this alien in a sitcom-type TV mini-series.

George Clooney – nominated 13 times, recipient of three Golden Globes and the 2015 Cecil B. deMille Award- spoke to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press about the importance of journalism during an exclusive interview for the movie he co-wrote (with Grant Heslov) and directed Good Night, and Good Luck.

Brian Cox, the 75-year-old Scottish actor, was nominated for his portrayal of the overbearing, foul-mouthed, dominant patriarch Logan Roy of the Roy family, the owners of the fifth largest media conglomerate in the world, Waystar Royco, in the hit mini-series Succession. Cox, who was previously nominated in 2001 for Best Actor in a Mini-Series or Television or Film for Nuremberg and won in 2020 for Best Actor – Television Series Drama for Succession, again earned this year’s Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by An Actor in a Television Series – Drama for Succession.

Jason Sudeikis has been picking up Best Television Actor – Musical/Comedy Series nominations and wins since the 2020 release of Ted Lasso which he co-created and stars in. He extends that winning streak this year as the show and his performance are repeat nominees for the 2022 Golden Globes.

It takes a flamboyant, talented Billy Porter to inhabit a character like Pray Tell, the colorful and matriarchal emcee of the drag balls in New York, and mentor to members of the community, especially the members of the House of Evangelista in the Ryan Murphy TV series, Pose. The 52-year-old actor-singer-author from Pittsburgh, who was included in Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2020, got two Golden Globe nominations in the past for his portrayal of Pray Tell in Pose – in 2019 and 2020 for Best Actor in a Television Series – Drama.

The Champion, is the sports drama debut feature of director Maciej Barczewski, based on the memoir of bantamweight boxer Tadeusz Pietrzykowski. A non-Jewish Polish boxer who is also known as “Teddy,” Pietrzykowski was one of the earliest prisoners who arrived at the newly created concentration camp at Auschwitz in 1940.

At 92, José "Pepe" Soriano can say that he had a happy and fulfilling career. For decades he was one of the most prominent Argentine actors since his debut in the Colon Theatre in 1953 in a production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

The HFPA immediately embraced The Morning Show when it premiered on the then brand new Apple+ streaming service back in 2019: with its take on the role of women in talk TV and the #MeToo anti-harassment angle on the work-place, the show, produced by and starring Jennifer Aniston (and Reese Witherspoon), was a case of love at first sight for almost all. Aniston was nominated at the Golden Globes for Best Actress in a TV series, as she is now for Season 2 of The Morning Show.

Taiwanese director Chung Mong-hong attracted a lot of attention last year with his bold familial drama A Sun. This year, he further establishes himself as one of the most noteworthy international filmmakers with The Falls, an unusual exploration of a mother-daughter relationship hinged on the predicament of mental illness coupled with the pandemic lockdown.

“I know this one takes place in Colombia but you are right, it really represents what is going on around the world and America. ”With those words, John Leguizamo summed up Dark Blood, Colombian director Harold Trompetero’s drama about a man who copes with his new life of abuse and humiliation in prison while dealing with tragedy, sorrow and the repercussions of his crimes on his family.