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Filmmaker Joshua Coates considers himself a perfectionist. He tells HFPA journalist Michele Manelis that he is always studying and trying to get better with his craft.

Over the last 26 years, the HFPA has donated $45 million to entertainment-related nonprofit organizations, academic programs, film preservation and humanitarian organizations, provided more than 2,224 scholarships to college students, and funded the restoration of over 138 classic films.  This year, licensing from the Golden Globe Awards has allowed the HFPA to donate over $4 million to 74 nonprofits and colleges that assist diverse filmmakers and students interested in filmmaking, film preservation, journalistic organizations committed to free speech, and humanitarian organizations worldwide that support refugees and that provide critical aid when natural disasters occur.

Director Tinna Hrafnsdóttir is one of the small nations of Iceland’s many great talents. She started the film production company Freyja Filmwork to create more female-driven content and her film Quake is her debut as a feature film director.

A Quiet Place Part II roared and prevented In the Heights from soaring to number one in the recent domestic box office weekend race. Despite early predictions that it would lord over the turnstiles, Jon M.

Alfre Woodard spoke to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 1992 and 1993 about Bopha!, directed by Morgan Freeman, where she played the wife of a Black policeman (Danny Glover) in South Africa during apartheid. Bopha is a Zulu word meaning arrest, imprison.

Queen of trash? Feminist writer? Powerful emissary of women’s secret sexual desires? Gay icon? Insightful, affectionate, none too critical, Laura Fairrie's new documentary about the life of novelist Jackie Collins, aptly titled Lady Boss, aims to reveal the “real” woman behind and beyond the exterior veneer. Over a period of four decades, Jackie Collins, who was born in London in 1937, produced 32 novels, all of which appeared on the New York Times bestseller list.

Word is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives debuted in 1977 as the first feature-length documentary about lesbian and gay identities and lifestyles, made by openly gay filmmakers. The Mariposa Film Group, comprising Peter Adair, Nancy Adair, Andrew Brown, Rob Epstein, Lucy Massie Phenix (Winter Soldier) and Veronica Selver, sought to create a film that would be free of political didactics, one that would simply tell the stories of what it means to grow up gay in America.

Though better known, Gus Van Sant's 2008 Golden Globe and Oscar winning biopic, Milk, starring Sean Penn, was not the first feature about the gay pioneering politician Harvey Milk, or about the socio-political era in which he rose to power as the first openly gay man elected to office. In 1984, Robert Epstein and Bob Friedman made the The Times of Harvey Milk, a feature, which, among other things, prepared the background for other features about AIDS, such as Parting Glances (1986) Longtime Companion (1990), and Poison (1991), to mention just a few titles.

Dreams and courage inspire Brazilian filmmaker Allan Deberton. He tells HFPA journalist Ana Maria Bahiana he would play that he was a movie director when he was a kid.

In a surprise twist worthy of a horror flick, A Quiet Place Part II did not return to the number one position on its second weekend, as many predicted. Instead, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It topped the domestic box office.