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Jodie Foster spoke with HFPA journalists in 1991 about directing her first movie, Little Man Tate. “The thing about directing is that it is so intense, it takes such a long period of time and so much energy, that to have that kind of focus for over two years, you have to really love something and understand it absolutely from the ground up.

Singer-songwriter Andra Day won a Golden Globe award as Best Actress in a drama for her acting debut playing the legendary singer nicknamed Lady Day in the movie The United States vs. Billie Holiday directed by Lee Daniels, she was nominated to a second Golden Globe by the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for co-writing (with Raphael Saadiq) the music and lyrics of the original song for the movie, “Tigress & Tweeds.

Anyone that has visited the Dodger Stadium Covid testing site in Los Angeles during these long pandemic months, knows the heroic work of CORE. The non-profit organization has provided free testing available to all comers, even as health and government institutions faltered under less than sterling leadership.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is committed to supporting the rights of the press, which is facing challenges all over here. Check out our initiatives.

Ava DuVernay, Colin Farrell, Gal Gadot, Amanda Seyfried, Ben Stiller, Justin Theroux, Sandra Oh, Sarah Paulson,.

We are fully committed to ensuring our membership is reflective of the communities around the world who love film, tv and the artists inspiring and educating them.   We understand that we need to bring in Black members, as well as members from other underrepresented backgrounds, and we will immediately work to implement an action plan to achieve these goals as soon as possible.

Since its founding, Hollywood has adapted to the screen hundreds if not thousands of literary works by white authors, but – with the exception of some anomalies such as Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple in 1985 – has largely ignored the work of their Black peers. In the last decade, however, the commercial and critical success of Black movies has opened Hollywood’s mind and wallet to bringing the work of Black literary icons to the screen.

Angela Bassett (Golden Globe Award winner), Laura Dern (five-time Golden Globe Award winner and eight-time nominee), Salma Hayek (Golden Globe Award winner and two-time nominee), and Jamie Lee Curtis (two-time Golden Globe Award winner and seven-time nominee) joined the star-filled team of presenters at this year’s 78th Annual Golden Globe® Awards.  They will join previously announced presenters Bryce Dallas Howard, Christopher Meloni, Rosie Perez.

Amanda Seyfried will let her 4-year old up watch the ceremony for the first time – “it’s a once in a lifetime opportunity”, she admits. In London, Maria Bakalova.

In the run-up to the Golden Globes, top stylists gathered on an HFPA sponsored Zoom Round Table to discuss their craft and the challenges of creating a red-carpet moment during a pandemic. Like so many other events the Globes will go virtual this year, which will be unique for everything from show production to fashion – a mainstay of the Golden Globes Ceremony.