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When Netflix decided to release Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods in mid-June last year, after it had missed its premiere at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival, which was canceled due to Covid-19, it didn’t expect it to become the center of media attention and a source of political discourse. But neither did it expect the public’s eruptive reaction to the suffocating death of an African American, named George Floyd, at the hands of a White police officer.

When navy combat photographer Morris Engel decided to make Little Fugitive in 1953, there was no such thing as an independent film made outside the studio system. “My wife grew up in Hollywood and worked as a messenger at MGM, so she knew all about how films were made,” Engel explained at a screening of his movie at Brooklyn College.

HFPA Presents: Globes Countdown Live, the official pre-show for the 2021 Golden Globe Awards, will stream live from the official Golden Globes Twitter account.

Since the musical Hamilton premiered on Broadway in 2015 and achieved pop-culture phenomenon status, Lin-Manuel Miranda has become a household name. 2020, however, was definitely a year that consolidated the artist’s gravitas in the core of the entertainment industry.

There is an ever-powerful light that shines inside Frances McDormand as she plays the starring role in Writer/Director Chloé Zhao’s inspiring docu-fiction drama Nomadland. The seven-time Golden Globe nominee, who for the last 40 years has played an array of strong women, many of whom were from rural areas in the country, portrays Fern, a 61-year-old working-class house-less woman, who not only lost her job and husband but is forced out of her home and on to the road.

Gary Oldman is one of the most celebrated actors of his generation, with a diverse career encompassing theatre, film and television and an impressive repertoire under his belt. With movies such as Sid and Nancy, True Romance, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Darkest Hour, in which his portrayal of Winston Churchill won multiple awards, including a Golden Globe and Oscar, Oldman is without a doubt a force of nature.

Golden Globe-nominated actor Tahar Rahim was blown away when he read the script for The Mauritanian. The legal drama is based on Mohamedou Ould Salahi's memoir 'Guantánamo Diary',  a true story of his experience of being held for 14 years with no charges being leveled against him in the Guantánamo Bay detention camp.

A 1971 documentary film had a very factual title: The Murder of Fred Hampton. The title of a feature film exactly fifty years later describes the same subject in biblical terms: Judas and the Black Messiah.

Her website is crowned by a winged capital letter Z. What that means, explains a voice on her podcast, is Ein großes Z und ein kleiner Engel (A big Z and a little angel).

Collectively known as the Russo brothers, Anthony and Joe are best known for directing four films in the Marvel Universe: Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Captain America:  Civil War (2016), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and Avengers: Endgame (2019), the latter grossing over $2. 798 billion worldwide.