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  • Golden Globe Awards

Nominee Profile 2021: Carey Mulligan, “Promising Young Woman”

She first came to our attention playing the innocent Kitty Bennet in Joe Wright´s Pride & Prejudice. Then came the demanding and controversial Sissy, the wayward sister of a sex addict, in Shame, and those women trapped by systemic sexism, like the ‘60s schoolgirl seduced by an older man who almost ruined her life in An Education or the restless ‘50s mother, abandoned by her husband who has an affair with a rich man so she can support her son in Wildlife.
  • Industry

“Da 5 Bloods” Warns of America’s Troubling Present

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.
  • Golden Globe Awards

Nominee Profile 2021: Frances McDormand, “Nomadland”

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.