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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.

Between 1948 and 1983 Golden Globes were awarded in a special category of “New Star of the Year” conceived to recognize young actors making a mark in their early roles. In this series, the HFPA’s Phil Berk highlights those that would follow their auspicious starts with distinguished careers.

Lee Isaac Chung was the big winner at the 2020 Sundance Festival, where his film Minari took the Audience Award in the Dramatic Competition and also the Grand Jury Prize. And Lee Isaac Chung is in the news now more than ever.

Black and white films are a staple of world cinema. From achievements in the early silent era such as Metropolis (1927) and M (1931) to masterpieces like The 400 Blows (1959), Tokyo Story (1953) and Wings of Desire (1987), this format never actually died after color films were invented.

In a spectacular rebound after COVID-19 closed theaters and dampened last year’s Lunar New Year, traditionally the busiest moviegoing period, China posted record-breaking box office numbers this time around, boosting its status as the world’s largest film market. A hopeful sign for Hollywood studios that have delayed the release of its tentpole movies worldwide, Chinese box office action sizzled this past weekend.

Viola Davis is an established performer with a long list of commanding characters among her many credits, including Annalise Keating in the hit small screen legal thriller How To Get Away With Murder, which last year wrapped its sixth and final season. But it’s still astonishing to behold the boldness and sheer dominating energy she brings to Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, in a role for which Davis recently received a Golden Globe nomination, her sixth overall, for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama.

At 83, Sir Anthony Hopkins is on top of his game. A star of the stage and screen, he has built an incredibly successful career lasting over 60 years, portraying roles ranging from the serial killer in The Silence of the Lambs, for which he won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1992, to playing a humble butler in The Remains of the Day which also earned him worldwide award nominations.