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Michelle Pfeiffer’s Golden Globe-nominated performance as Frances Price in French Exit.

Viggo Mortensen spoke with HFPA journalists in 2002 on the set of Hidalgo. He was working on the adventure film about the legend of Frank Hopkins, who rode his mustang Hidalgo in the “Ocean of Fire” 3,000-mile endurance race of 1891 against Bedouins riding pure-bred Arabian horses in the Najid desert of Saudi Arabia.

By any objective standards, 2020 was an extraordinary year in the life and career of Leslie Odom Jr. He was in three major movies, each of which has been nominated for awards, as well as his role as Sam Cooke in Regina King’s One Night in Miami.

France-based Italian director Filippo Meneghetti picked an unlikely theme for his debut: the love story between Nina (Barbara Sukowa) and Madeleine (Martine Chevallier), both in their seventies. Yet, even though Two Of Us constitutes a rare occasion in cinema’s canon, it fits right in with a brand new trend that seeks to unveil the struggles of women as they painstakingly emerge out of their homebound obscurity.

A fun, imaginative, and thought-provoking work, smart enough to embrace the realization that priorities in life can and do change with the passing of time, Palm Springs is the recipient of two 2021 Golden Globes nominations, including one for Andy Samberg for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. Smartly scripted by Andy Siara and directed with aplomb by Max Barbakow, Palm Springs serves up a finely balanced mixture of loose-limbed ribaldry, armchair philosophizing, and emotionally resonant melancholy, and was acquired for distribution by Hulu out of the Sundance Film Festival in 2020, in what was a record-setting deal at the time.

Alicia Christian Foster has had a blessed career. The LA born actress, better known as Jodie Foster, began working at the age of three, modeling for Coppertone and now, 55 years later, she has just secured her eleventh Golden Globe nomination for her part in the film The Mauritanian.

Dev Patel plays the eponymous David Copperfield in The Personal History of David Copperfield, directed by Armando Iannucci. It’s his second Golden Globe nomination – his first was in 2017 for Lion.

Hamburg-born director Eliza Schroeder makes her feature directorial debut with Love Sarah, (now available on VOD) an uplifting drama set in London about a young woman (Shannon Tarbet) who enlists the help of her mother’s best friend (Shelley Conn) and her eccentric grandmother (Celia Imrie) to fulfill her late mother’s dream of opening a bakery in Notting Hill. The film has garnered positive reviews and has been likened to the Golden Globe award-winning television series Fleabag.

In his autobiography “King of Comedy,” Mack Sennett writes about how he came up with the idea of his famous ‘Bathing Beauties’ in 1914. “One morning as I went through the Times, I noticed a three-column picture on Page One of a pretty girl who had been involved in a minor traffic accident.

Before the world was grappling with the medical mysteries of COVID, there was a whole generation devastated by the physical and emotional toll of AIDS. When the first cases were reported back in 1981, the new epidemic gave rise to paranoia and prejudice as science didn’t have enough information to properly explain it.