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Andra Day was honored by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association with two Golden Globe nominations, as Best Actress in a Drama for The United States vs. Billie Holiday directed by Lee Daniels, and for Best Original Song, “Tigress & Tweed,” in the same film.

When in the 1920s Hollywood studios created the star system which lasted till the 1960s, young men and women were plucked from obscurity, buffed and polished and transformed into movie stars with invented names and backgrounds to glamorize them. Every aspect of their lives was controlled by the movie studios with morals clauses inserted into their contracts, and ‘fixers’ hired to cover up scandals.

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.

This Soul has life and it continues to soar. On a traditionally slow Super Bowl weekend in the United States, made more sluggish by the coronavirus pandemic, the big news was in the international box office, where Pixar’s Soul keeps rising.

Nanfu Wang’s gripping new documentary In the Same Breath, which premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, opens on the 2019 New Year’s Eve in Wuhan, China, site of the first cases of the novel coronavirus. It may be an interesting (and fateful) coincidence that the filmmaker was a Sundance Film Festival juror in Park City on January 23, 2020, the same day Wuhan went into lockdown during the first COVID-19 outbreak.

Lucy Walker’s Bring Your Own Brigade isn't the first documentary about the devastation wrought by uncontrolled wildfires that destroyed Paradise, California. In 2020, director Ron Howard’s Rebuilding Paradise also played at the Sundance Film Festival.

When HFPA journalists interviewed Christopher Plummer in 2002, we asked him what he looked forward to, and his answer was, “I’d like another twenty, twenty-five years. ” Well, he almost made it.

Ellen Burstyn plays the mother of Vanessa Kirby in Pieces of a Woman. The first time she met with HFPA journalists in January 1975, she talked about Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, directed by Martin Scorsese.

Selected as one of Variety’s 10 Directors to watch, Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr. brings his quiet and confident film Wild Indian to the Sundance Film Festival.

With the mainstreaming of nonfiction narratives and the expansion in streaming platform options, the last two decades or so have seen an explosion in documentaries chronicling precocious overachievers, from Jeffrey Blitz’s Oscar-nominated Spellbound all the way up to and including several new offerings at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Cusp, on the other hand, co-directed by Parker Hill and Isabel Bethencourt, is an arresting work of underclass portraiture that exists on the opposite end of this adolescent spectrum, centering not on honor roll students but rather on kids with a certain amount of trauma and an even greater amount of uncertainty about what their futures could or should hold.