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The Studio System has its last hurrah; social and cultural turmoil shakes the US and Europe, and a massive generation - the post-war Baby Boomers - demand new everything: cinema, music, fashion, customs. The Golden Globes shuttle between the Cocoanut Grove of the Ambassador Hotel and the Beverly Hilton, both hot spots of LA nightlife; the brand new Century Plaza is added to the circuit in the 1970s.

Born in a family of actors, Benedict Cumberbatch has been many people, on stage or in front of a camera – and sometimes not even in his own body. From the supporting parts that, in the 00s, launched him in the Hollywood universe – in The Ends of the Earth, Atonement, The Other Boleyn Girl, Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy – to his unforgettable Sherlock in the BBC/PBS series, Cumberbatch has been heroes, villains, soldiers, scientists, artists, nobles, kings, the occasional dragon, the Grinch and, of course, a superhero doctor.

Unclenching the Fists is only the second feature film by an aspiring Russian filmmaker, Kira Kovalenko. Co-written with Anton Yarush and Liubov Mulmenko, this 97-minute drama received the grand prize in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival in 2021.

Let it Be Morning addresses the Israeli Arab community and the ways in which they deal with life and its challenges when they find themselves under siege on occasion and without warning. The film is directed by Israeli filmmaker Eran Kolirin (2007s The Band’s Visit, later adapted as a Broadway musical; 2016s Beyond the Mountains and Hills), who deftly adapts the book by Palestinian writer Sayed Kashua, on which Let it Be Morning is based.

This category demonstrates where men's fashion is right now. Guys are only limited by their fashion-comfort-zone on the carpet.

Faith, stigmata, religious patriarchy, forbidden desires, self-flagellation, suffering, punishment, power plays: Catholicism has it all. Nothing gives us as many story components as this religious institution, which has more scandals and a more colorful history than any other.

1943… 1944… In a classic Hollywood film, maybe one of those juicy melodramas starring Joan Crawford, for example, a calendar would appear on the screen, its pages slowly turning from one year to the other…Let’s stop for a moment and rewind, back to the days of World War II. After having been fiercely isolationist, just like Rick Blaine in Casablanca, the United States saw most of its movie stars play “real roles” in helping the war effort.

“I grew up six miles outside of Belfast,” Jamie Dornan reminisced to the HPFA last year. “Although it’s fairly connected to the city, it still would be considered rural.

While Ariana DeBose just scored her first Golden Globe nomination for her electrifying performance as Anita in Steven Spielberg’s cinematic rebirth of the classic musical West Side Story, it was a role the North Carolina native initially wanted to pass on. “I remember thinking this was definitely not a role for me,” she revealed during the press for the film.

Golden Globe Nominee Billy Crudup started his career as a theatre actor in New York and, after earning a master’s degree from NYU’s Tish School of the Arts, made his debut on Broadway in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia. This was almost 30 years ago.