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Multi-talented actor, comedian, singer, writer, producer and television host James Corden loves to laugh. His father, he shares with HFPA journalist Janet Nepales, was quite funny.

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.

China, greeting 2021 as the world’s number one film market, ushered in the New Year with even more impressive numbers to bolster that reputation on the first day of 2021. Chinese box office figures for January 1 stood at $92 million, a record haul for that holiday date.

In a banner year for documentaries (both American and foreign), 76 Days stands out as one of the most immediate and visceral in depicting the disastrous event that has defined our present: the Covid-19 pandemic. It’s also the fastest non-fiction feature to get exposure and release.

Jennifer Connelly, who stars in the TV series Snowpiercer, talked to HFPA journalists in 2001 about becoming a mother for the first time to her son Kai, when she was single, then in 2003 after she married Paul Bettany and had a baby son, Stellan. “It would be much easier to answer how becoming a mother hasn't changed me, but I probably wouldn't have anything to say.

Leap is a sports drama directed by Peter Ho-Sun Chan and starring Gong Li and Huang Bo. It has been selected as China’s official entry in this year's International Oscar race.

Iranian director Majid Majidi’s Sun Children is dedicated to “the 152 million children forced into child labor and those who fight for their rights. ”  In the bustling city of Tehran, local crime boss Hashem (Ali Nasirian) has commissioned the 12-year old Ali (Roohollah Zamani) to dig a tunnel under the Sun School, where a hidden ‘treasure’ is to be found under the cemetery.

A divorced mother of three, 40-something Neige (Maïwenn) is devastated after the passing of her maternal grand-father, Emir. An Algerian emigrant, settled in France since the early 60s, he had always been there for her, as a buffer against the toxicity of her parents.

When we first meet the title character in the French drama Alice, our protagonist’s domestic life appears blissful. Alice (Emilie Piponnier) is delectably cooking with her young son when her dutiful husband François (Benjamin Bourgois) comes home from work and gives off the appearance of a doting father and adoring husband.

After exposing the abuse of a rape victim by police officers in her 2017 film, Beauty and the Dogs, Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania turns her attention to another kind of abuse of the powerless by the powerful in her latest movie, The Man Who Sold His Skin. The protagonist of the film is Sam, a young Syrian from Raqqa, who’s deeply in love with his sweetheart, Abeer.