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In 2018 Chadwick Boseman helped us announce our Philanthropy program. Graceful as ever he was stoked to share the screen with Stan Lee, creator of Black Panther, the role which made him a global superstar.

In Karl Urban’s career, the 48-year-old actor has been to Middle Earth (The Lord of the Rings), the far reaches of our galaxy (Star Trek) and even Asgard (Thor: Ragnarok.

The 18th edition of Noir City, San Francisco’s staple film noir festival, took place at the historic Castro Theatre right before the pandemic hit, January 24 to February 2, 2020, amidst an electrified atmosphere filled with the enthusiasm of a consistently present intergenerational audience from the afternoon to the small hours of the morning. The festival’s success is owed in part to its founder’s presentations.

The HFPA’s Ting Ting Xu examines Asian film trends through standout films and the authors behind them. After Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite became the first non-English language film in Oscar history to win the award for Best Picture, as well as the Foreign Language Golden Globe, films from South Korea received an unprecedented amount of attention on the global market.

Actress, producer, writer, director, entrepreneur, and activist Tracee Ellis Ross is following her mother’s footsteps on screen. In her latest feel-good movie, The High Note, she plays R&B singer Grace Davis.

The hunched old man in an ill-fitting suit shuffles through what seems to be a receiving line of uniformed people. There are few words spoken as he shakes hands with some, pins a swastika medal on another, gently touches the shoulder of a woman, all with trembling hands, before disappearing into a bunker with the wife he has just married.

In an op-ed in the New York Times upon her death in 1995, Martin Scorsese wrote this about Ida Lupino: “I never met Ida Lupino, but I always wanted to. Her tough, emotional acting is well remembered, but her considerable accomplishments as a filmmaker are largely forgotten.

The season 3 finale of BBC America’s Killing Eve aired May 31st, concluding an arc that primarily focused on the psychotically charming Villanelle’s backstory. The story takes Villanelle back to Mother Russia, in all the meanings of the expression, and is reunited with her mother, Tatiana.

Eugene Curran Kelly, better known as Gene, is easily recognized as one of the legendary figures of the Golden Age of Hollywood. But everything could have gone so differently for this Pittsburgh native.

Beginning in 1952 when the Cecil B.  deMille Award was presented to its namesake visionary director, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has awarded its most prestigious prize 66 times.