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Golden Globe winner Matt Bomer delved deep into his new character on the TV show The Sinner: he participated with his castmates in a dream analysis workshop. “We got up and did exercises in front of each other.

The Hollywood Foreign Press association was front and center as The Noir Film Festival kicked off its 18th edition at the splendid Castro 1920s movie palace in San Francisco. It was the seventh year in a row that the HFPA has supported the restoration of another almost lost noir film, re-premiering it on the Festival's opening night.

When is the number one spot on the box office charts, not enough? When a studio expects a $60 million to $70 million at the international box office and some $50-60 million domestically (the US and Canada) for a healthy $110 million- $120 million total and the movie limps back with $81. 3 million receipts worldwide.

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.

We met Italian director  Paolo Sorrentino in his home in Los Feliz, Los Angeles  - where the director moved six months ago with his wife and son - to talk about the HBO series The New Pope, a sequel of  The Young Pope, which he created, co-wrote and directed. Sorrentino, whose The Great Beauty won the Golden Globe (and an Academy Award) for Best Foreign Film in 2013, is busy preparing a new HBO series as well as the movie Mob Girl, based on Theresa Carpenter's novel (Jennifer Lawrence will play the lead).

For over 40 years the HFPA has recorded famous and celebrated actresses, actors and filmmakers. The world's largest collection of its kind - over 10,000  items - is now in the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences Margaret Herrick Library.

Rosario Dawson takes us on a journey of questions in the anthology crime series Briarpatch.  Actress, producer, director, and activist, Dawson started her career as a teenager in the film Kids and has been acting ever since.

In our second annual Restoration Summit, presented at the American Cinematheque, the HFPA is proud to present two days of films, conversations and lectures surveying the latest developments in film preservation and restoration. The HFPA, whose recent contributions include the restoration of the 1926 silent film THE BLACK PIRATE (spearheaded by director Alexander Payne and currently in progress), is committed to preserving film heritage and supporting restorations of films worldwide.

Every year, the Sundance Film Festival has one big controversial documentary on their schedule. Just remember Alex Gibney’s anti-Scientology film Going Clear, and last year’s Leaving Neverland, a multiple-part HBO doc about Michael Jackson’s pedophilia.

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.