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Jamie Harris has established himself as one of the top British actors in Hollywood, having inhabited a wide range of characters in a career that has taken him from stage to television and motion pictures. Jamie landed his first film role opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in In The Name of the Father, directed by Jim Sheridan.

In the fall of 1997, Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls allowed a film crew to follow them as they went for their sixth NBA title in eight seasons. The result was The Last Dance, the critically acclaimed 10-episode docuseries from ESPN Sports, Netflix and Mandalay Sports Media, culled from almost 500 hours of raw footage, which includes more than 20 hours of new interviews with Jordan as well as hundreds more with his teammates from that era.

In 2018, when Iceland’s most expensive television show Trapped was playing on British television, the Guardian described its star, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, this way: “He’s huge, he’s hairy – and he’s the hottest man in Iceland,” rhapsodizing that the show was ‘raging like a blizzard in BBC4’s primetime Saturday night slot. ’The show was a worldwide success.

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.

One is a former First Lady who almost became the US President, the other is a brutally honest stand-up comedian who completed a national tour suffering from morning sickness. What could Hillary Clinton and Amy Schumer have in common? Turns out they are friends, and both have given audiences an intimate peek into their lives with behind-the-scenes high-profile documentaries.

Doing the Work is a series profiling key recipients of HFPA Philanthropy The Executive Director of Los Angeles-based Women In Film LA – Kirsten Schaffer – was an LGBTQ activist from her early youth. Programming film festivals was a way to channel her energies since she quickly realized that “stories have the power to change hearts and minds, and that cultural change precedes political change”.

German actress, screenwriter, director, and producer Maria Schrader directed Netflix’s hit Unorthodox. The miniseries tells a very specific story about a young woman, Esther, who really wants to be a part of her religious society and has very high hopes for her marriage, but ends up in an unbearably unhappy situation.

After winning three Golden Globes and becoming one of the world’s biggest movie stars, Aussie actress Cate Blanchett is the latest performer to gravitate towards the small screen, appearing in not one but two limited TV series in 2020. Her first role was playing conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly in the limited series Mrs.

Before the Iranian Revolution of 1979 when the Pahlavi dynasty and the Shah of Iran were overthrown and the Islamic Republic under Ayatollah Khomeini came to power, Iran had a thriving film industry known as Film Farsi. These were films much like Bollywood, that mashed up several genres with melodramatic stories, musical numbers, and superhero-like leading men.

Beginning in 1952 when the Cecil B. DeMille Award was presented to its namesake visionary director, the Golden Globes has awarded its most prestigious prize 66 times.