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Fatma Begum, star of silent films in Indian cinema, is credited as having been the first woman director in the country, starting her career on the Urdu stage and later on setting up her own company, Fatma Films, after she had she segued into a career in film. Her first film as a director was the 1926 Bulbul-e-Paristan, the print of which is unfortunately lost; her last film was Goddess Of Luck, which she directed in 1929.

Remember the word or phrase of the year that is revealed at the end of every twelve months? It has never been easier to bet on what it will be this time at the end of 2020. “Social Distancing” is a term born out of a pandemic that most of us could have never anticipated.

“June 15, 1964: I just got a request from America to publish my diaries. But I never wrote them with any literary ambition, and since I do not consider myself a writer, I had no wish to publish them.

Irrfan Khan (53) was that rare cross-over star who made a career in both Bollywood and Hollywood, making almost a hundred films in both sectors. Best known in the US for films like Life of Pi, Slumdog Millionaire, Inferno, and Jurassic Park, Khan also had supporting roles in The Amazing Spiderman, Darjeeling Limited, and the HBO show In Treatment.

The reintroduction of Gus Fring in the second season of Better Call Saul, three years ago, was one of the most anticipated moments in the spin-off of Breaking Bad. Certainly, when the Chilean drug dealer who owns a fast-food chain as a front appeared in the first show created by Vince Gilligan in one of the last episodes of season two, he became one of the favorite characters in the story very quickly.

Living like a hermit is familiar to filmmaker Derek Cianfrance. He tells HFPA journalist Ana Maria Bahiana that when he writes and edits his projects he is mostly by himself.

For over 40 years the HFPA has recorded famous and celebrated, actresses 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.

UPDATE: 01/29/21 On January 28, 2021, the HFPA adopted the following clarification to these special COVID rules: All motion picture drama, musical/comedy, foreign language and animated film submissions entered for consideration for the 2021 Golden Globe awards whose release schedule changes between February 3, 2021 (day of the nominations) and February 28, 2021 (end of current eligibility period) and therefore become ineligible for the 2021 awards because their release is delayed to a date after February 28, 2021, also will not be eligible for the 2022 awards.  If you anticipate that your film’s release date will be delayed to a date after February 28, 2021, please advise us prior to the announcement of our 2021 nominations on February 3, 2021.

Published in 2018, Sally Rooney’s Normal People became an instant critical hit and bestseller. The now 29-year old Irish author’s second novel is an exploration of a young relationship, involving love and heartache, following the friendship between high school loner Marianne and the handsome and popular Connell, who first connect as they meet outside school at her home.

Annie Hägg has played a Swede on Law & Order: SVU, a Ukrainian on FBI: Most Wanted and a German on The Blacklist. She also used her gift for languages alongside Al Pacino and Logan Lerman in the Amazon original series Hunters where she spoke exclusively in Polish, Yiddish, and German.