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The 4th edition of the Asian World Film Festival opened at the Arclight in Culver City, boasting a collection of new films from over 50 Asian countries. The unique feature of the festival is that all films are official Oscar and/or Golden Globe entries.

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

Golden Globe winner Anthony Hopkins loved to play the piano when he was young - he could have become a full-time musician if he didn’t discover a passion for the theater. We asked him if music still influences his acting.

On the Hulu series The Handmaid’s Tale, Golden Globe nominee Ann Dowd plays brutal Aunt Lydia, who is in charge of overseeing the Handmaids in their sexual reeducation and duties. HFPA journalist Gabriel Lerman met Ann Dowd and asked the veteran actress if Aunt Lyndia reminds her of her upbringing.

HFPA Grantee Ghetto Film School (GFS) is an award-winning nonprofit founded in 2000 to educate, develop and celebrate the next generation of American storytellers. The school looks for young talent from local communities and provides them with access, opportunity, and resources to pursue creative careers.

On stage at the 33rd Golden Globes, held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Saturday, January 24, 1976, producer Michael Douglas accepts a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture-Drama for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, from presenter Gena Rowlands. His father Kirk Douglas had bought the rights to the 1962 novel by Ken Kesey and produced it in 1963 as a musical play on Broadway, playing the title role that Jack Nicholson would play in the movie version.

There is probably no better place for a classic film festival than Lyon, France. After all, it’s the hometown of brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière who developed the Cinematographe projector and whose Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory in Lyon, a 46-second documentary first shown in 1895, is considered the first motion picture ever made.

Blumhouse Productions, the horror movie powerhouse run by Jason Blum, scored another major victory at the box office with Halloween, a sequel to John Carpenter’s 1978 classic. With Jamie Lee Curtis back as the iconic babysitter Laurie Strode, now a grandmother but still haunted after all these years by a masked figure called Michael Meyers, the new Halloween opened with $77.

The movie that the New Orleans Film Festival picked for their opening night could not have been better: director Peter Farrelly's Green Book is based on the true story of African American concert pianist Don Shirley, who decides to tour the Deep South. A great idea except it is 1962 and he needs protection, so the record company hires Italian-American New Yorker Tony “Lip” Vallelonga to drive him around and run interference in dicey situations.

Golden Globe winner Javier Bardem is a huge heavy metal fan. He was excited to reveal what he did this past summer:“I saw Metallica, Judas Priest, Scorpions, Accept, Ozzy Osbourne, Kiss, Iron Maiden twice, and Pearl Jam, in less than a month and a half.