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Her big-screen credits include box office smash Junior, holiday perennial Love Actually, the Nanny McPhee movies (for which she also wrote the screenplays), as well as such under-appreciated curiosities as The Tall Guy and The Love Punch, but Emma Thompson’s comedic prowess is a lesson that seemingly needs to be rediscovered every several years. Perhaps it’s a function of the exquisitely crafted dramas which served as her introduction to many viewers – movies like Henry V, Dead Again, Howards End, and The Remains of the Day, the latter two resulting in the first two of her ten Golden Globe nominations.

The admiration Laura Dern elicits is indisputable. She is part of a generation of actresses whose impact will be felt for decades to come – and she has a collection of film and television awards to prove it.

The year is 1991. Victor’s Square, a funky diner in Hollywood.

“Come on, let’s do this. Who knows if we’re ever going to have this chance again.

“The conversation about sexual harassment has always been around for as long as I can remember being a woman, which happens to be my whole life!” says Charlize Theron apropos her new film Bombshell which she produced.   For her role in the film, she is a Golden Globe nominee for Best Actress – Drama.

For his portrayal of Ford race car driver Ken Miles in Ford v Ferrari Welsh actor Christian Bale received his 5th Golden Globe nomination: he's won twice, last year for Vice, and in 2010 for The Fighter, for which he also won his only Oscar (in a Best Supporting role). Bale's other two Golden Globe nominations were for The Big Short and American Hustle.

“I call him the actor whisperer,” Kathy Bates said about Clint Eastwood, her director in Richard Jewell. The film is a dramatization of the true-to-life story of an American security guard who saved hundreds of lives from an exploding bomb at the 1996 Olympics.

or 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.

Danny Aiello, who died aged 86, was a late starter. He was 40 years old when he appeared in his first film, Bang the Drum Slowly (1973), and 56 when he was nominated for a Golden Globe for his Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role-Motion Picture, for his role as the owner of a pizzeria in Do the Right Thing (1989), writer-director Spike Lee's take on race relations in the predominantly black Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Barry Adelman, dcp’s Executive Vice President for Television, has overseen the Golden Globes’ for over 25 years, first as a writer and soon after as an executive producer. He learned a valuable lesson early on:  “The one thing we all learned together during that time was when something is happening let it happen.