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Two-time Golden Globe winner Amy Adams trained as a ballerina but, at 18, found musical theater more to her liking. Music is in her blood - she had her breakthrough as a Disney Princess in the musical Enchanted.

HFPA members win awards at LA Press Club’s 60th Annual Southern California Journalism AwardsThree HFPA members – Ruben V. Nepales, Adam Tanswell and Janet R.

Golden Globe-nominated actor Peter Sarsgaard opened up to HFPA’s journalist Gabriel Lerman about what he learned from the Central Intelligence Agency while playing two different CIA employees: in  the Hulu limited series The Looming Tower he portrays Martin Schmidt, the head of Alec Station a section of the Counterterrorism Center that followed the steps of Osama bin Laden before 9/11;  in the Netflix docudrama Wormwood he plays a biological warfare scientist and CIA employee who dies under mysterious circumstances. “I read this book called Like a Sea of Ashes which is also a book I really highly recommend just in terms of really understanding the CIA from its inception to now, which it’s nothing like it was at the beginning, it’s changed almost constantly I think throughout the years the way it’s organized and the way it works, because the threats have changed.

HFPA Grantee The mission of the Sundance Institute International Initiative – especially at the beginning – sounded simpler than its execution ever was. The goal: to enhance the global filmmaking landscape by supporting international independent film artists through a continuum of production.

Director Batbayar Chogsom’s Out of Paradise took the Golden Goblet, the top award of the Shanghai International Film Festival. Besides the Mongolia-Switzerland co-production, the 21st edition of the festival awarded the Best Actress prize to Isabelle Blais, for the Canadian film Tadoussac, the Best Actor, to the US’ Tye Sheridan for Friday’s Child, and Best Director to Rodrigo and Sebastian Barriuso for the Cuba-Canada co-production A Translator.

After roaring freely over foreign territories for two weeks, the fierce and scary dinos of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom landed in the US. The reviews were not exactly stellar.

Director Jean-Marc Vallee is famous for his use of music on the set to prepare the crew and actors to shoot the scenes. As we met for his new HBO series Sharp Objects we asked the talented Canadian filmmakers how important is music when he prepares for a movie.

HFPA Grantee Almost 27 years ago, Wenda Fong used to joke that there were more space aliens on TV or film than Asians. “We were invisible,” she said.

“I expect to be told yes,” says Ane Crabtree, the woman who created costumes for shows like Justified, Masters of Sex and the seminal, Golden Globe-winning The Handmaid’s Tale, which has inspired women around the world to take on the red Handmaid’s uniform as a sign of resistance and overthrowing oppression. “I’ve spent a lifetime being told no, so I don’t take no for an answer.

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom star Bryce Dallas Howard told HFPA journalist Scott Orlin why her new adventure movie is relevant today.  “We're on Isla Nublar, and the park is no longer operational.