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The 75th anniversary of the Golden Globes will not only be remembered in years to come for Oprah Winfrey’s show-stopping Cecil B. deMille acceptance speech, but also for the solidarity on the red carpet and inside the Beverly Hilton ballroom for the #TimesUp movement, espousing equal rights for women.

Going into the 75th Golden Globe Awards, the race seemed wide open for Best Motion Picture, Drama. Coming out of the evening, however, it was a different story as the surprisingly comic but dark drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri captured four major awards: Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture (Sam Rockwell.

Sundance 2018 officially got underway with that time-honored ritual: the opening day press conference with founder and figurehead Robert Redford was joined on stage by Sundance Festival programmer John Cooper and Sundance Institute director Keri Putnam. Some of the proceedings were familiar to anyone who has trekked up Heber Pass to attend the festival before.

A trusted bellwether of the year in independent cinema, the 2018 Sundance Film Festival starts today, with a strong and diverse line-up – 38% from female directors, 32 % non-white- ready to repeat last year’s stellar performance, which yielded award-worthy titles such as Call Me By Your Name, Get Out and Mudbound, plus a roster of critically acclaimed films – The Big Sick, Patti Cake$, A Ghost Story and the documentaries An Inconvenient Documentary, Chasing Coral and Last Men in Aleppo. The 2018 vintage includes several titles already attracting attention from distributors – a direct result of the fierce competition between traditional channels like HBO and the new streaming, ever-expanding streaming platforms such as Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu.

In this week’s roundup, several 75th Golden Globe winners and prominent nominees saw an immediate boost from their well-deserved prizes, while the last blockbusters of 2017 had a surprising reversal of fortune with their second forays into the new year over Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend.

Oprah Winfrey's acceptance speech at the 75th Golden Globe Awards gala was one for the ages. Recipient of the Cecil B.

It was an ocean of black on a golden afternoon: if not all, almost all women – from stars and nominees to crews working backstage- wore black, in support of the #metoo #timesup movement against harassment, abuse, and violence against women. HFPA president Meher Tatna wore scarlet red – and a very visible pin with the #timesup logo – and followed up on Seth Meyer’s scathing opening with simple and powerful words: “Time’s up for harassment, abuse, and discrimination.

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The red carpet is in place, and International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton is ready for our stellar nominees and guests. The  75th Golden Globe Awards will be presented this Sunday, January 7, and aired live coast-to-coast on NBC from 5-8 p.

There’s a seeming effortlessness with which Frances McDormand embodies her starring role in writer-director Martin McDonagh’s darkly comedic crime drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. But the six-time Golden Globe nominee – who was additionally honored by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in 1993 as part of an ensemble cast award for Robert Altman’s Short Cuts – wants to make clear that impression is actually something of an illusion.