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Fin de siècle. Beginning with 1988 the Golden Globes and the Academy choices were mostly in sync.

Born in Beech Grove, Indiana, on March 24, 1930, Steve McQueen was the epitome of 1960s cool. An avid car and motorcycle racer who performed his own stunts (worth checking out – the 1963 war drama The Great Escape, the 1968 crime thriller Bullitt and the racing adventure Le Mans, 1971 – all the while keeping in mind that it’s McQueen right there on the screen, all the time…).

Can you feel the unspoken story in this photo? The obvious tension between these two? This is a pivotal moment in Jayne Mansfield’s career: after a tentative start with Warner Brothers, who signed her for a seven year contract in 1955, Mansfield had changed her mind when her two initial projects proved to be less than ideal. Jayne had the contract rescinded and fled for Broadway, where she starred alongside Walter Matthau in a successful production of George Axelrod’s comedy Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?On the night of the 13th Golden Globes, February 23, 1956, Jayne was starting anew.

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy (Get Out)Daniel Kaluuya is an English actor earning much deserved critical acclaim for his role in Get Out. He appeared in the British television shows; Skins, The Black Mirror episode; Fifteen Million Merits, he played the character Tea Leaf in the series, Psychoville and the BBC horror drama The Fades.

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture (Lady Bird)Laurie Metcalf began acting in Chicago with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. During the 80s and 90s she played Jackie Harris on the hit TV show Roseanne, a role for which she won three Emmy awards.

After dithering around with their music awards for so many years — nominations one year, no awards another -- the Hollywood Foreign Press Association finally decided to take the category seriously. Even though the 1970 Golden Globe for best song went to “Jean” from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, sidestepping the Academy’s choice, “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head,” the HFPA made amends by agreeing on Burt Bacharach’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as best score.

The Brazilian foreign film entry, Bingo: King of Mornings, is a biographical drama written by award-winning writer Luis Bolognesi and Fábio Meira, with a remarkable directorial debut from coveted film editor Daniel Rezende. Bingo is based closely on Arlindo Barreto’s life as Bozo the Clown in the 1980s (changed to Bingo for legal reasons) but is truly a film about the trials and tribulations of fame and success.

Jupiter’s Moon is a Hungarian drama directed by Kornel Mondruczo who also co-wrote the film with Kata Weber.  The film premiered at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival and competed for the Palme d’Or in the main section.

Breath is a fantastical drama written and directed by native Iranian Narges Abyar. Set in Yazd, Iran, spanning between the 1970s and the end of the 1980s, Breath (Nafas) is a harrowing story about war and childhood as seen through the creative eyes of 9-year-old Bahar (played by Sareh Nour Mousavi), who uses her imagination to dream her way out of her violent reality.

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture (Downsizing)The life of Hong Chau, 38, whose performance as Ngoc Lan Tran in Downsizing earned her a nomination in the Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture category, could be a movie in itself. Born to Vietnamese parents, who were among the “boat people” who fled Vietnam after the war in 1979, Hong was born in a refugee camp in Thailand.