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Besides the announcement of this year's grantees, the annual banquet is also a moment for getting together, meeting friends and having a good time while doing good.

Stars turned up to support the HFPA’s annual $3. 8 Million give-away.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) presented $3. 8 million at their annual Grants Banquet held at The Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Opening a new cycle that will culminate with the Golden Globes on January 5th, 2020, the Hollywood Foreign Press launched the festivities with the traditional Grants Banquet on July 31st, reinforcing its commitment to philanthropy and support to education and the arts. Held this year at the Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills, CA, the banquet was hosted by Arnold Schwarzenegger, and a bevy of stars helped the HFPA give out this year's grants.

When you meet Wyatt Russell’s character Sean 'Dud' Dudley for the first time on the TV series Lodge 49 he is at his lowest point, walking on the beach with a metal detector after the death of his father and the collapse of the family business. 'At the beginning Dud is idealizing his father and trying to become an idealistic version of his father.

Beginning in 1952 when the Cecil B. deMille Award was presented to its namesake visionary director, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has awarded its most prestigious prize 66 times.

Colors were mostly muted though green popped. Men were groomed and women went feminine.

Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time in … Hollywood took off to a fantastic $40 million in the US and marked a record opening for the director. That was enough to beat stablemate Spider-Man: Far from Home, but short of The Lion King's domestic top finish of $75 million.

For 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.

When one hears the name Bollywood, what comes to mind, most often than not, are three-hour-long movies with song and dance no matter what the genre, movies driven by star power such as Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and Akshay Kumar. These stars will still shine but they seem to be losing a little bit of their luster as is evident from the latest box office figures, all recent films starring the four actors have opened with good box office numbers and then have taken a nosedive.