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After a short but intense week, the third edition of the Macao International Film Festival, also known as IFFAMACAO, concluded last Friday with an award ceremony and a screening of Zhang Yimou’s Shadow, submitted this year to the Golden Globes in the Best Foreign category. The fact that the opening film was Green Book, an American production that received five nominations at the Globes, including Best Picture, Musical or Comedy is a perfect example of what this festival’s goals -   a  balance between what the East and the West have to offer, with an equal amount of films from both sides of the world.

Filmmaker Spike Lee likes to take on serious topics with a bit of humor.   HFPA journalist Alessandra Venezia sat down with the Golden Globe-nominated director in October on the patio of the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles.

Barbra Streisand wins two Golden Globes, one as Best Director for Yentl, the other for the film, as Best Musical or Comedy.   She celebrates backstage with Shirley MacLaine, Best Actress in a drama for Terms of Endearment, at the 41st Golden Globes, held Saturday, January 28, 1984, at the Beverly Hilton hotel.

Three-time Golden Globe nominee and beloved lady of comedy Penny Marshall passed away at 75. Marshall was a true pioneer of the form, initially with the TV sitcom Laverne & Shirley which blazed new trails for comediennes as stars of their own shows.

Pink continues to peak, and hair stays true to the trend. The guy in the kilt is an anomaly – but one we like.

Aquaman washed away the competition at this weekend's global box office race, taking in $126. 4 million from 43 markets and clinching a second top finish on the combined domestic and international chart.

Anger informs conflict, and of course, conflict drives narrative. But female expressions of sustained anger, as well as honest portrayals of the righteousness of moral indignation, are both heavily under-explored in cinema, for reasons likely both related to degree-of-difficulty and, it must be said, outmoded notions of what constitutes interesting parts for women or what audiences want to see.

Golden Globe winner and four-time nominee Jeff Bridges will be honored with the 2019 Cecil B. deMille Award at the 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, January 6, 2019.

Having received an Oscar nomination for Manchester by the Sea and scored rave reviews for dramatic turns in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Lady Bird, Mid90’s and Ben Is Back, the 22-year-old actor has established himself as the go-to guy playing teen angst, showcasing a depth of emotion and insight years beyond his age. Now the Brooklyn native has added his first Golden Globe nomination to the list of his accomplishments: Best Actor in a Drama for his stirring role as Jared Eamons in Boy Erased, a powerful story on the son of a Baptist minister who is forced to participate in a church-supported gay conversion therapy program.

“There is a fragility to our times right now, many people feel disconcerted, and I think Mary Poppins is an enormously healing and unifying character,” says Emily Blunt talking about her reprisal of that iconic character in the new Mary Poppins Returns, for which she has been nominated to the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. It's her sixth GG nomination: she won in 2007 as Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television with Gideon's Daughter.