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Once Golden Globe-nominated Viggo Mortensen learned that it was going to be Mahershala Ali playing Don Shirley in Green Book, he was happy. He had hesitated in accepting the role of Tony Lip, the film’s Italian-American bouncer from the Bronx.

Sam Rockwell is no stranger to playing idiosyncratic country guys with big personalities. He wonders why he is attracted to these roles because he is “such a city boy”.

Fresh off Golden Globe and Oscar nominations for his breakout 2017 film Call Me By Your Name, Timothée Hal Chalamet is once again showcasing his formidable talent in the award season race; this time for his powerful performance as Nic Sheff in Beautiful Boy. The 23-year-old native New Yorker is nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture playing a teenager battling not only addiction but a crisis of confidence.

or over 40 years the HFPA has recorded famous and celebrated actors, actresses 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.

He has been a movie star for so long that it never occurred to us that one day he might stop acting. So, it came as sort of a shock earlier this year when 82-year-old Robert Redford revealed that The Old Man & the Gun would be his last film as an actor, after a glorious career spanning 60 years.

In a prolific film career that started in 1982 with The World According to Garp, 71-year-old Glenn Close has played dozens of iconic parts. Who can forget her performances in movies like The Big Chill, The Natural, Fatal Attraction, Dangerous Liaisons, Jagged Edge, 101 Dalmatians, Mars Attack, Albert Nobbs… And now with The Wife, she is once again proving her astonishing versatility.

It was supposed to be a happy and long overdue family gathering to celebrate Easter Sunday in a Beirut apartment. But the reunion soon takes a turn for the worse in Heaven Without People, the feature film debut of Lebanese theater director Lucian Bourjeily.

We see a boy – is it really a boy? – walking towards a mansion. We hear a male voice narrating his thoughts: “I am a born thief”.

Alfonso Cuarón returns to his childhood memories when talking about his newest film Roma, nominated for the Golden Globes in three categories: Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Foreign Language Film. In 2014 he won a Golden Globe for Best Directing with Gravity.

Nominated: Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion PictureAn unlikely hero in his own success story, a former US marine not only was accepted to the most prestigious acting school in the country, but continued on to become a three-time Emmy nominee for his breakout role in Girls and has worked with the greats of our generation such as, but not limited to, Noah Baumbach, The Coen Brothers, Jim Jarmusch, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg. Originally from San Diego, Adam Driver grew up with his mother and stepfather in Mishawaka, Indiana where he was an occasional theater actor and church choir singer.