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Nick Nolte, a Golden Globe winner and a nominee this year (again) for his starring role in the TV comedy series Graves, is a huge fan of the music of the ’60s and ‘70s that freed, in his views, the American youth mentality from the military and political oppression of the ‘50s.  Let’s hear what the iconic actor said when he was asked how important music has been in his life:“Oh, big.

Song of the Phoenix is the late Chinese filmmaker Wu Tianming's last directorial work. The film revolves around an elderly Suona performer who struggles to pass on the slowly dying musical art to a young apprentice in a modern and urbanized China.

The Crown. The 10-episode first season which airs on Netflix is created and written by Peter Morgan, Golden Globe winner for Best Screenplay for The Queen, and nominee for the same award for Frost/Nixon.

As the distraught mother of a missing boy in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, Winona Ryder has one of the best roles of her career in the Netflix series Stranger Things, receiving her third Golden Globe nomination.   She had previously won as best supporting actress in 1994 for The Age of Innocence.

Keri Russell, who plays a Soviet agent in The Americans, muses on whether she’d be a good spy.   “I’m literally the worst liar of all time.

In her role as the android Dolores in the HBO series Westworld, Evan Rachel Wood had to figure out how to appear human while subtly suggesting her character’s robotic existence.   “The hosts are so human,” she explained to the HFPA.

Claire Foy receives her first Golden Globe nomination for her role as Elizabeth, first as princess and then as queen of England, in The Crown, Netflix series chronicling the lives of the British royal family.   Costing more than $100 million for its first season, the show takes us into the lives of the Windsors, portraying them as real people who contend with relationships, love, loss and heartbreak just like the rest of us, despite the palaces they live in, the wealth that surrounds them and the pedestal they are placed upon by the subjects they serve.

"This was the biggest thing I’ve ever done so it was quite daunting in the beginning.   The big challenge with playing fantasy is that you have to make it truthful and make the audience believe that that’s actually real and could be possible.

A giant Christmas weekend featuring stellar performances from Rogue One and Sing along with solid showings from specialty features like Fences and La La Land pushed the yearly domestic box office gross past $11 billion for second time in a row. 25 films, beginning with Finding Dory (486.

Viola Davis is arguably one of the greatest actresses to have ever hit the scenes, on stage and on the screen. She is now nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Supporting Actress for her role of Rose Maxson in the big screen adaptation of August Wilson's play Fences, which Davis performed with Washington on Broadway.