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Golden Globe winner for her amazing performance as Tina Turner in What’s Love Got to Do With it Angela Bassett is very much in love with music as a universal language: “We can be from different parts of the world and just hear a strain of music and it can make us both weep” , she told us as we met for her role in TV series 9-1-1 We agreed that it might very well be the language of the soul and when I asked her how much it intersect with her love for acting, she said: “I have used it often, doing a play or a particular character I'll listen to certain songs or instrumentals and they really hit my spirit or soul and they just take you there emotionally.   Music is able to do that in a way sometimes just the straight word on the page might not be able to, but it compliments it.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association presented $3. 25 million at their annual Grants Banquet held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif.

A short walk from stage left, the International Ballroom's green room is where the stars relax, meet friends and get ready to present our grants.

The stars came out and stunned accepting checks on behalf of charities to which the HFPA donates – on the way they made their mark in the fashion stakes. Check out the gallery for what the stars wore when announcing the grants awarded by the HFPA to various charities.

Dozens of stars filled the Beverly Hilton’s International Ballroom this evening – not to receive Golden Globes but, this time, to announce $ 3. 25 million granted by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to 80 nonprofit and educational entities, 12 of them for the first time.

"As the arts get less and less support, things like this night become even more important", said Jason Reitman, one of our A-list of presenters, as he made his way into the Beverly Hilton for the 2018 Annual Grants Banquet. "What the HFPA does is very important.

Film Bios is an occasional series reviewing autobiographies of notable filmmakers   “I lived three golden periods of my time: Paris in 1920, the Riviera in 1927 and Hollywood from 1930 to 1970. ” So writes director Jean Negulesco in his enchanting memoirs, “Things I Did …and Things I Think I Did”, published in 1984.

Director-producer Stanley Kramer’s legacy lives on through his widow Karen Sharpe and daughter Kat Kramer. They walked down memory lane and share stories from old Hollywood with HFPA journalist Silvia Bizio.

HFPA Grantee “Dedicated to building and supporting a thriving documentary culture” the IDA fosters a form which in recent years has vastly expanded, producing some of the most profound and exciting films of the past decade. The documentary renaissance has brought new voices to bear on film making with works of insight, lyricism, political force and passion, expanding as the IDA states, “our understanding of shared human experience.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has announced a new initiative in which rising filmmakers from the 2018 Venice International Film Festival and the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival will be selected for a three-week residency program in partnership with Film Independent. Three filmmakers (writers, directors, producers) from The Orrizonti Section of the Venice International Film Festival and three filmmakers from TIFF's Filmmaker Lab, the Festival's flagship talent development program, will be selected to travel to Los Angeles from January 2 – 23, 2019 for mentorship, master classes, and workshops.