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A renaissance man, Pharrell Williams, actor, producer, singer, social advocate, designer has a style of his own. He is fearless with color, combinations and genres.

When we recently met Golden Globe winner Toni Collette for the release of two of her movies, Hereditary and Hearts Beat Loud, we made sure that she knew how much we loved her singing voice when she performs a sweet karaoke in Hearts. “Thank you.

Boots Riley, the longtime radical activist and frontman of the rap group Coup, makes his auspicious film directing debut with Sorry to Bother You, a trenchant send-up of the often unspoken undercurrents of race and class in American society, which opened at Sundance and has been called many things, from “bonkers” to “bizarre,” and labeled both a “comedy” and “satire”. “I don’t like the word satire, because what does satire actually mean?” says Boots Riley.

The  75h Golden Globe Awards received two Emmy nominations, for Outstanding Variety Special (Live) and Outstanding Production Design for a Variety Special. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is honored and congratulates our production partners NBC and dick clark productions, inc.

Golden Globe winner Mira Sorvino, star of the drama series Condor, talked to HFPA journalist Katherine Tulich about Harvey Weinstein, Woody Allen, how Hollywood and the world have changed since the #metoo movement started, and the United States’ current immigration policy, especially separating kids from their parents. Being an activist wasn’t a natural choice for Sorvino.

HFPA Grantee In 1992, in the wake of the LA riots, producer Dorothy Thompson created Streetlights, a nonprofit organization which today has a proven track record of bringing a skilled, ethnically diverse workforce to the behind-the-camera world of films, television, commercials and other media platforms. As a Job Training, Job Placement and Career Advancement organization, Streetlight’s mission is to create careers, not just jobs, for underrepresented young women and men from diverse backgrounds, while increasing diversity throughout the entertainment industry.

Today, his name is mostly forgotten, except maybe by a handful of hardcore cinephiles. But Robert Florey (1900-1979) was a prolific director who, in a career that started in 1927, counted more than fifty pictures to his credit, mostly B-movies that earned him a solid reputation within the Studio System.

So, who’s the real winner at the global box office this week? According to most reports out of the United States, it’s Ant-Man and the Wasp, which generated $76 million domestically and $85 million internationally for a global gross of $161 million. Numbers not comparable with Avengers: Infinity War or Black Panther earlier this year, but the 20th film by the Marvel Cinematic Universe starring Paul Rudd as the titular superhero and Evangeline Lilly as the Wasp always had smaller ambitions.

Style is ageless. Women show that personal choice dictates what to wear, and some men are stepping beyond ‘blue’ as their adventurous choice.

All through the 1900s Indian actors played stereotypical roles - the cab driver with the funny accent, owners of stores, and doctors.   All these were minor roles.