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HFPA Grantee The Department of Cinema and Television Arts of California State University, Northridge – better known as CSUN – is one of the “oldest” grantees of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, 22 years to be exact. It is one of HFPA’s inaugural university programs, providing institutional grants and film production fellowships for students, a mostly working-class constituency in need of help.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association members have re-elected president Meher Tatna for a second mandate. Tatna, who oversaw the successful 75th edition of the Golden Globes, ran unopposed.

If you look at the box office from a domestic perspective, Solo: A Star Wars Story can claim another victorious week. Not a major victory, actually: it made $29.

Summer is on the horizon and skirts lengthen and flow, while boys get bolder.

Golden Globe winner for The Piano, Holly Hunter, the voice of Helen Parr in the upcoming Incredibles 2 has surrounded her impressive acting career with music. “It’s a wonderful tool to get into characters and wake up emotions”, she told us.

HFPA Grantee Located in Queens, New York, the Museum of the Moving Image is an institution dedicated to advancing the “understanding, enjoyment, and appreciation of the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television and digital media by presenting exhibitions, education programs, significant moving-image works, and interpretive programs, and collecting and preserving moving-image related artifacts. ” The museum was founded in 1988 and has since gone through immense growth, with a $67 million expansion in 2008 and attendance hitting 120,000 in 2011.

HFPA journalist Ruben Nepales met Darren Criss on a busy day at the Four Seasons hotel in Beverly Hills. Recently, Criss has been seen on FX's The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story playing a serial killer based on real-life criminal Andrew Cunanan.

Cannes is over, men finally bring it, and white continues to trend.

The Force was not with Solo: A Star Wars Story after all, not as much as Disney and Lucasfilm were expecting. Directed by Ron Howard and starring Alden Ehrenreich, the film follows Han Solo – an iconic character made famous by Harrison Ford – as he meets Chewbacca and other misfits in his younger days as a mercenary pilot.

Cannes 1968  was the festival that never ended. It made perfect sense in a year marked by turmoil, drastic change, growth spurs, counterculture, and an explosion of creativity and talent, all at the same time.