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Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy (Get Out)Daniel Kaluuya is an English actor earning much deserved critical acclaim for his role in Get Out. He appeared in the British television shows; Skins, The Black Mirror episode; Fifteen Million Merits, he played the character Tea Leaf in the series, Psychoville and the BBC horror drama The Fades.

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture (Lady Bird)Laurie Metcalf began acting in Chicago with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. During the 80s and 90s she played Jackie Harris on the hit TV show Roseanne, a role for which she won three Emmy awards.

After dithering around with their music awards for so many years — nominations one year, no awards another -- the Hollywood Foreign Press Association finally decided to take the category seriously. Even though the 1970 Golden Globe for best song went to “Jean” from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, sidestepping the Academy’s choice, “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head,” the HFPA made amends by agreeing on Burt Bacharach’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as best score.

The Brazilian foreign film entry, Bingo: King of Mornings, is a biographical drama written by award-winning writer Luis Bolognesi and Fábio Meira, with a remarkable directorial debut from coveted film editor Daniel Rezende. Bingo is based closely on Arlindo Barreto’s life as Bozo the Clown in the 1980s (changed to Bingo for legal reasons) but is truly a film about the trials and tribulations of fame and success.

Jupiter’s Moon is a Hungarian drama directed by Kornel Mondruczo who also co-wrote the film with Kata Weber.  The film premiered at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival and competed for the Palme d’Or in the main section.

Breath is a fantastical drama written and directed by native Iranian Narges Abyar. Set in Yazd, Iran, spanning between the 1970s and the end of the 1980s, Breath (Nafas) is a harrowing story about war and childhood as seen through the creative eyes of 9-year-old Bahar (played by Sareh Nour Mousavi), who uses her imagination to dream her way out of her violent reality.

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture (Downsizing)The life of Hong Chau, 38, whose performance as Ngoc Lan Tran in Downsizing earned her a nomination in the Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture category, could be a movie in itself. Born to Vietnamese parents, who were among the “boat people” who fled Vietnam after the war in 1979, Hong was born in a refugee camp in Thailand.

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)Sam Rockwell is an American actor who has appeared in over 70 movies including; Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, directed by George Clooney, Matchstick Men along side Nick Cage, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Seven Psychopaths, The Green Mile, Galaxy Quest, Iron Man 2, Cowboys and Aliens. This year has been busy for the versatile actor who straddles the line between character actor and leading man.

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama (Darkest Hour)Gary Oldman has had a long and successful career in independent films such Sid and Nancy and, Nil by Mouth, which he also directed, wrote, and produced. That film won Best British Film and Best original screenplay.

Can anyone deny the role that music plays in molding a blockbuster?  Without that component would the public be inclined to see movies over and over again, which is how one defines a blockbuster? What would the best-loved movies be without music? Can you imagine Gone With The Wind without "Tara's Theme,” The Godfather without Nino Rota’s score, Casablanca without "As Time Goes By?"Isn’t it time we recognize the film composer as an optimum contributor in the making of either a classic or a blockbuster, or better yet, both?Which brings us to the Golden Globe music awards.  Even though the awards themselves were established in 1944, the first music award for Best Original Score was not given until 1948, and then inauspiciously to the great Max Steiner for Life with Father.