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Sharon Stone was presented with the inaugural Golden Globe International Icon Award in a ceremony celebrating her achievements on and off screen including her philanthropy work and artwork. With a focus on the international entertainment marketplace, the Golden Globes will present its International Icon Award in a different country in recognition of the ongoing impact and partnership developing in overseas entertainment centers.

This year's Comic-Con marks the return to the traditional comic convention since 2019, after surviving the COVID-19 pandemic and last year’s Hollywood strikes. Still, the lines to activations, programming and the most important room at Comic-Con – the celebrated Hall H – feel a bit lighter and less crowded than usual.

The histories of the Olympics and the cinema have always been closely entwined. And it makes sense that they should be.

One hundred years ago at the Paris Olympics in 1924, 20-year-old Johnny Weissmuller won three gold medals for swimming and a bronze medal for water polo. He went on to win two more golds at the 1928 games in Amsterdam and set 67 world records in his athletic career.

July is Disability Pride Month, which is important for the Golden Globes to recognize: The entertainment industry has been working hard to be more inclusive, but disabilities are too frequently overlooked. The Globes has extensive archives, since the awards go back to the 1940s.

As senior programmer of Tribeca Festival, seasoned film curator and culture critic Faridah Gbadamosi does not just see movies. She breathes them all year around, starting with watching the Golden Globes Awards in early January.

Ebru Ceylan, a noted Turkish photographer and the wife of director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, brought her unique vision and artistic sensibility to the jury at this year's Cannes Film Festival.     Along with Nuri Bilge Ceylan, she has co-written screenplays for a best director award winner ("Three Monkeys," 2008), a Grand Prix winner, "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia," 2011), a screenplay winner ("About Dry Grasses," 2023) and a Palme d’Or winner ("Winter Sleep," 2014) at the Festival de Cannes.

"Girl," the story of a young trans dancer, was nominated as best foreign film at the 2018 Golden Globes. "Close," about the friendship of two teenagers who are tragically separated, was nominated for foreign film at the 2023 Golden Globes.

"Girl" sur l’histoire d’une jeune danseuse trans avait été nominé dans la catégorie du meilleur film étranger aux Golden Globes 2018. "Close" sur l’histoire d’amitié de deux adolescents séparés, de manière tragique, faisait partie des nominés pour le meilleur film étranger aux Golden Globes 2023.

The official poster of the 77th Festival de Cannes is a scene from "Rhapsody in August" by the great Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. It's a fitting choice because Asia is strongly represented at this year's Cannes Film Festival.