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It was eighteen years ago when the HFPA met a couple of young actors at New York’s famous Rainbow Room in midtown Manhattan. Their names: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, childhood friends from Boston who had written and starred in a lovely new film, Good Will Hunting.

Michael Shannon is known for being one of the most methodic character actors in the business. He earned his reputation as an intense, magnetic performer on the Chicago stage where his first acting role was in Winterset at the Illinois Theatre Center.

For his role in The Revenant he ate a raw bison liver. But the raw power of Leonardo DiCaprio’s performance in Alejandro Gonzales Iñarritu’s stunning film is even more apparent in his often-wordless struggle with the brutal forces of man and nature.

Christian Bale is a chameleon, like most actors are, but he’s the consummate one. He becomes the person he portrays on screen and he goes to great lengths to portray the characters that he brings to life from the script pages.

At 25, she is the youngest actress to have four Golden Globe and three Oscar nominations with two Globes and one Oscar already won. Joy is her third film with David O.

Idris Elba has been nominated to the Golden Globe, not one but two times once again, this year for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Series, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television, for Luther, as well as for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for his role in Netflix’s Beasts of No Nation, which proves one more time why he is one of the best actors today. “Thank you to the HFPA, who have always been so amazingly supportive of me throughout my career.

Al Pacino was born in East Harlem, New York, to Sicilian-American parents. “In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian.

Whether one considers her part to be a lead or supporting, there is no doubt that Rooney Mara's astonishing performance in Todd Haynes' highly acclaimed Carol is a major element in the film's success and overall emotional impact. Mara, who is only 30, has already teamed with the best directors working in Hollywood today, David Fincher, Steven Soderbergh, Spike Jonze and Terrence Malick.

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Red carpet beauty is different from everyday beauty. Scrunched hair may work for an intimate dinner where sexy, just tumbled from the bed tresses are a plus.