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Since its founding, Hollywood has adapted to the screen hundreds if not thousands of literary works by white authors, but – with the exception of some anomalies such as Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple in 1985 – has largely ignored the work of their Black peers. In the last decade, however, the commercial and critical success of Black movies has opened Hollywood’s mind and wallet to bringing the work of Black literary icons to the screen.

Angela Bassett (Golden Globe Award winner), Laura Dern (five-time Golden Globe Award winner and eight-time nominee), Salma Hayek (Golden Globe Award winner and two-time nominee), and Jamie Lee Curtis (two-time Golden Globe Award winner and seven-time nominee) joined the star-filled team of presenters at this year’s 78th Annual Golden Globe® Awards.  They will join previously announced presenters Bryce Dallas Howard, Christopher Meloni, Rosie Perez.

Amanda Seyfried will let her 4-year old up watch the ceremony for the first time – “it’s a once in a lifetime opportunity”, she admits. In London, Maria Bakalova.

In the run-up to the Golden Globes, top stylists gathered on an HFPA sponsored Zoom Round Table to discuss their craft and the challenges of creating a red-carpet moment during a pandemic. Like so many other events the Globes will go virtual this year, which will be unique for everything from show production to fashion – a mainstay of the Golden Globes Ceremony.

TV legend Norman Lear has written, produced, created, or developed TV Shows for over 70 years. This Sunday, at the 78th Golden Globes, he will be awarded the Carol Burnett Award, for outstanding contributions to television on and off the screen.

For many, she's a movie icon, from her humble beginnings in her native England with small parts in Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up and Kaleidoscope to her successful path through many years of French cinema, going from popular comedies in the 70s to the César- nominated dramatic roles in the 80s and 90s. working with great directors such as Jacques Doillon, Jacques Rivette, and Agnes Varda.

Bryce Dallas Howard (Golden Globe Award nominee), Christopher Meloni, Rosie Perez (Golden Globe Award nominee), and Christian Slater (Golden Globe Award winner and three-time nominee) will serve as presenters at this year’s 78th Annual Golden Globe® Awards.  All will be appearing live from New York’s iconic Rainbow Room.

Between 1948 and 1983 Golden Globes were awarded in a special category of “New Star of the Year” conceived to recognize young actors making a mark in their early roles. In this series, the HFPA’s Phil Berk highlights those that would follow their auspicious starts with distinguished careers.

“I may be known as a crude, loudmouth son-of-a-bitch, but I built Columbia. I started it with spit and wire and these fists.

On a week when there was only one major new film release (Nomadland) in America, the biggest box office action was still happening in China. Two movies, Hi, Mom and Detective Chinatown 3, posted spectacular cumulative earnings of $624 million and $621 million, respectively.