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Hugh Grant played the romantic leading man in several movies scripted by Richard Curtis, Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) with Andie MacDowell directed by Mike Newell, Notting Hill (1999) with Julia Roberts directed by Roger Michell, and Love Actually (2003) that he also directed. But in real life, he may not be as nice as he seems in those movies.

Booed at its first screening at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival, Michelangelo Antonioni's L'Avventura represents a famous and notorious event in the history of that forum – and also an interesting case in film criticism and history of world cinema. Critics and journalists, just like moviegoers, are entitled to their tastes, which may shift over time as a result of reevaluating a film from a new perspective or placing it in the broader context of the filmmaker's oeuvre.

Wayne Wang is one of the pioneers of Asian-American cinema and had a huge hit with The Joy Luck Club, the film that showed Hollywood studios that audiences were not afraid of an Asian cast if the story was good. But he was just as good adapting Paul Auster's complex New York stories to the screen in the memorable Smoke (and its companion, piece Blue in the Face, co-directed with Auster).

Like many young people, Zach Sobiech had a dream. In the case of the Lakeland, Minnesota, native it was to write and play music that audiences would listen to.

In The Undoing, Nicole Kidman stars as Grace Fraser, a therapist with an affluent New York life style that almost seems too good to be true. With a doctor husband who adores her, a young son, who is thriving and doing well in his prestigious private school, and a job that satisfies her intellect, she has what one could consider the perfect life.

When director Otto Preminger bought the rights to make The Man with the Golden Arm, he knew he would have problems with the Production Code Administration: he knew they would refuse to grant him a Code seal to release the movie. The film dealt with drug abuse, a subject that was censored, along with miscegenation, prostitution, abortion, and words like “virgin” and “pregnant.

Anya Taylor-Joy plays fiercely independent characters in three movies this year: Emma Woodhouse in Emma directed by Autumn de Wilde from the 1815 novel by Jane Austen, Marie Curie’s daughter Irène in Radioactive by Marjane Satrapi with Rosamund Pike, and Marvel Comics' superhero Magik/Iliana Rasputina in The New Mutants.   She also plays teenage chess prodigy Beth Harmon in the limited series The Queen’s Gambit, created and directed by Golden Globe-nominated screenwriter Scott Frank from the 1983 novel by Walter Tevis.

Natalia Dyer is best known for her role as Nancy Wheeler on Stranger Things. The Tennessee born actress faced another kind of challenge when she accepted a role in her latest movie Yes, God, Yes.

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 was constantly asking white, male, Hollywood for permission to make Yellow Rose, and getting, ‘no’. ” Director, Writer, Producer, Diane Paragas, falls into one of the smallest subsets of a subset – a woman of Asian descent directing a movie.