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The Italian American documentarian Gianfranco Rosi, who's 56, is one of the most acclaimed filmmakers working in cinema today. His latest feature, Notturno ('Nocturne'), shot over the course of three years in Syria, Iraq, Kurdistan, and Lebanon and offers a timely and urgent chronicle of ordinary people in war zones of the Middle East as they struggle to exist and hope for more peaceful lives.

The Italian American documentarian Gianfranco Rosi, who's 56, is one of the most acclaimed filmmakers working in cinema today. His latest feature, Notturno ('Nocturne'), shot over the course of three years in Syria, Iraq, Kurdistan, and Lebanon and offers a timely and urgent chronicle of ordinary people in war zones of the Middle East as they struggle to exist and hope for more peaceful lives.

Oliver Stone wrote and directed three movies about the Vietnam War, Platoon (1986) with Charlie Sheen, that earned him a Golden Globe as Best Director, Born on the Fourth of July (1989) with Tom Cruise from the memoirs of paraplegic veteran and anti-war activist Ron Kovic, that earned him two Golden Globes for Best Director and Best Screenplay, Heaven & Earth (1993) from the autobiographical books by a Vietnamese woman, Le Ly Haislip. Japanese veterans.

Beginning in 1952 when the Cecil B.  deMille Award was presented to its namesake visionary director, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has awarded its most prestigious prize 66 times.

TORONTO  - - HFPA president Ali Sar announced the winners of the third annual HFPA Short Film competition as judged by a jury of HFPA members from 20 submitted shorts.   For the third year in a row, short films from Lab participants were selected from an impressive field of works.

In a way, Antonio Campos has been preparing through many years and several movies to make his most ambitious film yet, The Devil All the Time, an adaptation of the novel by Donald Ray Pollock that premieres this week in Netflix with a cast that includes Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Bill Skarsgård, Haley Bennett, Riley Keough, Sebastian Stan, Jason Clarke, and Mia Wasikowska, among many others. From his first feature film, Afterschool, which premiered in Cannes in 2008, the New York native has been obsessed with complicated human behavior and death, something he further explored in Simon Killer, which debuted at Sundance in 2012, and Christine, which premiered at the same festival in 2016.

Ambition comes in all sizes as 13-year-old actress, Momona Tamada, takes on the iconic role of Claudia Kishi in the reboot of the 1990 TV series, The Baby-Sitters Club, based on the popular books by Ann M. Martin.

Maria de los Delores Asunsolo y Lopez-Negrete was born in the Mexican town of Durango on August 3, 1904, to wealthy Mexican aristocracy. They lived the high life in the company of intellectuals and artists.

The beginning of the 20th century marks a time in which China gave birth to her First Generation of filmmakers. Most of the first generation were cinematographers who adopted the film medium and recorded live performances like Peking operas.

Golden Globe-winning producer, director and writer Jay Roach has a desire of making people smile and connect them with storytelling. His work includes dramas like Recount, Game Change, and Bombshell, as well as comedies like Austin Powers, Meet the Parents, and Meet the Fockers.