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She is known for one thing. But Hattie McDaniel’s life and career are so much more than the Oscar for a legendary and now controversial film, even if it was the very first Academy Award ever bestowed on an African American actress.

For the young six-year-old growing up in the Pacific Northwest, it was a nightly ritual to look up into the sky, stare at the stars, and dream that one day she would become an astronaut. While the career path for Hilary Swank would take a different path, some forty years later, the two-time Golden Globe and Oscar winner finally got her wish fulfillment.

Rule Breaker, Yale graduate, feminist. Academy Award-winner.

Standup comedian-actor Patton Oswalt is primarily known for starring in The King of Queens and Agents of S. H.

The genius of Ratched’s costume designers, Lou Eyrich and Rebecca Guzzi is evident from the first lush image of Netflix’s series on how Nurse Ratched of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, became the woman we meet in that critically acclaimed film that garnered six Golden Globes. The series can stand alone without seeing the film.

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.

Award-winning filmmaker Ramona Diaz, who gave us such memorable documentaries as Imelda, Motherland, and Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey, is now premiering her latest passion project, A Thousand Cuts, a documentary on internationally acclaimed journalist-activist Maria Ressa, founder of the online news site Rappler and Time’s Person of the Year in 2018. An outspoken critic of the government of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, especially of his “war on drugs” which has led to the violent killing of thousands of Filipinos, Ressa and a former staffer at Rappler, Reynaldo Santos, Jr.

Following its by-laws, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has named Ali Sar President of the HFPA, replacing recently deceased Lorenzo Soria. Sar has held a number of positions with the HFPA during his over 35-year membership, most recently serving as vice president under Soria.

For over 40 years the HFPA has recorded famous and celebrated actors, actresses, and filmmakers. The world’s largest collection of its kind – over 10,000 items – is now in the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences Margaret Herrick Library.

It took almost half a century, millions of light-years traveled, and many intergalactic adventures on several USS Enterprise ships to boldly go where no man has gone before: to the lower decks in the animation, Star Trek: Lower Decks. Mike McMahan, the super fan of all things Star Trek has previously examined alien life forms in Rick and Morty and now adds his stamp to the “final frontier” universe, with the blessing of Rod Roddenberry, son of the franchise’s god Gene Roddenberry.