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The HFPA’s Ting Ting Xu examines Asian film trends through standout films and the authors behind them. Though it took Hong Kong director Derek Kwok Cheung Tsang and producer Peter Ho-Sun Chan almost a year to obtain a theatrical release permit from the mainland Chinese authorities, their film Better Days became an instant hit once it got released in October 2019.

Born in Iran, director, and graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi takes on the story of Madame Curie (Rosamund Pike) in the film Radioactive. The woman whose previous at-bat, Persepolis, an adaptation of her own graphic novel, garnered awards worldwide, speaks truth in a way that makes her radioactive to many.

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.

There’s a long dynastic tradition in Hollywood of children following their famous parents into the industry. From Jane Fonda to Jamie Lee Curtis, Kate Hudson to Bryce Dallas Howard, Jeff Bridges to Ben Stiller, many have gone on to varying degrees of renown themselves in the film industry.

What better way to celebrate Federico Fellini’s centennial than reading the appropriately titled “Fellini on Fellini”? Not an autobiography per se, and initially published in 1974, a year after the release of the seminal Amarcord, this slim volume is a random selection of his articles, essays, letters, introspective musings and miscellanies on many topics dating back to 1955. A perfect complement for a different insight into the persona and work of a legendary filmmaker that has been so obsessively analyzed, documented, and scrutinized over the years.

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.

Alan Parker, the recently deceased British director, was interviewed several times by the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press. He spoke broadly with us about his films and influences.

Let’s talk about sex: Asa Butterfield stars in the Netflix series Sex Education. He plays Otis Milburn, an insecure teenager who starts to give sex advice to his fellow students.

Hailed by critics as one of the world’s greatest filmmakers, Kenji Mizoguchi started his career making silent films in the 1920s with remakes and adaptations of classic writers like Tolstoy and O’Neill. In the 1930’s he moved on to films that commented on the social upheavals that Japan was going through at the time.

James Badge Dale, 42, is primarily known for his performances in CSI: Miami and CSI: NY, as well as AMC’s political thriller, Rubicon. Now he takes on the role of a lifetime as Sergeant Ray Abruzzo in the critically acclaimed series Hightown, for which he’s garnered rave reviews.