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From Ugly Betty and Devious Maids to Whiskey Cavalier and beyond, Ana Ortiz has been a firm fixture on the small screen for close to two decades. Alongside a variety of big-screen roles and animated projects, the acclaimed actress is also no stranger to live theater across the globe.

Steven Soderbergh, 57, is always on the cutting edge. 30-plus years after the Sundance debut of Sex, Lies, and Videotape, 20 years since his Best Director Oscar for Traffic and almost 10 years from the prophetic Contagion, the director, writer, producer, and cinematographer is promoting Beats, by young director Brian Welsh.

For over 40 years the HFPA has recorded famous and celebrated actresses, actors, 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.

Netflix’s four-part dramatic TV-series Unorthodox is partly a true story, based on author Deborah Feldman’s memoir Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots, published in 2012. But when Alexa Karolinski and Anna Winger adapted the book into a TV-series, the three women all agreed to transform the story and make it partly fictitious.

It’s an exciting week for composer and musician  Tamar-kali. She was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Tuesday.

He wrote comedy history. He made generations laugh.

Will Ferrell got the idea for Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga in 1998 when he was visiting Sweden for the first time with his then-future wife, Viveca Paulin. He was amazed by the European song contest and was captivated by how theatrical it was and how excitingly the voting process was presented.

Hong Chau (Downsizing) resumes her role in the second season of the Amazon series, Homecoming, as caseworker Audrey Temple, now promoted from secretary to the person in charge at the wellness-based company, Geist Group, the corporate entity behind the military project. This Golden Globe-nominated psychological thriller, which sees Janelle Monáe in the starring role in the upcoming season (replacing Julia Roberts), attracted Globe-winning actor Chris Cooper, who joins the cast as Leonard Geist, the mysterious and eccentric CEO of Geist Group.

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.

Doing the Work is a series profiling key recipients of HFPA Philanthropy Francisco Velasquez, the leader of Film Independent’s short film production program, has been a lover of film since childhood. A Mexican-born bicultural man, he grew up in Los Angeles with his family, watching “bad Mexican movies from the ‘70s and ‘80s” at the local drive-in while enjoying pan dulce and coffee, and big Hollywood productions every weekend at theaters downtown.