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“After 56 years in the film industry, making more than 200 films, after so many broken bones, finally, this is mine,” Jackie Chan joyfully proclaimed at the annual Governors Awards where he was presented an Honorary Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award by Tom Hanks in 2016. Considered the heir to Buster Keaton, as well as to Bruce Lee, Chan is the first Chinese star to be honored by the Academy’s Governors for the cinematic legacy he has built for fans all over the world, the one star from the East that has received bona fide Hollywood stardom.

As India’s 1. 3 billion people are under lockdown, all commerce and activities have come to a grinding halt.

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.

(Note: this interview was conducted on March 11th before mandatory quarantine and the closure of all domestic theaters. ) This year, history was made during the award season.

Sharon Horgan is a busy woman. She is a mother, a producer, a writer, and an actress and she is the head of her own production company Merman, which she started with Celia Mountford.

In the romantic dramedy, Jane the Virgin the Mexican actor Jaime Camil played the self-centered, famous telenovela star, Rogelio de la Vega. Now, on his new sitcom Broke, he is a warm-hearted rich guy who shows up with his wife (Natasha Leggero) and his assistant (Izzy Diaz) to his wife's sister’s (Pauley Perrette) doorstep unannounced after a wealthy father decides to cut him off.

Having already made waves on BET's The Oval with dual roles, breakout star Melissa L. Williams, who has quickly become Tyler Perry's new muse, is now staring in Perry's spin-off series Ruthless, currently streaming on BET Plus.

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.

In the wake of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), Hollywood has rallied around Los Angeles-based organization Project Angel Food, which provides free meals to members of the community impacted by life-threatening illnesses. Recent donors include studio executive David Geffen, television producer and writer Chuck Lorre, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), the non-profit organization behind the Golden Globe® Awards, which this week announced a donation of $100,000.

Showrunner and writer Liz Tigelaar finished shooting the last scenes of Little Fires Everywhere just minutes before Los Angeles’ Mayor Eric Garcetti announced the lockdown of the city in connection with the Covid-19 emergency. The series adapted from the eponymous novel by Celeste Ng was a passion project that she was relieved to see completed and ready to be streamed on Hulu in March 2020.