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To Marlon Brando he was Il Patron. To Angela Lansbury he was a regular dance partner.

This weekend, the 18th Annual Art Directors Guild Excellence in Production Design Awards took place at the Beverly Hilton, honoring the year’s most innovative work in both film and television. Voting ended on February 6, and this Saturday projects as diverse as Boardwalk Empire, Battle Star Galactica, and the Super Bowl XLVII Halftime Show (remember, the show where Beyonce knocked the power out?) will be vying for trophies.

The Art Directors Guild (ADG) announced winners of its 18th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards in ten categories of film, television, commercials and music videos during the black-tie ceremony in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on Saturday, February 8, 2014. Martin Scorsese received the Guild’s prestigious Cinematic Imagery Award presented to him by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill, his stars of The Wolf of Wall Street.

The 64th Berlin International Film Festival kicks off today and runs through February 16, bringing international premiers, a slew of sales and acquisitions and the world premiere of Wes Anderson’s much-anticipated The Grand Budapest Hotel. As the first major fest of the year after Sundance, the Berlinale plays host to the European Film Market, sure to be buzzing with business.

Last Year Pablo Larain’s No with Gael García Bernal received a well deserved Academy Award nomination. This year Gloria directed by Sebastián Lelio was among the year’s best reviewed foreign language entries (and earned veteran Chilean actress Paulina García the prestigious Best Actress Silver Lion in Berlin.

Continuing his media tour for The Monuments Men, George Clooney recently paid a promotional visit to ABC Studios in New York City. The 52-year-old actor was in the house for an interview on Good Morning America, and the conversation inevitably turned to his much-talked-about prank on Matt Damon, Amy Poehler and Tina Fey.

Eldred Gregory Peck (born on April 5, 1916 in La Jolla, California, died on June 12, 2003) had a long and illustrious career as a Hollywood movie star; he was a tall, dark and handsome leading man, widely admired for his rectitude and his commitment to liberal causes. In Spellbound (1945) directed by Alfred Hitchcock, he played an honest man accused of murder, opposite Ingrid Bergman.

Burton Stephen Lancaster (born in New York City on November 2, 1913, died on October 20, 1994), a popular movie star, a respected dramatic actor, a successful producer of many of his own films and others like Marty (1955) and A Catered Affair (1956) starring Ernest Borgnine, was not cast in his first film, The Killers (1946), until age 32. In his youth he was a circus acrobat and developed the athletic skills that he would display in films like Jim Thorpe All-American (1951), The Crimson Pirate (1952) and Trapeze (1956) with Tony Curtis and Gina Lollobrigida.

Yoram Kahana (left) with Film Noir Foundation founder Eddie MullerBy Yoram Kahana The HFPA, which has been supporting film restoration for many years, last year gave a grant to a very specialized restoration-minded organization: the Film Noir Foundation, a San Francisco based non-profit dedicated to the research, restoration and showing of this most American of film genres. Film noir, in the words of one historian, is made of.

Italian film composer Riz Ortolani, who died recently in his villa outside Rome at age 87, was arguably one of the world’s most prolific creators of music for the movies. He scored comedies and dramas, spaghetti westerns and documentaries, erotica and horror, in a composing career that lasted some 50 years.