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What a performance June Squibb was able to squeeze in Nebraska! Her role in the father and son family “road drama” directed by Alexander Payne earned the veteran actress a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress. "I'm going to have a hell of a time at the Golden Globes," she says enthusiastically.

Idris Elba is a double nominee for a Golden Globe this year for Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or TV Movie for the intense British TV crime thriller Luther, and Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama for his compelling portrayal of Nelson Mandela in the expansive biopic Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. These two distinct and riveting performances mark the versatility of this British born actor, whom American audiences first got to know as the centrifugal drug lord Russell "Stringer" Bell in HBO’s critically acclaimed series, The Wire.

Audiences are in for a musical treat on Sunday when the 71st annual Golden Globe Awards features songs composed by some of the world's top musicians. The nominees for Best Original Song, whose writers include U2, Taylor Swift, Justin Timberlake and Coldplay, are all strong contenders and it’s anybody’s guess who’s name will be called.

As representatives of press outlets from more than 50 countries worldwide, members of the Hollywood Foreign Press have always attached great value to the Foreign Film category. Not only are non-English language movies indicative of the intrinsically international nature of the film business and examples of global excellence, they are also windows into humanity in all its facets and idioms, contributing, as only art can, to further understanding between all people.

When people tune in to watch the 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards on January 12, 2014, they will not only be watching the awards show but the exciting and much-talked-about fashion scene on the red carpet as well. Every year, Hollywood’s A-listers walk down the red carpet, sashaying and making their own fashion statements for the New Year while the fashion paparazzi, critics or simply fashion aficionados watch every little detail.

Two years ago, with his widely lauded A Separation, writer-director Asghar Farhadi announced the arrival of a new wave of Iranian cinema: intimate and complex, exquisitely sculpted with the emphasis on family and relationships. Farhadi’s film gave us a glimpse into modern Iranian society, and some of us may have been surprised to find that Iranians are a people with much the same issues and problems that we all have to deal with.

In the role of enslaved fieldworker Patsey in 12 Years a Slave, Lupita Nyong'o triumphs in her first big-screen role and gets her first Golden Globe nomination as Best Supporting Actress in director Steve McQueen's acclaimed movie. Nyong’o was born in 1983 in Mexico City from Kenyan parents, then raised in Kenya and educated in the U.

Alan Del Rosario, the first Filipino-American finalist in the Oscar Designer Challenge, made a name for himself when he dressed Hollywood stars like Michelle Pfeiffer, Debra Messing, Taylor Swift, Paris Hilton, Drew Barrymore, Paula Abdul and Lea Michele, to name a few. His label, Thimble and Thread, was available on Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom and Anthropologie.

Dressing celebrities for the red carpet is nothing new to David Tupaz. He has dressed some of Hollywood’s A-listers like Kristin Chenoweth, Mariel Hemingway, Martin Sheen, Lucy Liu, Natalie Cole, Kris Kardashian, Bruce Jenner, Lisa Rinna, William and Elizabeth Shatner, Allan and Tonya Thicke, David Foster, Tracie and Scott Hamilton, Bai Ling, Billy Zane, Christine Baranski, Sofia Milos of “CSI Miami” and Mitzi Kapture of “Baywatch.

The fashion designer behind Thumbelina Atelier, who is based in Sherman Oaks, California, is known for creating the wedding tiara of Julia Roberts when the latter got married to cameraman Daniel “Danny” Moder in 2002. Carlyn said, “I've had the fortunate experience of creating for Julia Roberts, Paula Abdul, Cean Chaffin (award-winning film producer and wife of director David Fincher), Jennifer Love Hewitt for ‘The Client List,’ New York businesswoman and philanthropist Loida Nicolas Lewis and daughter Leslie Lewis, model and actress Rachel Reynolds, daytime soap actress Jennifer Birmingham (wife of actor Will Yun Lee of ‘Die Another Day’ and ‘The Wolverine’), Alexis Phifer (fashion designer/Hollywood stylist), and Cassandra Grey (wife of Paramount head, Brad Grey), to name a few.