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“Acting alongside Meryl Streep, in the role of her daughter, arguing with her about the film, screaming at each other, fighting with her! Osage County was the best acting experience I’ve ever had. ” Julia Roberts gets teary-eyed every time she talks about John Wells' August: Osage County, which has assured her a Golden Globe nomination as Best Supporting Actress.

There is a school of thought that says that Emma Thompson should win every award under the sun so that we may have the pleasure of hearing her acceptance speech. She thanked the Academy this way upon winning Best Screenplay in 1996 for Sense and Sensibility – “Before I came, I went to visit Jane Austen’s grave in Winchester Cathedral to pay my respects, you know, and to tell her about the grosses.

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Since the publication of the first volume of her memoir last month, Anjelica Huston has been everywhere. This week, she re-joined the HFPA at our West Hollywood offices where she regaled us with stories of the overpowering influence of her larger-than-life father, John Huston and the family’s peripatetic life.

There is perhaps no other movie that merits a Golden Globe nomination more than Blue is the Warmest Color. The French film began garnering accolades at the Cannes Film festival, where it was awarded the prestigious Palme D’or.

The crowd, congregating in the hotel-size kitchen, was exuberant, hyper and noisy. Just what you’d expect at a party in a producer’s mansion on top of the Hollywood Hills! Okay, I thought: “Been there, done that.