Close Encounters of the Best Kind at the HFPA Grants Banquet 2016

2016 HFPA Grants Banquet
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2016 HFPA Grants Banquet

Beverly Hills, CA. August 4, 2016 Hollywood Foreign Press Association presents annual Grants Dinner Thursday night from the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. The HFPA will present more than $2.4 million in donations to non-profit entertainment-related organizations and scholarship programs. Pictured: Jamie Lee Curtis, Christian Slater and Joanne Froggatt.

2016 HFPA Grants Banquet
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2016 HFPA Grants Banquet

Beverly Hills, CA. August 4, 2016 Hollywood Foreign Press Association presents annual Grants Dinner Thursday night from the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. The HFPA will present more than $2.4 million in donations to non-profit entertainment-related organizations and scholarship programs. Pictured: Hugh Grant and Host Jamie Lee Curtis

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2016 HFPA Grants Banquet
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2016 HFPA Grants Banquet

Beverly Hills, CA. August 4, 2016 Hollywood Foreign Press Association presents annual Grants Dinner Thursday night from the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. The HFPA will present more than $2.4 million in donations to non-profit entertainment-related organizations and scholarship programs. Pictured: Host Jamie Lee Curtis.

2016 HFPA Grants Banquet
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2016 HFPA Grants Banquet

Beverly Hills, CA. August 4, 2016 Hollywood Foreign Press Association presents annual Grants Dinner Thursday night from the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. The HFPA will present more than $2.4 million in donations to non-profit entertainment-related organizations and scholarship programs. Pictured: Gina Rodriguez and Justin Timberlake

2016 HFPA Grants Banquet
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2016 HFPA Grants Banquet

Beverly Hills, CA. August 4, 2016 Hollywood Foreign Press Association presents annual Grants Dinner Thursday night from the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. The HFPA will present more than $2.4 million in donations to non-profit entertainment-related organizations and scholarship programs. Pictured: Nate Parker and Mel Gibson.

2016 HFPA Grants Banquet
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2016 HFPA Grants Banquet

Beverly Hills, CA. August 4, 2016 Hollywood Foreign Press Association presents annual Grants Dinner Thursday night from the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. The HFPA will present more than $2.4 million in donations to non-profit entertainment-related organizations and scholarship programs. Pictured: Warren Beatty, Jurnee Smollett-Bell and Nate Parker.

2016 HFPA Grants Banquet
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2016 HFPA Grants Banquet

Beverly Hills, CA. August 4, 2016 Hollywood Foreign Press Association presents annual Grants Dinner Thursday night from the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. The HFPA will present more than $2.4 million in donations to non-profit entertainment-related organizations and scholarship programs. Pictured: Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn

2016 HFPA Grants Banquet
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2016 HFPA Grants Banquet

Beverly Hills, CA. August 4, 2016 Hollywood Foreign Press Association presents annual Grants Dinner Thursday night from the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. The HFPA will present more than $2.4 million in donations to non-profit entertainment-related organizations and scholarship programs. Pictured: Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn.

2016 HFPA Grants Banquet
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2016 HFPA Grants Banquet

Beverly Hills, CA. August 4, 2016 Hollywood Foreign Press Association presents annual Grants Dinner Thursday night from the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. The HFPA will present more than $2.4 million in donations to non-profit entertainment-related organizations and scholarship programs. Pictured: Jocelyn Towne and Simon Helberg.

2016 HFPA Grants Banquet
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2016 HFPA Grants Banquet

Beverly Hills, CA. August 4, 2016 Hollywood Foreign Press Association presents annual Grants Dinner Thursday night from the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. The HFPA will present more than $2.4 million in donations to non-profit entertainment-related organizations and scholarship programs. Pictured: Simon Helberg and Gina Rodriguez.

2016 HFPA Grants Banquet
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2016 HFPA Grants Banquet

Beverly Hills, CA. August 4, 2016 Hollywood Foreign Press Association presents annual Grants Dinner Thursday night from the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. The HFPA will present more than $2.4 million in donations to non-profit entertainment-related organizations and scholarship programs. Pictured: Joanne Froggatt and Christian Slater

August 5, 2016

The HFPA's Annual Grants Banquet is the perfect Summer match to our much bigger Winter affair, the Golden Globes. Like the Globes, it gathers the industry together in a sophisticated but relaxed environment, with the added bonus of everyone's attention to the other side of the business: its impact on the community, and the work of several cultural, education and charitable non-profits. Joined in this great effort with the HFPA, stars help us present the grants – but they also have plenty of time to get together with friends and colleagues.

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