2022 Black History Month

This iconic moment made us tear up! The legendary Sidney Poitier, himself a Cecil B. deMille-recipient honors Morgan Freeman with a little help from Dame Helen Mirren who added humor to the presentation.

In 1972, Diana Ross, then better known to the public as the topliner of the Supremes, burst on the movie scene with a stunning performance in Lady Sings the Blues, a biopic of the legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday. For that splashy feature debut, Ross earned two Golden Globe nominations, for Best Actress in a Motion Picture-Drama and for Most Promising Newcomer-Female, winning the latter.

While many of the biggest horror films of the past century were made in America, the horror film genre was not actually born in the United States. French director Georges Melies' 1896 short The House of the Devil is often credited as the first ‘horror’ movie.

She didn't think she would win. But Angela Bassett, by playing the iconic Tina Turner in What's Love Got To Do With It, beat out the other nominees, Anjelica Huston, Diane Keaton, Meg Ryan and Stockard Channing.

Even though the Golden Globes just celebrated its 79th anniversary, for Best Original Song, the distinguished list of achievements only dates back to 1962. The title song from Town Without Pity scored the initial win; but it would take another three years before the category became permanent.

What do Joseph Lopir, a student of FilmAid´s Media Training Program at the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya; Abdiqathar Keinan, of the Media Training Program at Dadaab Refugee Camp; and Lismari Machado, a member of the Communication Network that serves the Wayuu Community, the largest indigenous community in Colombia, have in common? They share the passion and willingness to tell stories that reflect the reality of their own communities. FilmAid is a non-profit organization founded by film producer Caroline Baron in 2001 with the mission of empowering refugee communities to strengthen their ability to access high-quality, lifesaving information, as well as advocate for themselves through filmmaking and visual storytelling.

Gold teeth, gaudy make-up and a voice that shook buildings: the actress talks about her transformation into real life-mother of the Blues, Ma Rainey in this adaptation of the August Wilson play, and what it took her to become one with her part. .

Viola Davis is the first Black woman to win the triumvirate of an Academy Award, A Prime Time Emmy and two Tony Awards. As impressive is the mark she makes on the red carpet.

Hallelujah, a pre-Code feature, is considered to be the first all-Black musical. Remarkably, the innovative director King Vidor was able to make a rather "personal" project within the studio system, despite initially strong discouragement of MGM’s conservative heads.

Malina Moye was only in third grade when she picked the name of her future record label, Walking Commodities Entertainment or WCE Records. It became a real label in 2010 and Moye is now the CEO and founder.