75th Golden Globe Awards

Golden Globe and Oscar winner Moonlight is a chronicle of the childhood, adolescence, and adulthood of a young, African-American gay man – Chiron – growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami. Written and directed by Barry Jenkins, the film was shot with only $1.

It will forever be remembered as the film that won the Academy Award and then didn’t. But for many, it should have.

Leonardo DiCaprio went wild, literally, in The Revenant, trekking through the wilderness with just a bear skin on his bare body, wild hair, and beard, a lonely wolf against the elements, the icy cold, and the white man’s cruelty. With this revenge tale inspired by the story of frontiersman Hugh Glass, set in the northern mountains around 1820, and hinged on the plight of Native people, DiCaprio won his third Golden Globe as Best Actor (out of ten nominations), and his first Academy Award after five attempts.

Another controversial year! No one thought The Martian was funny except maybe the New York Times critic, but it did have a lot of humor in it, and when Fox submitted it in the Comedy or Musical category the HFPA went along with it. In her review for the TImes, Manohla Dargis wrote, “This is the third of Ridley Scott’s films set beyond the dark side of the Moon.

WOW! What a year for winners and losers! The HFPA had two shots at naming Best Picture, but neither Golden Globe winners, The Grand Budapest Hotel and.

In May 2002, director Richard Linklater said that he would begin shooting an untitled film in his home city of Houston. He planned to film for a few weeks with the same cast annually for the next 12 years.

British director Steve McQueen had been toying with the idea of writing a script about slavery, featuring a black man who had been born free and later forced into slavery. He couldn't find the right angle and script until his wife found Solomon Northup's biography and gave it to him to read.

Of his film, Birdshot, writer-director Mikhail Red says: “I was inspired by a news article about a Bukidnon (Philippines) farmer who shot, killed, cooked and ate a critically endangered Philippine Eagle in the wild. ” An engaging coming-of-age drama and thriller, it follows the story of a young girl who accidentally shoots an endangered Philippine Eagle.

A last-minute entry, this David O. Russell black comedy was like no other, and it blew everyone away.

You tend to forget that the world’s most popular musical began as a concept album with music by Claude-Michel Schönberg and lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Nate, sung in French. When it premiered as a performance piece in Paris in 1980 it played only three months, and was then forgotten.