79th Golden Globe Awards

Unclenching the Fists is only the second feature film by an aspiring Russian filmmaker, Kira Kovalenko. Co-written with Anton Yarush and Liubov Mulmenko, this 97-minute drama received the grand prize in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival in 2021.

Let it Be Morning addresses the Israeli Arab community and the ways in which they deal with life and its challenges when they find themselves under siege on occasion and without warning. The film is directed by Israeli filmmaker Eran Kolirin (2007s The Band’s Visit, later adapted as a Broadway musical; 2016s Beyond the Mountains and Hills), who deftly adapts the book by Palestinian writer Sayed Kashua, on which Let it Be Morning is based.

Faith, stigmata, religious patriarchy, forbidden desires, self-flagellation, suffering, punishment, power plays: Catholicism has it all. Nothing gives us as many story components as this religious institution, which has more scandals and a more colorful history than any other.

“I grew up six miles outside of Belfast,” Jamie Dornan reminisced to the HPFA last year. “Although it’s fairly connected to the city, it still would be considered rural.

While Ariana DeBose just scored her first Golden Globe nomination for her electrifying performance as Anita in Steven Spielberg’s cinematic rebirth of the classic musical West Side Story, it was a role the North Carolina native initially wanted to pass on. “I remember thinking this was definitely not a role for me,” she revealed during the press for the film.

Golden Globe Nominee Billy Crudup started his career as a theatre actor in New York and, after earning a master’s degree from NYU’s Tish School of the Arts, made his debut on Broadway in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia. This was almost 30 years ago.

From the eccentric ice cream-hoarding mother in Mare of Easttown, to a legendary comic in Hacks, Jean Smart is having a big career moment. Both shows were renewed for second seasons, Hacks received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Musical or Comedy TV series, and Smart received her first Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in the same TV category.

Breaking free of the Twilight fame which tried to box her into the category of “the world’s sweetheart,” Kristen Stewart has nabbed her first Golden Globe nomination – for Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama – portraying the People’s Princess in the film, Spencer, her performance in which she likens to jazz. She told the Venice Film Festival press that she didn’t try to “do a perfect Princess Diana.

Asghar Farhadi’s Iranian Tale of Cancel Culture.

Anyone looking back into the history of the moving picture would find a long list of films about how women live, think, feel, love, and hate, directed and written by men. For filmmaker Jane Campion, diving deep into the world of pure masculinity in The Power of the Dog – in the Wild West, of all places – was an exercise in subtlety and creativity that balances the narrative.