79th Golden Globe Awards

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In 2018, Steven Spielberg, now 75, gave a speech to young students at the Academy of Achievement. In it, he said that dreams always come from behind you, never from right in front of your eyes.

Through its simplicity, India’s Pebbles makes more impact than any loud big-budget film with its strong messages of resilience, survival, female emotional strength, appreciation of the simple joys in grinding poverty and the maturity of children. The debut feature film of writer-director P.

If, in real life, the global pandemic of the last two years has served to highlight the interconnectedness of the modern world, and how our fates are to some degree all inextricably linked, it has also proven, once and for all, the universality of a compellingly told story, no matter the language. For evidence, look no further than Netflix’s Squid Game, a South Korean survival drama about a group of desperate people, all saddled with deep financial debts, who are recruited from a cross-section of society to play against one another in a series of recreated children’s games with life-or-death stakes.

With his new film Belfast, writer-director Sir Kenneth Branagh returns to the home of his childhood, along the way scooping up an impressive tally of nominations for the 2022 Golden Globe Awards. The semi-autobiographical story of a small boy whose peaceful life is thrown into disarray when the Northern Irish political unrest known as the Troubles hits his hometown, it has won him nominations for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay, along with Best Supporting Actress for Caitriona Balfe, Best Supporting Actor for both Jamie Dornan and Ciarán Hinds, and Best Original Song for “Down to Joy,” by Branagh’s buddy and fellow Northern Irishman Van Morrison.

It is very difficult to miss Kodi Smit-McPhee in a crowd because of his 6’1” tall height and his slim, willowy frame. It is not much easier to forget his portrayal of the gentle, soft-spoken, effeminate but self-assured Peter Gordon in the Jane Campion western movie as he is pitted against a rugged, toxic, abusive and alcoholic Phil Burbank (portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch) in The Power of the Dog.

Kate Winslet is enjoying her 12th Golden Globe nomination in the category Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series for Mare of Easttown, the acclaimed HBO series for which she has already won an Emmy. She plays police detective Mare Sheehan in a small Pennsylvania town, investigating a murder while trying to keep her family and her life from falling apart.

Aunjanue Ellis owes her unusual first name to the creativity of her mother, who lived in Bohemian San Francisco where Aunjanue was born in 1969: “It gets mispronounced all the time,” she laughs. Despite her birthplace, Ellis, 52, is deeply rooted in Mississippi, the place where her family is from, and where she still has a house.

Filmed in Russia, Unwanted is the directorial debut of Russian female director Lena Lanskih. This 109-minute movie is the story of a teenage girl named Vika, who becomes an adolescent mother at the age of fourteen and is forced to hide the fact from the rest of the world.

Barely three years old, Elle Fanning was already acting in front of the camera in the film I Am Sam and the mini-series, Taken. Twenty years later, Fanning is a full-fledged actress, with numerous films and television shows to her credit.