80 Years in 80 Days

Music is like another character to Spike Lee. So it is not surprising that his longest collaboration — dating back more than three decades, beginning with School Daze — is with the man known as the most prolific jazz musician to ever score films, Terence Blanchard.

Sex and the City ruled again at the 59th Golden Globe Awards, in its fourth year on the air. The popular show walked away with two wins and one nomination at the ceremony on Sunday, January 20, 2002, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

The year whose name inspired Stanley Kubrick’s cinematic masterpiece was, indeed, an odyssey. A bounty of movies which released and TV series which debuted or continued the previous year, and then lived on through awards season, would become hits and mainstays of the new millennium: Gladiator, Traffic, Billy Elliot, Cast Away, Almost Famous, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Sopranos, The West Wing, ER, Sex and the City, Frasier, and Will & Grace, among many others.

The new Golden Age of Television arrived on the eve of a new century, as the New York Times declared that the 1999 drama series The Sopranos “just may be the greatest work of American popular culture of the last quarter century. ”.

On the edge of a new century, something very special happened at the 56th Golden Globe Awards: for the first time ever, a Brazilian film won the then Best Foreign Language Film (now Non-English Language Film) prize: Central Station, directed by Walter Salles. Awards for movies from overseas countries were random at the Globes until 1974 when the international trophy was officially created.

Two of the most memorable Golden Globes moments in the history of the show took place on the same night, at the 1998 ceremony at the Beverly Hilton. The first event, was when Alan Rickman and Jada Pinkett Smith announced the nominees and winners for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film.

She was at the zenith of her stardom, but still, she had to fight for a film role. Madonna was known by then as the “Material Girl,” named after one of her songs.

In 1996, Emma Thompson gave one of the most memorable acceptance speeches in the history of the Golden Globes — but it was not for one of her legendary acting performances. Yes, the ten-time Golden Globe nominee, who won a Best Actress – Drama statuette in 1993 for Howards End, was nominated for Best Actress that night for her work in Sense and Sensibility, but she lost to Casino’s Sharon Stone.

“It’s tragic how much I’m enjoying getting this. Really.

Whenever Hollywood played “Cowboys and Indians,” it did not look good for the Indians. Sure, they were written into scripts.