Awards Season

“I understand the emotional relationship people have with clothing. It plays a big part when styling a client,” says Keylee Sanders of Style Studio, who has made stars like Sara Hyland, Maria Menounos, and Courtney Ford (True Blood, Dexter) look red carpet ravishing.

Even though it was released back at the beginning of October, Gravity is still showing in more than 300 theaters nationwide, having racked up an impressive $300 million at the domestic box office and another $400 million around the world. Blockbuster numbers, in other words, for a movie with just two characters, one of whom is not on screen for more than a handful of minutes.

Golden Globe nominee for Best Director, Alexander Payne (52), was born in the American heartland, Omaha, Nebraska, into a family of Greek immigrants (originally Papadopoulos). His work as an American director has been marked by those competing influences, the all-American small-town environment where he’s set several of his movies, including his current, Nebraska, and his European heritage that informs his intense interest in European culture.

A former print and television journalist, British director Paul Greengrass is still attracted to newsworthy topics for his feature films. He started in the early 1980s directing current affairs investigative pieces for ITV, and launched his movie career with made-for-television non fiction films.

What a performance June Squibb was able to squeeze in Nebraska! Her role in the father and son family “road drama” directed by Alexander Payne earned the veteran actress a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress. "I'm going to have a hell of a time at the Golden Globes," she says enthusiastically.

Idris Elba is a double nominee for a Golden Globe this year for Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or TV Movie for the intense British TV crime thriller Luther, and Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama for his compelling portrayal of Nelson Mandela in the expansive biopic Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. These two distinct and riveting performances mark the versatility of this British born actor, whom American audiences first got to know as the centrifugal drug lord Russell "Stringer" Bell in HBO’s critically acclaimed series, The Wire.

When people tune in to watch the 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards on January 12, 2014, they will not only be watching the awards show but the exciting and much-talked-about fashion scene on the red carpet as well. Every year, Hollywood’s A-listers walk down the red carpet, sashaying and making their own fashion statements for the New Year while the fashion paparazzi, critics or simply fashion aficionados watch every little detail.

Two years ago, with his widely lauded A Separation, writer-director Asghar Farhadi announced the arrival of a new wave of Iranian cinema: intimate and complex, exquisitely sculpted with the emphasis on family and relationships. Farhadi’s film gave us a glimpse into modern Iranian society, and some of us may have been surprised to find that Iranians are a people with much the same issues and problems that we all have to deal with.

In the role of enslaved fieldworker Patsey in 12 Years a Slave, Lupita Nyong'o triumphs in her first big-screen role and gets her first Golden Globe nomination as Best Supporting Actress in director Steve McQueen's acclaimed movie. Nyong’o was born in 1983 in Mexico City from Kenyan parents, then raised in Kenya and educated in the U.

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