Awards Season

Since she erupted onto international consciousness and cinema screens in Mike Leigh’s Happy Go Lucky in 2008, Sally Hawkins has become synonymous with a kind of lightness and ease that belies serious insight and wisdom. That role won her a Golden Globe as best comedy actress, as well as multiple other awards.

The woman is standing with her daughter in her arms, her son by her side. The officer walks up to her and tells her how beautiful she is, that he’d like to get her in bed.

It has been a good year for seasoned actors. Dame Judi Dench has given us, at age 79, another heartbreaking performance as a mother in search of her son in Philomena.

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The 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards menu was revealed today at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The press crammed into the Ballroom as Executive Chefs demonstrated the cuisine that was inspired by the tropics and which highlighted an explosion of variations of gold.

"In Hollywood they believe I’m retired. Even my agents think so.

It’s been twenty years since Julia Louis-Dreyfus was first nominated for a Golden Globe award. At that time in 1994, she was thirty-something and played a neurotic but intelligent and assertive Elaine Benes on Seinfeld, the hit show that became a cultural phenomenon.

While the glamour of the Golden Globes is being beamed around the world, on NBC January 12th, stars will be slipping away during the commercial breaks to sip The Moet Golden Night, a cocktail created specifically for the Golden Globe Lounge – a new introduction for the 71st Golden Globe awards. For the refreshing concoction of Moet et Chandon Champagne splashed with a hint of pear, creator, chef and author Aida Mollenkamp, wanted to maintain the sparkling golden hues that celebrate the effervescence of the Globes, while teasing the palate.

Sandra Bullock, “America’s Sweetheart,” shot to stardom with her role as Annie, the reluctant but plucky driver in Speed. The 49-year-old actress, who grew up singing in children’s choirs in Nuremberg, Germany, was raised in show business by her German opera singer mother and voice coach father.

From his first role, in Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun 25 years ago, to his latest character, in David O. Russell’s American Hustle, Christian Bale has always invested body and soul in his work, sometimes pushing himself “a little too far” as this British actor approaching the big 4-0 likes to say.