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He won a Golden Globe and an Oscar for Dallas Buyers Club. This Academy Awards-weekend we are flashing back to an in-depth interview the HFPA’s Greet Ramaekers did with the talented actor, in which he talks about premonitions and dreams and how they affect his life and career.

The Big Day is around the corner (Sunday, January 10 Live on NBC at 5:00 PM, 8:00 ET). We asked some of the people that have celebrated with us in the past, what some of their memories are of the Golden Globes.

Sex and the City and Younger creator Darren Star is back with another female-centric comedy, Emily in Paris which stars Lily Collins as a young confident Chicago marketing executive who is hired to provide her perspective at a marketing firm in Paris. Of course, her French counterparts are not the least impressed by what they see as her brash upfront ideas, so this particular American in Paris has to navigate her way in a new city and new culture.

The Eurovision Song Contest the beloved, excessive, outlandish song contest held annually since 1956 ( with the exception of this year's cancelation due to Covid-19) and best known as the launchpad for ABBA's worldwide success, is ripe fodder for Will Ferrell's new Netflix comedy, Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga where Ferrell plays the buffoonish Lars Erickssong, a mediocre Icelandic singer who obsesses about winning Eurovision with his singing partner Sigrit (Rachel McAdams) and yearns to prove his worth to his sour, overbearing father (played by Pierce Brosnan).  With approval from the organizers of Eurovision, the movie directed by Wedding Crashers’ David Dobkin, may lampoon the contest but still manages to pay homage to its odd spectacle.

After tackling the Bernie Madoff story in Wizard of Lies with Robert De Niro and that of Jack Kevorkian in You Don't Know Jack with Al Pacino, Barry Levinson revisits another sordid story of moral dilemma and failure featuring an aging and almost Shakespearian figure in HBO’s Paterno. Pacino (who also played Phil Spector in David Mamet’s eponymous HBO movie) portrays the legendary Penn State football coach’s fall from grace as the sexual abuse scandal surrounding his assistant Jerry Sandusky unfolds.

In one of those uncanny Hollywood coincidences, the 1973 kidnapping of J. Paul Getty III in Italy has inspired both Ridley Scott’s All the Money in the World, which garnered Golden Globe nominations for Michelle Williams, Christopher Plummer and Scott earlier this year, and is now a dramatic series directed by Danny Boyle for FX.

Billionaire investor Bobby Axelrod (Damian Lewis) and US Attorney Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti) lock horns again in Billions. Season 3 of Showtime’s Wall Street drama sees Bobby indicted for malfeasance and Rhoades tasting victory.

A dastardly plot to exile all canines, an island made of trash, a near-futuristic “Japanese archipelago” as backdrop for a story which resonates eerily with the world we live in today. Wes Anderson’s latest stop motion Japan-tinged homage transports us to a world steeped in the work of Hayao Miyazaki and Akira Kurosawa’s early “city movies”, with a hint of The Little Prince for good measure.

Jennifer Lawrence returns to work under the helm of her Hunger Games director, Francis Lawrence, in the challenging role of a reluctant Russian operative in Red Sparrow, based on the 2013 book by ex-CIA operative Jason Matthews. Lawrence plays Dominika Egorova, a rising young Bolshoi ballerina who suffers a debilitating injury and, facing a bleak future, chooses to take the only option offered to her, entering the state-run Sparrow School, who brutally trains a new generation of ruthless sexually manipulative spies.

Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls were two of Hip Hops brightest stars when their untimely deaths elevated them and their music to legendary status. Their murders remain a mystery two decades later despite an extensive investigation by the LAPD.