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A magic and moving moment: In 1990, when Audrey Hepburn, now devoting most of her time to her mission as a Goodwill Ambassador for Unicef, receives her Cecil B. deMille statuette, the second of her special awards, after nine Golden Globes nominations and only one win.

“I did expect this and if I hadn’t won, I would have cramped. ” It is January 28, 1984, at the 31st Annual GG and in the grand ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel; Shirley MacLaine has just grabbed the Golden Globe she won for Terms of Endearment.

The Seventies. You first might have flashes of a psychedelic era, rampant anti-establishment feeling, and the Vietnam War.

The last years of the 20th Century are expansive times - optimism reigns, hair is big and shoulders are strong. All the while, in silence at first, the terrible AIDS scourge wreaks havoc in the industry, cutting a path of destruction through friendships, families, and entire cities.

It is January 22nd, 1954 at the Club del Mar in Santa Monica and Marilyn Monroe, radiant in a tight gown with plunging neckline, is all smiles as she holds her cumbersome Henrietta Award statuette (named after the then-president Henry Gris). She has been voted the World Film Favorite at the 11th Golden Globes.

Launched in February of 1944 with an informal luncheon at 20th Century Fox Studios ( the winners received a scroll), the Golden Globes began finding their true style in the 1950s, hopping from Hollywood to Beverly Hills, then on to the Cocoanut Grove of the famous Ambassador Hotel, Casa del Mar in Santa Monica and Ciro's on the Sunset Strip. War was over, Hollywood was spreading its wings around the world and the Globes quickly began the best party of the year in a city that absolutely loves parties - Los Angeles.

Award-winning Czech animator and film director, Michaela Pavlátová brings her latest offering in the form of My Sunny Maad, based on the novel “Frista. ”   The film follows the adventures of a young Czech woman, Herra, who is led by her heart when she leaves her home country for the man she loves.

Everybody loved I Love Lucy, a TV show so popular that, as we are reminded in the new film Being the Ricardos, audiences weren't going anywhere that night of the week, the show averaging 60 million viewers each episode, basically a 90% share at that time (the 50s). The film, written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, reminds us also about the relationship between American comedienne Lucille Ball (played by Nicole Kidman) and Cuban husband Desi Arnaz (Javier Bardem), partners extraordinaire in life and art, just before the Cuban revolution of 1959 would forever alter the relationship between the two countries.

Multi Golden Globe-winner Steven Spielberg takes on a genre he has never tackled before in his long career – the musical, and at 75 he conveys an energy and enthusiasm rare to see on the screen today. Furthermore, his is not a film adaptation of just any musical.

Chris Rodriguez, born in Florida from Argentinian parents, first met Grant Rosado, born in Texas from a Cuban father and an American mother, when they both showed up at their assigned room at Emerson College in Boston. Soon they learned that they got along very well, and also that they shared a lot of common interests, including filmmaking.