Golden Globes Around The World

The popular South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas, wrapped on March 20 after 10 memorable days celebrating the convergence of tech, film, music, and comedy. Of course, you’ll find coverage of the festival highlights on our website, but what is it really all about? The Hollywood Foreign Press invited three of our members who were attending the event for the first time to share their impressions; on not just the events that make the festival so unique, but the party vibe, the BBQ, and the Nic Cage flyers all over town asking him to call his biggest fan.

Hard to believe it’s been 30 since Sharon Stone uncrossed her legs in Basic Instinct and created an unforgettable movie moment etched into cinema history. Paul Verhoeven directed the hit film also starring Michael Douglas, but the writer of the movie celebrating its 30th anniversary was Hungarian-American Joe Eszterhas, a former immigrant and refugee who started out as a Rolling Stone reporter and went on to become one of the highest-paid and most famous screenwriters in history.

As the world holds its breath watching Russia continue its assault on Ukraine, Ukrainian filmmaker Iryna Tsilyk talks to the Golden Globes Around the World podcast series about her gut-wrenching experience of discovering life imitating art. The up-and-coming filmmaker won Best Director in the 2020 Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Documentary Category for The Earth is Blue as an Orange, following a single mother and her four children trying to live a normal life in the war zone of southern and eastern Ukraine that began eight years ago when Russia annexed Crimea.

As we approach International Women’s Day on March 8, we continue to put a spotlight on women breaking barriers and blazing trails. After celebrating Pose star Michaela Jaé Rodriguez becoming the first transgender actress to win a Golden Globe this year, we recently caught up with Filipino-American Trans actress-writer-producer Rain Valdez on our podcast series, Golden Globes Around the World.

Long before George Clooney took our temperature in ER or Patrick Dempsey became famous as McDreamy in Grey’s Anatomy, TV and film legend Richard Chamberlain became one of TV’s biggest heartthrobs in the title role of the TV medical drama, Dr. Kildare, which ran from 1961-66.