Golden Globes

The Cocoanut Grove Nearly three decades after it opened, the Cocoanut Grove at the Ambassador Hotel was still the hottest night spot in Southern California in 1950, attracting the biggest stars in an endless celebration of the Golden Age of Hollywood. So naturally it was a perfect match for the 7th annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony.

Julian Fellowes gives her the best lines in Downton Abbey, she was J. R.

Naomi Watts would have made a terrible a spy. Chatty to the point of confessional, the actress may play a very convincing CIA agent in the movies, but in person it’s a completely different story.

If Ewan McGregor is suffering exhaustion or sleep deprivation from making at least two movies a year and being a father of four young girls, there’s no way you could tell in person. Married for 20 years to the French production designer Eve Mavrakis, McGregor finally moved his family to Los Angeles after years of commuting from London to jobs and auditions.

Famous for both his shyness and the incredible intensity he brings to his roles, Daniel Day-Lewis (56) is a complex actor, who takes long breaks, sometimes of several years, between the parts for which he goes to extraordinary lengths to prepare. The three-time Oscar winner is the son of the British poet laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, with whom he had a complicated relationship.

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Composer Alex Ebert takes a few minutes after his win at the Golden Globes to talk to the HFPA about what it was like writing for All Is Lost and what he is going to do with his new statuette.

Golden Globe excitement is building  with the announcement that Zoe Saldana, Olivia Wilde and Aziz Ansari will reveal the 71st annual Golden Globe Awards nominations on Thursday. Also on hand will be Sosie Bacon, the 21-year-old daughter of Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick, who is Miss Golden Globe 2014.

The two funny ladies are coming back to the Globes! Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will once again host our annual awards show in January----and want to return the following year, too. "It's wonderful news," said HFPA president Theo Kingma.

HFPA members (right) with Santiago festival executives. Picture: Martin Katz Two HFPA representatives, Yenny Nun-Katz and Meher Tatna, hosted a reception for Chilean filmmakers, festival delegates and executives at the Santiago International Film Festival headquarters in the Grand Hyatt Hotel.