Grants

At hand to deliver the checks are Golden Globe winners Christian Slater, Gina Rodriguez, Hugh Grant, Joanne Froggatt, Mel Gibson, Warren Beatty and Golden Globe nominees Emma Stone, Justin Timberlake will present grants, together with stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Mandy Moore, Milo Ventimiglia, Nate Parker, Renée Zellweger, Simon Helberg and Vince Vaughn. Stars and guests are being treated to a cocktail of champagne and passed hors d’oeuvres like salmon poke cones and beef wellington en croute.

For the third year in a row the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was applauded at the annual Noir City, the San Francisco noir film festival, for its support of the restoration of endangered noir films. The 14th edition of Noir City, currently under way in San Francisco, has an added international flavor: the film restored with HFPA support, Los tallos amargos (The Bitter Stems) is not a USA noir, but an Argentinian classic, the 1956 winner of the Silver Condor award for best feature, given by the Argentinian Film Critics Association.

As part of its continued efforts in the area of education, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) has awarded California State University, Northridge $2 million to support students and enhance technology in the school’s acclaimed Department of Cinema and Television Arts. A portion of the grant will go toward creating endowed scholarships to support underrepresented film and television students in the industry.

The HFPA gave away more than $2 million in donations during a gala dinner packed with stars and surprises at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. Beverly Hills, CA.

HFPA GIVES AWAY $2 MILLION---AND ANNOUNCES A $7. 5 MILLION CHARITY BONUS Theo Kingma and Sofia VergaraThe HFPA gave away almost two million dollars to entertainment-related charities during a star-studded night of love, laughter and surprises at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

The ladies weren’t the only ones getting all gussied up for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Grants Dinner Banquet last night, as a slew of masculine stars showed up at the Beverly Hilton Hotel ready to have a good time. As the HFPA handed out almost $2 million in grant checks to entertainment-related charities, Jason Segel, Andy Samberg and Morgan Freeman celebrated the evening in their dark dapper suits.

The HFPA is to give away almost $2 million at a star-studded donations banquet on Thursday at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Surprise guests will join the many celebrities in accepting the donations on behalf of various charities.

Yoram Kahana (left) with Film Noir Foundation founder Eddie MullerBy Yoram Kahana The HFPA, which has been supporting film restoration for many years, last year gave a grant to a very specialized restoration-minded organization: the Film Noir Foundation, a San Francisco based non-profit dedicated to the research, restoration and showing of this most American of film genres. Film noir, in the words of one historian, is made of.

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Nicole Kidman stopped off at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills on her way home to Nashville to accept a check for $350,000 on behalf of the Film Foundation from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The donation was among more than $1.