HFPA Grants Banquet 2017 News

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It was an inspiring experience when fellow HFPA colleague and journalist Elisabeth Sereda and I were invited to visit the LAUSD/USC Media Arts & Engineering Magnet High School to participate in a 'Women in Film' panel. Only the female students were invited to the event held in the school’s auditorium and energy was high from the moment we arrived.

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The stars joined us in the exclusive HFPA studio for a special portrait prior to donating more than $2. 8 million in grants and scholarships at our annual Grants Banquet.

The HFPA announced $2. 8 million in grants to educational, cultural and professional training programs at the annual Grants Banquet in Beverly Hills.

Show highlights from the HFPA 2017 Grants Banquet August 2, 2017.

“Tonight let’s celebrate the things Trump hates the most: foreigners, the press and actually donating money to charity”  - that was host Chelsea Handler’s opening salvo, giving a very appropriate frame to the HFPA’s Annual Grants Banquet 2017. Over $ 2.

With the next Awards Ceremony (January 7, 2018) the Golden Globes will be celebrating their Diamond Anniversary. That milestone marks 75 years since a group of Hollywood correspondents working for foreign publications first began awarding prizes for excellence in film and later television.

Some of Hollywood’s brightest stars were on hand to help the Hollywood Foreign Press Association present its philanthropic endowments for 2017-18 on August 2. This year the HFPA once again awarded over $2.