James Franco

This double Golden Globe-winner – for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for The Disaster Artist five years ago and for the role that marked his breakout as a star in 2001 for James Dean turns 45 today. A good reason for the HFPA's Raffi Boghosian to take us through his performances and re-visit that funny acceptance speech.

A few days ago, Golden Globe nominee John Leguizamo called out the casting of Golden Globe winner James Franco as Fidel Castro in Alina of Cuba: la hija rebelde. The film is a portrayal of Alina Fernández Revuelta, the illegitimate daughter of the leftist leader with socialite Natalia Revuelta.

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Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy (The Disaster Artist)When James Franco decided to make The Disaster Artist, a film about a film gone completely wrong, he discovered that there was a side of the unfortunate filmmaker that he respected and was drawn to: Tommy Wiseau, the director of Room, which has been called the worst movie of all time, was a dreamer. Maybe Franco also felt so drawn to Wiseau because it reminded him of his own failures.