Nominee Profiles 2022

Truth be told, 2016 was a good year for Golden Globe nominee Mahershala Ali. He had been playing the role of President Francis Underwood’s press secretary on the Golden Globe-winning series House of Cards for three seasons.

“Climate change is real. It is happening right now.

Reflecting on playing Jonathan Larson in tick, tick… BOOM!, Andrew Garfield shared while doing press for the film how the late playwright’s story affected him and how he lives his life. “We all leave here with an unfinished song.

With both of her parents actors and drama teachers, Marion Cotillard’s destiny was mapped out from the start. However, it would take a little time for the French actress to start to make her place in the dramatic profession.

Released in 2020, Lupin is the first global French-language hit for Netflix, with 76 million households watching it during the first 28 days on the streaming platform. This year, Maurice LeBlanc’s iconic detective stories about the gentleman thief Arsène Lupin, received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Television Series - Drama.

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In 2018, Steven Spielberg, now 75, gave a speech to young students at the Academy of Achievement. In it, he said that dreams always come from behind you, never from right in front of your eyes.

If, in real life, the global pandemic of the last two years has served to highlight the interconnectedness of the modern world, and how our fates are to some degree all inextricably linked, it has also proven, once and for all, the universality of a compellingly told story, no matter the language. For evidence, look no further than Netflix’s Squid Game, a South Korean survival drama about a group of desperate people, all saddled with deep financial debts, who are recruited from a cross-section of society to play against one another in a series of recreated children’s games with life-or-death stakes.

With his new film Belfast, writer-director Sir Kenneth Branagh returns to the home of his childhood, along the way scooping up an impressive tally of nominations for the 2022 Golden Globe Awards. The semi-autobiographical story of a small boy whose peaceful life is thrown into disarray when the Northern Irish political unrest known as the Troubles hits his hometown, it has won him nominations for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay, along with Best Supporting Actress for Caitriona Balfe, Best Supporting Actor for both Jamie Dornan and Ciarán Hinds, and Best Original Song for “Down to Joy,” by Branagh’s buddy and fellow Northern Irishman Van Morrison.

It is very difficult to miss Kodi Smit-McPhee in a crowd because of his 6’1” tall height and his slim, willowy frame. It is not much easier to forget his portrayal of the gentle, soft-spoken, effeminate but self-assured Peter Gordon in the Jane Campion western movie as he is pitted against a rugged, toxic, abusive and alcoholic Phil Burbank (portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch) in The Power of the Dog.