Sigourney Weaver

There was certainly one performance that created major awards buzz on the weekend, and it was Brendan Fraser's in Darren Aronofsky's The Whale. The film premiered to a long standing ovation, unlike Paul Schrader's Master Gardener which got a mixed reception despite stellar acting by Sigourney Weaver, Joel Edgerton and newcomer Quintessa Swindell.

Both Sigourney Weaver for Gorillas in the Mist and Jodie Foster for The Accused win Best Actress in a Motion Picture-Drama in a three-way tie with Shirley MacLaine for Madame Sousatzka, at the 46th Golden Globes, held Saturday, January 28, 1989, at the Beverly Hilton hotel.

In 1983, Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver made the pilgrimage to the Croisette to support Peter Weir's The Year of Living Dangerously. The drama, set in mid-60s Indonesia, a country in a political crisis that would soon overthrow president Sukarno.

When HFPA journalists interviewed Sigourney Weaver in 1988 about Gorillas in the Mist: The Adventure of Dian Fossey, directed by Michael Apted, this is what she said about Dian Fossey. “Working on Dian Fossey allowed me to see that, to a certain extent, we all think of animals as third-class citizens of a planet that actually belongs to us and they'll have to find room to do whatever they do in a way that's convenient for mankind.

After catching the attention of the international film circuit with a trio of powerful pictures firmly rooted in Taiwanese culture - Pushing Hands in 1991, The Wedding Banquet in 1992 and Eat Drink Man Woman in 1993 - director Ang Lee quickly did a turnaround and launched himself into a series of varied projects. First came his adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, and then, in 1997, another literary adaptation - the family drama The Ice Storm, writen by James Schamus from Rick Moody's eponymous novel and an official selection, in competition, at Cannes that year.