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Golden Globes® Announces “The 2025 Road to the Golden Globes” Party Presented by RBC at Toronto International Film Festival The Golden Globes® will mark the kickoff to the 83rd Annual Golden Globes® with the annual “Road to the Golden Globes Party” presented by RBC on Saturday, September 6, 2025, at the iconic Four Seasons Hotel Toronto during the acclaimed Toronto International Film Festival celebrating this year’s cinematic achievements. “We are so excited to be back at TIFF with our dazzling celebration, honoring the incredible creative talent gathered here and counting down in style to the 83rd Golden Globes,” said Helen Hoehne, President of the Golden Globes.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) and The Hollywood Reporter (THR) today announced a strategic partnership ahead of the 2020 Golden Globes. THR will join forces with the HFPA to produce its signature soirée at the Toronto International Film Festival as well as the annual Golden Globe Ambassador party in Los Angeles.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the first Residency Awards at the Toronto International Film Festival. The program, which builds on last year’s Canada Shorts Award, was aimed at TIFF’s Film Makers Lab, and the twenty-two film makers who participated in the festival’s mentorship program directed by Jane Shoettle.

The central figure in a stellar ensemble cast, Golden Globe winner Viola Davis shared with HFPA journalist Barbara Gasser the experience of being directed by Golden Globe nominee Steve McQueen in Widows, a heist drama with deep psychological insights – and how McQueen wooed her with a Sunday visit, and sushi.

Robert Redford’s co-star in The Old Man & the Gun, three-time Golden Globe winner Sissy Spacek shared the experience with HFPA journalist Ting Ting Xu – including how hard it was, sometimes, to concentrate on the character and not her handsome co-star….

In Toronto. Robert Redford – Golden Globe winner and Cecil B.

In Jacques Audiard’s The Sisters Brothers, Golden Globe nominee Riz Ahmed plays a German chemist who has created a formula for finding gold in the late 19th century’s Wild West. In Toronto, he talked to HFPA journalist Ting Ting Xu about his admiration for Audiard, his research of the West and how it felt to be back working with Jake Gyllenhaal.

Newcomer Richie Merritt was outside the principal’s office when a casting scout saw him. Long story short, Merritt became the star of White Boy Rick, about a1980s teen who became a drug lord and an informant for the FBI.

The star of director Asghar Farhadi’s Everybody Knows, Golden Globe nominee Penélope Cruz followed closely the five-year process that took the filmmaker to Spain, in an effort to understand the roots of the story he wanted to tell. HFPA journalist Gabriel Lerman got all the details.

Golden Globe winner Matthew McConaughey is in Toronto with director Yann Demange’s White Boy Rick, a crime drama about a teenager-turned-drug-trafficker (and FBI informant) in the 1980s. McConaughey plays the kid’s father – an element that, he tells HFPA journalist Brent Simon, was key for getting him involved in the project.