Golden Globe Awards

As a child, Lin-Manuel Miranda could not finish watching the original Mary Poppins. Because as soon as he heard Julie Andrews sing the melancholic “Feed the Birds”, he would cry.

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, more popularly known as Lady Gaga, was only three years old when she discovered her love for music. She played the piano, became good at it, and believes it is the thing that she is the greatest at.

Mahershala Ali, nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture Globe in 2016 for Moonlight, (for which he won at the Academy), has another shot at the Globe this year, albeit in a vastly different role. Ali could play any role with ease and conviction, transforming from a tough yet sensitive drug dealer in Moonlight to high-class artist.

One of the youngest thespians to win a Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy Globe, Emma Stone was only 28, when she earned the coveted award for Damien Chazelle’s romantic musical, La La Land, for which she also won the Academy Award. In The Favourite, Yorgos Lanthimos’ smart, vastly entertaining period piece, Stone plays Abigail, the penniless cousin of Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz), who begins as a chambermaid but soon climbs to the upper echelons at the court of  Queen Anne (Olivia Colman).

If it weren’t for two fateful incidents, perhaps Constance Wu wouldn’t have starred in Crazy Rich Asians. First, Wu originally passed up the chance to play the blockbuster comedy’s female lead role, Rachel Chu.

Who would have ever thought that the guy in the box-office hit franchise, The Hangover, would turn out to be one of Hollywood’s critically-acclaimed filmmakers?Bradley Cooper, who portrayed Phil Wenneck, a teacher and leader of the Wolfpack, a group of guys who found themselves in trouble after a wild night in Las Vegas in The Hangover, is not only portraying the jaded hard-drinking country music singer-songwriter Jackson Maine, who falls in love with an upcoming nightclub singer Ally Maine (portrayed by Lady Gaga) in A Star is Born, but also directed, wrote and produced the musical romantic drama. A Star is Born, which marks the fourth remake of the original 1937 film, is Cooper’s directorial feature film debut.

One of the most accomplished and versatile actresses in Hollywood today, Amy Adams, who’s 44, has been nominated for nine Golden Globes, in both the lead and supporting categories and won two. Working at the peak of her abilities, this season she is a double Golden Globe nominee in two separate categories.

For over 40 years the HFPA has recorded famous and celebrated actors, actresses and filmmakers. The world's largest collection of its kind - over 10,000  items- is now in the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences Margaret Herrick Library.

Since her feature film debut in 1995, Charlize Theron has demonstrated time and again her broad range in every role she takes. From the icy MI6 agent in Atomic Blonde to the grizzled war captain in Mad Max: Fury Road, Theron has always sought out roles that show off her versatility and vulnerability.

Based on a true story, the directorial debut of Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson, The Cake General is a quirky comedy set in the 1980s about an eccentric resident of the so-called "the most boring town in Sweden" who decides to put his quiet provincial town on the map by assembling the world's longest sandwich cake. It is 1984.