Golden Globe Awards

In a prolific film career that started in 1982 with The World According to Garp, 71-year-old Glenn Close has played dozens of iconic parts. Who can forget her performances in movies like The Big Chill, The Natural, Fatal Attraction, Dangerous Liaisons, Jagged Edge, 101 Dalmatians, Mars Attack, Albert Nobbs… And now with The Wife, she is once again proving her astonishing versatility.

It was supposed to be a happy and long overdue family gathering to celebrate Easter Sunday in a Beirut apartment. But the reunion soon takes a turn for the worse in Heaven Without People, the feature film debut of Lebanese theater director Lucian Bourjeily.

We see a boy – is it really a boy? – walking towards a mansion. We hear a male voice narrating his thoughts: “I am a born thief”.

Nominated: Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion PictureAn unlikely hero in his own success story, a former US marine not only was accepted to the most prestigious acting school in the country, but continued on to become a three-time Emmy nominee for his breakout role in Girls and has worked with the greats of our generation such as, but not limited to, Noah Baumbach, The Coen Brothers, Jim Jarmusch, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg. Originally from San Diego, Adam Driver grew up with his mother and stepfather in Mishawaka, Indiana where he was an occasional theater actor and church choir singer.

At the 30th Golden Globes, held Sunday, January 28, 1973, at the Century Plaza Hotel, Joel Grey wins Best Supporting Actor for the musical Cabaret, directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minnelli.

Nominated: Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion PictureIn Can You Ever Forgive Me? directed by Marielle Heller (Diary of a Teenage Girl), British actor Richard E. Grant plays Jack Hock, the best friend and accomplice to Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy), a writer of biographies and forger.

Nominated: Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - DramaNothing quite so remarkable has ever happened in Hollywood as the advent of Rami Malek – from his foreign name and his off-kilter looks to his hit TV show, Mr. Robot – one of the most complex ever to come out of a cable network.

Nominated: Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in any Motion PictureIt was her breathtaking portrayal of Elizabeth the Second in the worldwide sensation, The Crown which earned Claire Foy endless awards as best television actress including the Golden Globe. As a result, she got the coveted role opposite Ryan Gosling in First Man, for which she is once again a Golden Globe nominee, but this time for film, not TV.

A Son of Man, directed by Luis Felipe Fernández-Salvador and Pablo Agüero, is a film shot in the jungles of Ecuador. It follows Pipe, a circumspect American teenager from the rich suburbs of Minneapolis who reluctantly joins his mysterious father in Ecuador, his father’s home country, where they embark on a treasure hunt for Incan gold.

Even though there’s no doubt that technology has improved the world when it comes to communications and protection, many are concerned of the effects that the potential abuse of that technology and its effects on the privacy of regular citizens. Surveillance is one of those ramifications which anybody can take advantage of with the right equipment, making the unsuspecting target a prey.