Golden Globe Awards

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama (Darkest Hour)Gary Oldman has had a long and successful career in independent films such Sid and Nancy and, Nil by Mouth, which he also directed, wrote, and produced. That film won Best British Film and Best original screenplay.

Can anyone deny the role that music plays in molding a blockbuster?  Without that component would the public be inclined to see movies over and over again, which is how one defines a blockbuster? What would the best-loved movies be without music? Can you imagine Gone With The Wind without "Tara's Theme,” The Godfather without Nino Rota’s score, Casablanca without "As Time Goes By?"Isn’t it time we recognize the film composer as an optimum contributor in the making of either a classic or a blockbuster, or better yet, both?Which brings us to the Golden Globe music awards.  Even though the awards themselves were established in 1944, the first music award for Best Original Score was not given until 1948, and then inauspiciously to the great Max Steiner for Life with Father.

Golden Globe and Oscar winner Moonlight is a chronicle of the childhood, adolescence, and adulthood of a young, African-American gay man – Chiron – growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami. Written and directed by Barry Jenkins, the film was shot with only $1.

It will forever be remembered as the film that won the Academy Award and then didn’t. But for many, it should have.

Leonardo DiCaprio went wild, literally, in The Revenant, trekking through the wilderness with just a bear skin on his bare body, wild hair, and beard, a lonely wolf against the elements, the icy cold, and the white man’s cruelty. With this revenge tale inspired by the story of frontiersman Hugh Glass, set in the northern mountains around 1820, and hinged on the plight of Native people, DiCaprio won his third Golden Globe as Best Actor (out of ten nominations), and his first Academy Award after five attempts.

Another controversial year! No one thought The Martian was funny except maybe the New York Times critic, but it did have a lot of humor in it, and when Fox submitted it in the Comedy or Musical category the HFPA went along with it. In her review for the TImes, Manohla Dargis wrote, “This is the third of Ridley Scott’s films set beyond the dark side of the Moon.

WOW! What a year for winners and losers! The HFPA had two shots at naming Best Picture, but neither Golden Globe winners, The Grand Budapest Hotel and.

In May 2002, director Richard Linklater said that he would begin shooting an untitled film in his home city of Houston. He planned to film for a few weeks with the same cast annually for the next 12 years.

British director Steve McQueen had been toying with the idea of writing a script about slavery, featuring a black man who had been born free and later forced into slavery. He couldn't find the right angle and script until his wife found Solomon Northup's biography and gave it to him to read.

Of his film, Birdshot, writer-director Mikhail Red says: “I was inspired by a news article about a Bukidnon (Philippines) farmer who shot, killed, cooked and ate a critically endangered Philippine Eagle in the wild. ” An engaging coming-of-age drama and thriller, it follows the story of a young girl who accidentally shoots an endangered Philippine Eagle.