Golden Globe Awards

John Singleton was honored with a tribute during the 2022-2023 Academic year by USC (University of Southern California), his alma mater, where he developed the script for his 1991 directing debut, Boyz n the Hood, while attending the screenwriting program at USC’s Film School (the school has since been renamed the School of Cinematic Arts, or SCA). For this film, Singleton was nominated for two Academy Awards in 1992 for Best Director and Best Screenplay.

This month Lucy Liu celebrates two openings. On March 17, we’ll see her on big screens as Kalypso in Shazam! Fury of Gods joining Golden Globe winners Helen Mirren and Rachel Zegler as new faces of this comic book movie.

From Mexico City to Kenya to Yale to Hollywood. And from production assistant to superstar.

It was 1979 and the once-wunderkind of Paramount Pictures, Robert Evans, was trying to recapture his former glory days by moving into independent producing. He had bought the rights to a 1977 book by Jim Haskins called “The Cotton Club: A Pictorial and Social History of the Most Famous Symbol of the Jazz Era” for $350,000 from a guy called Charles Child who was a Union Carbide executive.

In honor of 2023 Black History Month, we are rewinding to 2018, when HFPA member Alessandra Venezia had the privilege of interviewing Spike Lee - writer, director, actor, producer, author and educator who helped revolutionize Modern Black Cinema and inspired countless generations of black filmmakers who have continued to enrich the landscape of film and black culture. Spike’s unique voice captivated audiences from the start, with early films including She’s Gotta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989) and 25th Hour (2002).

The journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press first interviewed promising young actor Josh Hartnett in May 2001 when he acted with Ben Affleck in Pearl Harbor, directed by Michael Bay: they met him again in December 2001 to talk about Black Hawk Down, directed by Ridley Scott, the story of a 1993 US military raid in Mogadishu, Somalia. Hartnett gave his thoughts on war and the question of military intervention in other countries – a theme certainly relevant today in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

London-born actress Emily Blunt will celebrate her 40th birthday on February 23. Besides having remained remarkably unaffected throughout her award-winning professional life, Blunt deserves credit for steering one of Hollywood's most diverse and exciting careers.

Awards Confirmed to Return on First Sunday in January.

She brought Josephine Baker to a whole new generation of movie fans worldwide who, before the film came out, had never heard of the icon. She continued playing parts in all genres and has carved out a distinguished career for herself.