Golden Globe Awards

At 92, José "Pepe" Soriano can say that he had a happy and fulfilling career. For decades he was one of the most prominent Argentine actors since his debut in the Colon Theatre in 1953 in a production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

The HFPA immediately embraced The Morning Show when it premiered on the then brand new Apple+ streaming service back in 2019: with its take on the role of women in talk TV and the #MeToo anti-harassment angle on the work-place, the show, produced by and starring Jennifer Aniston (and Reese Witherspoon), was a case of love at first sight for almost all. Aniston was nominated at the Golden Globes for Best Actress in a TV series, as she is now for Season 2 of The Morning Show.

Taiwanese director Chung Mong-hong attracted a lot of attention last year with his bold familial drama A Sun. This year, he further establishes himself as one of the most noteworthy international filmmakers with The Falls, an unusual exploration of a mother-daughter relationship hinged on the predicament of mental illness coupled with the pandemic lockdown.

“I know this one takes place in Colombia but you are right, it really represents what is going on around the world and America. ”With those words, John Leguizamo summed up Dark Blood, Colombian director Harold Trompetero’s drama about a man who copes with his new life of abuse and humiliation in prison while dealing with tragedy, sorrow and the repercussions of his crimes on his family.

It is January 22nd, 1954 at the Club del Mar in Santa Monica and Marilyn Monroe, radiant in a tight gown with plunging neckline, is all smiles as she holds her cumbersome Henrietta Award statuette (named after the then-president Henry Gris). She has been voted the World Film Favorite at the 11th Golden Globes.

Somalia’s capital Djibouti serves as the backdrop of this love story about Guled, a gravedigger, and his wife Nasra, a woman dealing with chronic kidney disease. They have a teenage son, Mahad and are struggling to make ends meet.

The camera pans slowly following Jessica Chastain's every move, from the restroom to the bedroom, down the stairs into the living room where she finally sits on the sofa next to her husband (played by Oscar Isaac) in front of a couples’ counselor. It's the opening tracking shot of HBO's Scenes from a Marriage where Chastain's talent and versatility are subtly displayed.

When British stage, film and TV actress Olivia Colman won her first Golden Globe in 2017 for the mini-series The Night Manager, she was conspicuously absent from the Beverly Hilton. In fact, she could be found on another stage more than five and a half thousand miles away.

Whether he’s playing a sociopathic hitman, pirate, underwear model/bullfighter, detective or painter, Javier Angel Encinas Bardem seems to have no boundaries to the unique creative stamp he puts on every role he inhabits on screen. Now the 52-year-old Spanish native enters the fray as bandleader, singer, and television pioneer, portraying Desi Arnaz in Aaron Sorkin’s Being the Ricardos, which earned the actor his fifth Golden Globe nomination as Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama (he previously won for No Country for Old Men).

While multitudes of young aspiring actors dream of seeing their names on the big screen, there’s the rare case of the unexpected star. Cooper Hoffman is the most recent example.