HFPA

Glass ceilings broken. Sisterhood on set.

The Golden Globes present this year's Women Directors' Symposium, featuring Zetna Fuentes (Black Cake, Bosch: Legacy, Cursed), Stacey Muhammad (Queen Sugar, Blackish, Manifest), and Salli Richardson-Whitfield (Wheel of Time, Luke Cage, Reprisal, The Gilded Age), moderated by international journalist and Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) member K. J.

Director Alfred Hitchcock considered Shadow of a Doubt his finest film and confirmed it many times in interviews with François Truffaut, Mike Douglas and Dick Cavett. In Laurent Bouzereau’s 2000 documentary Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film, Hitchcock’s daughter, Patricia, says the reason is that “he loved bringing the menace into a small town, into a family that never had any bad things happen to them.

The poster has a glamorous blonde woman smiling over her bare shoulder, and the caption reads: “It’s for tonight, darling, in Istanbul.

For five years the HFPA Global Residency program has been bringing emerging filmmakers from around the world to Hollywood and fulfilling the HFPA’s mission as ambassadors between the American film industry and world cinema by partnering with some of the world’s premiere film festivals. This year once again the Residency endeavored to give participating fellows a first-hand glimpse of American independent filmmaking.

As part of the 2023 HFPA Residency program, participating film makers introduced their films at a Los Angeles screening, followed by a Q&A moderated by an HFPA journalist.   LA-based Azeri actor/director Tahmina Raffaella screened Banu, an affecting chronicle of a woman’s quest to obtain a divorce and custody of her son, along with a personal emancipation from an abusive marriage, in a lonely struggle against the patriarchal mores that stack the game against her.

After a very successful start of the collaboration between the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) and the World Bank this past July, where the panelists included Sharon Stone, Madeline Di Nonno and Christopher Bailey, among others, we are proud to announce that the second part of what will become a series is taking place today, December 8. The topic of today’s discussion is “Preventing Violence Against Women and Girls Through Edutainment.

Ana Maria Bahiana and Ruben V. Nepales won second and third prizes, respectively, for their articles which appeared on the Golden Globes website (goldenglobes.

“I would like to thank divorce,” said Dustin Hoffman, winner of the Best Actor – Drama Golden Globe for Kramer vs. Kramer, when he accepted the award in 1980 from Lee Remick and Rod Steiger.

May your table be plentiful and your day be joyful with family and friends - just like Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman back in one starry Golden Globes night in the 1950s.