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For 53 years James Bond has made cinema history – and throughout, the HFPA was there to document it. As Spectre, the 24th Bond film since the franchise launched in 1962 opens worldwide and seeks to perpetuate the success of the iconic character, Ana Maria Bahiana looks back at 53 years of cinema history.

There is at least one film festival every day and every week of the year taking place somewhere in the world. But nowhere is film more often celebrated than in the heart of the film industry, in Hollywood.

A Halloween treat: Extraordinary Tales, the animated film featuring the voices of great movie masters of terror, will be screened at the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia, on Halloween night, and in selected theaters around the country during the same week. A shocking animated anthology of horror comprised of five short stories based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Extraordinary Tales includes the talent of Sir Christopher Lee in his last work before his passing, and the original Dracula, Bela Lugosi, coming back from the land of the dead in a lost recording of “The Tell-Tale Heart”.

Multiple Golden Globe nominee and winner Ricky Gervais will be back for more! Yes, after hosting the show in 2010, 2011 and 2012 Ricky will be back on our Beverly Hilton stage on January 10, 2016 to MC the Golden Globes Awards Ceremony. Returning to the same stage where he brought his acerbic sense of humor to Hollywood, he is sure to add his special kind of British spice to the proceedings.

The HFPA’s Ali Sar talks to Genndy Tartakovsky the director behind the Hotel Transylvania franchise and one of the most distinctive voices in animation todayThere is a child in every animator, and Genndy Tartakovsky is no exception. The challenge is how to make the best use of this talent.

With the passing of one of Hollywood’s truly legendary leading ladies, the HFPA’s Phil Berk remembers a one-of-a-kind icon. Maureen O’Hara gave her last HFPA press conference in June of 1991.

In Back to the Future Part II, Marty McFly travels to October 21, 2015 to try and save his, as yet unborn, children. Well, the future is finally here! On this same momentous date Ana Maria Bahiana goes back to, well.

Three years after the events depicted at the end of Danny Boyle’s biopic Steve Jobs, Jobs was in San Francisco talking to us about an entirely different venture: Pixar, the animation studio created, in 1986, by two scientists from the New York Institute of Technology – Drs. Ed Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith – with a $10 million investment from the founder of Apple Computers.

Andrea Bocelli, in town to tape a special concert of his upcoming new album, stopped by the HFPA to talk about the record. Simply titled “Cinema” it's a tribute to the music of film featuring new arrangement of songs from such classics as Golden Globe-winners Cinema Paradiso and Gladiator.