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'Barbenheimer' tipped to dominate revamped Golden Globes nominations
AFP, Published on 11/12/2023
» LOS ANGELES - "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" -- the unlikely pair of films that dominated the box office and spawned countless internet memes this summer -- are expected to lead the newly revamped Golden Globes when nominations are unveiled Monday.
Golden Globes journalist group to be dissolved as awards taken private
AFP, Published on 13/06/2023
» LOS ANGELES: The scandal-hit association of foreign journalists that created the Golden Globes will be wound down as the Hollywood award show is formally purchased by private investors including US billionaire Todd Boehly, it was announced Monday.
DR Congo dandies honour fallen icon
AFP, Published on 11/02/2023
» KINSHASA: Flamboyant dandies paraded near the tomb of one of their icons in DR Congo's capital Kinshasa, flaunting coveted designer labels in stark contrast to the grinding poverty surrounding them.
Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker Prize
AFP, Published on 18/10/2022
» LONDON: Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka on Monday won Britain's Booker Prize for fiction for his work "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida", about a journalist murdered amid the country's sectarian strife.
Golden Globes group approve bid to take Hollywood award show private
AFP, Published on 29/07/2022
» LOS ANGELES: The scandal-hit group behind Hollywood's Golden Globes has approved a bid to spin off the lucrative film and television awards show into a new, for-profit entity controlled by US billionaire Todd Boehly, it said Thursday.
Oscar spotlight shines on India's rural women journalists
AFP, Published on 18/03/2022
» BANDA, India: An all-women team of smartphone-toting, low-caste reporters who chronicle India's hardscrabble heartland may give the cinema-mad country its first Oscar-winning film, after their own story became a critically lauded documentary.
Off-air Golden Globes to list winners as Hollywood boycott bites
AFP, Published on 10/01/2022
» LOS ANGELES: "Belfast" and "West Side Story" are among the frontrunners for a drastically scaled-down 79th Golden Globes on Sunday, where winners will be unveiled via Twitter from an untelevised ceremony that is being boycotted by Hollywood.
Forced off TV, have the Golden Globes lost their luster?
AFP, Published on 07/01/2022
» LOS ANGELES: No stars, no red carpet, no televised broadcast: this year's Golden Globe winners will be announced at a drastically scaled-down ceremony Sunday. But do the awards even matter anymore?
Richard Leakey, fossil hunter and defender of elephants, dies aged 77
AFP, Published on 03/01/2022
» NAIROBI: World-renowned Kenyan conservationist and fossil hunter Richard Leakey, whose groundbreaking discoveries helped prove that humankind evolved in Africa, died on Sunday at the age of 77, the country's president said.
'Belfast' and 'Power of the Dog' top nominations for troubled Globes
AFP, Published on 13/12/2021
» LOS ANGELES: Kenneth Branagh's childhood-inspired "Belfast" and Jane Campion's dark Western "Power of the Dog" topped Monday's Globes nominations, as the troubled awards seek to overcome a dispute over diversity and transparency.