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Every Golden Globes Best Drama Winner Since 1952
By Joseph Bien-Kahn, Stacker News
On 3/1/21 at 8:00 PM EST
This year s Golden Globes were unlike any other in its storied history, which began in 1944 when the Hollywood Foreign Press Association gathered at the studios of Twentieth Century-Fox to celebrate the filmmaking achievements of 1943. Seventy-plus years later, the Golden Globes Awards show is the first to kick off the awards calendar, and after being delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 78th Golden Globe Awards aired remotely, with hosts Amy Poehler emceeing from L.A. and Tina Fey from New York City. Winners tuned in from their own homes, some in the traditional ball gowns and tuxes, others in their pajamas.
This story was first published byThe Conversation.
Music is not a zero sum game with only one “best”. But if you seek to name one musician whose life embodies the South African people’s struggle for a national culture, it must be trombonist, composer and cultural activist Jonas Mosa Gwangwa, who was born on 19 October 1937 in Orlando East, Johannesburg, and died on 23 January 2021 in Johannesburg aged 83.
Through 65 years on stage, Gwangwa’s playing contributed to every genre of South African jazz. Overseas, he was hailed as player, producer and composer. Yet he chose to step away from mainstream success for 10 years, leading the Amandla Cultural Ensemble of the African National Congress (ANC) to win hearts for the anti-apartheid struggle everywhere and present a vision of what post-apartheid national culture could be.
LaKeith Stanfield and Daniel Kaluuya star in Judas And The Black Messiah
JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH (Shaka King). 127 minutes. Available as a premium VOD rental February 12. Rating:
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The events of Judas And The Black Messiah take place half a century ago, in 1968 and 1969. But the issues at play in Shaka King’s stirring film, the ramifications of its drama – hell, even some of the dialogue – are utterly, piercingly contemporary.
Judas And The Black Messiah tells the story of Fred Hampton, who in a just world would stand with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X in a triumvirate of American civil-rights leaders. But this isn’t a just world, and Hampton – a charismatic community organizer with the Chicago chapter of the Black Panthers, and on track to a position of prominence in the national organization – was killed before he could make good on his incredible potential, shot dead in a Chicago apartment during a police raid. He was 21 years old. He was aslee