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2021 Golden Globes Winners: The Complete List
The 2021 Golden Globe Awards took place on Sunday night after being delayed for nearly two months due to COVID-19. Now in its 78th year, the Golden Globes honor the best in film and television as determined by the Hollywood Foreign Press. Film was scattered, but as expected. Nomadland and Borat Subsequent Moviefilm predictably ran away with their respective top honors, Minari won the only nomination it (tragically) could, Daniel Kaluuya matched the award seasons buzz with his Best Supporting Actor win for Judas and the Black Messiah, and Soul nabbed both Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score. Television belonged to Netflix with essential wins for both The Crown and The Queen’s Gambit. The former ruled over Best Drama, Best Actor for Josh O’Connor, Best Actress for Emma Corrin,...
Cyllabus- Cyllabus EP
Don’t miss this brand new Song titled Cyllabus- Cyllabus EP out now. Fast-rising Nigeria singer, Cyllabus has finally released his much-anticipated EP titled, “Cyllabus”. The amazing singer dished out “Cyllabus” which houses six songs which are “With You”, “Mario”, “Ogara Ogara”, “Connect”, and “Story of My Life”. The songs released by this talented Nigeria are all worth downloading and vibing to while in our relaxed mood, clubs or events. Cyllabus is all out to create a presence in the competitive music industry and buy himself a special space in the heart of music lovers. Listen, enjoy Cyllabus – “Cyllabus” EP below. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beaut...
EXHORDER Is Working On ‘Amazing’ New Album
Vocalist Kyle Thomas of New Orleans-based thrash metal pioneers EXHORDER has confirmed to “The Dan Chan Show” that he and his bandmates are “in pre-production for a new album” at the moment. He said (hear audio below): “I’m writing at home. Marzi‘s [Montazeri, guitar] writing at home. Jason [Viebrooks, bass] and Sasha [Horn, drums] are writing at home. They work together as well. So everybody’s kind of piecing everything together. We share the files, we make recommendations to each other and tweak it. We’re just throwing it to the wall and seeing what sticks. But so far, we’ve got some really, really good stuff [in the works].” Asked if EXHORDER fans should expect to see the follow-up to 2019’s “Mourn The Souther...
Mogwai, Olivia Rodrigo Rule U.K. Charts
Released independently through the act’s label Rock Action, Every Country’s Sun ends the chart week some 2,900 combined sales ahead of the second-placed effort, Ghetts’ new arrival Conflict of Interest (Warner Records), the OCC reports. “It is 25 years this week since the release of our first single ‘Tuner/Lower,’ the first release on our own label Rock Action Records,” reads a statement from Mogwai. “We didn’t start the band or the label to get into the charts. None of us ever envisaged either the band or the label being in a position where having a No. 1 record would be a possibility.” Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia (Warner Records) continues to climb following the release of its “Moonlight Edition.” It’s up 4-3, while The Weeknd’s The Highlights (Republi...
Here Are All the Winners From the 2021 Golden Globes
Best Motion Picture — DramaThe FatherMankNomadland — WINNERPromising Young WomanThe Trial of the Chicago 7 Best Motion Picture — Musical or ComedyBorat Subsequent Moviefilm — WINNERHamiltonMusicPalm SpringsThe Prom Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture — DramaRiz Ahmed, Sound of MetalChadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom — WINNERAnthony Hopkins, The FatherGary Oldman, MankTahar Rahim, The Mauritanian Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture — DramaViola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black BottomAndra Day, The United States Vs. Billie Holiday — WINNERVanessa Kirby, Pieces of a WomanFrances McDormand, NomadlandCarey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman Best Director, Motion PictureEmerald Fennell, Promising Young WomanDavi...
Andra Day’s Billie Holiday Portrayal Wins Golden Globe for Best Actress
At the 2021 Golden Globes on Sunday (Feb. 28) evening, Andra Day walked away with the prestigious Golden Globe for actress in a drama motion picture for her portrayal of the incalculably influential jazz singer Billie Holiday in The United States vs. Billie Holiday. Day, a singer in her own right whose 2015 single “Rise Up” is a contemporary socio-political anthem, was happily shaken and emotional during her acceptance speech. Surrounded by friends, Day saluted “the amazing, transformative, dynamic Billie Holiday [who] transformed me with this role and her presence and her spirit.” You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat an...
Tash Sultana Lands First Australian No. 1 With ‘Terra Firma’
“I’ve had the most incredible, emotional and overwhelming week after releasing Terra Firma and I’m just really lost for words that it’s No. 1. Like I really am lost for words.” comments Sultana, the Melbourne-based singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. “I was really unsatisfied with the work I’ve done in the past prior to Terra Firma and my mission for this record was to try to be better than I was the day before, the month before, the year before,” they continue. “I produced, arranged, composed, co-engineered and played everything on this record and did it all in my own studio. This was my mission, my entire soul, the air in my lungs and to have it received this way is so much more than I ever expected.” Further down the national albums chart, Ariana Grande’s Positions...
Trent Reznor and Attcus Ross’ Soul Wins Golden Globe for Best Original Score
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ original score for Soul took home the award for Best Original Score at the 2021 Golden Globe Awards. Late Show bandleader Jon Batiste was also honored for his contributions to the Pixar movie, and Soul itself nabbed the trophy for Best Animated Feature Film. “This is the first work of art I’ve ever made that I can show to my kids,” Reznor said in his acceptance speech. The Nine Inch Nails members actually received two nominations in the category, as the duo’s score for Mank was also among the five finalists. Other nominees included Ludwig Göransson (Tenet), Alexandre Desplat (The Midnight Sky), and James Newton Howard (News of the World). For Reznor and Ross, their first-ever score for an animated children’s film was a totally new experience. “We scored ...
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm Wins Best Comedy at 2021 Golden Globes
Very nice! Borat Subsequent Moviefilm won Best Motion Picture – Comedy at tonight’s Golden Globe Awards. Additionally, Borat himself, Sacha Baron Cohen, claimed the prize for Best Actor in a Comedy. Taking place 14 years after the events of the original Borat film, the world-famous Kazakh journalist returned to Yankeeland in 2020 in order to gift his daughter, Tutar, to then Vice Premiere Mikhael Pence. Along the way, Borat and Tutar are forced to navigate a deadly pandemic, QAnon conspiracy theorists, and Rudy Giuliani. In accepting the award for Best Comedy, Baron Cohen singled out the former New York City mayor. “I’ve got to say, this movie could not have been possible without my co-star, a fresh new talent who came from nowhere and turned out to be a comedy genius,”...
Nomadland’s Chloé Zhao Becomes Only Second Woman Ever to Win Best Director at Golden Globes
Nomadland filmmaker Chloé Zhao made history during the 2021 Golden Globes, becoming only the second woman to win the award for Best Director. She’s also the first Asian woman to claim the honor. Zhao, a 38-year-old native of Beijing, China, won for Nomadland, which follows Fern (played by Frances McDormand) as she embarks on a new life as a van-dwelling nomad, traveling the American West. Nomadland also won Best Motion Picture – Drama during tonight’s Golden Globes. Prior to Zhao’s victory, Barbra Streisand had been the only woman to ever win Best Director at the Golden Globes. Streisand earned the prize in 1984 for Yentl. In fact, over the course of the Golden Globes first 77 years, only five women total had been nominated for top filmmaker: Streisand, Ava DuVernay, Jane Campion...
Chadwick Boseman Posthumously Wins Golden Globe for Best Actor
Chadwick Boseman has posthumously won the 2021 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama, for his final film performance as a blues trumpeter in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Boseman died last summer of colon cancer at the age of 43. As Newsweek reports, he’s only the second actor to receive this accolade posthumously, after Peter Finch won in 1977 for his cracked performance as broadcaster Howard Beale in Network. His wife Simone Ledward Boseman accepted the award on his behalf. “He would thank God, he would thank his parents, he would thank his ancestors for their guidance and their sacrifices,” she said, before tearfully offering gratitude to his cast mates, friends, and director George C. Wolfe. “He would say something beautiful. Something inspiring… And I don’t hav...
THE OFFSPRING’s DEXTER HOLLAND: ‘I Don’t Consider Us A Political Band’
THE OFFSPRING singer Bryan “Dexter” Holland and guitarist Kevin “Noodles” Wasserman spoke to the Minneapolis, Minnesota radio station 93X about the band’s upcoming tenth studio album, “Let The Bad Times Roll”, which will arrive on April 16 via Concord Records. The follow-up to 2012’s “Days Go By” was once again produced by Bob Rock, who also worked on the band’s last two LPs. Asked if they think the “Let The Bad Times Roll” title track is the “most outwardly political song” in THE OFFSPRING‘s discography, Dexter said: “I don’t consider us a political band, I’ll say that first. And when you’re talking about ‘Let The Bad Times Roll’, there really is a personal s...
