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2025 Golden Globes & Potential OSCAR Nominees

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Nikki Glaser   Sonja Flemming/CBS via Getty Images The 2025 Golden Globe Awards delivered an unforgettable evening, celebrating the year's finest achievements in film and television. Here's a recap of the night’s highlights and some of the major winners who may also have Oscar potential. "The Brutalist" Steals the Spotlight " The Brutalist ," entering the night with seven nominations, emerged as a dominant force. Adrien Brody earned his first Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama for his gripping portrayal of László Tóth. Brady Corbet, who co-wrote and directed the film, won the award for Best Director. The movie claimed the Best Drama Motion Picture title, solidifying its place as a front-runner for Oscar season. A Triumph for "Emilia Pérez" Jacques Audiard's "Emilia Pérez" l ed the pack with ten nominations, the most of any film this year. The movie’s stars, Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldaña , were recognized with actin...

One of TV's First Mixed-ish Couples

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In A Fight for Jenny , Kelsey and her new black husband must fight against her racist ex-boyfriend as he attempts to sue for full custody of their young daughter. Now Kelsey and her husband must fight injustice to get her back. Philip Michael Thomas, Lesley Ann Warren, and Jean Smart star. It is both a relief as to how far we've come, yet in many ways, how little progress has been made. In a New York Times review from 1986, the writer says " NBC has had some difficulty deciding how to ''play'' the television movie it is broadcasting tonight."  The network's vacillating no doubt has something to do with the movie's subject. A Fight for Jenny is about an interracial couple.  Kelsey, a divorced mother, is white. David is black.  It would be easy enough to say that interracial relationships are not at all unusual by now in American entertainments. Pop sociologists can point to everything from the film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?  to the televisi...