Date Announced for the 81st Annual Golden Globe Awards® - Sunday, January 7, 2024

Awards Confirmed to Return on First Sunday in January

Swati Bhat

The date for the 81st Annual Golden Globe Awards has been confirmed for Sunday, January 7, 2024, kicking off the entertainment industry’s highly anticipated awards season.

Produced by dick clark productions (dcp), the Golden Globe Awards are viewed in more than 220 countries and territories worldwide and it is one of the few awards ceremonies to honor recipients for both motion picture and television achievements.

The announcement follows the recent success of the 2023 80th Annual Golden Globe Awards held last month, which delivered a slate of deserving winners to a global television and streaming audience with more than 24.2 billion impressions on social media platforms worldwide.

Proceeds from the broadcast provide funding for the Golden Globe's philanthropy and charitable giving programs. In 2022, more than $4.5 million dollars was awarded to 93 programs and organizations. These donations support a diverse range of nonprofit organizations that help underserved communities and programs, as well as universities and colleges. In addition, the grants support film restoration projects both in the United States and overseas, as well as journalism programs that provide aid and assistance to journalists across the globe.

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The Winner of the First Berlinale Series Award in Cooperation with Deadline is The Good Mother

The Berlinale Series jury Mette Heeno, André Holland and Danna Stern – has decided: The first Berlinale Series Award in cooperation with Deadline goes to The Good Mothers. A Special Mention has been dedicated to the Norwegian Series Arkitekten (The Architect ).

The Team of the winning series of the first Berlinale Series Award, The Good Mothers: Daniel Frigo (country manager The Walt Disney Company Italia), Elisa Amoruso (director), Julian Jarrold (director), Alessandro Saba (head of productions The Walt Disney Company Italia)

The original jury statement:

“The Good Mothers captured us with its multi-layered characters that are treated with care and allow to evolve before our very eyes. We were moved, anxious and, at times, breathless.

The series creators have been meticulous in recreating an authentic and detailed world, presented by a stellar cast, with performances that made our hearts skip a beat.

The beautiful cinematography, production design and locations contribute to the ultra-realistic feel of the show, which is only right, considering it is based on true events and on real life characters – the courageous women who stood up to decades of oppression and misogyny and helped bring down the Calabrian mafia.”

The Berlinale Series Award is the first A-festival award created specifically for a series. With the introduction of the Berlinale Series in 2015, the Berlinale became the world's first A-list festival to recognise changing viewing habits and the importance of serial storytelling.

Seven series were nominated for the Berlinale Series Award, which was presented on Wednesday, February 22, at Zoo Palast.

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Vivienne Tam introduces NFTs to New York Fashion Week.

With a collection that brought the digital world right onto the physical runway, CFDA member Vivienne Tam offered an alternative take on metaverse incorporation.

Swati Bhat

Vivienne Tam AW23, NYFW. Image: Vivienne Tam

The designer was inspired by a utopian vision of Hong Kong in her AW23 collection, 'Weaving into the Metaverse,' where Web3, blockchain, and gaming worlds already run rampant. Images of China's 12 zodiac symbols sat alongside visuals of Web3 NFTs, which Tam saw as weaving "the cradle of civilisation into the metaverse" on a number of pieces.

"From the beginning of civilisation, humanity has used pictures to communicate and document our history; now, humanity uses pictures to create new currencies, communities, environments, and even worlds," the designer said in a statement.

Tam's New York Fashion Week presentation was mirrored in an after party where guests could access both the in-person and metaverse worlds via live portals.

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