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Hollywood's biggest stars gather on Jan. 5 for the glitzy Golden Globes, the first major awards show of a packed season that looks set to mark Netflix's coming-of-age in Tinseltown.
The celebrity-filled gala in Beverly Hills is billed as the most raucous event in the showbiz calendar, where success helps create buzz ahead of next month's Oscars.

The Hollywood Turkish Film Festival will be held on Sept. 20, 21 and 22 at the world famous Paramount Studios for the first time in Turkish cinema history. The event is supported by the Ministry of Culture and the Tourism General Directorate of Cinema in a bid to reunite Turkish cinema with the global market.

Turkey now has voting power in Hollywood with Barbaros Tapan as the first-ever Turkish member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) that conducts the annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony.

"The Golden Globes, which precedes the Oscars each year, should not only be seen as an awards ceremony.

"La La Land," Damien Chazelle's tribute to the Golden Age of American musicals, led the Golden Globe nominations on Dec. 12  with seven nods, including for best musical/comedy film and for its two star actors.

"Moonlight," "Manchester by the Sea" and "Florence Foster Jenkins" followed with six, five and four nominations respectively.

Pioneer-era tale 'The Revenant' wins three awards including best drama film at the Golden Globes. The other big winner was space adventure 'The Martian'Revenge drama "The Revenant" and space adventure "The Martian" took the top film awards at the Golden Globes on Jan.

'Carol,' a lesbian romance about a 1950s housewife in New York who falls for a store clerk, leads the Golden Globe nominations with five nods"Carol," a lesbian romance about a 1950s housewife in New York who falls for a store clerk, led the Golden Globe nominations on Dec. 10 with five nods, including noms for best drama film and both its star actresses.