The countdown to the 82nd Golden Globe Awards continued at a star-studded cocktail reception October 13 on the SoHo Home The Mews in Mayfair throughout the 68th version of the BFI London Movie Competition.
The most recent addition of the SoHo Homes was filled with movie and TV trade individuals speaking about their experiences on the BFI London Movie Competition, their present initiatives, what they’re filming now, world politics and locations the place they’ve been or wish to go to.
The occasion, protecting the patio and first and second flooring, introduced collectively over 170 visitors.
They included filmmaker Denis Villeneuve, actors Kingsley Ben-Adir, Adrien Brody, Jesse Eisenberg, Karla Sofía Gascón, Celia Imrie, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Sturdy and Ruth Wilson, and actor-writers Stephen Service provider and Will Sharpe.
Golden Globes president Helen Hoehne mentioned, “Bringing the Golden Globes to the BFI London Movie Competition reinforces our dedication to supporting vital movie festivals worldwide. We’re thrilled to be in London, internet hosting such an exquisite group of actors, creatives, and trade executives. It was an unimaginable evening to attach with artists from across the globe and have a good time the easiest within the leisure trade.”
Villeneuve arrived after a particular screening of “Dune: Half Two” on Sunday, his third time on the London fest. “The pageant has been actually nice this 12 months,” he mentioned. “Such a variety collection of movies and so effectively organized. The occasion has uniqueness by itself.”
“Dune: Half Two” is likely one of the highest grossing motion pictures of 2024, with over $700 million worldwide thus far. And it nonetheless finds its enthusiastic viewers. “It’s nice, particularly taking in consideration that the film opened in March,” movie’s producer and Villeneuve’s partner Tanya Lapointe continued.
Different notables on the occasion embrace Maria Bakalova, Sacha Baron Cohen, Asa Butterfield, Georgina Chapman, Jennifer Gray, Ben Hardy, John Magaro, Saga Radia and Jenny Walser.
Gascón, who shared the Cannes Competition’s Finest Actress Award with Zoë Saldaña, Selena Gomez and Adriana Paz for the Spanish-language French musical crime comedy “Emilia Pérez,” attended the London pageant for the primary time. For her, it was the very best pageant expertise thus far this season, including, “I particularly favored the film theatre on the Royal Competition Corridor.”
Eisenberg, director, author and actor of “A Actual Ache” — film about two cousins touring to Poland to honor their grandmother — was speaking vigorous with the Golden Globe president Helen Hoehne. Additionally receiving congrats had been Stan, Sturdy and Bakalova, who star in “The Apprentice,” about Donald Trump within the Seventies and Eighties and his relationship with lawyer Roy Cohn. Bakalova performs Trump’s first spouse, Ivana.
Additionally in a mixture had been Ben-Adir who performs reggae singer Bob Marley in “Bob Marley: One Love”; Baron Cohen, one of many important actors of the restricted collection “Disclaimer”; and Ruth Wilson, who stars within the restricted collection “A Very Royal Scandal” as journalist Emily Maitlis who interviewed Prince Andrew and investigated his relationship with convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Brody, who will likely be seen in “The Brutalist” – a narrative about Hungarian-born Jewish architect who survives the Holocaust and emigrates to the US along with his spouse – was surrounded by well-wishers.
Magaro talked about his new film “September 5,” a narrative concerning the 1972 Munich Olympics hostage disaster from the facet of ABC Sports activities crew. From London he’ll fly to New York to movie an espionage TV collection, “The Company.”
This 12 months’s BFI London Movie Competition’s Golden Globe occasion was in partnership with SoHo Home The Mews in Mayfair and luxury-lifestyle journal Robb Report; the occasion was sponsored by OGM Photos.
Nominations for the Golden Globes will likely be introduced Monday, Dec. 9. The Golden Globe Awards, aka “The Greatest Get together of the 12 months,” will air Sunday Jan. 5, 2025, on CBS