In the category of best actress in a drama, Isabelle Huppert beat out Amy Adams, Jessica Chastain, Ruth Negga and Natalie Portman. “Do not expect cinema to set up walls and borders”, said Isabelle Huppert in her acceptance speech. Perhaps an Oscar nomination is in store?

Nominations for the 89^th Oscars ceremony will be announced on January 24^th. Elle, which won the Golden Globe last night for Best Foreign Language Motion Picture, is sadly not on the shortlist in this category at the Oscars. This is why director Paul Verhoven thanked “the Hollywood foreign press for being so open minded” during his Golden Globe acceptance speech. His film Elle attracted approximately 130,000 moviegoers in the United States and is currently playing in twenty cities across the country. See the listing here: http://www.frenchflicks.com/film-31/alias/elle.html

La La land, by Damien Chazelle was the big winner last night and won Best Picture Comedy or Musical, Best Director and Best Screenplay.