Anyone looked into the diversity quotient of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association? #GoldenGlobes
Germany’s Elmar Biebl hasn’t updated his blog in a while, but - reassuringly - he is the author of “many books on film”. #goldenglobes elmarbiebl.com 
Vera Anderson represents Mexico
Ana Maria Bahiana (Brazil) #goldenglobes
Mario Amaya (Colombia, Puerto Rico) #goldenglobes
Romania-born Ray Arco (Canada) died two weeks ago, aged 91 #goldenglobes
Serving HFPA President Lorenzo Soria (Italy) died in August at the age of 68 #goldenglobes variety.com/2020/film/news…
Silvia Bizio (Italy) #goldenglobes
Rocio Ayuso (Spain) #goldenglobes
Gilda Baum Lappe (Mexico) #goldenglobes
Unclear whether Philip Berk (Australia, Malaysia) is still a member, following controversies over an alleged sexual assault of Brendan Fraser and a poorly-received memoir. #goldenglobes
Former HFPA President Jorge Camara (Dominican Republic) died in April of last year at the age of 84 #GoldenGlobes
Luca Celada (Italy) #GoldenGlobes
(It’s high time I credited @vulture’s Adam K. Raymond for some of the reporting that contributed to this thread) #GoldenGlobes vulture.com/2015/01/who-ex…
I *think* this is HFPA member Jean-Paul Chaillet (France), author of books about Francis Ford Coppola and W. Somerset Maugham #GoldenGlobes
Rui Henriques Coimbra (Portugal) #GoldenGlobes
Jenny Cooney-Carrillo (Australia, New Zealand) #GoldenGlobes
British-born Jean E. Cummings (Japan), a member since 1977, passed away in 2019 at the age of 87 #GoldenGlobes goldenglobes.com/articles/memor…
Yola Czaderska-Hayek (Poland) claims to have been "the founder and president of the INTERNATIONAL STAR AWARDS®" and was once described as the "first Polish lady of Hollywood." Enjoy her website yola.czaderska.org and this A.V. Club piece avclub.com/her-name-is-yo… #GoldenGlobes
More of Yola #iconic
Ersi Danou (Greece), an HFPA member since 2001, founded the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival (@LAGFF) in 2007 #GoldenGlobes
95-year-old Noël de Souza (India) must be the longest-serving member of the HFPA, having joined in 1957. De Souza also appeared in Wedding Crashers (2005) and played Mahatma Gandhi on an episode of Star Trek: Voyager #GoldenGlobes
Gabrielle Donnelly (U.K.) was born in London and has been a member of the HFPA since 1985. Her novel The Little Women Letters was published in 2012 gabrielledonnellyauthor.com #GoldenGlobes
Mahfouz Doss (Egypt) has been a member of the HFPA since 1959. According to a list of members published in @Variety in 2005, he is apparently one of two members representing Egypt, both surnamed Doss. Any relation? variety.com/2005/film/awar…
A member since 2002, bodybuilder/Mr. Universe winner-turned-action movie producer/star Alexander Nevsky (Russia) #GoldenGlobes dailybreeze.com/2018/01/04/who…
German-born Dagmar Dunlevy (Canada) has been a member since 1989 #GoldenGlobes
Armando Gallo (Italy), who recently celebrated his 77th birthday, interviewed The Beatles in 1967 and has been a writer and photojournalist ever since. He directed the U2 music video "Even Better than the Real Thing" and has published a pile of books about Genesis #GoldenGlobes
Margaret Gardiner (South Africa) was the first South African woman to win the Miss Universe competition (in 1978) #GoldenGlobes
Barbara Gasser (Austria) has been a member since 2011 #GoldenGlobes
André Guimond (Canada) is one of the HFPA's international men of mystery – i.e. I couldn't find a picture of him – though this cheeky @globeandmail piece allegedly unearthed a 1998 piece he wrote about Bruce Willis for the Winnipeg Free Press theglobeandmail.com/arts/meet-the-…
John Hiscock (U.K.) has a blog: johnhiscock.com Here's a piece he wrote about Maisie Williams being old enough to have sex johnhiscock.com/2019/04/sex-sc… #GoldenGlobes
Helen Hoehne (Germany) currently serves as Vice President of the HFPA #GoldenGlobes
Anke Hofmann (Germany) is a regular on the HFPA podcast. Here's last week's episode, in which she interviews actor/producer/director Robin Wright hfpainconversation.libsyn.com/robin-wright
Nellee A. Holmes (Russia), pictured left #GoldenGlobes
(Again, I'm incredibly grateful to @adamkraymond for laying the groundwork for this thread with his terrific piece for @vulture from 2015) vulture.com/2015/01/who-ex…
Munawar Hosain (Denmark, Germany, U.K., Bangladesh, Poland) has been an HFPA member since 1993 #GoldenGlobes
Yoram Kahana (Germany) is a long time member and frequent board director of the HFPA. He guides the Association’s grants for movie restoration, and has represented the HFPA in film festivals around the world. He has been a celebrity photographer since the 1970s. #GoldenGlobes
75-year-old Erkki Kanto, aka Erik Kanto, aka Enrico Canto (Finland) has been an HFPA member since 1992. His online CV describes him as a "Face-Reading Expert, Writer, Lecturer, Entertainer" #GoldenGlobes
Theo Kingma (Australia, the Netherlands, Cuba). Originally a projectionist and later production assistant, he worked on Robert Altman's Vincent & Theo (no relation) before joining the HFPA in 1993. He served as president in the 2013-2014 season. #GoldenGlobes
Mirai Konishi (Japan) became a member of the HFPA in 2011. He is also a filmmaker, having directed Kampai! a documentary about sake #GoldenGlobes
Gabriel Gustavo Lerman (Spain, Costa Rica) currently writes for Barcelona daily La Vanguardia. Here's a recent bio ficg.mx/34/index.php/e… #GoldenGlobes
Former Variety critic Emanuel Levy Ph.D (U.K.) writes for the eponymous website emanuellevy.com which is no doubt what qualifies him as a member of the foreign press #GoldenGlobes
Actress-turned-journalist Lisa Lu (China), who celebrated her 94th birthday in January, has the distinction of being the only a member of the HFPA and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. You may recognise her for having played Ah Ma in Crazy Rich Asians #GoldenGlobes
HFPA officers and board of directors, circa 2016 #goldenglobes
Like many HFPA members, Ramzi Malouki (Algeria, Belgium, France, Morocco, Tunisia), pictured left, enjoys being photographed with celebrities #GoldenGlobes
Michele Manelis (Australia, New Zealand) has been an entertainment journalist for more than 30 years, with bylines in Vogue, Marie Claire, Rolling Stone, Elle and OK #GoldenGlobes
I couldn't find a picture of Karen Martin (Germany) but according to this New York Times article, she stood up for for Belfast-born HFPA member Nick Douglas, who committed suicide after being suspended for selling a photograph of Tom Selleck #GoldenGlobes nytimes.com/2005/12/20/mov…
Paz Mata (Spain) describes herself as a journalist, TV and documentary producer #GoldenGlobes
Juliette Michaud (France) has written several books, including two about her life as a Hollywood journalist #GoldenGlobes
At 26, Kristien Gijbels Morato (Belgium) was the youngest ever inductee into the HFPA. Kristien has a YouTube channel youtube.com/channel/UCLDPd… but hasn't uploaded anything in a while. #GoldenGlobes
Aud Berggren Morisse (Norway) loves having her picture taken with celebrities. She made headlines when fellow Norwegian journalist Kjersti Flaa named her in a lawsuit alleging antitrust violations by the HFPA. (The lawsuit was thrown out.) #GoldenGlobes vulture.com/2020/08/hollyw…
You know Marlène von Arx (Switzerland) means business because her twitter handle is @moviemarlene #GoldenGlobes
Karen Tulich (Croatia) writes for the Los Angeles Times and @ebertvoices rogerebert.com/contributors/k… #GoldenGlobes
Kirpi Uimonen Ballesteros (Finland) was invited to join the HFPA in 2011 and joined the board of directors last year. You may enjoy Kirpi's blog kinokirpi.com/kirpi-uimonen/ #GoldenGlobes
Hervé Tropea (France), pictured left, is a writer, consultant and producer. He is the co-author of two books: Paroles d’Experts and Dr House au scalpel. His website is here: hervetropea.com #GoldenGlobes
Mumbai-born Meher Tatna (Malaysia, Singapore) has been a member since 2002 and served as president 2018-2019 (all HFPA presidents serve a one-year term) #GoldenGlobes
Lynn M. Tso (Taiwan), a member since 2001, spoke to Variety about the strain of watching so many award screeners in the runup to voting for the #GoldenGlobes variety.com/2011/film/news…
Egyptian-born Aida Takla-O’Reilly (Dubai) is the longest-serving member of the HFPA, having joined in 1956. She served as president of the HFPA from 1994-96, and, again, from 2012-13. #GoldenGlobes
Yoko Narita (Japan), a former journalist at Former Journalist at 報知新聞社, likes to be photographed with actresses named Mara #GoldenGlobes
Magnus Sundholm (Sweden), pictured left, is a writer, photographer and videographer, published @Aftonbladet from 1994 to 2020. #GoldenGlobes
U.S-born Jack Tewksbury (France, Argentina), an HFPA member since 1985, died last August at the age of 94. #GoldenGlobes
Hans J. Spürkel (Austria, Switzerland) likes to be photographed wearing a shirt for his favourite football team, Borussia Dortmund. #GoldenGlobes
(Interrupting the thread to post @vox writer @carolineframke's 2018 look at some of the controversies behind the #GoldenGlobes) vox.com/culture/2017/1…
89-year-old Judy Solomon (Israel) joined the HFPA in 1956. Here she is pictured with Gerard Butler in 2011, and a link to an interview on the #GoldenGlobes' official YouTube channel
Dierk Sindermann (Austria, Germany, Switzerland) once courted HFPA controversy by being photographed on the wrong side of a celebrity picture (see below). Some have suggested this led to actress Megan Fox being frozen out of awards consideration. #GoldenGlobes
Elisabeth Sereda (Austria) has been an HFPA member since 1994. In 2007, she published a book, “Jenseits von Glanz and Glamour: Hollywood Backstage”, for which George Clooney wrote the foreword. Here's an interview with her from 2015: austria.org/austrianinform… #GoldenGlobes
Istanbul-born Ali Sar (Turkey, Argentina, Russia), who joined the HFPA in 1985, was elected to the HFPA presidency in August 2020 following the death of incumbent Lorenzo Soria, as detailed in this @THR piece by @ScottFeinberg hollywoodreporter.com/race/hfpa-veep… #GoldenGlobes
Franco-American writer Frank Rousseau (Belgium, France, French Antilles) is one of the HFPA's international men of mystery, although he does apparently write for Blush Dream magazine blush-mag.com/en/magazine/fr… #GoldenGlobes
Mohammed Rouda (Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, U.K.), pictured left, is a former Variety and Screen International correspondent and author of Arabic-language books on cinema. He hasn't updated his blog in a while but he posts regularly at facebook.com/people/Mohamme… #GoldenGlobes
Patrick Roth (Germany) is a German writer known primarily as a novelist. In "Starlite Terrace" (available in English), Roth "unfurls the tragic linked stories four neighbours in a sort of burlesque of the Hollywood modern" (it says here) #GoldenGlobes
Serge Rakhlin (Latvia, Russia, Ukraine), a member since 1996, serves as Chairman of the Foreign Language Film Committee of the HFPA, and is the writer of several unproduced screenplays. There's a bio here: fjawards.com/experts/1-serg… #GoldenGlobes
Writer Madeleine 'Alena' Prime (France, Tahiti), a member of the HFPA since 1979, was a writer and wife of French actor Marcel Dalio, best remembered for his roles in Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game and Grand Illusion. She passed away in early 2020. #GoldenGlobes
(A brief interlude to remember the four HFPA members who passed away last year) #GoldenGlobes #InMemoriam
HJ Park (South Korea), who has written for Korea Times for 40 years, is the only HFPA who is also a member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (@LAFilmCritics). Read more about him here: lafca.net/critics/Hj_Par… #GoldenGlobes
Miroslava 'Mira' Panajotovich Vukelich was born in Yugoslavia (now Serbia) and has spent decades writing for the Serbian press. Her brother, Ilija 'Ika' Panajotovic, was also an HFPA member. until his death in 2001. Her website is miroslavavukelich.com #GoldenGlobes
Scott Orlin (Germany) writes primarily for German film magazine Cinema (@CINEMA_KINO_DVD) and, like many HFPA members, enjoys being photographed with film stars against neutral backgrounds #GoldenGlobes
Like many of her fellow HFPA members, Yenny Nun (Chile), entertainment reporter for Revistas COSAS, enjoys being photographed with film stars against neutral backgrounds #GoldenGlobes
Ruben Nepales (Dubai, the Philippines) was the first Filipino member of the HFPA, and is the author of the book "Through a Writer's Lens" (sic), and husband of HFPA member Janet Nepales. Full bio here: rappler.com/author/ruben-v… #GoldenGlobes
Janet Nepales (the Philippines) is a writer and TV reporter covering Hollywood for several Filipino outlets, and is the wife of HFPA member Ruben Nepales. Here's Janet and Ruben talking about the 2020 #GoldenGlobes awards:
Anikó Návai (Hungary) wrote "Mr. Hollywood, Mr. Hungary", a book about the late film producer Andy Vajna, and is a presenter for facebook.com/hellohollywood… In 2012 she was named in a lawsuit alleging corruption in a prominent Hungarian film fund variety.com/2012/film/news… #GoldenGlobes
Noemia Young (Canada), like many members of the HFPA, enjoys being photographed with a diverse variety of actors against neutral backgrounds. You can find out more about her on her eponymous website: noemiayoung.com #GoldenGlobes
Alessandra Venezia Ph.D (Italy) has written for Panorama, Italian Vogue and L'Unita. I'd love to add a photograph of Alessandra but it has so far proved impossible to find one. But here she is interviewing Spike Lee for the HFPA podcast hfpainconversation.libsyn.com/spike-lee #GoldenGlobes
Lilly Lui (Hong Kong) has been a member since 2004. #GoldenGlobes
Longtime member (and Golden Globe-winning producer), photographer Max B. Miller, committed suicide the day after the 2011 #GoldenGlobes. His photography company, Fotos International, had been denied a permit to take pictures at the ceremony. hollywoodreporter.com/news/hfpa-memb…
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