2015 nominees

Stories of motherhood and family are popular and wide-ranging. In honoring of Mother’s Day, below is an overview of some movies on the theme from the dramatic to the heartwarming to the utterly comedically outrageous.

Our 2015 class of nominees is a remarkable cross-section of talent from all over the world. Get to know them better in this series of exclusive profiles.

There is truly almost nothing Sylvester Stallone has not done in his career. An actor/director/writer/producer, he has starred in all genres, from his well-known action films to thrillers, comedies, dramas and sports movies, even musicals.

Kate Winslet was born in England to actor Roger Winslet and Sally Bridges-Winslet. She began studying acting at 11 and at age 12 she appeared in a commercial.

It was eighteen years ago when the HFPA met a couple of young actors at New York’s famous Rainbow Room in midtown Manhattan. Their names: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, childhood friends from Boston who had written and starred in a lovely new film, Good Will Hunting.

Michael Shannon is known for being one of the most methodic character actors in the business. He earned his reputation as an intense, magnetic performer on the Chicago stage where his first acting role was in Winterset at the Illinois Theatre Center.

For his role in The Revenant he ate a raw bison liver. But the raw power of Leonardo DiCaprio’s performance in Alejandro Gonzales Iñarritu’s stunning film is even more apparent in his often-wordless struggle with the brutal forces of man and nature.

Christian Bale is a chameleon, like most actors are, but he’s the consummate one. He becomes the person he portrays on screen and he goes to great lengths to portray the characters that he brings to life from the script pages.

At 25, she is the youngest actress to have four Golden Globe and three Oscar nominations with two Globes and one Oscar already won. Joy is her third film with David O.

Idris Elba has been nominated to the Golden Globe, not one but two times once again, this year for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Series, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television, for Luther, as well as for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for his role in Netflix’s Beasts of No Nation, which proves one more time why he is one of the best actors today. “Thank you to the HFPA, who have always been so amazingly supportive of me throughout my career.