Cynthia Erivo

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She was only 18 months when she started humming a song, her mother said. She remembers the first time on stage when she was five, a shepherd in a nativity singing ‘Silent Night.

If anyone doubted that the ‘80s are being revisited, you only need to look at the size of sleeves appearing on the red carpet to know they are trending. Two other themes: pink continues to show up as do metallics.

Fashion is exploding in the color trend that started at the Golden Globes. Brights crested in all forms of pink.

Cynthia Erivo is nominated for a Golden Globe for her song “Stand Up” and also in the Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama category. But the Broadway star is also notable on the red carpet.

British actress and singer Cynthia Erivo played abolitionist Harriet Tubman in the movie Harriet directed by Kasi Lemmons. She also wrote the original song Stand Up, and performed it over the end credits.

Celebrated Broadway musical star, Cynthia Erivo takes on her first cinematic lead role in bio pic Harriet directed by Kasi Lemmons based on the life of iconic abolitionist and freedom fighter, Harriet Tubman who bravely escaped slavery running a hundred miles to freedom and then continued to return to liberate the lives of hundreds of slaves. HFPA member Henry Arnaud spoke to Erivo in this video interview.

Sometimes it feels like the stylists get together and decide the hue for the week. They don’t.

Color virtually disappeared on the carpet this week but when it was there it couldn’t be ignored.

The 30th New Orleans Film Festival ended with Kasi Lemmon’s new film Harriet, about Harriet Tubman, the African American Joan of Arc who lead over 700 slaves to safety on the Underground Railroad in the late 1850s and early 1860s, and whose face would be on the 20 dollar bill, if the current President had not nixed this plan as soon as he took office. Tubman is played by British singer/actress Cynthia Erivo and moviegoers will recognize cast members like Vondie Curtis-Hall, Joe Alwyn, Vanessa Bell-Calloway and others.