BEVERLY HILLS — The Beverly Hilton was truly rocking last night. Unlike a year ago when many of the post-show party attendees spent hours in a nearby parking garage trying to get to the event due to increased security restrictions, the drama took place during the show itself, not after. And while many of the “La La Land” and “Moonlight” contingents were hard to find you could walk into the Warner Bros./InStyle party and see Nick Jonas catching a smoke or LA Clippers center DeAndre Jordan soaking up the NBA fan love like Kobe Bryant used to do back in the day.* Or you might catch Diego Luna with a backpack casually on over his tuxedo jacket walking through the Hilton lobby, Isabelle Huppert taking photos with well wishers on the red carpet, Winona Ryder and the “Stranger Things” cast chilling at the packed Netflix/The Weinstein Company shindig, Pablo Larrain and Natalie Portman relaxing as the “Atlanta” team celebrated on the other side of the Fox party or Questlove DJing past midnight at an Amazon Studios fete that nobody wanted to leave.

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The HFPA gives birth to awards season dreams and the HFPA crushes them. Well, that’s what they like to think. The Golden Globe Awards are nothing more really than a marketing exercise to get people to buy tickets for end of year prestige flicks and to get Academy members to put one or two films higher on that screener pile.  Keeping that in mind we’ve studied the nominees for the 74th Golden Globes announced earlier this morning and compiled a pretty fair best and worst list for your consideration.

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It went down to the wire, but Dick Clark Productions, the HFPA and NBC finally found three stars to either stay up all night or get up incredibly early to announce the 74th Golden Globe Awards nominees on Monday morning.  The three suckers, er, stars are Don Cheadle, Laura Dern and Anna Kendrick.

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