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Which actor, actress and director have won the most Golden Globes in history?

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Every year the Golden Globes honors the best in television and cinema from the previous 12 months but the 2022 edition will be held in unusual conditions, compared to previous years.

Nevertheless, here is a list of some of the biggest winners over the 78 previous editions of the awards

Who has won the most awards?

Actress - Meryl Streep . The veteran actress has won a mighty 7 Golden Globes for roles in “The Devil Wears Prada” and “The Iron Lady.” Rosalind Russell finishes second with 6 awards.

. The veteran actress has won a mighty 7 Golden Globes for roles in “The Devil Wears Prada” and “The Iron Lady.” Rosalind Russell finishes second with 6 awards. Actor - Alan Alda and Jack Nicholson . Alda won 6 awards, all for the hit TV show “MAS*H”, while Nicholson won awards for “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” as well as “Chinatown.”

. Alda won 6 awards, all for the hit TV show “MAS*H”, while Nicholson won awards for “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” as well as “Chinatown.” Director - Elia Kazan, His four awards were for “Gentleman’s Agreement, “On The Waterfront”, “Baby Doll”, and “America America”.

Where can this year’s be watched?

In May NBC announced that it would not air the 2022 Golden Globes ceremony so that the organization could have time to implement changes the HFPA had proposed. “We continue to believe that the HFPA is committed to meaningful reform. However, change of this magnitude takes time and work,” the statement read. “Assuming the organization executes on its plan, we are hopeful we will be in a position to air the show in January 2023.”

So, there is nowhere to watch it live.

Today’s famous birthdays list for January 14, 2022 includes celebrities LL Cool J, Jason Bateman

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Top celebrity birthdays on January 14, 2022

Birthday wishes go out to LL Cool J, Jason Bateman and all the other celebrities with birthdays today. Check out our slideshow below to see photos of famous people turning a year older on January 14th and learn an interesting fact about each of them.

FILE - In this Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017, file photo, Faye Dunaway arrives at the Oscars on at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Dunaway says she thought co-presenter Warrant Beatty was joking when he paused before showing her the envelope with the Oscar’s best picture winner. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP

Actress Faye Dunaway turns 81

Fun fact: Appeared in the 1968 version of ‘The Thomas Crown Affair’ opposite Steve McQueen

Carl Weathers attends the LA premiere of “The Mandalorian,” at the El Capitan Theatre, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP

Actor Carl Weathers turns 74

Fun fact: Played the same character in ‘Chicago Fire,’ ‘Chicago P.D.’ and ‘Chicago Justice’

Director Steven Soderbergh attends the “No Sudden Move” premiere during the 20th Tribeca Festival at The Battery on Friday, June 18, 2021, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

Director Steven Soderbergh turns 59

Fun fact: Had two 2000 nominations for Best Director Ocars: For ‘Traffic’ and ‘Erin Brokovich’

Actress Emily Watson attends the screening for “Tribeca TV : Chernobyl” during the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival at Spring Studios on Friday, April 26, 2019, in New York. (Photo by Brent N. Clarke/Invision/AP)Brent N. Clarke/Invision/AP

Actress Emily Watson turns 55

Fun fact: Her middle name is Margaret

LL COOL J speaks as Billy Porter performs as President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden attend the National Christmas Tree lighting ceremony at the Ellipse near the White House, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)AP

Rapper and actor LL Cool J turns 54

Fun fact: Appeared as a football player in ‘Any Given Sunday’

Jason Bateman appears at the “The Outsider” panel during the HBO TCA 2020 Winter Press Tour at the Langham Huntington on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020, in Pasadena, Calif. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP

Actor Jason Bateman turns 53

Fun fact: His only Primetime Emmy win came for directing, not acting

Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters perform during the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/David Richard)AP

Rocker Dave Grohl turns 53

Fun fact: Has 39 Grammy nominations and 16 wins

More celebrities with birthdays today

Blues singer Clarence Carter is 86. Singer Jack Jones is 84. Actor Holland Taylor (“Two and a Half Men,” ″The Practice”) is 79. Singer-producer T-Bone Burnett is 74. Singer Geoff Tate (Queensryche) is 63. TV anchor Shepard Smith is 58. Actor-producer Dan Schneider (“Head of the Class”) is 58. Rapper Slick Rick is 57. Actor-comedian Tom Rhodes (“Mr. Rhodes”) is 55. Guitarist Zakk Wylde (Ozzy Osbourne, Black Label Society) is 55. Actor Kevin Durand (“Lost,” ″Fruitvale Station”) is 48. Actor Jordan Ladd (“Death Proof”) is 47. Actor Emayatzy Corinealdi (“Middle of Nowhere”) is 42. Singer-guitarist Caleb Followill of Kings of Leon is 40. Actor Zach Gilford (“The Family,” ″Friday Night Lights”) is 40. Guitarist Joe Guese of The Click Five is 40. Actor Jake Choi (“Single Parents”) is 37. Singer-actor Grant Gustin (“The Flash”) is 32. Bluegrass musician Molly Tuttle is 29.

Other popular or historical birthdays on January 14th

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Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Prize winner

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2021 celebrity deaths included actors Ed Asner, Hal Holbrook and Norm, MacDonald as well as Larry King and Colin Powell. (AP)

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Robert Allan Ackerman, Acclaimed Director for Stage and Television, Dies at 77

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Robert Allan Ackerman, the admired director who guided the likes of Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Helen Mirren, Vanessa Redgrave, Sean Penn and Anne Bancroft in productions for stage and television, has died. He was 77.

Ackerman died Monday of kidney failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, a family spokesman told The Hollywood Reporter.

A Brooklyn native and protégé of famed theatrical producer Joseph Papp, Ackerman received two of his five career Emmy nominations for directing and producing the 2001 miniseries Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows, starring Judy Davis.

He landed two more Emmy noms two years later for directing Tennessee Williams’ The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, starring Anne Bancroft and Helen Mirren, and for executive producing the HBO telefilm My House in Umbria, starring Maggie Smith.

For other telefilms, he directed Bancroft and Hector Elizondo in 1992’s Mrs. Cage; Kirstie Alley in 1994’s David’s Mother; Diana Ross and Brandy in 1999’s Double Platinum; Mia Farrow in 1999’s Forget Me Never; and Davis and James Brolin in 2003’s controversial The Reagans.

Ackerman also helmed two films: Safe Passage (1994), starring Susan Sarandon and Sam Shepard, and The Ramen Girl (2008), starring Brittany Murphy.

He directed Pacino on Broadway in Oscar Wilde’s Salome in 1992, then reunited with the actor in 2017 when Pacino portrayed Williams in God Looked Away at the Pasadena Playhouse.

“I loved being around him, his aura, his steady peace. To work with him was joyous,” Pacino said in a statement. “He understood the language of theater art and communicated it with such ease. His gift was intangible, and there’s no way of understanding how he created. When an artist has that special gift it is unexplainable, it just happens. … He will be missed.”

Ackerman was born in Brooklyn on June 30, 1944. He spent summers as a boy at Ackermans, a resort in Mount Freedom, New Jersey, that his family owned and operated.

After graduating from Adelphi University, he worked as a teacher in Harlem for seven years while aspiring to be an actor. He joined an off-off Broadway rep company to act but quickly volunteered to direct, drawn, he said, to “the immediacy of live performance, watching actors as they worked, discussing lines with writers during rehearsals and previews and loving the backstage buzz of gossip between shows.”

In 1977, Lloyd Richards, artistic director of the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut, hired him as a conference director, and he helmed Thomas Babe’s A Prayer for My Daughter. Papp saw the police drama and hired him to direct it for the Public Theatre; the 1978 production, starring Alan Rosenberg and Laurence Luckinbill, won an Obie Award for Ackerman.

From there, he was mentored by Papp and directed several new works by Babe, including 1978’s Fathers and Sons, starring Richard Chamberlain and Dixie Carter, and 1979’s Taken in Marriage, starring Streep and Colleen Dewhurst.

Ackerman made his Broadway debut with Martin Sherman’s Tony-nominated Bent, starring Richard Gere and David Dukes, in 1979-80. In 1983, he won Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel honors for his work on John Byrne’s Slab Boys, starring Penn, Kevin Bacon and Val Kilmer. He also directed Peter Allen in Legs Diamond in 1988-89.

Off-Broadway in 1982-83, he guided Sarandon and then Farrah Fawcett in William Mastrosimone’s Extremities.

In London’s West End, he directed Extremities and Strangers on a Train, both starring Mirren; Torch Song Trilogy, starring Antony Sher; A Madhouse in Goa and the Olivier Award-winning When She Danced, both starring Redgrave; Burn This, featuring John Malkovich and Juliet Stevenson; Me and Mamie O’Roarke, starring Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders; Our Town, starring Alan Alda; and Manuel Puig’s Mystery of the Rose Bouquet, starring Gemma Jones.

He also had a thriving career in Japan, where he worked extensively and brought provocative Western works, including Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, to the stage.

In a statement, Mirren called Ackerman “one of a kind. His commitment to his art of direction was total and encompassed work that ranged across different countries and cultures. His mind was constantly investigating and exploring, and his joy in his work was palpable. I worked with him both in theater and on film, and he was a natural in both disciplines, making the process a joy. All who knew him will miss him.”

Survivors include his sister, Suzanne, and niece Jennifer.

Asked in a 2016 interview how he perceived theater around the globe, Ackerman said: “On Broadway, the actors drink coffee. In the West End, they drink ale. In Los Angeles, they wear flip-flops to rehearsals. In Tokyo, they don’t wear shoes at all. In Paris, they speak French and smoke a lot. In Israel they speak Hebrew and shout and smoke a lot. Otherwise, they’re pretty the same.”

“In the end,” he added, “when it all works, it’s the most thrilling thing to sit in the audience and listen to the applause as the actors take their bows.”

MARK HUGHES COBB: Winter’s stars shine through even the bleakest of times

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Born on Jan. 8, over various inception years:

Wilkie Collins — Novelist, contemporary of Dickens.

Frank Nelson Doubleday — Founder of the publishing house.

William Hartnell — TV’s first The Doctor, playing the titular role in “Doctor Who” from 1963-66.

Gypsy Rose Lee — Ecdysiast, whose memoir inspired one of Sondheim’s early lyric-writing jobs.

Jose Ferrer — Tony- and Oscar-winning actor, both for versions of Cyrano. First Puerto Rican-born actor, and first Hispanic actor to win an Oscar.

Ron Moody — Actor best known for playing Fagin in “Oliver!” on the big screen, creating the role in the original West End production, and reprising it for a revival on Broadway.

Elvis Aaron Presley — Singer.

Shirley Bassey — Singer best known for giving brassy life to James Bond theme songs “Goldfinger,” “Diamonds are Forever” and “Moonraker.”

Bob Eubanks — TV host of “The Newlywed Game,” and one of the oddest interviews I’ve ever enjoyed.

Stephen Hawking — Smart guy.

Robby Krieger — Guitarist for The Doors, writer of many of their finest songs, such as “Light My Fire,” “Touch Me,” “Love Me Two Times” and “Love Her Madly.”

David Robert Jones (later Bowie) — Musician and actor.

Jenny Lewis — Singer/songwriter/actor, solo and with Rilo Kiley; hits include “Portions for Foxes,” “Red Bull and Hennessy,” “Just One of the Guys,” and “Carpetbagger” (with Elvis Costello)

Sarah Polley — Actor and director whose most recent success was writing/adapting Margaret Atwood’s “Alias Grace” as a limited series.

Cynthia Erivo — Singer/songwriter/actor, just an Oscar away from becoming an EGOT.

Roy Batty — Nexus 6, A level, combat model.

All these moments need not be lost in time, like tears in rain.

See, January doesn’t suck entirely! Other Januarians: The dreamer Martin Luther King Jr. Amazing actor Florence Pugh. Betty freaking White. Muhammad Ali, the greatest. Dolly freaking Parton. Dave freaking Grohl, aka the answer to trivia question “What seemingly lesser supporter player winds up being the best in the bunch?”

Kevin Costner, Alicia Keys, Rowan Atkinson, Isaac Newton, Isaac Asimov, Kate McKinnon, Rosamund Pike, Greta Thunberg, FDR, Ben Franklin, Joan of Arc, Julia Louis Dreyfus, Edgar Allan Poe, Regina King, Alan Cumming, Jeremy Renner, Dave Bautista, Rod Stewart, Paul Newman, Rainn Wilson, Syd Barrett, Jackie Robinson, Alan Alda, Janis Joplin, Diane Lane, Oprah Winfrey, David Lynch, Virginia Woolf, James Earl Jones, Nic Cage, Mary J. Blige, Patton Oswalt, Cary Grant, Gene Hackman, Geena Davis, Rob Zombie, Sade Adu, Mark Rylance, Jason Batemen, Carrie Coon, Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall, Haruki Murakami, Elijah Wood, Lord Byron, LL Cool J, John Hurt, Andy Kaufman, Sam Cooke, George Martin, Buzz Aldrin, Telly Savalas, Tippi Hedren, Hayao Miyazaki, Neil Diamond, Eartha Kitt, Danica McKellar, Heather Graham, Katherine Ross, Ed Helms, J.K. Simmons, Minnie Driver, Olivia Coleman, Jessica Walter, John Carpenter, John Belushi, Zooey Deschanel, Wolfie Mozart, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Alexander Hamilton.

However, January’s also birth-home to Richard Nixon, Dick Cheney, Kim Jong-un, Grigori Rasputin, Phil Collins, R. Kelly, Dax Shepard, Kid Rock, Jim Carrey, Jim Bakker, Bradley Cooper, Ellen DeGeneres, J. Edgar Hoover, Al Capone, Rand Paul, Steve Perry, Ben Shapiro, Justin Timberlake, Mel Gibson and Marilyn Manson. Hey, sometimes you shake out boxcars, sometimes snake eyes.

Jumping ahead to my own birth month, the next, the shortest and thus, Pure Science!, least likely to be yours. It’s shared by heroes such as Hank Aaron, Alice Cooper, Sidney Poitier, Smokey Robinson, Emily Blunt, Bob Marley, Rosa Parks, George Harrison, John Williams, Carole King, Alan Rickman, Abe Lincoln, Christopher Guest, Johnny Cash and George Washington.

Other Februarians: Burt Reynolds, Jennifer Aniston, Stockard Channing, Simon Pegg, Elizabeth Olsen, Michael Sheen, Michael Jordan, Michael B. Jordan, Rashida Jones, Nina Simone, John Travolta, John Turturro, Kurt Cobain, Dr. Dre, James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, Eddie Izzard, Chris Rock, Mary Steenburgen, Jordan Peele, Chris Farley, Ansel Adams, Mahershala Ali, John Hughes, Tom Hiddleston, Clark Gable, Babe Ruth, Chloe Grace Moretz, Christina Ricci, Charles Darwin, and Dickens himself.

February must also lay claim, though, to Ed Sheeran, Ashton Kutcher, Thomas Edison, Ronald Reagan, Alex Jones, Paris Hilton and Steve Jobs, so … shame.

Another reason for lists: Humility. On odd occasions when tallying up interviews I’ve done, it can seem pretty rich. Then I register Eubanks, who after the young woman from Pensacola’s TK101 slipped me her phone number, leered and aahh-OOO-gahed like a cartoon wolf, just breaths after rhapsodizing about his family.

Roughly 180 degrees away, there’s Sir.

There’s a picture of me with Mr. Poitier, as he’s signing the pad on which I wrote notes from our interview. This was 1996, in advance of his appearance with Tuscaloosa’s Realizing the Dream concert, in a lounge-type room inside the Moody Music Building.

I remember Dad being impressed, because I’d finally interviewed somebody like Sidney Poitier. Exactly like, in fact: penetrating brown eyes, a bit bloodshot that afternoon. He’d suffered a cold, and was taking antihistamines. Apologized in case he sounded a bit off; that’s the kind of gentleman he was.

It went well because he was Sidney Mr. Tibbs Sir Poitier, until I got to the Serious Question I’d written out, longhand. Must have taken a third of a legal-sized sheet. Soften him up with the usual what-brought-you-here lobs, then Bam. Intellectual debate. It’s a rookie mistake I continue to make, decades later, with interview subjects I admire, or am intimidated by. Even five minutes after, I couldn’t have told you what that question was trying to stir up, beyond “Hey, I bet you’ve never heard THIS before.”

Instinct suggested I skip over the epic query, but Ego thought, “No, Sir will tell me I’m smart!” if I pose this pseudo-deep ponderance, so I wound down to the end of this swirling calamity, and looked up … right into deep, dark eyes.

Dramatic pause.

“Could you repeat the question?”

No. No, Sir, I don’t think I could.

Let’s move forward — rapidly — shall we? He was so genuinely kind.

I’ll accept points for restraint, not busting out in Lulu’s “To Sir With Love.” I mean, this was the Moody, with musical instruments all around. It could have become a fantasia, like something out of a Richard Curtis film!

Or it could have been yet another adventure of Awkward Turtleman, boy reporter.

It’s Pure Science! Everybody’s born sometime. January seems dire, with post-holiday hangovers, ongoing omicron dilemmas, and the raft of deaths of loved ones, whether known literally, or via art and work.

Mainly I pulled together these lists to sandwich Lord Byron between Elijah Keane-Eyes Wood and LL Cool J, because don’t call it a comeback, she walks in beauty like a night in the Shire, Samwise.

But also, those names trigger sense memories. From the darkest of months come some of our brightest lights.

Think of what we’d be without these wintery lives: No Pink Floyd. No best of all Catwoman portrayals. No “Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?” No New Deal; no “No; I am your father,” misquoted throughout eternity; no hideous beating hearts. No lilting little night musics. No pondering what exactly Jolene could possibly have over Dolly. No sweetness in our Carolines. No Hammer. No “Folsom Prison Blues.” No cool-handed blue-eyed hustlers. No smooth operators, escalators, perambulators or prevaricators, as we riff on that hypnotically beautiful song. No re-emphasizing syllables in AL-exander HAM-ilton.

It would have been the 1980s before a Black man won the Best Actor Oscar. Lulu’s character believes Poitier’s teacher is a toff, but not in a bad way:

“Well, Sir, you’re like us, but you ain’t … I mean, you’re not. It’s kinda scary, but nice. You know what I mean, don’t you?”

Reach Tusk Editor Mark Hughes Cobb at mark.cobb@tuscaloosanews.com, or call 205-722-0201.