The overhauled Golden Globe statuette will have more detailing.

From left, Danny Boyle, David Fincher, Christopher Nolan, Ron Howard and Gus Van Sant

Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway in "Bride Wars."

Gary Oldman and Odette Yustman in "The Unborn."

Anna Karina and László Szabó in Jean-Luc Godard's "Made in U.S.A."

Morris Chestnut and Taraji P. Henson in "Not Easily Broken."

Chazz Palminteri, center, with Thomas Guiry and Christine Lahti in "Yonkers Joe."

“Silent Light” is set in a Mennonite community in northern Mexico and uses a cast made up mostly of nonprofessionals.

Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Rebecka Hemse in “Just Another Love Story,” a high-adrenaline thriller from Ole Bornedal.

Roman Polanski, who pleaded guilty to sex with a minor, lives as a fugitive in France.

Ned Tanen in 1977.

A scene from Gillian Lacey’s “Play: On the Beach With the Ballets Russes,” which features vintage footage from Australia.

Heaven can wait: Kim Hunter and David Niven in “A Matter of Life and Death,” a 1946 film directed by Michael Powell.

The comedy “Marley & Me” and other Christmas films continued strongly at the box office.

Moments to remember from the past year’s films: Sean Penn in “Milk.”

Sadie Goldstein, left, Catherine Keener and Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Synecdoche, New York.”

Anne Hathaway, center, plays Kym, a recovering addict hampering the nuptials of her sister (Rosemarie DeWitt) and her future brother-in-law (Tunde Adebimpe), in “Rachel Getting Married.”

Robert Downey Jr. as the billionaire industrialist Tony Stark in “Iron Man.” The film earned $582 million worldwide.

Agniya Kuznetsova, left, and Alexey Poluyanin “Cargo 200,”a thriller set in the late Soviet era.

Viggo Mortensen in Vicente Amorim’s film “Good.”

Daniel Craig, center, plays a man of principle in “Defiance,” based on a book by Nechama Tec.

“The Dark Knight” made it into the thick of things with the Producers Guild of America.

The sale of Rogue Pictures, a maker and distributor of lower-cost films, to Relativity Media signifies further reordering in Hollywood’s specialty movie business.

Pat Hingle in a 1997 portrait.

”Waltz With Bashir,” the animated documentary about Israeli soldiers and their memories of Israel’s 1982 war with Lebanon, was chosen best picture of 2008 by the National Society of Film Critics, Variety reported.

When IFC Films releases the Italian crime drama “Gomorrah” in the United States on Feb. 13, it will come with a new endorsement in the credits: “Martin Scorsese Presents.”

In “Brokeback Mountain” the actress Anne Hathaway departed from the kind of roles she was known for. As Kym, a barely recovered substance abuser in “Rachel Getting Married,” above, she went even further.

Bill Condon, left, and Laurence Mark, producers of the 2009 Academy Awards broadcast.

Frank Langella, in a portrait.

“Bonnie and Clyde” (1967)

Foreground, from left, Emile Hirsch, Kelvin Yu, Sean Penn (as Harvey Milk) and Alison Pill in “Milk.”

Fabrice Luchini in his one-man show, “Le Point sur Robert.”

Not in the Oscar race: the house-wrecking but lovable co-star of “Marley & Me.”

Legal motions continued to fly this week in the feud over the coming movie “Watchmen,” to which 20th Century Fox asserts it has the rights and whose release it is seeking to prevent.

“Inglourious Basterds,” Quentin Tarantino’s long-talked-about World War II drama, now has an official opening date.

Movie shoots on the streets of Los Angeles may have hit a contemporary low last year.

At least a dozen of the supposedly hottest contenders in the Oscar race are being teased out to the public in peekaboo release patterns.

The Terminators may be an army of unstoppable robots hellbent on the destruction of the human race, but they'll always be welcome in the Library of Congress.

Patrick Wilson, center, portrays Nite Owl in “Watchmen,” a film based on the graphic novel by the same name.

Jean Arthur with Harlan Briggs in Mitchell Leisen’s “Easy Living,” written by Preston Sturges.

Ann Savage in 1940.

An unusual alignment of top stars brightened Hollywood’s holiday box office.

Daniel Craig, left, and Liev Schreiber in “Defiance,” Edward Zwick’s film about an enclave of Jewish partisans in World War II. It opens Wednesday in New York and Los Angeles.

Just say yes: Jim Carrey in “Yes Man” as a cranky loan officer turned liberated adventurer.

Mara Manus

One of Betsey Johnson's sketches.

The 46th New York Film Festival will open with the North American premiere of “The Class” (“Entre les Murs”).

Charles H. Joffe and Diane Keaton on Oscar night 1978.

Paramount Pictures said it had pulled out of a planned film finance deal that was meant to raise as much as $450 million.

Chris Farley

The film has earned an estimated $55.7 million since Thursday, making it an unconventional summer hit.

A fire erupted Sunday at NBC Universal’s studio lot in Universal City, Calif. In the foreground, a set from “War of the Worlds.”

In the gender wars, men generally win the race to the bottom. This past week though, women were the ones who seemed completely preoccupied by the reproductive act.

Ryan Kavanaugh

The Bond films, like “Octopussy” (1983), with Roger Moore, have given the character a popular identity beyond the page.

An unsettling vision from “Mother of Tears,” directed by Dario Argento.

GOT THE MEMO The characters’ styles change into one in the film of “Sex and the City.”

Pixar, co-founded by Steve Jobs, left, and Disney, run by Robert A. Iger, have a Hollywood marriage that works. Starring in their newest animated film is a robot named Wall-E.

Emile Hirsh stars in "Speed Racer," directed by Andy and Larry Wachowski.

Dorian Paskowitz and his wife, Juliette, with their nine children, around 1976.

Jason Yachanin and Kate Graham in "Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead," directed by Lloyd Kaufman.

ATTENTION JOAN RIVERS If you see a carrot strolling down the red carpet, it may be Ellen Page, star of “Juno.”

The British actor Ian McShane outside the Cort Theater, where he’s starring in a revival of Harold Pinter’s “Homecoming.” “You do battle with the audience,” he said.

The “Black List” has become the kind of underground document that writers with projects in development pray will mention their script.

A scene from “No Country for Old Men.”

“The Great Debaters,” starring Denzel Washington, left, tells the story of the winning 1935 Wiley College debate team.

Henry Fonda in the 1946 film “My Darling Clementine.”

After months of worrying and diplomatic wrangling, the movie studio that is releasing “The Kite Runner” has whisked to safety four young actors.

"Juno," directed by Jason Reitman, stars Ellen Page as a pregnant teenager.

Gary Clark Jr. in John Sayles’s “Honeydripper,” shot in Alabama.

Luis Mandoki directed a film that examines claims that a combination of a smear campaign and fraud at polling places swung the 2006 Mexican presidential election to Felipe Calderón.

The screenwriters called the proposals from producers a “a massive rollback,” and called on their members to continue their walkout.