Another year has flown by and it's once again awards season in Hollywood with the Golden Globes kicking things off in style to celebrate the past twelve months biggest movies, TV shows and stars.
The annual awards of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's will give a good indication of how the dominoes may fall at the rest of the awards ceremonies, like the Critics' Choice Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards and Academy Awards.

It's no wonder that studios and streaming services have been campaigning hard in the city skies this past few weeks for their motion pictures and series, like double Golden Globe nominee and the hit rom-com of the summer, Crazy Rich Asians.
Jon M. Chu's film based on Kevin Kwan's 2013 novel of the same name sported a refreshing all-Asian cast, including Golden Globe-nominated Constance Wu and Henry Golding, and brought in over $238 million around the world, including grossing $174 million in the U.S.
Can Crazy Rich Asians continue to win hearts and minds this awards season with these nominee billboards were snapped along the Sunset Strip, Pico Boulevard and Melrose Avenue from December 19, 2018 to January 1, 2019.
Another film hoping to score big with industry accolades this year is Bradley Cooper's directorial debut and remake of A Star Is Born.
Nominated for five Golden Globes, including for Best Picture and Bradley Cooper for Best Actor and Best Director, plus Best Actress for Lady Gaga and another nod for Best Original Song.
These awards nominee billboards for the movie remake that grossed $389.4 million worldwide were snapped along Pico Boulevard on December 21, 2018 and along the Sunset Strip on January 2, 2019.
Rather cleverly the marketing people have also recreated an 'Ally' promotional billboard featured in the movie next to the Sunset Strip's Chateau Marmont Hotel for maximum publicity and this outdoor ad with Lady Gaga's movie alter-ego was snapped on January 5, 2019.
This past year has really been filled with bold and groundbreaking cinema, no more so that the $1.3 billion worldwide box office smash, Black Panther.
Marvel Studios movie starring Chadwick Boseman in the titular hero's first solo outing was a cultural phenomenon in America, grossing $700 million in the U.S. alone, and introduced us all the the wonderful Afrofuturistic civilisation, heritage, spirituality and women of the secluded African nation of Wakanda.
The film with a predominantly black cast mixed high-tech superheroics with James Bond-esque globe-trotting espionage and pitted the Wakandan king against a worthy adversary from its past in the form of Michael B. Jordan's 'Erik Killmonger'.
These 'For your consideration' billboards for Ryan Coogler's film were photographed along Santa Monica Boulevard on December 26, 2018 and high above Hollywood Boulevard on January 4, 2019.
Marvel legend Stan Lee may have passed in 2018 but his legacy certainly lived on on the big screen with a brand new animated web-slinging adventure, Spider-man: Into the Spider-Verse.
Already grossing $230.5 million to date around the globe this parallel dimension Spider-Man tale showcasing Afro-Latino teenager 'Miles Morales' is set to give the big animation houses a run for their money this awards season.
These billboards for the Golden Globe nominee were snapped above the Sunset Strip on December 14 and along La Brea Avenue on December 26, 2018.
And speaking of animation and Disney was hoping that its charming Wreck-It Ralph sequel, Ralph Breaks the Internet, could do more than smash the box office with over $365.6 million grossed worldwide and do what its 2012 predecessor couldn't do and take home a Golden Globe or Oscar.
This Golden Globe nominee billboard for the movie was snapped along Barham Boulevard on December 29, 2018.
From animated films to live-action musicals and Disney was hoping Mary Poppins Returns can work its magic this awards season with Emily Blunt filling the shoes, and hats, of Julie Andrews as the iconic spellbinding nanny.
The big screen sequel has already delivered $208.6 million at the box office so far and is nominated for four Golden Globes, including for Best Picture - Musical or Comedy and its stars Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda as lamplighter 'Jack', but more importantly what would P.L. Travers think of this second cinematic installment based on her literary creation.
This giant-sized billboard for the movie with its awards accolades tagged onto the top building was spotted along Sunset Plaza on December 26, 2018.
From the 'Great Slump' to the reign of England's 'Queen Anne' in early 18th century Britain and director Yorgos Lanthimos' savagely witty historical period comedy-drama, The Favourite.
Grossing $17 million in the U.S. to date, the film sports a trio of strong female characters, Olivia Colman as the wonderful batty Queen, Rachel Weisz as her loyal friend and secret lover 'Lady Sarah' and Emma Stone, her younger cousin 'Abigail', vying for the monarch's affections and rival's influence.
This Golden Globe nominee billboard, supporting all three nominated women, was spied along Pico Boulevard on December 27, 2018.
Last awards season Timothée Chalamet earned rave reviews for his breakout performance in gay coming-of-age love story, Call Me By Your Name.
This year he's garnering garnering critical acclaims for his role in the drug addiction relationship drama, Beautiful Boy, based on the father and son memoirs of 'David' and 'Nic Sheff'.
This nominee billboard for the actor and film which has taken $9.7 million around globe was snapped along the Sunset Strip on December 27, 2018.
Nicole Kidman is once again up for consideration for her role in director Karyn Kusama's Destroyer movie, playing a LAPD detective coming to terms with her past as an undercover cop.
This Golden Globe nominee billboard was spotted along West Hollywood's Sunset Strip on December 19, 2018.
Director Spike Lee is once again up for awards consideration this season with his Golden Globe-nominated BlacKkKlansman movie.
The biographical crime drama has grossed $89 million worldwide and is based on the crazy true story set in the midst of the 1970s civil rights movement as John David Washington stars as 'Ron Stallworth', the first black detective on the Colorado Springs Police Department who to prove himself infiltrates a local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan with the help of his Jewish colleague (played by Adam Driver).
The theatrical release billboard was snapped along Fairfax Avenue on July 17, whilst the awards nominee billboards were photographed along the Sunset Strip from December 27 to December 29, 2018.
Barry Jenkins follows up his Oscar-winning Best Picture, Moonlight, with an adaptation of James Baldwin's book, If Beale Street Could Talk.
Set in 1970s Harlem, a young pregnant woman struggles to free her lover convicted of a crime he didn't commit before their child is born.
These nominee billboards for the love story which has grossed $2.5 million at the U.S. box office were photographed along La Brea Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard from December 19 to December 27, 2018.
Adam McKay's 'Dick Cheney' biopic, Vice, may not be everyone's cup of tea at the moment with the current state of politics but it has taken $23.9 million at the U.S. box office and garnered six Golden Globe nominations for its director and cast.
Christian Bale stars as one of the most powerful Vice Presidents in U.S. history, Amy Adams is his wife 'Lynne Cheney' and Sam Rockwell is also nominated as 'George W. Bush'.
These eye-catching Vice nominee billboards were snapped along Beverly Boulevard and Pico Boulevard from December 15 to December 28, 2018.
First Man may not have captured the imagination of cinema goers as much as Damien Chazelle's Oscar-winning La La Land, but the biopic about astronaut 'Neil Armstrong' has globally grossed $100.4 million and garnered two Golden Globe nominations (including for Claire Foy as Ryan Gosling's on-screen wife) and ten Critics' Choice nominations.
This awards nominee billboard was spied dancing high over Hollywood & Highland on December 30, 2018.
And finally for this collection of ads, here's a couple of billboards for Julia Roberts recent television project on Amazon Prime Video based on the fictional Homecoming podcast.
The psychological thriller has garnered three Golden Globes, including for the high-profile Hollywood actress.
These nominee billboards were snapped along Sunset Boulevard and Highland Avenue from December 19 to December 30, 2018.
Let's see who'll take home the trophies, and who doesn't, at the biggest party in Hollywood today.
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