THE GLOBES' foreshadowing of the Oscars is an unlikely tie-in, given the massive gulf between the Oscar and Globe electorates. The Academy Awards are based on the votes of 5,000 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences - actors, directors, producers and other veterans of the film industry. By contrast, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association polls 82 freelancers and other entertainment journalists. Unlike the over- the-top, but too-often stiff Academy Awards, the Golden Globes have been a hit with viewers because of their unpredictable nature.

Dana Rubin meets the executive put in place by American moguls to capitalise on the resurgent UK film industry

Sam Rockwell is best known as The Kid in `Box of Moonlight', an outcast living in a trailer in the middle of nowhere. Now he stars in `Lawn Dogs' as ... well, an outcast living in a trailer in the middle of nowhere. But, he tells Ryan Gilbey, there the similarity ends.

The US film company Miramax has brought ground-breaking movies to a mass audience since 1980. But, argues Geoffrey MacNab, with the launch of `Copland' next week the stress of reconciling art with commerce is beginning to tell.

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