THE DRESSER Among Starz' Three Golden Globe Award Nominations

STARZ was nominated for three Golden Globe® awards by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association this morning at the 74th Annual GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS nomination ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The network garnered a category nomination for "The Dresser" for Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television, as well as recognition in the performance categories for Caitriona Balfe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama for "Outlander," and Riley Keough for Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television for "The Girlfriend Experience."

This marks the second Golden Globe® nomination for Caitriona Balfe (Money Monster, Now You See Me) who stars as Claire Randall in "Outlander." It is the first nomination for Riley Keough (Mad Max: Fury Road), who stars as Christine Reade in "The Girlfriend Experience," and recently appeared in the award-winning American Honey with Shia LaBeouf and Sasha Lane.

"The Dresser," an adaptation of Ronald Harwood's play, brought Anthony Hopkins and Ian McKellen together on film for the first time. "The Dresser" is a Playground and Sonia Friedman Production for BBC and Starz in association with Altus Media and Prescience. Colin Callender and Sonia Friedman are executive producers. Polly Hill, Controller of BBC Drama Commissioning, is executive producer for BBC and Paul Brett and Tim Smith are executive producers for Prescience. The producer is Suzan Harrison. The production was filmed in London.
"Our sincere thanks to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for honoring Starz with nominations for 'The Dresser' and the performances of Caitriona Balfe and Riley Keough," said Starz CEO, Chris Albrecht. "We are very proud of our talented actors and producing partners who have been recognized for their exceptional achievements."
"Outlander," currently in production on its third season which will return to Starz in 2017, is adapted from Diana Gabaldon's international best-selling books and executive produced by Ronald D. Moore ("Battlestar Galactica," "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," "Star Trek: The Next Generation"). The series spans the genres of romance, Science fiction, history and adventure as it follows Claire Randall, a married WWII combat nurse who mistakenly falls back in time to 1743. "Outlander" is produced by Tall Ship Productions, Story Mining & Supply Company and Left Bank Pictures in association with Sony Pictures Television.

"The Girlfriend Experience," which was recently greenlit for a second installment, is a 13-episode anthology series from Steven Soderbergh, written and directed by filmmakers Lodge Kerrigan and Amy Seimetz, and executive produced by Philip Fleischman, Gary Marcus, and Jeff Cuban. The series made its world premiere debut at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, and follows Christine Reade, a second year student at Chicago-Burnham Law School and a new intern at the prestigious firm of Kirkland & Allen. Working hard to establish herself at the firm, her focus quickly shifts when a classmate introduces her to the world of transactional relationships.

About Starz Starz (www.starz.com), a Lionsgate company (NYSE: LGF.A, LGF.B), is a leading global media and entertainment company that provides premium subscription video programming on domestic U.S. pay television networks and produces and distributes content for worldwide audiences, including its investment in the Starz PLAY Arabia OTT service. Starz is home to the flagship STARZ® brand with 24.5 million subscribers in the United States as of September 30, 2016, with the Starz ENCORESM network at 31.5 million subscribers. Starz provides high-quality, entertaining premium subscription video programming with 17 premium pay TV channels and associated on-demand and online services, including the Starz app. Sold through U.S. multichannel video distributors, including cable operators, satellite television providers, telecommunications companies, and other online and digital platforms, Starz offers subscribers more than 5,000 distinct premium television episodes and feature films every year and up to 1,500 every month, including Starz Original series, first-run movies and other popular movie and television programming.

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