The Golden Globe Awards website, goldenglobes.com, recently won for its designer, Pastilla, the gold prize in the 2022 w3 Awards, the leading worldwide digital competition honoring the creative and marketing professionals behind websites, videos, marketing, mobile apps, social channels, and podcasts.

Pastilla’s gold for goldenglobes.com was among the winners chosen from more than 3,000 entries submitted from around the world.

The recognition of goldenglobes.com, which has evolved into a premium site for year-round entertainment stories, photo galleries, and videos aside from celebrating the Golden Globe Awards, was in the category, Gold General Websites – Entertainment for Websites.

Pastilla submitted their entry with the title, “Website Re-Design and Development for the Golden Globes.”

Rudy Manning, Pastilla’s founder, and creative director, said in a statement, “In collaboration with HFPA (Hollywood Foreign Press Association) – renowned for the annual Golden Globes Awards ceremony held in Los Angeles – Pastilla’s team has developed a data-backed strategy and led the redesign and development of the Golden Globes website. We were absolutely honored to be entrusted with one of the world’s leading award show brands.”

“Our main focus was on creating a mobile-first approach and delivering user-centric digital experiences while still capturing HFPA’s identity as a philanthropic publishing enterprise. And throughout all that, we feel our designers managed to establish a dramatic, elegant visual language that is truly reflective of the excitement and drama of the show itself. View the work here.” 

Led by Manning and Eric Barnett (product designer and technologist), Pastilla has been collaborating with the HFPA, headed by its president, Helen Hoehne, on goldenglobes.com since 2019. The creative, marketing, and digital agency won two other awards – for BRC Imagination Arts and Cherokee Federal Solutions – in the 17^th Annual w3 Awards.

Considered the first major web contest for agencies of all calibers, w3 Awards are judged by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA), an invite-only organization of the leading professionals in various fields of the visual arts, including traditional and interactive media. Among AIVA members are Conde Nast, Microsoft, MTV Networks, and Wired.

Goldenglobes.com is currently edited by HFPA members Ana Maria Bahiana, Silvia Bizio, and this writer. Bahiana said, “The goldenglobe.com editors and the whole website team congratulate Pastilla on behalf of the HFPA for its creativity, knowledge, and commitment. Over the years, Pastilla has faced all the challenges of the rebuild of a vast and complex website – how to look attractive and interesting to users, and flexible, manageable and fast to the administrators.

“And if this wasn’t already a major and constant dare, Pastilla managed brilliantly the long and intricate task of serving content live, on the day of the Golden Globes ceremony – and going beyond, during the COVID pandemic, when the challenge was even more intricate.”

Three goldenglobes.com stories were recently announced as finalists in the 15^th National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards (NAEJ), a nationwide journalism competition presented by the Los Angeles Press Club.

The nominations were for Bahiana, “Tucum: The Power, The Beauty, The Forest” (soft news, on arts) and “15 Films About Workers” (film feature); and Nepales, “Asian Actresses Struggled with Racism, Prejudice to Pave Way for Next Generations.”

Two other HFPA members garnered NAEJ nominations: Barbara Gasser, “Good Climate” (celebrity news), Maxima; and Janet Susan R. Nepales, “Fashion. Filipino. Hollywood. The World” (non-fiction book), Queen-B Multi-Media Productions.

Hoehne said, “I am so pleased to announce that HFPA members are finalists in six different categories at the 15^th National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards. This is a wonderful achievement that demonstrates the quality journalism that all members do. More good news is that three of these finalist entries came from articles published on the Golden Globes website, which demonstrates the premium journalism our own platform is producing.”