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Defying George Orwell’s famous quote that, “In our age, there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics,’” the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association have always done their best to stay out of it. Only three connection points to politics have been acceptable: not overtly shying away from awarding films or TV shows with a strong political vision, such as Costa-Gavras’s Z.

As a tribute to Martin Scorsese on his 80th birthday (November 17, 2022), we explored our extensive archives of exclusive HFPA interviews dating back to 1971 to review what the acclaimed director said in the 1990s about the movies, actors and filmmakers he admired, his contemporaries and his frequent collaborators. The journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association interviewed and photographed Scorsese 15 times from 1976 to 2019, honored him with three Golden Globes as Best Director out of nine nominations, as well as presenting him with the Cecil B.

Golden Globe winner and three-time nominee Diahann Carroll had one of the most unexpectedly successful careers, given the times and the country in which she was born. The decision of Richard Rodgers, of Rodgers and Hammerstein fame, to cast the young African American actress in the musical No Strings in 1962 was one of those moments when a huge barrier was broken in the entertainment business.

  To celebrate the 80 days leading up to the 80th Golden Globes (one year every day), today we are focusing on the 1968 Golden Globes, at which comedy icon Carol Burnett won her Best TV Star Award. In her honor, we are replaying our 2019 conversation when she sat down with HFPA member Meher Tatna to talk about her career from humble beginnings to breakout success with The Carol Burnett Show, her five Golden Globes wins, and the newly created Carol Burnett Award for Lifetime Achievement in Television, which she had just received in 2019 at its inaugural presentation.

There is a significant moment in the life of director Steven Spielberg that does not appear in his last feature film, the semi-autobiographical film The Fabelmans (2022. ) The director preferred to recount this memory in interviews and recollections about the origins of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), one of his most popular films and which is marking its 45th anniversary this year.

Mile markers and anniversaries are always a good time to showcase what makes an organization special. And 1968, the 25th Golden Globes celebration, was a year that showed the world how good the Hollywood Foreign Press Association could be at tuning into the zeitgeist.

Inland is a modern fairy tale about an unnamed young man (Rory Alexander) grappling with identity issues, loss and despair after his mother's mysterious disappearance a decade earlier. When we first see Rory, he returns from a stint in a psychiatric unit.

Brawler, hellraiser, hedonist, world-class carouser, indiscriminate lover, drunkard, and drug addict. Errol Flynn was all these things, but he was also a good writer, had a magnetic personality, and was a charismatic actor.

The 24th Golden Globes were held on February 15, 1967, at the Cocoanut Grove at the Ambassador Hotel, one of the hottest social spots for in-the-know Angelenos in the 1960s. Multiple Grammy-nominee Andy Williams hosted the ceremony in the company of Corinna Tsopei, Miss Universe 1964 turned Miss Golden Globes 1967.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) was founded with the mission of advancing the art of film. Over the last 28 years, the association has donated more than $55 million to organizations related to the entertainment industry as well as to humanitarian causes, has offered more than 2,200 scholarships to film students, and has funded the restoration of 138 films.