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The 28th Golden Globes ceremony was held on February 5, 1971, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. That night, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association honored the best of the best in film and television in 1970.

Is it easier to talk about ourselves or about others? Several actors have written memoirs and presented stage monologues about themselves, but not so many have done both. Gabriel Byrne, Golden Globe-winning actor, has just brought to Broadway a limited run of “Walking with Ghosts,” after premiering it in his hometown Dublin, then Edinburgh, and London's West End.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is the new number 1 at the French box office. Directed by Ryan Coogler with Letitia Wright, Angela Bassett, and Danai Gurira, the movie is about the people of Wakanda fighting to protect their home from intervening world powers as they mourn the death of King T’Challa.

Demián Bichir is back. With a career of more than 40 years, during which time he has been recognized in several countries, the Mexican actor returns to American television as the protagonist of the series Let the Right One In, a story based on the successful novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist and later, Tomas Alfredson’s Swedish film of the same name.

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.