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Walt Disney received several special awards in the early days of the Golden Globes. The first came in 1948, for Furthering the Influence of the Screen, after he co-created the cartoon character of Mickey Mouse in 1928 and produced animated classics like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Pinocchio (1940), Fantasia (1940), Dumbo (1941), and.

  On our 80-day countdown to the 80th anniversary of the Golden Globes, this week we celebrate the 5th Golden Globes, which took place in 1948 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel and featured a special award to Walt Disney for “Furthering the Influence of the Screen” with his classic early animated movie, Bambi. Animation has grown in directions Walt could never have imagined in the past 74 years and this week, on our Golden Globes Around the World Podcast, HFPA member Rocio Ayuso sat down with Japanese animation director Daisuke ‘Dice’ Tsutsumi to talk about his new four-episode Netflix limited series, Oni: Thunder God’s Tale, which takes a playful look at the oddball gods and monsters of Japanese mythology.

By 1947, the fledgling Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association (HFCA), founded a few years earlier by a little more than a dozen international journalists, had slowly expanded. There had been relatively informal celebrations of achievements in film, mostly small gatherings with the attendance of the prize winners.

At the 3rd Golden Globes ceremony, held Saturday, March 30, 1946, at the Hollywood Knickerbocker Club, a special award was given to Frank Sinatra by the Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association (HFCA), which in 1955 merged with the Foreign Press Association of Hollywood (FPAH) to form the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). The award, for the Picture With the Best International Feeling, honored the 1945 short film The House I Live In, directed by Mervyn LeRoy.

Star power is back at the box office as Dwayne Johnson, Julia Roberts, and George Clooney returned with movies that dominated the box office domestically and internationally. Johnson’s Black Adam scooped up $67 million, which was bigger than predicted and ended up being his strongest North American debut as a solo star.

The Communist Party Congress that concluded in Beijing on October 22 reinstalled Xi Jinping as China’s leader for an unprecedented third term. As regards the entertainment sector, it is clear that the policies already in place from his previous term will continue.

On April 16, 1945, as a festive Hollywood crowd gathered in the Terrace Room at the Beverly Hills Hotel, the end of World War II in Europe was only three weeks away. There was a feeling of relief in the air, of hope and happy endings.

Anne Hathaway won a Golden Globe as Best Supporting Actress in a musical in 2013 for her performance as Fantine in Les Misérables, directed by Tom Hooper with Hugh Jackman playing Jean Valjean, which would later earn her an Academy Award.  She gave the first of many exclusive interviews to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 2001, when she was only 18, talking about her feature film debut in The Princess Diaries, directed by Garry Marshall, and co-starring Julie Andrews.

The 17th annual Rome Film Festival, which ran from October13-23, 2022, welcomed numerous artists and celebrities to one of the largest red carpets in the world at the Auditorium Parco della Musica. The festival, led by new artistic director, former RAI executive Paola Malanga and president Gian Luca Farinelli, hosted 130 titles on 28 screens across Rome.

When The Song of Bernadette romped off with three major awards at the first-ever Golden Globe Awards in 1944, the winners received simple certificates, not trophies. Still, by way of its pioneering triumphs, the biographical drama etched its place in history.