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On February 23, 1956, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association held the 13th Golden Globes at the Cocoanut Grove in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. The lavish nightclub, known as Hollywood’s “first playground of the stars,” was the top venue of the Golden Globes for 10 of the next 12 years.

At the London Film Festival, writer-director Peter Strickland (Berberian Sound Studio, In Fabric, The Duke of Burgundy) presented his new film, Flux Gourmet, followed by a Q and A after the screening.  This eccentric film isn’t for everyone, and is, indeed, an acquired taste.

In the 1950s, there were a few years when multiple films were awarded the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film (now Best Non-English Language Film), and 1955 was one of those years. The 12th Golden Globes were held on February 24, 1955, at the Ambassador Hotel, and, befitting the organization’s international roots, four foreign films were voted the winners by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Throughout the history of the Golden Globes, music has been an important reflection of the times. As we look back during our 80-Day Countdown to the Globes this week, we look at stories on this website about 1953, a great year for musicals with five memorable Hollywood musicals nominated for Best Comedy/Musical.

For Mexican director Guillermo del Toro, having made Pinocchio is a dream now achieved since he began thinking of his own version of the story 15 years ago. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio is a new version of Carlo Collodi's classic tale, told with stop-motion animation techniques.

After fifty years of non-stop praise and film history case study, The Godfather: Part I, Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 masterpiece about family patriarch Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) is as young and looks as great as ever.   We were reminded of its overall importance by a special screening at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, with the Golden Globe and Academy award-winning Nino Rota’s score played live by a 60-piece orchestra of LA’s most talented orchestral musicians, conducted by Scott Terrell.

The 1954 awards were held jointly by the Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association (HFCA) and the Foreign Press Association of Hollywood (FPAH), the two organizations that in 1955 would merge to form the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). The invitation came from the International Press of Hollywood, presenting the Golden Globe and World Film Favorites Awards for 1953, and took place on Friday, January 22, 1954, at Club Casa Del Mar in Santa Monica.

Pierce Brosnan has been nominated twice at the Golden Globes, the first in 1985 for the television series Nancy Astor and in 2006 for the film The Matador. In addition, he was awarded an honorary Order of the British Empire for his “outstanding contribution to the British film industry.

Till is the true story of ‘Mamie Till-Mobley’s’ (Danielle Deadwyler) unbending pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till (Jalyn Hall), who was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. Frankie Faison takes on the role of John Carthan, father of Mamie and grandfather of Emmett.

The year 1952 was a banner one for musicals, and the 10th Annual Golden Globes, held on February 26, 1953, at the Ambassador Hotel, celebrated five of the best as nominees for Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. The Golden Globe winner, director Walter Lang’s With a Song in My Heart, is a biographical musical based on the life of singer Jane Froman, who suffered massive injuries in an airplane crash on her way to a USO tour during World War II.