1990s

“My name is Forrest Gump; people call me Forrest Gump”. With this line – ad-libbed by Tom Hanks during the filming – a folk hero was born, and with him a commercial juggernaut.

As everybody suspected, including the HFPA, Steven Spielberg was a director able to transcend the mere greatness of pop-culture entertainment (see  Jaws, E. T.

1993 was a mediocre year for comedies and musicals until Mrs. Doubtfire came to the rescue.

Robert Altman’s very black comedy was the HFPA’s choice of Best Comedy or Musical in what proved to be a very controversial year. When the Golden Globe for Best Drama was announced and Scent of a Woman.

With his "hoo-ahs" and "oo-rahs", Marine Corps Lt. Colonel Frank Slader (Al Pacino) sways his way in this “dramedy” about a blind man who is accompanied by a young student (Chris O'Donnell) on a grand last trip.

Bugsy made it virtually impossible to go to Vegas without thinking of the romantic gangster Bugsy Siegel, who, according to the legend – and the movie – came up with the idea of creating an entertainment Mecca in the Nevada desert. This biographical crime-drama film directed by Barry Levinson, with Warren Beatty (Bugsy) and Annette Bening in the role of his lover Virginia Hill, won the Golden Globe as Best Picture-Drama of the year.

1991 a was a landmark year for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, marking the first time an animated film ever won as Best Picture and, thanks to Jeffrey Katzenberg, the first one with an original song score. As head of Disney’s animation studios, Katzenberg mourned the loss of the old Walt Disney full-length cartoons that featured memorable songs, such as, “Some Day My Prince Will Come,” from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, “When You Wish Upon a Star,” from Pinocchio, “A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes.

Peter Weir had already won HFPA recognition with his earlier dramas Witness, Dead Poets Society, and.

Kevin Costner's directorial debut was as auspicious as it can be: his Dances with Wolves won three Golden Globes and seven Oscars. The epic western movie (which he also starred in) was an adaptation of the 1988 book of the same title by Michael Blake.

Born on the Fourth of July tells the story of Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic who was born on that day, went to war with all his might and came back paralyzed. Feeling betrayed by his own country, Kovic became an anti-war and peace movement leader.