80 Years in 80 Days

We called our countdown series “80 Years in 80 Days. ” It started on October 22, 2022, when we recalled the founding year, 1943, of the organization which would come to be called the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

On January 9, 2022, the best of film and television from 2021 was recognized and honored. The Power of the Dog and West Side Story each won three Golden Globes, while on the TV side, Succession, Hacks.

Nomadland filmmaker Chloé Zhao set all sorts of records one Golden Globe night, on February 28, 2021. Zhao became the first Asian woman to win Best Director, and the first Asian woman producer to win Best Film – Drama.

It’s a prestigious award, and what I like most about it is that I knew, coming in, I would win,” Ellen DeGeneres, ever the comedian, said almost right from the beginning of her acceptance speech as the recipient of the Carol Burnett Award at the 2020 Golden Globes. Looking at the audience full of bold-faced names, including Burnett herself, DeGeneres remarked, “I feel humbled and honored to receive this.

In the pre-Black Panther era, it would have been almost unbelievable to see a DC or Marvel film nominated for a major Oscar or Golden Globe. But director Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther was nominated for three Golden Globes in 2019, including Best Film – Drama, Best Original Song, and Best Original Score.

For over 30 years, Oprah Winfrey, “the queen of all media,” set the tone for cultural conversations in America, and Winfrey’s acceptance speech for her Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2018 was no exception.

In 2017, as in many years before, the Golden Globes were once again the showcase of an important social and cultural milestone, the top award for the first LGBTQ+ film with an all-Black cast. Directed by Barry Jenkins, Moonlight is a coming-of-age drama based on Tarell Alvin McCraney’s semi-autobiographical play “In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue.

Ennio Morricone, the Italian-born maestro, is considered one of the most accomplished and prolific film composers of all time — his astonishing achievements are reflected in nine Golden Globe nominations spanning five different decades. His final Golden Globe was awarded to him in 2016 for Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, following previous wins for The Legend of 1900, in 2000, and The Mission, in 1987.

George Clooney is that rare artist who makes Hollywood better: endlessly creative, fiercely loyal, and not at all plagued by the insecurities of your typical actor, he has been called the smartest man in the film industry by many. For the 2015 Golden Globes, he was chosen as the Cecil B.

The 71st Golden Globe Awards held on January 12, 2014, was a time to recognize and celebrate the LGBTQ+ community, with major wins by such films as Behind the Candelabra and Dallas Buyers Club. The latter, directed by Jean-Marc Vallée (Big Little Lies, Sharp Objects), is a biographical drama scripted by Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack.