80th Golden Globes

80th Golden Globes: Lady Gaga, Saoirse Ronan, Richard Madden, Carol Burnett, Idris Elba, Gloria Swanson from Sunset Blvd fame, and more.

In the room devoted to a Spike Lee exhibit at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, which opened to the public in 2021, there hang three posters of movies that inspired the lauded director: Breathless (1960), by Jean-Luc Godard; Seven Beauties (1975), by Lina Wertmüller; and The Bicycle Thief (1948), by Vittorio De Sica. The Bicycle Thief was the very first movie to win a Golden Globe as Best Foreign Language Film, in a ceremony held February 23, 1950, in the Embassy Room of the Ambassador Hotel, the 1950 Golden Globes.

It’s happened only once in the history of the Golden Globes: A father and his son each won the golden statuette for their individual work on the same film. This singular event took place on March 16, 1949, at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.

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.

The 80th Golden Globes reminds us that Golden Globes and glamour go together. Hollywood legends, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly, Sidney Poitier, Cary Grant, Marlon Brando starred in classic films like Giant, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.

The 80th Golden Globes Celebrates 80 years of Red Carpet Style The Golden Globes is known as the "Best Party in Town" - but it could also be easily known as the most Glamorous Red Carpet Award Show.  Harry Winston, the esteemed jeweler, once said: "People will stare.

1943 is the year that the glamour of the Golden Globes began by honoring excellence in entertainment. (Read the story).

There will be no HFPA exclusive press conferences this year. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) announced today that the organization will not hold any press conferences for eligible content of the 80th Annual Golden Globe Awards®.