80th Golden Globes

A distinctive style is a watchword for these savvy women. Let's see how their past informs the future.

The discussion was, shall we say, quite animated: it was around 2005 when Hollywood Foreign Press Association members felt animated films should have a unique category, pointing out the difficulty of judging animation the same way as live-action films. Others argued a film is a film, whatever the means of their creation.

Since the very first days of cinema, there was a kinship between the written words used to help lend motion to those moving pictures, and higher literature. Popular books were adapted as early as 1928, and as recently as 2022 (All Quiet on the Western Front).

The year 2005 was the year of “biopics. ” Exactly half of all domestic feature films which received a Golden Globe nomination that year were biographical pictures.

A small movie with a purposefully misleading title and a production budget of only $46,000 might well be one of the most topical political statements of our time: a tale of women’s struggle for freedom from brutal oppression by the Taliban. The title of the film is Osama.

Music is like another character to Spike Lee. So it is not surprising that his longest collaboration — dating back more than three decades, beginning with School Daze — is with the man known as the most prolific jazz musician to ever score films, Terence Blanchard.

Sex and the City ruled again at the 59th Golden Globe Awards, in its fourth year on the air. The popular show walked away with two wins and one nomination at the ceremony on Sunday, January 20, 2002, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

The year whose name inspired Stanley Kubrick’s cinematic masterpiece was, indeed, an odyssey. A bounty of movies which released and TV series which debuted or continued the previous year, and then lived on through awards season, would become hits and mainstays of the new millennium: Gladiator, Traffic, Billy Elliot, Cast Away, Almost Famous, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Sopranos, The West Wing, ER, Sex and the City, Frasier, and Will & Grace, among many others.

The new Golden Age of Television arrived on the eve of a new century, as the New York Times declared that the 1999 drama series The Sopranos “just may be the greatest work of American popular culture of the last quarter century. ”.

On the edge of a new century, something very special happened at the 56th Golden Globe Awards: for the first time ever, a Brazilian film won the then Best Foreign Language Film (now Non-English Language Film) prize: Central Station, directed by Walter Salles. Awards for movies from overseas countries were random at the Globes until 1974 when the international trophy was officially created.