Barbra Streisand

Trailblazing artist, director, producer, and activist Barbra Streisand has been named the 2023 Genesis Prize Laureate, dubbed by TIME Magazine as the ‘Jewish Nobel’. It is awarded annually by The Genesis Prize Foundation (GPF), in partnership with Israel’s Prime Minister's Office and the Jewish Agency for Israel.

Barbra Streisand has always been a trailblazer: as a singer, an actress, and a filmmaker. So it’s not surprising she also became the first female filmmaker to win the Golden Globe for Best Director, for the musical Yentl in 1984.

Marilyn Monroe and Rock Hudson - Marilyn clutching a globe, Rock Hudson clutching Marilyn - the moment filled with unspoken things.  Flipping through the '60s Golden Globe Fashion, we see the beginning of trends that break with all that went before.

On April 24th, Beanie Feldstein will take the stage of the August Wilson Theater in New York for the opening night of the Broadway revival of Funny Girl. Recounting the personal and professional life of comic and singer Fanny Brice, the show originally premiered on Broadway in 1964 and catapulted its then 22-year-old leading lady to international stardom.

During the lead-up to the revelatory song “I’m the Greatest Star,” in the 1968 film Funny Girl, Fanny Brice tries to explain her uniqueness. “I’m a bagel on a plate of onion rolls.

Beginning in 1952 when the Cecil B. deMille Award was presented to its namesake visionary director, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has awarded its most prestigious prize 66 times.

For over 40 years the HFPA has recorded famous and celebrated actresses, actors and filmmakers. The world's largest collection of its kind - over 10,000  items - is now in the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences Margaret Herrick Library.

Kevin Costner holds the two Golden Globes he won for Best Director and producer of the Best Motion Picture-Drama for Dances with Wolves (he was nominated for Best Actor for the same film) at the award ceremony held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday, January 19, 1991.   It is not uncommon for male actors turned directors to win two Golden Globes- Robert Redford, for example, did it in 1981 for Ordinary People but did not attend the ceremony.

Barbra Streisand wins two Golden Globes, one as Best Director for Yentl, the other for the film, as Best Musical or Comedy.   She celebrates backstage with Shirley MacLaine, Best Actress in a drama for Terms of Endearment, at the 41st Golden Globes, held Saturday, January 28, 1984, at the Beverly Hilton hotel.

After dithering around with their music awards for so many years — nominations one year, no awards another -- the Hollywood Foreign Press Association finally decided to take the category seriously. Even though the 1970 Golden Globe for best song went to “Jean” from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, sidestepping the Academy’s choice, “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head,” the HFPA made amends by agreeing on Burt Bacharach’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as best score.