Eight Decades of Golden Globes

What is so exciting today in American cinema is that everything seems possible, all the barriers have been broken, rules don’t or rarely apply anymore. Yes, in 2002, Halle Berry and Denzel Washington made their mark in Hollywood history, like Sidney Poitier had done before them to make black actors as preeminent as others.

A magic and moving moment: In 1990, when Audrey Hepburn, now devoting most of her time to her mission as a Goodwill Ambassador for Unicef, receives her Cecil B. deMille statuette, the second of her special awards, after nine Golden Globes nominations and only one win.

“I did expect this and if I hadn’t won, I would have cramped. ” It is January 28, 1984, at the 31st Annual GG and in the grand ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel; Shirley MacLaine has just grabbed the Golden Globe she won for Terms of Endearment.

The Seventies. You first might have flashes of a psychedelic era, rampant anti-establishment feeling, and the Vietnam War.

“When Peter showed us Easy Rider in 1969, I was puzzled (…) I thought it was too much for the audience.

It is January 22nd, 1954 at the Club del Mar in Santa Monica and Marilyn Monroe, radiant in a tight gown with plunging neckline, is all smiles as she holds her cumbersome Henrietta Award statuette (named after the then-president Henry Gris). She has been voted the World Film Favorite at the 11th Golden Globes.

1943… 1944… In a classic Hollywood film, maybe one of those juicy melodramas starring Joan Crawford, for example, a calendar would appear on the screen, its pages slowly turning from one year to the other…Let’s stop for a moment and rewind, back to the days of World War II. After having been fiercely isolationist, just like Rick Blaine in Casablanca, the United States saw most of its movie stars play “real roles” in helping the war effort.