Golden Globe Awards

The Golden Globes precede the Cannes Film Festival by five years –  Cannes is celebrating 70 years and the Globes will have their 75th gala on January 7th, 2018. But the two events caught up with each other rather quickly.

In January the HFPA visited the set of Feud, the new limited series premiering on FX on Sunday March 5. Jessica Lange and Susan Sarandon play Joan Crawford and Bette Davis at the time of their, ehm, collaboration on the 1962 film What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? At the time Crawford was 56, Davis 54, and Hollywood was swarming with young talent - Marilyn, Jayne, Liz, Audrey, and newcomers like Ursula Andress, Brigitte Bardot and Natalie Wood.

Unlike the Academy, the HFPA hands out two Best Movie awards: Drama, and Comedy or Musical. Let's look at the record.

Each year, since 1962, the HFPA has been selecting a young actress to serve as Miss Golden Globes. Some of those so honored also happened to be a Hollywood "second generation", and this became the adopted criterion in 1985.

Over the years we have recognized the talent of generations of stars and filmmakers. And, equally imporrtant, we have interviewed them and heard what they had to say about topics both sublime and mundane.

How about we travel back to January 22, 1954, and a very special Golden Globe ceremony held at Club Del Mar in Santa Monica, California? Grace Kelly won a Globe as best supporting actress for her work in Mogambo, and received it from the hands of Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker. Spencer Tracy won the best actor Golden Glove for his performance in The Actress (he seems absolutely intrigued by Grace Kelly in this photo…) What made the gala unique: it was co-sponsored by the HFCA and the FPAH, the two organizations that, one year later, would merge to form the HFPA.

Happy 100th, Francis Albert Sinatra, born December 12, 1915 in Hoboken, New Jersey! Here’s Frank in 1958 receiving a Golden Globe award as Best Actor for the Technicolor musical Pal Joey, directed by George Sidney. The singing voices of his costars, Rita Hayworth and Kim Novak, were dubbed.

Carol, The Revenant, Steve Jobs and The Big Short led the the nominations for the 73rd Golden Globe Awards, announced December 10. Among the TV nominees the highlights were American Crime, Fargo, Mr.

The 1954 awards were held jointly by the HFCA (Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association) and the FPAH (Foreign Press Association of Hollywood), the two organizations that would merge in 1955 to form the HFPA (Hollywood Foreign Press Association). The invitation came from The International Press of Hollywood for the Presentation of the Golden Globe and World Film Favorites of 1953, on Friday January 22, 1954 at Club Del Mar, 1910 Ocean Front, Santa Monica.

In the early years the Golden Globe awards were a less formal affair than they are today, when they are celebrated in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel since 1974. In 1947, 1948 and 1949 the Globes were held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, and in 1951 and 1952 at Ciro’s, a popular nightclub at 8433 Sunset Blvd.