Golden Globe History

Born on November 17, 1925, in Winnetka, Illinois, and named Roy Harold Scherer, Rock Hudosn went on to break hearts on the big screen. Your untimely death in 1985 galvanized the industry and inspired your peers to join in a common fight against HIV-AIDS.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

Steven Spielberg receives his first Best Director Golden Globe for Schindler’s List at the 51st ceremonies held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday January 22, 1994.   He would receive two more Golden Globes in 1999: Best Director and producer of the Best Motion Picture drama for Saving Private Ryan.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) was founded in 1943 with the name of Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association (HFCA), by a group of journalists who joined together in order to formalize their relationship with the studios and facilitate their work of interviewing movie stars and film directors for publications around the world. Their motto, as stated in the 10th-anniversary souvenir booklet published in 1953, was “Unity Without Discrimination of Religion or Race.

Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy both win Golden Globes for Best Actor and Best Actress in a Motion Picture-Comedy or Musical for Driving Miss Daisy, at the awards ceremonies held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday, January 20, 1990.   Directed by Bruce Beresford from the play by Alfred Uhry, the movie is about the 25-year friendship between an African-American chauffeur and the white Southern lady who employs him.

Let's go back to the Golden Globe Awards of February 24, 1955, at the Ambassador Hotel’s Cocoanut Grove, in Los Angeles, when Marlon Brando received a Golden Globe as Best Actor of 1954 for Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront. The following year Brando would be presented with a special award as World Film Favorite-Male.

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As we enter the second decade of the 21st century, films become bigger, cameras become smaller, digital overtakes celluloid and what used to be “television” shatters into a multitude of platforms, mobile and otherwise. International markets take over domestic in box office receipts, with China leading the way as the world's top market.

Jane Fonda and John Travolta receive a special Golden Globe as World Film Favorites at the 36th Golden Globes, January 27, 1979, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.  This award, discontinued in 1980, was determined according to the results of a worldwide survey by the Reuters News Bureau.

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.