Golden Globe History

It’s 1989 and Tom Hanks has just walked off stage with what would be the first of four Golden Globes. The film is Big, his first big-time starring job since his breakout role in Ron Howard’s magical rom-com Splash, in 1984.

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.

Both Sigourney Weaver for Gorillas in the Mist and Jodie Foster for The Accused win Best Actress in a Motion Picture-Drama in a three-way tie with Shirley MacLaine for Madame Sousatzka, at the 46th Golden Globes, held Saturday, January 28, 1989, at the Beverly Hilton hotel.

“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.

Michelle Pfeiffer wins as Best Actress in a Motion Picture drama for The Fabulous Baker Boys, directed by Steve Kloves and costarring Jeff Bridges and Beau Bridges, at the 47th Golden Globes, held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday January 20, 1990. Backstage she poses with Tom Cruise, Best Actor in a drama for Born on the Fourth of July, directed by Oliver Stone.

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

The new century starts roughly: a blast of horror and fear, wars and financial crisis. But the digital era can't, won't be stopped.

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The last years of the 20th Century are expansive times - optimism reigns, hair is big and shoulders are strong. All the while, in silence at first, the terrible AIDS scourge wreaks havoc in the industry, cutting a path of destruction through friendships, families, and entire cities.

Bruce Springsteen receives the Best Song Golden Globe for “Streets of Philadelphia” from the film Philadelphia, directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington, at the 51st Golden Globes held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday, January 22, 1994.  .