Golden Globe History

On In March 5th, 1959 Shirley MacLaine was at the 16th Golden Globes, held at the Ambassador Hotel’s Cocoanut Grove, receiving a special award from the Hollywood Foreign Press as Most Versatile Actress of 1958, for her work in Vincente Minnelli’s Some Came Running, co-starring Frank Sinatra. In 1955 MacLaine had won a Golden Globe as Star of Tomorrow, after her film debut in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Trouble with Harry.

Jack Lemmon holding the Cecil B. deMille trophy, awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for Outstanding Contributions to the World of Entertainment, at the 48th Golden Globes, held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday, January 19, 1991.

Audrey Hepburn receives the Cecil B. deMille trophy, awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for Outstanding Contributions to the World of Entertainment, at the 47th Golden Globes, held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday, January 20, 1990.

French actor Gérard Depardieu receives the Best Actor in a Motion Picture- Musical or Comedy Golden Globe for Green Card, directed by Peter Weir, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday, January 19, 1991.   Backstage he playfully lets Andie MacDowell hold the statuette since she was nominated for Best Actress for the same film.

Al Pacino receives the Best Actor in a Motion Picture-Drama Golden Globe for Scent of a Woman, directed by Martin Brest, at the 50th-anniversary ceremony held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday, January 23, 1993. Jodie Foster presented him the award as the previous year’s Best Actress in a Motion Picture-Drama for Silence of the Lambs.

Lauren Bacall holds the Cecil B. deMille trophy, awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for Outstanding Contributions to the World of Entertainment, at the 50th Golden Globes, held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday January 23, 1993.

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.

Clint Eastwood receives a Golden Globe for Best Director for the western Unforgiven, at the 50th-anniversary ceremonies held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday, January 23, 1993.   Eastwood was the recipient of two special awards from the Hollywood Foreign Press, World Film Favorite in 1971 and the Cecil B.

Tony Curtis, winner of the special award for World Film Favorite with the presenter, his actress wife Janet Leigh, backstage at the Golden Globes, Wednesday, February 26, 1958, Cocoanut Grove, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles. Tony Curtis won World Film Favorite again in 1961 and was nominated for Best Actor in 1959,  for the Best Picture-Drama winner The Defiant Ones - his costar Sidney Poitier and director Stanley Kramer were also nominated.

Laura Dern, daughter of actors Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd, was chosen as Miss Golden Globe at age 15, for the 39th awards to be held on Saturday January 30, 1982 at the Beverly Hilton hotel.  Traditionally, starting in 1963, the daughter, and occasionally the son (John Clark Gable in 1995), of Hollywood actors are selected every year by the HFPA board as Miss or Mr.