Golden Globe History

Bette Davis, 78, attended the 43rd Golden Globes held Friday, January 24, 1986, at the Beverly Hilton hotel, after recovering from a stroke in 1983. On stage she presented the Best Picture award to Sydney Pollack for Out of Africa, backstage she posed with her contemporary, actress Sylvia Sidney, 76, Golden Globe winner as Best Supporting Actress for the TV movie An Early Frost.

Barbra Streisand wins two Golden Globes, one as Best Director for Yentl, the other for the film, as Best Musical or Comedy.   She celebrates backstage with Shirley MacLaine, Best Actress in a drama for Terms of Endearment, at the 41st Golden Globes, held Saturday, January 28, 1984, at the Beverly Hilton hotel.

At the 30th Golden Globes, held Sunday, January 28, 1973, at the Century Plaza Hotel, Joel Grey wins Best Supporting Actor for the musical Cabaret, directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minnelli.

Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis celebrate backstage after winning Best Actress and Best Actor in a TV series - comedy for Moonlighting at the 44th Golden Globes, held Saturday, January 31, 1987, at the Beverly Hilton hotel.   The actors were both nominated for these roles three years in a row, 1986, 1987, 1988.

Kim Novak receives a special award as World Film Favorite, presented by Vincent Price, at the 14th Golden Globes, on Thursday, February 28, 1957, at the Cocoanut Grove, Ambassador Hotel.

Kirk Douglas arrives at the 33rd Golden Globes with his German-born wife Anne, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Saturday, January 24, 1976. They met in Paris, married in 1954 and are still together, at age 101 and 99.

In 1960 Marilyn Monroe attended the 17th Golden Globes, held on Tuesday, March 8 at the Cocoanut Grove, Ambassador Hotel, when she won as Best Actress for the comedy Some Like It Hot, directed by Billy Wilder costarring Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis. On that occasion, she wore a white fur stole over a white dress.

On stage at the 33rd Golden Globes, held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Saturday, January 24, 1976, producer Michael Douglas accepts a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture-Drama for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, from presenter Gena Rowlands. His father Kirk Douglas had bought the rights to the 1962 novel by Ken Kesey and produced it in 1963 as a musical play on Broadway, playing the title role that Jack Nicholson would play in the movie version.

Marina Cisternas, President of HFCA (Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association, that merged with the FPAH, Foreign Press Association of Hollywood, to form the HFPA, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, in 1955), presents to Frank Sinatra the newly designed Golden Globe trophy, as recipient of a special award “for the picture with the best international feeling produced in 1945”, the short film The House I Live In, at the 3rd Golden Globes ceremonies held Saturday March 30, 1946 at the Hollywood Knickerbocker Club.  In 1953 Sinatra won a Golden Globe as Best Supporting Actor for From Here to Eternity, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr, he won another Golden Globe as Best Actor for the Technicolor musical Pal Joey in 1958, was the recipient of the Cecil B.

Elizabeth Taylor, winner of a Sterling special award “for consistent performance considered most outstanding,” with her husband Mike Todd, producer of the Best Picture- Drama Around the World in 80 Days, and Debbie Reynolds, nominated for Best Actress in Musical or Comedy for Bundle of Joy, at the 14th Golden Globes, Thursday, February 28, 1957, at Cocoanut Grove, Ambassador Hotel.  Mike Todd was Taylor’s third husband.