Golden Globes

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.

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Gina Rodriguez talking with the HFPA backstage at the 72nd Golden Globe Awards .

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.

Sophia Loren, recipient of her fourth World Film Favorite special award, with Liza Minnelli, at the 34th Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, on Saturday, January 29, 1977. The popular Italian movie star was voted World Film Favorite four times, in 1964 with Paul Newman, in 1965 with Marcello Mastroianni, in 1969 with Sidney Poitier, in 1977 with Robert Redford.

Nominees for the Golden Globes 2022 will be announced on Monday, December 13, 2021 at 6:00 a. m.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) today elected German journalist Helen Hoehne as the Association’s president, leading its expanded Board of Directors. The vote follows that of the Board and Credentials Committee, which will be responsible for overseeing the ongoing reform plan to restructure the organization along the lines of accountability, ethics, and greater inclusion of the diversity of world journalism.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association today announced new eligibility guidelines for future Golden Globe Award shows and events, recognizing the diversity of excellence in the world by elevating foreign language films as candidates for its top award.   Every year, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association examines its Golden Globes guidelines, considering new ways to celebrate connections of culture through film, television, and streaming platforms.

The HFPA’s progress towards reform is continuing, as this week we have put more key pieces in place that will help lead the transformational changes that we promised less than a month ago. We said on May 6th that we would move swiftly to show our commitment to reform and that we would regularly update the industry on our progress.