Golden Globes

              On Sunday, January 13, 2013, Jodie Foster, the recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award of the 70th Golden Globe Awards, offered thanks with a speech that became one of the highlights of the evening.

After the ceremony: Bruce Springsteen winner of the 2009 Golden Globe for Best Orginal Song - Motion Picture and Mickey Rourke winner of the 2009 Golden Globe for Bes Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture-Drama and The Wrestler.

A rare black and white photograph of Marilyn Monroe with her Golden Globe at the 1952 awards ceremony has been discovered at a West Hollywood memorabilia shop and is now in the HFPA archives. The original print, a bit yellowed at the edges but in good condition for its age, shows the actress seated at a table with her statuette as her unknown tablemate looks on.

Julianne Moore talking with the HFPA backstage at the 72nd Golden Globe Awards .

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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.