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  In honor of the upcoming 80th Anniversary of the Golden Globe Awards, we continue on our 80-Day Countdown to reach the year 2005, when a former comedian finally came into his own as a dramatic movie star winning the Golden Globe for Best Actor – Drama portraying legendary musician Ray Charles in the film, Ray. In a special Rewind episode of our Golden Globes Around the World podcast series recorded in 2020, Jamie Foxx talked to HFPA member Kristien Gijbels about his life and career, including his memories of the audition to play Ray Charles, the influence his grandmother had on him, who keeps him grounded, and what’s it like having his whole family living with him.

As we continue our 80-day countdown to the 80th annual Golden Globe Awards on January 10, 2023, we reach a milestone year – 1996 – which was full of surprises including the Golden Globe Best Actress win for Sharon Stone for Martin Scorsese's  Casino, which prompted her memorable response on stage, ‘OK, it's a miracle!’”  In honor of her 1996 win, we rewind back to our 2018 podcast with HFPA member, Silvia Bizio.

  As we continue our 80-day countdown to the 80th anniversary of the Golden Globe awards on January 10, 2023, we look back on 1985, the year that Kathleen Turner won her first Golden Globe award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy/Musical, opposite Michael Douglas in Romancing the Stone. In a special Rewind edition of the Golden Globe Around the World podcast series, we hear the five-time nominated actress talk about that role, that award and her incredible history with the Globes beginning 40 years ago with her first nomination as Best New Star in Body Heat.

    As we continue our 80 Day Countdown to the 80th anniversary Golden Globes show, we are going back in time this week to 1973, when The Godfather celebrated seven Golden Globe nominations and five wins, including Best Actor Marlon Brando, Best Director Francis Ford Coppola and Best Motion Picture - Drama. In our new podcast, HFPA member Silvia Bizio sat down for an exclusive interview with colorful actor Gianni Russo, who played Carlo Rizzi in the first and second Godfather films.

  To celebrate the 80 days leading up to the 80th Golden Globes (one year every day), today we are focusing on the 1968 Golden Globes, at which comedy icon Carol Burnett won her Best TV Star Award. In her honor, we are replaying our 2019 conversation when she sat down with HFPA member Meher Tatna to talk about her career from humble beginnings to breakout success with The Carol Burnett Show, her five Golden Globes wins, and the newly created Carol Burnett Award for Lifetime Achievement in Television, which she had just received in 2019 at its inaugural presentation.

As we celebrate the upcoming 80th anniversary of the Golden Globe awards, we reach Day 19 of our online 80-Day Countdown series – the year, 1961.   That’s the year that Nancy Kwan became the first Asian actor to win a Golden Globe, as New Star of the Year in the film The World of Suzie Wong, also earning another nomination for Best Actress in the film.

Throughout the history of the Golden Globes, music has been an important reflection of the times. As we look back during our 80-Day Countdown to the Globes this week, we look at stories on this website about 1953, a great year for musicals with five memorable Hollywood musicals nominated for Best Comedy/Musical.

  On our 80-day countdown to the 80th anniversary of the Golden Globes, this week we celebrate the 5th Golden Globes, which took place in 1948 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel and featured a special award to Walt Disney for “Furthering the Influence of the Screen” with his classic early animated movie, Bambi. Animation has grown in directions Walt could never have imagined in the past 74 years and this week, on our Golden Globes Around the World Podcast, HFPA member Rocio Ayuso sat down with Japanese animation director Daisuke ‘Dice’ Tsutsumi to talk about his new four-episode Netflix limited series, Oni: Thunder God’s Tale, which takes a playful look at the oddball gods and monsters of Japanese mythology.

  When it comes to legendary movie stars, few can compare to Jacqueline Bisset, whose six-decade career includes films in both French and English, working with actors from Jean-Paul Belmondo, Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Frank Sinatra to directors including François Truffaut, George Cukor, and John Huston. The 78-year-old actress works constantly, with three films in 2021, and she recently sat down with HFPA member Elisabeth Sereda for our Golden Globes Around the World podcast series to talk about her new film, Loren and Rose.

Australian actress Essie Davis has faced a lot of challenges in an acting career that includes TV shows Game of Thrones and Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, films including Girl with a Pearl Earring, Nitram, The Babadook, and her Laurence Olivier award-winning performance in the 2013 West End production of A Streetcar Named Desire, opposite Glenn Close. But the Tasmanian-based actress was unprepared for one of her biggest challenges when starring in the New Zealand film The Justice of Bunny King - mastering a Kiwi accent.