Sylvester Stallone

Rod Steiger, Golden Globe winner for his role as a tough-talking Sheriff in In the Heat of the Night, was also known for his sarcasm in private life. “Actors sense that the wealth and adoration they enjoy for practically doing nothing is undeserved”, he said in a conversation with the HFPA.

During the casting of Superman (Richard Donner, 1978), Sylvester Stallone was considered for the role among hundreds of actors. Ultimately, then-unknown Christopher Reeve was cast in what became a landmark role for both him and superhero movies.

On August 26, fans can see Sylvester Stallone as a dark superhero in Samaritan, that he also produced. Back in 1977, he received two Golden Globe nominations – Best Actor and Best Screenplay for Rocky.

1975 was the year when Sylvester Stallone, then 29, got his big breakthrough with Rocky for which he also wrote the screenplay. Not surprisingly, his best Golden Globe memory is from that career-making date: his first big award show.

“To tell the entire story would be like 50,000 words”, Sylvester Stallone told us on November 15, 1976. “But a brief summary would be that my career had come to a sputtering standstill.