Vintage Globes

Let's go back to the Golden Globe Awards of February 24, 1955, at the Ambassador Hotel’s Cocoanut Grove, in Los Angeles, when Marlon Brando received a Golden Globe as Best Actor of 1954 for Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront. The following year Brando would be presented with a special award as World Film Favorite-Male.

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.

Both Sigourney Weaver for Gorillas in the Mist and Jodie Foster for The Accused win Best Actress in a Motion Picture-Drama in a three-way tie with Shirley MacLaine for Madame Sousatzka, at the 46th Golden Globes, held Saturday, January 28, 1989, at the Beverly Hilton hotel.

Michelle Pfeiffer wins as Best Actress in a Motion Picture drama for The Fabulous Baker Boys, directed by Steve Kloves and costarring Jeff Bridges and Beau Bridges, at the 47th Golden Globes, held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday January 20, 1990. Backstage she poses with Tom Cruise, Best Actor in a drama for Born on the Fourth of July, directed by Oliver Stone.

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“When Peter showed us Easy Rider in 1969, I was puzzled (…) I thought it was too much for the audience.

George Clooney – nominated 13 times, recipient of three Golden Globes and the 2015 Cecil B. deMille Award- spoke to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press about the importance of journalism during an exclusive interview for the movie he co-wrote (with Grant Heslov) and directed Good Night, and Good Luck.

1943… 1944… In a classic Hollywood film, maybe one of those juicy melodramas starring Joan Crawford, for example, a calendar would appear on the screen, its pages slowly turning from one year to the other…Let’s stop for a moment and rewind, back to the days of World War II. After having been fiercely isolationist, just like Rick Blaine in Casablanca, the United States saw most of its movie stars play “real roles” in helping the war effort.

Ben Affleck set the story of Good Will Hunting (1997) in Boston, when he wrote the script with his childhood friend Matt Damon, which earned them a Golden Globe for Best Screenplay. When the actor made his directorial debut in 2007, he chose to adapt the 1998 novel by Dennis Lehane Gone Baby Gone, set in his hometown of Boston.

Rosamund Pike, Golden Globe best actress winner for I Care a Lot, and nominee for Gone Girl and A Private War, spoke to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 2005 about playing Jane opposite Keira Knightley as Elizabeth in Pride & Prejudice directed by Joe Wright from the 1813 novel by Jane Austen. “I know I was given the book Pride and Prejudice when I was about thirteen, but I am not sure that I finished it, because I definitely remember the beginning much more clearly than the end.