Golden Globe Awards

His name was inspired by the river of life in Siddartha by Herman Hesse, his middle name Jude by the Beatles song Hey, Jude. The family changed their last name to Phoenix, after the mythical bird that rises from its own ashes, symbolizing a new beginning.

Between 1948 and 1983 Golden Globes were awarded in a special category of “New Star of the Year” conceived to recognize young actors making a mark in their early roles. In this series, the HFPA’s Phil Berk highlights those that would follow their auspicious starts with distinguished careers.

Hugh Grant played the romantic leading man in several movies scripted by Richard Curtis, Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) with Andie MacDowell directed by Mike Newell, Notting Hill (1999) with Julia Roberts directed by Roger Michell, and Love Actually (2003) that he also directed. But in real life, he may not be as nice as he seems in those movies.

Between 1948 and 1983 Golden Globes were awarded in a special category of “New Star of the Year” conceived to recognize young actors making a mark in their early roles. In this series, the HFPA’s Phil Berk highlights those that would follow their auspicious starts with distinguished careers.

Renée Zellweger won four Golden Globes as Best Actress, for Nurse Betty (2000), Chicago (2002), Cold Mountain (2003), Judy (2019). HFPA journalists interviewed her multiple times, but we will never forget the first time when she spoke about her debut film The Whole Wide World (1996) directed by Dan Ireland from the memoirs by Texas schoolteacher Novalyne Price Ellis.

Frank Langella played Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon (2008) directed by Ron Howard from the 2006 play by Peter Morgan, CBS CEO William Paley in Good Night, and Good Luck (2005) by George Clooney, Judge Julius Hoffman in The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) written and directed by Aaron Sorkin. He also played a sensual vampire in Dracula (1979) directed by John Badham from a play based on Bram Stoker’s 1931 novel, that he had performed on Broadway.

Timothy Hutton won two Golden Globes for his performance in Ordinary People, his first feature film after he acted on television, and the first movie Robert Redford directed from the 1976 novel by Judith Guest. He spoke with HPFA journalists about this experience, when he was 20 years old.

Julie Taymor directed Frida (2002) about Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, played by Salma Hayek, with Alfred Molina playing Diego Rivera.

Oliver Stone wrote and directed three movies about the Vietnam War, Platoon (1986) with Charlie Sheen, that earned him a Golden Globe as Best Director, Born on the Fourth of July (1989) with Tom Cruise from the memoirs of paraplegic veteran and anti-war activist Ron Kovic, that earned him two Golden Globes for Best Director and Best Screenplay, Heaven & Earth (1993) from the autobiographical books by a Vietnamese woman, Le Ly Haislip. Japanese veterans.

HFPA journalists interviewed Franco Zeffirelli, the Italian film director who passed away in 2019 at the age of 96, several times. In 1973, speaking of his movie Brother Sun, Sister Moon about Francis of Assisi, he said:“I think the problem of dropouts it’s eternal and perennial, in the ‘60s we talked a little more about it, but it’s always been there, and it was at the time of Francis of Assisi in the 12th century.