Golden Globe Awards

Christina Ricci played Wednesday, the daughter of Anjelica Huston as Morticia and Raul Julia as Gomez, in The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993) directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. She has a supporting role in Wednesday, the 8-part television series directed by Tim Burton, also based on the cartoon series by Charles Addams.

He had words with God. But just in case the good lord did not hear him, he consulted a matchmaker to find husbands for his five daughters.

The 28th Golden Globes ceremony was held on February 5, 1971, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. That night, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association honored the best of the best in film and television in 1970.

Defying George Orwell’s famous quote that, “In our age, there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics,’” the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association have always done their best to stay out of it. Only three connection points to politics have been acceptable: not overtly shying away from awarding films or TV shows with a strong political vision, such as Costa-Gavras’s Z.

As a tribute to Martin Scorsese on his 80th birthday (November 17, 2022), we explored our extensive archives of exclusive HFPA interviews dating back to 1971 to review what the acclaimed director said in the 1990s about the movies, actors and filmmakers he admired, his contemporaries and his frequent collaborators. The journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association interviewed and photographed Scorsese 15 times from 1976 to 2019, honored him with three Golden Globes as Best Director out of nine nominations, as well as presenting him with the Cecil B.

Golden Globe winner and three-time nominee Diahann Carroll had one of the most unexpectedly successful careers, given the times and the country in which she was born. The decision of Richard Rodgers, of Rodgers and Hammerstein fame, to cast the young African American actress in the musical No Strings in 1962 was one of those moments when a huge barrier was broken in the entertainment business.

Mile markers and anniversaries are always a good time to showcase what makes an organization special. And 1968, the 25th Golden Globes celebration, was a year that showed the world how good the Hollywood Foreign Press Association could be at tuning into the zeitgeist.

The 24th Golden Globes were held on February 15, 1967, at the Cocoanut Grove at the Ambassador Hotel, one of the hottest social spots for in-the-know Angelenos in the 1960s. Multiple Grammy-nominee Andy Williams hosted the ceremony in the company of Corinna Tsopei, Miss Universe 1964 turned Miss Golden Globes 1967.

At the 1966 Golden Globes ceremony, held at the Ambassador Hotel on January 31, English filmmaker David Lean won the Best Director Golden Globe for his classic love story Doctor Zhivago. It was the third time in under ten years that the legendary director won this award in the same year his movie was feted as Best Picture – Drama, following previous double-wins in 1963 for Lawrence of Arabia and 1958 for The Bridge on the River Kwai.