Golden Globe Awards

Michelle Williams, a twice Golden Globe winner for her acting out of six nominations, plays the mother (Paul Dano is the father) in The Fabelmans (2022) directed by Steven Spielberg. We went back into our extensive archives of exclusive HFPA interviews to report what the young actress said when she first spoke to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in the year 2000 at the age of 19 about the TV movie sequel If These Walls Could Talk 2.

Looking back to the middle of the 20th century, it becomes apparent how strong the feelings about the disastrous war years still lingered in the public consciousness. But the foreign journalists’ selection of the most significant dramas of 1958 reveals an interesting shift in its viewpoint: to examine delicately reconciling with former enemies.

It’s hard to believe but this article is based on a true story: A man who started to play the piano in Tsarist Russia, and who learned music in the Soviet Union and Weimar Germany, became one of the most prolific composers of the most American film genre, westerns. The scene: A lone man rides his horse into a nondescript town.

On February 23, 1956, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association held the 13th Golden Globes at the Cocoanut Grove in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. The lavish nightclub, known as Hollywood’s “first playground of the stars,” was the top venue of the Golden Globes for 10 of the next 12 years.

In the 1950s, there were a few years when multiple films were awarded the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film (now Best Non-English Language Film), and 1955 was one of those years. The 12th Golden Globes were held on February 24, 1955, at the Ambassador Hotel, and, befitting the organization’s international roots, four foreign films were voted the winners by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

The 1954 awards were held jointly by the Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association (HFCA) and the Foreign Press Association of Hollywood (FPAH), the two organizations that in 1955 would merge to form the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). The invitation came from the International Press of Hollywood, presenting the Golden Globe and World Film Favorites Awards for 1953, and took place on Friday, January 22, 1954, at Club Casa Del Mar in Santa Monica.

The year 1952 was a banner one for musicals, and the 10th Annual Golden Globes, held on February 26, 1953, at the Ambassador Hotel, celebrated five of the best as nominees for Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. The Golden Globe winner, director Walter Lang’s With a Song in My Heart, is a biographical musical based on the life of singer Jane Froman, who suffered massive injuries in an airplane crash on her way to a USO tour during World War II.

The Golden Globe Awards, in their early years, were a less formal affair than they have been since 1971 when they started being hosted in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel. In 1952, the event was held for the second straight year at Ciro’s, a popular nightclub on the Sunset Strip.