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HOLLYWOOD, CA – Martin Scorsese will be honored at "The 67th Annual Golden Globe® Awards" on January 17 with the Cecil B. deMille Award for his "outstanding contribution to the entertainment field.

UNIVERSAL CITY, CALIF. – October 26, 2009 -- Multi-talented Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner Ricky Gervais (“The Invention of Lying,” “The Office”) will host “The 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards” on Sunday, January 17, 2010 on NBC.

Contact: Michael Russell                                                             (310) 939-9024                                                                                                                                                        FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                                                 HOLLYWOOD, CA, September 30, 2009 – Philip Berk, President of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, announced updated timetable for “The 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards” to be broadcast in HD Sunday, January 17, 2010 from 5-8 PM (PST) and 8-11 PM (EST) live coast to coast from The Beverly Hilton on NBC.  Key dates for the Golden Globe Awards timetable are as follows: October 30, 2009FridayFinal date for press conferences for Television entriesNovember 6, 2009FridayDeadline for submission of Golden Globe entry formsNovember 12, 2009ThursdayCecil B.

Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, met HFPA members at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills to talk about The Young Victoria, the movie which was inspired by an idea she pitched to British Oscar-winning producer Graham King. While at the hotel she renewed an acquaintance with HFPA president Philip Berk, which began when they met at the InStyle/HFPA party in Toronto in September, and presented him with her book about Queen Victoria.

The HFPA jointly hosted, with InStyle Magazine, a celebrity-studded party at Toronto's elegant Windsor Arms Hotel during the city's film festival. The annual party, which began in 2000, has become one of the most prestigious events on Toronto's social calendar and this year's guests included Nicolas Cage, Keanu Reeves, Robin Wright Penn, Clive Owen, Brenda Blethyn, Bill Nighy, Anthony LaPaglia, Patricia Clarkson and Colin Firth, who had just come from the Venice festival where he won the Best Actor prize for his performance in fashion designer Tom Ford’s filmmaking debut, “A Single Man.

A rare sunny day in London turned suddenly wet for HFPA members who were visiting the set of the as-yet-untitled movie Woody Allen is filming in Notting Hill. Woody, who is making his fourth film in London, finds the city’s overcast skies and occasional rain showers ideally suited for his methods of filmmaking.

Hollywood Foreign Press Association and Time Warner Cable, in partnership with Ovation TV, commit $150,000 to keep films rolling while LACMA rebuilds a larger, sustainable long-term program Los Angeles—The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announced today gifts of $75,000 each from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and Time Warner Cable, in partnership with Ovation TV, to extend continuous film programming through next summer. In addition, Time Warner Cable and Ovation TV have made an in-kind contribution of over $1.

Beverly Hills, CA, August 15, 2009 – The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is well known for its Annual Golden Globe Awards every January. Every summer, during the Annual Installation Luncheon, the association presents financial grants to dozens of film schools and non-profit organizations.

       Contact: Michael Russell                                  (310) 939-9024                             FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  HFPA Grants $1,249,000 to 29 Film Schools and Non-Profit Organizations During Annual Installation Luncheon BEVERLY HILLS, CA, August 11, 2009 – The Hollywood Foreign Press Association presented $1,249,000 in financial grants to 29 film schools and non-profit organizations at its annual Installation Luncheon honoring the organization’s 2009-2010 slate of officers today at the Beverly Hills Hotel.              Rose McGowan joined HFPA President Philip Berk to announce grants.

Contact: Michael Russell (310) 939-9024 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE HOLLYWOOD, CA, July 17, 2009 – “The Red Shoes,” the newly-restored 1948 masterpiece from directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, will have its U. S.