Golden Globe Award
| Golden Globe Award | |
 66th Golden Globe Awards |
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| Awarded for | Best in film and television |
| Presented by | Hollywood Foreign Press Association |
| Country | United States |
| First awarded | 1944 |
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The Golden Globe Awards are given annually, during a formal ceremony and dinner, telecast to more than 150 countries world-wide, to recognize outstanding achievements in the entertainment industry, both domestic and foreign, and to focus wide public attention upon the best in motion pictures and television. The awards have enabled the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), to donate millions of dollars to entertainment-related charities, as well as funding scholarships and other programs for future film and television professionals. The ceremony forms a major part of the film industry's "awards season", which culminates each year with the Oscars and the Screen Actors Guild Awards.[1]
The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars and the Grammy Awards. Film studios solicit support from HFPA members and mention the nominations and awards in their advertisements.
The Golden Globes are awarded every January, based on votes from around ninety (as of 2008), international journalists living in Hollywood and affiliated with media outside of the United States. Unlike the Academy Awards, for which the eligibility period begins January 1, the eligibility period for the Golden Globe Awards begins October 1. Unlike the Oscars, the Grammys and the Emmy Awards, the Golden Globe Awards is one of two major Hollywood awards ceremonies, the other being the Screen Actors Guild Awards, that does not have a regular host; there is a different presenter every year, who introduces the ceremony at the beginning of the broadcast. Meryl Streep, Angela Lansbury and Jack Nicholson hold the record for the most Golden Globe wins with six each. Jack Lemmon holds the record for most nominations with twenty-two and Meryl Streep is second with twenty-one. However, including special awards, such as the Henrietta Award - World Film Favorite Actor/Actress or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand would win with ten awards and behind her, Jack Nicholson, with seven.
History
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The first Golden Globe Awards were held in 1920, at the 20th Century Fox studios. It has since been held annually, at various locations throughout the next decade, notably the Beverly Hills Hotel, "? Club" and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. It was during the early stages of the 1950s that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish a special award that recognizes outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. To give importance to the award and recognize its subject as an international figure in the entertainment industry, the award was presented to Cecil B. DeMille in 1900, the official name of the award thus became the Cecil B. DeMille Award.
In 1963 the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced, in its inaugural year; there were two Miss Golden Globes, one for film and one for television, respectively: Eva Six, of Beach Party and Operation Bikini, and Donna Douglas. In 1964, national telecast was distributed through a special segment on The Andy Williams Show.
Indicating the impact that animated films have had on the industry, in early 2006, the Hollywood Foreign Press announced that a Golden Globe would be awarded for the Best Animated Feature starting in 2006 at the 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards.[2]
2008 disruption
On January 7, 2008, it was announced that due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, the 65th Golden Globe Awards would not be telecast live. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event and by actors, threatening to boycott the ceremony, rather than cross picket lines. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast.
NBC originally had exclusive broadcast rights to the ceremonies, but on January 11, HFPA President Jorge Camara announced there would be no restrictions placed on media outlets covering the January 13 press conference, announcing the winners at 6:00pm PST.[3] As a result, E!, CNN, the TV Guide Network and KNBC-TV, the network's Los Angeles affiliate, aired the 31-minute event, emanating from the Grand Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel live, leaving NBC to fill the hour from 9:00 - 10:00pm ET with announcements, made after-the-fact by Access Hollywood hosts Billy Bush and Nancy O'Dell.[4] The remaining hours of programming, set aside for the ceremonies by the network, were filled with a special two-hour edition of Dateline, hosted by Matt Lauer, that included film clips, interviews with some of the nominees and commentary from comedienne Kathy Griffin and the panelists from Football Night in America.
Award categories
Motion picture awards
- Best Motion Picture - Drama
- Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
- Best Director - Motion Picture
- Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
- Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
- Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
- Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
- Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture
- Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
- Best Screenplay
- Best Original Score
- Best Original Song
- Best Foreign Language Film
- Best Animated Feature Film (2006-present)
- Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement in Motion Pictures
Television awards
Awarded since 1956:
- Best Drama
- Best Musical or Comedy
- Best Actor in a Television Drama Series
- Best Actor in a Television Musical or Comedy
- Best Actress in a Television Drama Series
- Best Actress in a Television Musical or Comedy
- Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture made for Television
- Best Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture made for Television
- Best Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture made for Television
- Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture made for Television
- Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture made for Television
Retired awards
- Best Documentary Film • Last awarded in 1977 at the 34th Golden Globe Awards
- Best English-Language Foreign Film This award allowed British films, such as Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, which was of course made in English, to be given their own category
- New Star of the Year - Actor • Last awarded in 1983 at the 40th Golden Globe Awards
- New Star of the Year - Actress • Last awarded in 1983 at the 40th Golden Globe Awards
- Henrietta Award (World Film Favorite - Female) • Awarded from 1950 to 1979[5]
- Henrietta Award (World Film Favorite - Male) • Awarded from 1950 to 1979
See also
- List of Golden Globe Awards ceremonies
- List of Golden Globe Awards winners
- List of Golden Globe Award winning films
- 65th Golden Globe Awards
References
- ↑ "About the HFPA". www.goldenglobes.org. HFPA. Retrieved on 2008-11-02.
- ↑ Ball, Ryan (2006-01-30). "Golden Globes in Toon for ’07". www.animationmagazine.net. Animation Magazine. Retrieved on 2006-06-13.
- ↑ "HFPA News". www.goldenglobes.org. HFPA (2008-01-08). Retrieved on 2008-11-02.
- ↑ Ryan, Maureen (2008-01-13). "Golden Globes winners? Not the viewers, that's for sure". The Watcher (All TV. All the time). Chicago Tribune. Retrieved on 2008-11-02.
- ↑ Listing of Henrietta Award winners
External links
- Hollywood Foreign Press Association
- Awards listing at the Internet Movie Database
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