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The Golden Globe Awards are presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) 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 formal ceremony and dinner at which the awards are presented is a major part of the film industry's awards season, which culminates each year with the Academy Awards.
The 1st Golden Globe Awards were held in January 1944 at the 20th Century Fox studios in Los Angeles.
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The Golden Globe Awards are presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) 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 formal ceremony and dinner at which the awards are presented is a major part of the film industry's awards season, which culminates each year with the Academy Awards.
The 1st Golden Globe Awards were held in January 1944 at the 20th Century Fox studios in Los Angeles. The 66th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 2008, were presented on January 11, 2009 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, where they have been held annually since 1961.
Rules
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.
A motion picture is eligible if:
- it was released for a seven-day run in the greater Los Angeles area, between January 1 and December 31,
- it was screened for the active membership (need not be exclusive to the members),
- the active members were invited to the screening by mail by the film's distributor,
- it cleared one official screening with the MPAA, and
- an entry form is received within ten days of the screening.
The Best Foreign Language film category has slightly different qualification rules:
- It is a feature length film with at least fifty one percent non-English language dialogue,
- it originated outside the United States, and
- it was first released in its country of origin during the fourteen months between November 1 and December 31.
A television program is eligible if:
- seven original episodes were broadcast in the United States during the calendar year,
- the episodes were broadcast during prime time, and
- it was made in the United States or is a co-production financially and creatively between a United States and a foreign production company.
A made-for-TV motion picture, and mini-series is eligible if:
- broadcast in the United States during the calendar year,
- it was broadcast before any theatrical release (a film festival showing does not disqualify),
- it was made in the United States or is a co-production financially and creatively between a United States and a foreign production company.
Television actors must appear in a minimum of seven episode in a calendar year to be eligible.
A nomination ballot is submitted on to the membership with all eligible entries listed. Each member votes for five nominees in each category.
A final ballot is emailed to the membership containing the five nominees for each category. Each member chooses one nominee from each category.
Ceremony
The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to more than 150 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars and the Grammy Awards. 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.
History
The first Golden Globe Awards were held in 1944, at the 20th Century Fox studios. It has since been held annually, at various locations. Throughout the next decade, it was held at the the Beverly Hills Hotel, and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
in 1950 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 initial award was presented to director and producer Cecil B. DeMille. 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. They were 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.
Recognizing the impact that animated films have had on the industry, in 2006, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced that a Golden Globe would be awarded for the Best Animated Feature at the 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards.
The awards show income has enabled the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to donate millions of dollars to entertainment-related charities, as well as funding scholarships and other programs for future film and television professionals.
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. 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. 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
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
- Henrietta Award (World Film Favorite – Male) • Awarded from 1950 to 1979
Performers with the most Golden Globes
Meryl Streep, Angela Lansbury and Jack Nicholson hold the record for the most Golden Globe wins with six each. Meryl Streep holds the record for most nominations with twenty-three and Jack Lemmon is second with twenty-two. However, including special awards, such as the Henrietta Award - World Film Favorite Actor/Actress or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand would win with 11 awards and behind her, Jack Nicholson, with seven.
Only four actresses have won two acting awards in the same year:
Posthumous awards and nominations
Controversy
Pia Zadora won a Golden Globe in 1981 in the category "Newcomer-of-the-Year" for her performance in Butterfly. There were accusations that the Foreign Press Association members had been bought off. Pia's husband, multimillionaire Meshulam Riklis flew voting members to his casino, the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, which gives the appearance that they voted for Zadora to repay this. Riklis also invited voting members to his house for a lavish lunch, and a showing of the film. He also spent lavishly on advertising.
Additionally the film had not been released at the time of the awards, which should have made her ineligible for an award.
Ratings
Date Time Aired Day Aired Network Viewers
1//2009 8-11PM Sunday NBC
1/13/2008*^ 9-10:00PM Sunday NBC 6,038,000
1/15/2007* 8-11:00PM Monday NBC 20,036,000
1/16/2006* 8-11:00PM Monday NBC 18,765,000
1/16/2005 8-11:00PM Sunday NBC 16,845,000 (against Desperate Housewives)
1/25/2004 8-11:00PM Sunday NBC 26,803,000
1/19/2003 8-11:00PM Sunday NBC 20,097,000
1/20/2002 8-11:00PM Sunday NBC 23,451,000
1/21/2001 8-11:01PM Sunday NBC 22,493,000
1/23/2000 8-11:04PM Sunday NBC 22,107,000
1/24/1999 8-11:07PM Sunday NBC 24,180,000
- Note: Live+Same Day viewing estimates include DVR playback on the same day, defined as 3AM-3AM.
^ Note: In 2008, the Golden Globes was a press conference only, due to the “Writer’s Strike”.
Source: Nielsen Media Research
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