- For other meanings see Golden Globe .
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.
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 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:
Retired awards
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
Only three actors have won the award posthumously:
- 1976: Peter Finch won the award for
Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama for his role in Network.
- 1994: Raúl Juliá won the
award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film for his
role in The Burning Season.
- 2009: Heath Ledger won the award
for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for his role in
The Dark
Knight.
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
2009-01-11 8-11:00PM Sunday NBC 14,600,600
2008-01-13 9-10:00PM Sunday NBC 6,038,000 *^
2007-01-15 8-11:00PM Monday NBC 20,036,000 *
2006-01-16 8-11:00PM Monday NBC 18,765,000 *
2005-01-16 8-11:00PM Sunday NBC 16,845,000 (against
Desperate Housewives)
2004-01-25 8-11:00PM Sunday NBC 26,803,000
2003-01-19 8-11:00PM Sunday NBC 20,097,000
2002-01-20 8-11:00PM Sunday NBC 23,451,000
2001-01-21 8-11:01PM Sunday NBC 22,493,000
2000-01-23 8-11:04PM Sunday NBC 22,107,000
1999-01-24 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
See also
References
- Butler, Don. "Beverly Hilton recaptures lustre of its glory
days", Regina Leader-Post, May 9, 2008.
Accessed January 28, 2009. "And the Golden Globe Awards have been
handed out in its swanky International Ballroom since 1961."
- Listing of Henrietta Award winners
- http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Golden_Globes_USA/1982
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082122/
- http://cdn.goldenglobes.org/resources/FF-rules_66.pdf
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