Golden Globe Awards honor the excellence of actors, technicians and professionals involved in film and television industry.
History of the Golden Globe Awards
Instituted by the Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association. The first Golden Globe award ceremony was an informal one in 1944 where distinguished achievement in film industry was honored at 20th Century Fox. ‘The Song of Bernadette’ won two awards – one for Jennifer Jones as Best Actress and the other for Best Film. Best Actor award was won by Paul Lukas for ‘Watch on the Rhine’.
It was in 1945 that a formal event was held for Golden Globe awards. The same year Golden Globes Statuette was also introduced. In 1950, differences among the members led to the formation of two groups – the Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association and Foreign Press Association of Hollywood. For some time, the organizations gave away separate awards, with one group giving Golden Globes while the other awarding Henriettas, named after their president Henry Gris.
The association separated the motion picture category into two categories – drama and musical or comedy and decided to give awards for best film, best actor and best actress in these two categories to honor the acting skills in both genres.
The year 1955 witnessed the reunion of both the groups under the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. In the same year, the Golden Globes started honoring contributions in TV along with films. In 2007, the best animated feature film category was introduced in the Golden Globes. At present, Golden Globes give away awards in 25 categories – 14 in motion pictures and 11 in TV.
Golden Globe Awards Categories
Golden Globe gives away the Cecil B. DeMille Award, instituted in 1952, for outstanding contribution to the entertainment field. It gives away Best Motion Picture – Drama and Musical or Comedy, Best Animated Feature Film, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Television Series – Drama and Musical or Comedy and Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture made for television.
Best Performance for an Actor and Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama and Musical or comedy, best performance by an actor and actress in a supporting role in a motion picture, best performance by an actor and actress in a television series – drama and musical or comedy, best performance by an actor and actress in a mini-series or motion picture made for television and best performance by an actor and actress in a supporting role in a mini-series or motion picture made TV are the awards which honor the contributions of actors and actresses to the film industry.
In motion picture category, there are awards for Best Director for a Motion Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Original Score and Best Original Song.
2006 Golden Globe Awards
Brokeback Mountain dominated the Golden Globe awards in 2006 with the movie bagging award for Best Motion picture-Drama, best Director for Ang Lee, Best Screenplay and Best original Song. ‘Walk the Line’ followed closely with three awards for Best Motion picture –Musical or Comedy, Best performance by an actor and actress in a Motion picture for Joaquin Phoenix and Witherspoon respectively. In TV category, ‘Lost’ won the best TV series-Drama while ‘The Desperate Housewives’ won the Best TV- musical and comedy.
2007 Golden Globe Awards
‘Dreamgirls’ won three awards for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Best Performance by an actress in a supporting role for Jennifer Hudson and Best Performance by an actor in a supporting role for Eddie Murphy. Cecil B De Mille Award was given to Warren Beatty while Best Motion picture in Drama category went to Babel. Helen Mirren got the Best performance by an Actress in a Motion picture-Drama for her role in the Queen, while Best performance by an actor in a Motion picture-Drama went to Forest Whitaker for the last King of Scotland. Meryl Streep’s performance in the “Devil Wears Prada” got her the Best performance by an actress in a Motion picture musical or comedy while Sacha Barron Cohon got the best actor award in a motion picture-musical or comedy for his performance in Borat.
Car was adjudged the Best Animated Feature film while ‘Letters from Iwa Jima’ from Japan was awarded the Best Foreign Language film. Mortin Scorcese got the best Director-Motion picture award for The Departed while Peter Morgan got the best Screenplay-Motion picture award for The Queen. ‘The Painted Veil’, composed by Alexandre Desplat got the best Original score in a Motion picture while ‘The Song of the Heart’ got the best original song in a Motion picture.
In television category, Elizabeth I won three awards – Best Mini Series or Motion picture made for TV, Best performance by an actress in a Mini series or motion picture made for TV for Helen Mirren and the best performance by an actor in a supporting role in mini series. Ugly Betty got two awards – Best TV series Musical or Comedy and best performance by an actress in TV series-musical or comedy for America Ferrera. Gideon’s daughter too won two awards – Best performance by an actor in mini series and the best performance by an actress in supporting role. Grey’s Anatomy won the best series – drama while the best performance by an actress and actor in TV series drama went to Kyra Sedgwick for her portrayal in ‘The Closer’ and Maugh Laurie for ‘House’. |
