History of the Golden Globes Award (Golden Globe Awards)

The Golden Globe is an award to recognize and appreciate certain individuals in motion pictures and television. Yeah, this is for their efforts in the entertainment industry. The Hollywood foreign press association are the one that set up the award. In this article, I will tell you what the Golden Globes Award history is all about.

History of the Golden Globes Award (Globe Awards)

What is the History of the Golden Globes Award?

Before giving you a brief history of the award, you must know that the award has different categories. The Awards is for individuals that do exceptionally in their roles when it comes to filming. They include the best actress and actor, taking into cognizance is the screenwriting, music, direction e.t.c.

The Awards is also to honour those that do well in comedy, movies, drama series and musical series. Although there are other awards such as the Emmy Awards (television) and academic awards (film).

History of the Golden Globes Award

The history is given below:

  • It was a group of journalists from Los Angeles that share information, resources and contacts. They themselves are the originators of the “Hollywood foreign correspondents association”.
  • Since they were all highly esteemed members of the world press. They decided to give feedback about Hollywood productions and achievements.
  • The first award took place in 1944 at 20th-century fox, it was mainly divided into the best actress and the best actor. The best actress was given to Jennifer Jones for the “song of Bernadette”. While Paul Lukas for “Watch on the Rhine” was the best actor. They gave them a scroll award instead of the shiny golden globes as of now.
  • The award was brought by the president of the group, Marina Cisternas instead of the scroll.
  • In 1945, there was an award for the exceptional role of best actor and actress at the Beverly Hills hotel. The best actor was won by Alexander Knox in the movie “President Wilson”. The best actress was given to “ Ingrid Bergman “ for her role in “ The Bells Of Saint Mary”.
  • There was a fight between the Hollywood foreign correspondent association and the foreign press association of Hollywood. This was due to slight differences in opinions in 1950. The issue was later resolved in 1955, and they both formed the organization “the Hollywood foreign press association” with requirements for membership.

Nominations and Voting

Entry forms for films need to be received by the HFPA within ten days of the official screening. TV programs should be submitted “as early as possible” before the deadline.

As part of their regular journalistic jobs, active HFPA members will participate in covering the press conferences, and interviewing cast members, of selected films and TV programs. The film press conferences need to take place either before the film’s release in the Greater Los Angeles area or up to one week afterwards.

Ballots to select the nominations are sent to HFPA members in November, along with a “Reminder List” of eligible film and TV programs. Each HFPA member then votes for their top five choices in each category, numbering them 5 to 1, with 5 being their top choice.

The nominees in each category are then the five selections that receive the most votes. The ranked voting is only used to break ties, with number 5 worth 5 points, number 4 worth 4 points, and so on.

After the nominations are announced in mid-December, HFPA members receive the final ballots. The winner in each category is selected from among the nominees by plurality voting. In case of a tie, the winner is the one that had the most votes on the nomination ballot.

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Conclusion

Obviously, some brief details about the history of the award are above. Although, people that already know about the award may feel bad that the winners do not go according to their predictions. Well, that no doubt another part of it as not all heads are equal, what I like may not be what You like.

The COVID-19 situation is disrupting activities in the whole world, which makes people to wonder if the ceremony is going to hold in 2022. Well, yes of its still going to hold. As a matter of fact the complete list of Nominees for all the award categories is out.

Well, once you know about the Golden Globes Award history, you may look up to and want details regarding its next ceremony held in 2022.. Yeah, the 2022 Award giving ceremony is definitely going to hold in 2022. The date for the ceremony is already out, although it is going to take place in a different month unlik the one in 2021.

Well, details about the next ceremony date is on this link and users can also see the predictions here.

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