The Golden Globe Awards are annual American awards for motion pictures and television programs that are given to the film and television personalities in a formal dinner. Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) has been announcing these awards every year since 1944. The first Golden Globe awards function was held in 1944 at 20th Century Fox studios. Since then it has taken place in various locations like Beverly Hills Hotel, Hollywood Knickerbockers Club and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) was founded more than 60 years ago by a group of Los Angeles-based journalists working for overseas publications. The Golden Globe Awards has enabled the non profit Hollywood Foreign Press Association to help the future film and television professionals through scholarships and also to give a lot of funds as charity to the entertainment industry. It has donated more than $6.5 million to the entertainment industry in the past twelve years. In 2005 alone, the donations were more than one million dollars.
The Golden Globe awards have become a major film awards. Since 1996, the Golden Globe Awards concludes with the Oscars. The broadcast of Golden Globe Awards is rated as the third most watched show that is just behind the prestigious Oscars and the Grammy Awards. Journalists who are part of the association typically present the awards at the ceremony. For motion pictures, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association currently presents awards in the following categories: Picture (Drama and Musical Or Comedy), Actor (Drama and Musical Or Comedy), Actress (Drama and Musical Or Comedy), Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Director, Screenplay, Original Score, Original Song, Foreign Film and the Cecil B. DeMille Award. In the year 1950s,the Hollywood Foreign Press Association decided to set up an exceptional award that identifies exceptional handouts to the entertainment industry. To give significance to the award and identify its subject as an international figure in the entertainment industry, the award was presented to Cecil B. DeMille in 1952. The official name of this award thus became the Cecil B. DeMille Award.
Other awards for achievements not in motion pictures include: Television Series (Drama and Musical Or Comedy), Mini Series Or Television Movie, Actor (Drama Series, Musical Or Comedy Series and Mini Series Or Television Movie), Actress (Drama Series, Musical Or Comedy Series and Mini Series Or Television Movie), Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress. Signifying the impact that animated films have had on the film industry, the Hollywood Foreign Press declared in early 2006 that a Golden Globe would be awarded for the Best Animated Feature at the 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards of that year.
The eligibility period for the Golden Globe Awards starts October 1, which is not like the Academy Awards that has its eligibility beginning from 1 Jan. The Golden Globe Awards are then given based on the votes of 86 typically part time journalists living in Hollywood and associated with media outside of the United States. Golden Globe Awards have become one of the most awaited as well as recognizable Awards of the US entertainment industry.
[...] The latest example of this struggle is an announcement by the Screen Actors Guild that 72 nominees of the annual Golden Globe awards ceremony will not be attending. ENews is reporting that SAG President Alan Rosenberg has announced that representatives of each of the nominated actors have informed the Golden Globes that their clients will not be attending the award show. [...]
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