Golden globe awards

The Golden Globe Awards are given each year by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to honor outstanding performances and achievements in the motion pictures and television industry of the United States and the World. There is a formal ceremony and dinner at which the awards are being presented and also telecast nationally over the NBC network and transmitted worldwide to many countries.

Currently there are twenty five categories where a choice of a winner is being made between five nominees; these nominees were announced at a press conference a month prior to the proclamation of the winners at the awards gala. Fourteen awards are for achievements in the motion pictures industry and eleven are television awards. In addition to the twenty five Golden Globes that are awarded, a special award, which is meant to honor individuals who have made great and unique, outstanding contributions to the entertainment world, is being given, the Cecil B. DeMille award.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association was established in 1943 by correspondents of foreign publications who were reporting about the motion picture and television industry and related topics to their native houses. The first awards were presented already a year later, but no statuettes were designed as of yet. The design was ready for the next year's award presentation, which already was the first major social event with a formal banquet; the awards were presented to outstanding individuals in a lavish gala at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Throughout the years, the popularity of the awards grew and in the mid sixties the first telecast of the award show was broadcast as a segment on the Andy Williams show, also on the NBC network. The only Golden Globe Awards show which was cancelled was the January 7th, 2008, awards show, because of the Writers Guild of America strike. The award winners were announced during a press conference.

The awards for television were not introduced until the year 1956, at the 14th Golden Globe Awards. The winners of most Golden Globes would be Angela Lansbury, Jack Nicholson and Meryl Steep with six each. Jack Nicholson has received a Cecil B. DeMille Award in addition to his six Globes. If all awards, including the retired awards, like the Henrietta, would be counted, then Barbara Streisand would be the winner with eleven awards, including her Cecil B. DeMille Award.Four actresses have won two Golden Globe Awards in the same year, Sigourney Weaver in 1989, Joan Plowright in 1993, Helen Mirren in 2007 and Kate Winslet in 2009. The nominees for the 67th Golden Globes will be announced in December 2009.
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