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  Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Golden Globe Award
The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars and Grammys, and movie studios actively solicit support from HFPA members and mention nominations and awards in their advertisements.
The Golden Globes are awarded early in the year, based on votes from (as of 2005) 86 mostly part-time journalists living in Hollywood and affiliated with media outside of the United States.
To give importance to the award and recognize its subject as an international figure in the entertainment industry the award was presented to Cecil B. DeMille in 1952, the official name of the award thus became the Cecil B. DeMille Award.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award   (754 words)

  
  Golden Globe Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars and Grammys, and movie studios actively solicit support from HFPA members and mention nominations and awards in their advertisements.
The Golden Globes are awarded early in the year, based on votes from (as of 2005) 86 mostly part-time journalists living in Hollywood and affiliated with media outside of the United States.
To give importance to the award and recognize its subject as an international figure in the entertainment industry the award was presented to Cecil B. DeMille in 1952, the official name of the award thus became the Cecil B. DeMille Award.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Golden_Globe_Award   (891 words)

  
 HFPA - Photo Gallery
Meryl Streep poses backstage in the press room with her Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading role for her work in "The Devil Wears Prada" during the 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, CA on Monday, January 15, 2007.
Helen Mirren poses backstage in the press room with her Golden Globe Award for Best Peformance by an Actress in a Leading role for her work in "Elizabeth I" during the 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, CA on Monday, January 15, 2007.
Helen Mirren poses backstage in the press room with her Golden Globe Awards for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading role for her work in "The Queen" and "Elizabeth I" during the 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, CA on Monday, January 15, 2007.
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 About Schmidt - Search View - MSN Encarta
Much of the movie is told through voiceovers of Schmidt’s letters to Ndugu, a Tanzanian orphan whom Schmidt has sponsored through a relief agency.
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor—Drama (2002): Jack Nicholson
Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay (2002): Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
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 The Golden Globe Awards: The Best Lobotomy in the West (NY Rock)
The Golden Globe Awards is undoubtedly the biggest deal in entertainment next to the Oscars, the Emmys, the Tonys, the People's Choice Awards, the People's Court Awards, Bob Shwartz's Awards (my neighbor), a good round of sex, a good meal, and/or a good bowel movement.
The 57th annual installment of the Golden Globe Awards proceeded at the pace of an Italian racecar fueled with espresso.
The show kicked off by presenting awards for best supporting actor and actress in a motion picture to Angelina Jolie for her role in Girl, Interrupted and Tom Cruise for his role in Magnolia.
www.nyrock.com /features/2000/globeys.htm   (875 words)

  
 DOL of Fame - March 13, 2001
Winner of the 1996 Golden Globe Award, for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture for Sense and Sensibility for which she was also nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama.
Nominated for two Golden Globe Awards in 1994, Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama, for The Remains of the Day and Best Performance by an Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama, for In the Name of the Father.
Golden Globe Award winner for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama, for Howards End (1992).
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 CNN.com - 'Aviator' lands Golden Globe glory - Jan 17, 2005
Hilary Swank won best actress in a drama for her portrayal of a female boxer molded into a winner by a reticent gym boss (Eastwood).
And then there was best director, a two-person contest between two venerable names: the winner, Eastwood, a longtime Hollywood hand who has stuck to his guns as a director; and Scorsese, the New York cineaste whose recent films have veered away from his gritty roots to epic aspirations.
The Golden Globes attract the top names, dispense with the dance numbers and offer free alcohol to the attendant throng, which makes for a very good time indeed.
www.cnn.com /2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/16/golden.globes/index.html   (840 words)

  
 Book Reviews by Rowan Crawford
This screenplay, by actors Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, won both the Academy Award and Golden Globe award for Best Original Screenplay of 1997, so it's some pretty good stuff.
Accompanying the screenplay is a forward written by film director and screenplay co-writer, Curtis Hanson, a foward written by screenplay co-writer, Brian Helgeland, and an intorduction written by the author of the original (monsterous) novel apon which the movie was based, James Elloy.
Seger's Good Screenplay Great book was one of the better screenplay-writing books I've come across, and she keeps up that form going here with genuinely worthwhile advice on the matter of bringing out your creativity.
www.sumaleth.com /staticpages/screenplay2.html   (1531 words)

  
 Shakespeare in Love - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Academy Award for Best Actress - Gwyneth Paltrow
BAFTA Award for Best Actress - Gwyneth Paltrow
Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture - John Madden
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shakespeare_in_Love   (1642 words)

  
 ‘Babel’ and ‘Dreamgirls’ Win Top Honors at Golden Globe Awards - New York Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Jennifer Hudson, a newcomer, won for best supporting actress in a motion picture for playing a determined but less-than-svelte singer in “Dreamgirls,” while the longtime Hollywood star Eddie Murphy — himself a newcomer to awards glory — won best supporting actor as a singer on the decline.
And as she won best actress in a comedy or musical for “The Devil Wears Prada,” one somewhat older woman, Meryl Streep, rocked the gathering when she donned a pair of reading glasses and declared, “I think I’ve worked with everybody in the room.” She paused.
The best foreign language film prize went to “Letters From Iwo Jima,” an unusual twist, in that the movie, with dialogue in Japanese, was directed by Clint Eastwood.
www.nytimes.com /2007/01/16/movies/awardsseason/16glob.html?ex=1184562000&en=062c0c5021a98d87&ei=5087&mkt=moviesphoto   (1282 words)

  
 CNN.com - 'Return of the King' dominates Golden Globes - Jan. 26, 2004
Charlize Theron won the trophy for best actress in a drama for her role in "Monster," in which she portrayed prostitute-turned-serial killer Aileen Wuornos.
Renee Zellweger won best supporting actress (drama) for her performance in "Cold Mountain." The Civil War-set film was up for a Globes-leading eight nominations, but Zellweger's was its only win.
The Golden Globes, which are given out by the 90 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, is one of the most-watched awards shows in entertainment, and winners often go on to earn Oscars, the U.S. film industry's top honor.
www.cnn.com /2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/26/golden.globes/index.html   (722 words)

  
 Being Charlie Kaufman | Articles, Interviews, Reviews | Being Charlie Kaufman
Charlie Kaufman, the author of "Being John Malkovich," one of the strangest and most original screenplays in years, was standing near his table at the Golden Globes ceremony in January in Beverly Hills, shrinking into himself.
Kaufman lost the Golden Globe award for best screenplay to Alan Ball, who wrote "American Beauty." Friends told me that Kaufman was relieved that he did not win.
Since he won nearly every major critics' prize for best original screenplay, it can be assumed he has had a stomach-wrenching winter, and since he is an Academy Award nominee, his uneasiness this week may well be approaching the truly unbearable.
www.beingcharliekaufman.com /articles/nytcartoon.htm   (867 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Blog: Minute by minute at the Globes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
When comparing this year's Golden Globes with last year's, she said, "Suddenly one doesn't have to purchase one's own gown." — W.K. Posted 9:46 p.m.
This was the seventh time she'd been nominated for a Globe, and the first time she won.
After dedicating the award to her brother and sister-in-law, she thanked husband Warren Beatty with a cryptic comment: "The lunch at the pizza joint was delicious." — W.M. Posted 8:58 p.m.
www.usatoday.com /life/movies/movieawards/goldenglobes/2005-01-16-blog_x.htm   (4129 words)

  
 Ernest Thompson: Modern Renaissance Man
Best known for writing the play On Golden Pond (1979), Ernest Thompson has come to be known as playwright, actor, screen writer, director, producer, mentor, and family man—truly a renaissance man for our season (http://www.ernestthompson.net).
On Golden Pond was Ernest Thompson’s first screenplay to be produced and was a huge hit in 1981.
Thompson was recognized internationally with an Academy Award for best screenplay adaptation, a Golden Globe Award for best screenplay in a drama, and a Writers Guild Award for best writer.
www.bard.org /education/resources/other/pondplaywright.html   (1223 words)

  
 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards: The Winners--AllYourTV.com
Best performance by an actor in a supporting role in a motion picture:
Best performance by an actress in a supporting role in a motion picture:
Best performance by an actress in a miniseries or a motion picture made for television:
www.allyourtv.com /awards/goldenglobes/64th/awardsgoldenglobes64thwinners.html   (216 words)

  
 'The Queen' Reigns Supreme With Four Nominations; 'Venus,' 'Kinky Boots' and 'Hollywoodland' Also Honored As 64th ...
Previous Golden Globe Award-winner Helen Mirren received a trio of nominations this morning from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
She previously won a Golden Globe Award for the mini- series "Losing Chase" in 1997.
The screenplay for "The Queen" garnered BAFTA Award-winner Peter Morgan a Best Screenplay nomination.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/12-14-2006/0004491586&EDATE=   (601 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Aviator wins top Globes accolades
Foxx was nominated for three awards but was beaten to the best supporting actor title by Owen and the best actor in a TV movie prize by Geoffrey Rush in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers.
Mick Jagger and Dave Stewart won the best original song award for Old Habits Die Hard from movie re-make Alfie, while Ian McShane was named best actor in a TV drama for his lead role in Deadwood.
The Golden Globes are awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, comprising film reporters based in Los Angeles and working for overseas outlets.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/4171883.stm   (586 words)

  
 The Envelope.com: Golden Globe noms unveiled
Eastwood, a longtime Golden Globe favorite, is vying against himself in the best directory category for his World War II dramas "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters from Iwo Jima." "Letters," which is largely in Japanese, also received a nomination in the best foreign film category.
Other best director nominees were Martin Scorsese for "The Departed" and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for "Babel" and Stephen Frears for "The Queen," which looks at the crisis in the British monarch after the death of Princess Diana.
Annette Bening picked up nominations for best actress in a musical or comedy for her role as an eccentric wife and mother in "Running with Scissors" and for best actress in a minseries or movie as the murderess in "Mrs.
theenvelope.latimes.com /awards/globes/env-goldenglobesnoms-dec2006,0,968442.story   (468 words)

  
 Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama: most honored videos
The Academy Award winner for Best Picture, Best Director Robert Zemeckis, and Best Actor Tom Hanks, this unlikely story of a slow-witted but good-hearted man somehow at the center of the pivotal events of the 20th century is a funny and heartwarming epic.
The Oscar-winning screenplay is actually based on several titles in James Ellroy’s series of chronological thriller novels (including the title volume, The Big Nowhere, and White Jazz)—a… READ 62% MORE
And everyone he knows—including his mother, his wife, and his best friend—is really an actor, paid to be part of his life.
www.awardannals.com /award/gglobe/drama/honors   (1073 words)

  
 With NY Critics Prizes and Golden Globe Nominations, "Sideways" Dominates Year-End Awards Season
Clint Eastwood won the directing award in New York for "Million Dollar Baby"; his film was the runner-up for the top award in Los Angeles, and a Golden Globe nominee in the same category (alongside Marc Forster for "Finding Neverland," Mike Nichols for "Closer," Martin Scorsese for "The Aviator," and Alexander Payne).
Clive Owen from "Closer" was the best supporting actor prizewinner in New York and the actor was also nominated in the same category at the Golden Globes.
The film was nominated for six awards, including best picture - drama, best director for Scorsese, best actor - drama for Leonardo DiCaprio, best supporting actress for Cate Blanchett, best screenplay for John Logan, and best score for Howard Shore.
www.indiewire.com /biz/biz_041214nyfcc.html   (817 words)

  
 The Ernest Lehman Collection: Harry Ransom Center
The picture won four of the eight Academy Awards for which it was nominated, and earned Lehman his second award for Best Musical Screenplay from the Screenwriters Guild.
After writing several drafts of the screenplay, and just before principal photogaphy was to begin in New York with director Alexander Mackendrick, Lehman left the project because of illness, and Clifford Odets was called in to do the final draft.
Lehman's screenplay was his third with director Robert Wise, and earned him his third Writers Guild Award and his third Academy Award nomination.
www.hrc.utexas.edu /collections/film/holdings/lehman   (1505 words)

  
 Romance Rules At Golden Globes, 'Brokeback Mountain' And 'Walk The Line' Are Big Winners - CBS News
Phoenix and Witherspoon won for best actor and actress in a movie musical or comedy for the biopic that follows country legend Cash's career and his long courtship with the love of his life, June Carter.
Also in the drama category - actress Felicity Huffman won an award for her gender-bending role in the film "Transamerica," where she portrayed a man who was undergoing a sex-change operation.
Golden Globe awards are generally a good indicator of possible Oscar winners.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/01/16/entertainment/main1210050.shtml   (709 words)

  
 The Daily Beacon
In fact, it is the only local pub that powers their Guinness tap with 75 percent carbon dioxide and 25 percent nitrogen, a practice strictly adhered to in the homeland, according to Caitriona McCarthy, a senior from Dublin, who admittingly frequents McGhee's.
Additionally, he discourages Flynn's reunification with Maggie, whose husband, the father of her son, as well as Danny's one-time best friend, is in prison.
Bound by "the code of the prisoner's wife," Maggie, who is also the daughter of the IRA's chief, Joe Hamill, is torn between her love for Danny and the solidarity of her family and the neighborhood.
dailybeacon.utk.edu /showarticle.php?articleid=26907   (1265 words)

  
 'Babel,' 'Dreamgirls' top Globes - CNN.com
Hudson dedicated her award to Florence Ballard, one of the singers from the Supremes -- the musical group on which "Dreamgirls" is loosely based.
The Globes, awarded by the 85 or so members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, are seen as a bellwether for the Academy Awards.
Seven of the last 10 Academy Award-winning best pictures have also won Globe best film honors, and two other Globe winners -- last year's "Brokeback Mountain" and 1998's "Saving Private Ryan" -- are widely seen to have been upset at the Oscars.
cnn.com /2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/15/golden.globes/index.html   (864 words)

  
 WGAE Awards Screenings Series - Writers Guild of America, East, AFL-CIO, WGAE, WGA East   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Writer-director Bill Condon has received Writers Guild Award nominations for Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published in 1999 for Gods and Monsters (1998), and in 2002 for his film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical Chicago (2002).
John Logan received a 2001 Writers Guild Award for Adapted Long Form for his RKO 281 teleplay, detailing the behind the scenes saga of maverick Orson Welles attempting to film classic Citizen Kane, also garnering an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries or Movie for RKO 281.
Charlie Kaufman has received two previous WGA nominations: one in 2003 for Adapted Screenplay for Adaptation, and another in 2000 for Original Screenplay for Being John Malkovich, both directed by frequent collaborator Spike Jonze.
www.wgaeast.org /awards/2005/01/19/screenings/index.html   (644 words)

  
 Columbia News ::: Alumni, Faculty Connected to Top Golden Globe Nominated Films
Columbia has a special connection to the 2003 Golden Globe Awards, as professors and alumni from SOA, Columbia College and Law School are directly involved with several of the leading Golden Globe nominated films:
In 2002 Nair's film "Monsoon Wedding" was nominated for a Golden Globe, and in 1988 her "Salaam Bombay!" was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Film professor James Schamus is the co-president of Focus Features, which distributed Best Motion Picture Drama nominee "The Pianist." Schamus was the executive producer and screenwriter of the Academy Award winning "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon." He received two Oscar nominations for the film, as screenwriter and lyricist.
www.columbia.edu /cu/news/03/01/golden_globe.html   (337 words)

  
 CNN.com - 'Chicago' and its stars glitter in Golden Globes - Mar. 16, 2003
Martin Scorsese won best director award, and Jack Nicholson and Nicole Kidman were honored for their roles in a drama.
Jennifer Aniston, a TV mainstay on "Friends," was recognized for her work with a Golden Globes Award for best actress in a musical or comedy TV series.
Kim Cattrall won best supporting actress for a series, miniseries or TV motion picture for her role in HBO's "Sex and the City." She portrays a woman who has frequent lovers and infrequent regrets.
cnn.com /2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/19/golden.globes.advancer/index.html   (1043 words)

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