GOLDEN GLOBES GREATEST MOMENTS
Check out these Hollywood highlights from nearly 80 years of the Golden Globes.
2020 was quite a year for entertainment. When the pandemic shut down theaters, many of us spent a lot more time in front of the small screen. But being stuck at home wasn’t so bad: TV series such as The Queen’s Gambit and The Flight Attendant reigned supreme on streaming services, and high-profile feature films—from Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom to The Prom—came to us. Now it’s time for the Golden Globes, when the Hollywood Foreign Press Association honors stars and projects from both movies and television on a single glittery night. Though the 78th annual ceremony (Feb. 28 on NBC) will have no live audience, Tina Fey, 50, and Amy Poehler, 49, will be returning to host, toast and roast for the fourth time, but from different locations: Fey in New York City and Poehler in Beverly Hills. What will the show be like? We don’t know. But we do know that Fey and Poehler are scathingly funny, and that historically the show is wild and wacky. Here’s a look back at some highlights.
THAT WAS THE YEAR WHEN . . .
1958 …friends and “Rat Pack” members Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin stormed the stage with their whiskey glasses and cigarettes and “hijacked” the rest of the show, handing out awards and jokes. The audience loved it. The show wouldn’t have official celebrity hosts until 1995, when John Larroquette and Janine Turner did the honors.
1964 …Sidney Poitier accepted the Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama award for Lilies of the Field, becoming the first African American winner in the history of the show. (He’d receive the Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement award in 1982.) It wasn’t until 1969 that Diahann Carroll became the first African American female winner, collecting the award for Best Actress in a Television Series for Julia.
1980 …the youngest Globes winner ever, 9-year-old Ricky Schroder, won New Star of the Year for The Champ.
1982 …Pia Zadora, then 28, shocked the crowd when she won New Star of the Year for her turn as a teen nymphet in an obscure incest drama called Butterfly. (Among the future stars she beat were Elizabeth McGovern for Ragtime and Kathleen Turner for Body Heat.) Insiders whispered that the award was “bought” by her thenhusband, billionaire businessman Meshulam Riklis. She denies it to this day.
2016 …87-year-old composer Ennio Morricone (who died in July 2020) became the oldest winner, nabbing Best Motion Picture Score for 2015’s The Hateful Eight. (Jessica Tandy, age 80 when she won for Driving Miss Daisy in 1990, is the oldest winner in an acting category.)