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...first gala social event, when Leo McCarey's Going My Way was named the best film of 1944. In 1950, the organization split momentarily into two competing groups - the Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association and the Foreign Press Association of Hollywood. By the time these factions reunited as the HFPA in 1955, the Golden Globes looked very much as they do today. Honoring both movies and TV shows, dividing each category between a dramatic and a comedy/musical competition, the most recent alterations to the Golden Globes lineup occurred in 2007, with the creation of the "Best Animated Feature Film" category...
...Golden Globes are overseen by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), an organization with roots dating back to the 1940s when a group of Los Angeles-based overseas writers formed to share industry contacts and information. At the time of its founding the organization was hardly a novel concept, following in the wake of both the defunct Hollywood Association of Foreign Correspondents and the Foreign Press Society. But after they dissolved, a group of journalists led by a correspondent for Britain's Daily Mail launched the HFPA in 1943. The founding motto: "Unity Without Discrimination of Religion or Race...
...this season for the evening of Jan. 11) is regularly one of America's most-watched televised awards shows. But while a Golden Globe gives winning films and TV series considerable exposure to a wider audience, it is the ceremony's position on the Oscar calendar that brings the HFPA considerable influence...
...Nominations for February's Academy Awards are due by 5 p.m. on Jan. 12 - less than 24 hours after the Golden Globes telecast. Some pundits speculate that a strong showing at the Golden Globes could sway Oscar voters at the last second. Case in point: last time around, the HFPA chose Atonement and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street as the best films of the year. The former went on to receive a Best Picture Oscar...
...Some of the HFPA's goofier inspirations have stuck, like the Miss Golden Globe designation, begun in 1963 in homage to the sweet young thing of the moment. The honoree usually comes from Hollywood royalty (Tippi Hedren's daughter Melanie was Miss G.G. in 1975, and 31 years later the slot went to Griffith's daughter Dakota Johnson). It's one more way of guaranteeing that one more proud parent, who just happens to be a movie star, will show...