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We already knew that the 2020 Golden Globes Awards will be handed out January 5, and now the HFPA has set the rest of the timeline for the 77th annual trophy show. In a shorter awards season fueled by the Movie Academy’s decision to move the Oscars two weeks earlier to February 9 next year, Globes nominations will be…

Golden Globe and Academy Award winner Jeff Bridges is set to receive the Cecil B. deMille Award at the 76th annual Golden Globe Awards. The ceremony, which will be hosted by Sandra Oh and Andy Samberg, will air live on NBC at 5 pm PT on January 6, 2019. “The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is delighted to bestow…

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has named Isan Elba as next year’s Golden Globe Ambassador. She is the daughter of Golden Globe-winning actor Idris Elba’s and makeup artist Kim Elba. Last year, they retired the title of Miss Golden Globe and switched it Golden Globe Ambassador. Simone Garcia Johnson, the…

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced today that they are calling off their Golden Globe Ambassador Party amid the wildfires in Los Angeles and Venture Counties, Deadline has confirmed. Organizers canceled the party that announces the Golden Globe Ambassador for the annual awards ceremony. “Due to the…

No, Drew Barrymore has not “decided to temporary take an unlimited vacation to play her most crucial role as a mother,” whatever that means. And unless the author and editors of a deeply strange celebrity profile have proof they’re not sharing, they would have no basis to claim the actress is “unstable in her…

With the Venice Film Festival a little over a week away, there are two new collateral awards joining the lineup of prizes alongside the likes of the FIPRESCI and the Label Europa Cinemas. The entries are the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Award and the Fundación Casa Wabi – Mantarraya (Mexico) Award. Both will go…

UPDATED with HFPA statement, 1, 52 PM: The Hollywood Foreign Press Associated has issued an official statement about to today’s GQ story in which Brendan Fraser said the group considered his 2003 groping by its then-president Philip Berk to be “a joke” and that it refused to show him its report on an internal…

The Sunday rain downpours in Cannes didn’t destroy the mood at the annual Hollywood Foreign Press Association party here at Nikki Beach Sunday night where the HFPA donated $500,000 to Kailash Satyarthi Childrens Foundation , an organization dedicated to ending violence against children and child labor around the…

The Golden Globes may be on the move as its longtime TV home NBC failed to close a new deal for the highly rated awards franchise within its exclusive negotiation window.  “The Hollywood Foreign Press Association and dick clark productions value our 25-year relationship with NBC and will continue to have discussions…

Could Sunday night be a very good night for Selma and Into The Woods? Well, if you happened to be on the Golden Globes website earlier today, you would have seen the Paramount-released former appear as the winner for Best Motion Picture, Drama, and the Disney-released latter getting Best Motion Picture, Musical Or…

It looks as though HBO’s True Detective will not be able to compete as a drama series at the Golden Globe Awards, given new category definitions instituted by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Among the rule changes made in advance of the next Globe competition, the “Mini-Series” category is now the “Limited…

David Mermelstein is an AwardsLine contributor Few stars can rival Jodie Foster's durability. One has to go back to Hollywood's golden age—to the likes of Judy Garland—to find those who even approach her successful transition from childhood roles to adult parts. And what other child actor started directing after…