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Golden Globe Awards History

Golden Globe recognition across actors, directors and films. This page combines historical context with 41 matching records drawn directly from the World History Database cinema archive.

41 matching archive records 1945โ€“2014 record span Open full 2,036-record archive

Historical context

Golden Globe Awards History: overview and significance

What happened?

Golden Globe records in the archive follow awards and nominations across major film careers, often alongside Academy Award and other industry recognition.

Why was it important?

The Golden Globes became a prominent part of Hollywood's awards calendar and offer another way to trace how performances and films were recognised at the time of release.

World History Database records

Golden Globe Awards History timeline

The records below are selected from the 2,036-record Cinema History archive and rendered as static HTML in chronological order.

1945
1945

Golden Globe

Angela Brigid Lansbury ยท Great Britain ยท Cinema

Appears in The Picture of Dorian Gray, wins a Golden Globe for best supporting actress

1945

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Angela Brigid Lansbury ยท Great Britain ยท Cinema

Appears in The Picture of Dorian Gray, wins a Golden Globe for best supporting actress

1952
1952

The Thief

Ray Milland ยท Great Britain ยท Cinema

Stars in, "The Thief", nominated for a Golden Globe

1953
1953

Golden Globe

Kim Novak ยท United States of America ยท Cinema

After playing Madge Owens in Picnic opposite William Holden, Novak won a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer and for World Film Favorite

1956
1956

The Prince and the Showgirl

Marilyn Monroe ยท United States of America ยท Cinema

Stars in The Prince and the Showgirl, at Pinewood Studios in England, based on Terrence Rattigans The Sleeping Prince, a play about an affair between a show girl and a prince in the 1910s. Stars in Bus Stop, received a Golden Globe for Best Actress nomination for her performance

1957
1957

Golden Globe

Kim Novak ยท United States of America ยท Cinema

Wins a 2nd Golden Globe for World Favorite female actress

1958
1958

Golden Globe

John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon ยท United States of America ยท Cinema

Stars in "Some Like It Hot", wins Golden Globe Award for Best Actor

1958

Golden Globe

Marilyn Monroe ยท United States of America ยท Cinema

Monroes performance in Some Like it Hot earned her a Golden Globe for Best Actress, and prompted Variety to call her "a comedienne with that combination of sex appeal and timing that just cant be beat"

1958

Some Like It Hot

Marilyn Monroe ยท United States of America ยท Cinema

Stars opposite Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in Billy Wilders comedy Some Like It Hot. Monroes performance in Some Like it Hot earned her a Golden Globe for Best Actress, and prompted Variety to call her "a comedienne with that combination of sex appeal and timing that just cant be beat"

1959
1959

Golden Globe

John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon ยท United States of America ยท Cinema

Stars in "The Apartment", wins the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor

1962
1962

Golden Globe

Angela Brigid Lansbury ยท Great Britain ยท Cinema

Appears in The Manchurian Candidate, wins a Golden Globe for best supporting actress

1962

The Manchurian Candidate

Angela Brigid Lansbury ยท Great Britain ยท Cinema

Appears in The Manchurian Candidate, wins a Golden Globe for best supporting actress

1963
1963

Golden Globe Nomination - Lolita

Actor Peter Sellers ยท Great Britain ยท Cinema

Sellers receives a Golden Globe supporting-actor nomination for Lolita.

1965
1965

Golden Globe Nomination - The Pink Panther

Actor Peter Sellers ยท Great Britain ยท Cinema

The Golden Globes place Sellers among the 1965 musical-or-comedy actor nominees for The Pink Panther.

1968
1968

Golden Globe

Mike Nichols ยท United States of America ยท Cinema

Golden Globe Award for Best Director The Graduate

1975
1975

Golden Globe

Angie Dickinson ยท United States of America ยท Cinema

Golden Globe Award, wins Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Drama Series for Police Woman

1975

Tommy

Member of Who Roger Daltrey ยท Great Britain ยท Cinema

Daltrey plays the lead role of Tommy & is nominated for a Golden Globe Award for "Best Acting Debut in a Motion Picture"

1976
1976

Golden Globe Nomination - The Return of the Pink Panther

Actor Peter Sellers ยท Great Britain ยท Cinema

His return as Clouseau earns Sellers a 1976 Golden Globe nomination in the musical-or-comedy actor category.

1977
1977

Bobby Deerfield

Alfredo James "Al" Pacino ยท United States of America ยท Cinema

Pacino stars as a race-car driver in Bobby Deerfield, directed by Sydney Pollack, and received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture Actor

1977

Bobby Deerfield

Sydney Pollack ยท United States of America ยท Cinema

Pacino stars as a race-car driver in Bobby Deerfield, directed by Sydney Pollack, and received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture Actor

1977

Golden Globe

Vanessa Redgrave ยท Great Britain ยท Cinema

Wins the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in Julia

1977

Golden Globe Nomination - The Pink Panther Strikes Again

Actor Peter Sellers ยท Great Britain ยท Cinema

The Pink Panther Strikes Again brings Sellers another Golden Globe musical-or-comedy actor nomination in 1977.

1980
1980

Coal Miners Daughter

Tommy Lee Jones ยท United States of America ยท Cinema

Earns his first Golden Globe nomination for his portrayal of country singer Loretta Lynns husband, Doolittle "Mooney" Lynn, in the popular Coal Miners Daughter

1980

Golden Globe Win - Being There

Actor Peter Sellers ยท Great Britain ยท Cinema

Sellers wins the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Being There.

1985
1985

Film

Pierce Brendan Brosnan ยท Ireland ยท Cinema

Bosnans portrayal of Robert Gould Shaw II garnered him a 1985 Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor

1985

Golden Globe

Pierce Brendan Brosnan ยท Ireland ยท Cinema

Bosnans portrayal of Robert Gould Shaw II garnered him a 1985 Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor

1985

Golden Globe

Margaret Natalie Smith Cross ยท Great Britain ยท Cinema

Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture, A Room with a View

1986
1986

Crocodile Dundee

Paul Hogan ยท Australia ยท Cinema

Wins a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in Crocodile Dundee. Hogans first film, Crocodile Dundee featuring a similarly down-to-earth hunter traveling from the Australian Outback to New York City, was privately funded by Hogan and a group of private investors

1986

Golden Globe

Paul Hogan ยท Australia ยท Cinema

Wins a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in Crocodile Dundee

1987
1987

Golden Globe

Edward Woodwood ยท Great Britain ยท Cinema

Winner of a Golden Globe

1988
1988

Cecil B DeMille Award

Actor Golden Globe Honoree Clinton "Clint" Eastwood ยท United States of America ยท Los Angeles ยท Cinema

Receives the Golden Globe Cecil B DeMille Award for career contribution to entertainment.

1992
1992

Golden Globe

Alfredo James "Al" Pacino ยท United States of America ยท Cinema

Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for Scent of a Woman

1995
1995

Golden Globe

Nicole Kidman ยท Australia ยท Cinema

Appears in To Die For, wins a Golden Globe Award, and five other best actress awards for her portrayal of the murderous newscaster Suzanne Stone Maretto

1995

Golden Globe

Emma Thompson ยท Great Britain ยท Cinema

Golden Globe for Best Adapted Screenplay for Sense and Sensibility

1995

To Die For

Nicole Kidman ยท Australia ยท Cinema

Appears in To Die For, wins a Golden Globe Award, and five other best actress awards for her portrayal of the murderous newscaster Suzanne Stone Maretto. Appears in Days Of Thunder

1998
1998

Golden Globe

Michael Caine ยท Great Britain ยท Cinema

Winner of the Golden Blobe for Little Voice

1999
1999

Casino

Sharon Stone ยท United States of America ยท Cinema

Sharon Stone plays Ginger, Aces self-obsessed and devious wife in Casino a role that earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress

1999

Golden Globe

Sharon Stone ยท United States of America ยท Cinema

Sharon Stone plays Ginger, Aces self-obsessed and devious wife in Casino a role that earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress

2000
2000

Golden Globe

Vanessa Redgrave ยท Great Britain ยท Cinema

Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress for If These Walls Could Talk 2

2007
2007

Grace Is Gone Score

Composer Golden Globe Nominee Clinton "Clint" Eastwood ยท United States of America ยท Hollywood ยท Cinema

Receives Golden Globe nominations for the Grace Is Gone score and song.

2014
2014

Golden Globe

Michael Keaton ยท United States of America ยท Cinema

Wins Golden Globe for Best Actor

Editorial provenance

Sources and editorial review

Compiled and edited by World History Database.

Historical context is editorial material; the chronology is generated from World History Database cinema records.

Last reviewed: September 2026.

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