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Golden Globe Awards January 2023: Presenting 12 unknown facts about the prestigious awards

Updated on: 11 January,2023 11:19 AM IST  |  Mumbai
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This year’s Golden Globe awards will be hosted by well-known actor-comedian Jerrod Carmichael

Golden Globe Awards January 2023: Presenting 12 unknown facts about the prestigious awards

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The 80th Golden Globe Awards will be held this year in Hollywood on January 11. Organized by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, this year’s ceremony will be hosted by the well-known actor-comedian Jerrod Carmichael. On the occasion of the prestigious awards, here are 12 unknown facts about the prestigious awards!


The 87 year old Ennio Morricone is the oldest Golden Globe Award winner 


Even though it’s always said that, ‘Age is just a number’, Ennio Morricone went on to prove that it’s so true when it comes to talent. Ennio Morricone is the oldest Golden Globe Award winner and hold your breath… he is 87 years old! He had bagged the Golden Globe award for the Best Original Score for the ‘The Hateful Eight’, which was released in the year 2015.


 
 
 
 
 
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Nine year old Ricky Schroder is the youngest Golden Globe Award winner 

On the other hand, the 9-year-old Ricky Schroder happens to be the youngest winner of the prestigious Golden Globe award. He had won the ‘Best New Star Of The Year’ award for the film ‘The Champ’, which was released in the year 1980.

 
 
 
 
 
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Meryl Streep has the most individual nominations of all time

Did you know that the extremely talented Meryl Streep is possibly the only actor who has to her credit of having the most individual nominations of all time!

 
 
 
 
 
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Golden Globes Awards were held between 1995 and 2010 with no host

You will be really surprised to know that, between the years 1995 and 2010, the prestigious Golden Globes had no host at all!

 
 
 
 
 
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Only once did Golden Globe Awards saw a three-way tie 

In the entire history of the Golden Globe awards, there has been only once when there was a three-way tie for the ‘Best Actress’ award. The actresses who were in a tie were Jodie Foster (for the film ‘The Accused’), Shirley MacLaine (for the film ‘Madame Sousatzka’) and Sigourney Weaver (for the film ‘Gorillas in the Mist’)

 
 
 
 
 
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Golden Globes were initially given out by journalists 

You will be surprised to know that till the year 1958, the Golden Globes were given out by journalists who were members of the Association. The next year, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. walked up on stage and took the responsibility of hosting the show themselves.

 
 
 
 
 
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The 1976 film ‘Nashville’ had topped the list of nominations with nine nominations

It was the 1976 film ‘Nashville’ which had topped the list of nominations with a total of nine nominations! The film, then, landed up winning one award for the Best Song ‘I am Easy’ by Keith Carradine.

 
 
 
 
 
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The 1976 film ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest’ film had bagged five awards

On the other hand, the 1976 film ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest’ has the record of being the only film to have won five prestigious Golden Globes in the major categories, including Best Motion Picture, Actor, Actress, Director, and Screenplay!

 
 
 
 
 
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When two cult films did not bag even a single award

The following fact is strange but true. Even though the films ‘Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ and ‘The Godfather’ (Part 3) had received 7 nominations each, but did not win even a single Golden Globe!

 
 
 
 
 
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Two times when the prize winners refused to receive the award

While everyone across the globe is dying to become a recipient of the prestigious ‘Golden Globe’ award, there have been two times when the recipients actually refused to receive the award!

 
 
 
 
 
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The first refusal of the award was from the producers of the film ‘Z’ 

These two times were when the producers of the film ‘Z’ refused the Golden Globe for ‘Best Foreign Language Film’. The reason? Well… they wanted their film to be included in the main ‘Best Motion Picture’ category.

 
 
 
 
 
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The second person to refuse the award was the legendary Marlon Brando

The second time when someone refused the award was when the legendary Marlon Brando was called up on stage to receive the award. That time, he refused to receive the award as a protest to U.S. racism and imperialism. Reports have it that he had even refused to accept the Oscar award as well and that he had sent his representative to deliver a political speech.

 
 
 
 
 
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