Award Season

This year I have been thinking a lot about the different award show. I have never really paid that much attention to the specific shows and how awards are given out. I hope that you find this interesting.

The Golden Globes Awards

• The annual Golden Globes are decided by HFPA (the Hollywood Foreign Press Association). They accept applications from journalists, correspondants, columnists, reporters and photographers every Febrary and March. Among the requirements are permanent residency in Southern California, registration with the Motion Picture Association of America, and appointment by two active members of the HFPA. Today, the members represent fifty-five countries. A maximum of five journalists are admitted each year.
  
• This year was the 66th annual Golden Globes. They are heldevery January. Winners receive golden globe statues.
  
• In 1955, the Golden Globes began honoring television as well as film.
  
• "The Golden Globes were always given out by journalists in the association up until 1958, when Rat Packers Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis, Jr. stormed the stage, with whiskeys and cigarettes in tow, and took over the show, to the delight of the audience. They repeated their performance the next year (this time at the request of the HFPA) and since then, the stars have reigned supreme at the Globes."
• Most individual nominations: Jack Lemmon 22, Meryl Streep 19.
• Only three-way tie: Jodie Foster ("The Accused"), Shirley MacLaine ("Madame Sousatzka"), and Sigourney Weaver ("Gorillas in the Mist") for Best Actress in 1989.

The Screen Actors Guild Awards

• The annual Screen Actors Guild awards are decided by SAG (Screen Actors Guild). The SAG is a performers' union. Performers are eligible to join after working on a SAG film in a principal role, after gaining 15 days of work or meeting background entry requirements.
• This year was the 15th annual SAG Awards. They happen every January. Winners are given small actor statues.
• George Burns received the first televised Life Achievement Award. Ann Margret accepted it for him.
  

Film Independent's Spirit Awards

• Films must be submitted for the Spirit Awards. They must be at least 70 minutes, have played either one week in a commercial theatre or have been shown at any one of the following festivals: Los Angeles Film Festival, New Directors/New Films, New York, Sundance, Telluride, or Toronto. They cannot have cost more than 20 million dollars to make.
  
• Film Independent members with voting privileges and IFP members vote on the awards. Any idependent filmmaker or film lover may join. The annual fees are $95.00.
• This year was the 24th annual Spirit Awards. They occur every February.
  

The Academy Awards

• The Academy Awards are decided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Membership in the Academy is by invitation of the Board of Governors and is limited to those who have achieved distinction in the arts and sciences of motion pictures.A candidate must be sponsored by at least two members of the branch for which the person may qualify. Each proposed member must first receive the endorsement of the branch’s executive committee before his/her name is submitted to the Board.
• This year was the 81st annual Academy Awards. They occur every February. Winners are given Oscar statues.
  
• The documentary category appeared for the first time in 1941.
  
• Shrek was the first winner for animated feature film in 2001.