Golden Globe Awards (USA) (1944-)
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Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2024

winner (Musical or Comedy Motion Picture) form y separately published work icon Poor Things Tony McNamara , ( dir. Yorgos Lanthimos ) United States of America (USA) United Kingdom (UK) : Element Pictures Film4 Fox Searchlight Pictures , 2023 27304575 2023 single work film/TV

Poor Things is 'the incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter (Stone), a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). Under Baxter’s protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo), a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, Bella grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.'

Source: Searchlight Pictures.

Year: 1994

winner (Best Screenplay - Motion Picture) form y separately published work icon Schindler's List Steven Zaillian , ( dir. Steven Spielberg ) United States of America (USA) : Universal Pictures , 1993 Z218299 1993 single work film/TV

Adapted from Thomas Keneally's account of a Czech businessman and Nazi Party member who tried to make his fortune during the Second World War by exploiting cheap Jewish labour but ended up risking his life and becoming bankrupt in order to save more than a thousand Jewish Poles from the Holocaust.

Oskar Schindler arrives in Krakow (Poland) not long after Germany invades the country. The Nazis' relocation of Jewish citizens has already begun, but their ultimate objective is not yet fully understood by most civilians. Schindler acquires a factory for the production of army mess kits but, with no previous experience of running such an enterprise, he gains the support of Itzhak Stern, a functionary in the local Judenrat (Jewish council) who also has contacts with the underground Jewish business community in the ghetto. They lend him the money for the factory in return for a small share of its products, for trade on the black market. At Stern's suggestion, Schindler hires Jewish Polish workers instead of Catholic Polish workers because they cost nothing: Jewish workers receive nothing because their wages go to the Reich.

When Amon Göth arrives in Krakow to initiate construction of Paszów labour camp nearby, the SS clears Krakow Ghetto, sending in hundreds of troops to empty the cramped rooms and shoot anyone who protests or is uncooperative, elderly, or infirm. Schindler watches the massacre from the hills overlooking the area, and is profoundly affected. He is nevertheless careful to befriend Göth and, with Stern's advice, turns to bribing Göth and other key officials in order to continue enjoying the SS's support and protection. The commandant is a vicious and sadistic man who enjoys shooting Jewish people as target practice from the balcony of his villa overlooking the prison camp he commands.

Schindler gets Göth to agree to build a sub-camp at Paszów for Schindler's workers. The initial motive is to keep his workers safe from the depredations of the guards. When an order arrives from Berlin commanding Göth to exhume and destroy all bodies from the Krakow Ghetto massacre, dismantle Paszów, and ship the remaining Jewish prisoners to Auschwitz, Schindler prevails upon Göth to let him keep 'his' workers. With the Final Solution now fully underway in occupied Poland, Schindler and Stern assemble a list of workers that should keep them off the trains to Auschwitz.

Works About this Award

From Cate Blanchett to Baz Luhrmann : Aussiewood at the 80th Golden Globe Awards Andrea Jean Baker , 2023 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 12 January 2023;

'Aussiewood sprinkled its star dust at this year’s 80th Golden Globes with five nominations and a fourth acting win for Cate Blanchett, this time her performance as a renowned German conductor in Todd Field’s Tár.'

Gibson Ends Decades of Exile Annelies Gartner , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 14 December 2016; (p. 7)
Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge a Contender for Golden Globes Philippa Hawker , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 14 December 2016; (p. 15)
Weaver Nominated for Golden Globes Michael Bodey , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 16 December 2010; (p. 3)
Schindler's List Puts Spielberg on Top Shane Burke , 1994 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 24 January 1994; (p. 5)
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