Last year’s Golden Globe Awards was a rating’s bonanza, with the highest viewership in 10 years. This year’s telecast on NBC hopes to recapture that lightning in a bottle—and why not?—with returning hosts Amy Poehler and Tina Fey. Here are some fun facts about the Hollywood Foreign Press Association event that honors the year’s top achievements in movies and TV.
1. The youngest Golden Globe winner ever is Ricky Schroder, who was 9 when he won Best New Star for The Champ (1980); the oldest is Jessica Tandy, at 80, for Best Actress in Driving Miss Daisy (1990).
2. Two former Miss Golden Globes (traditionally celebrities’ daughters, who bring out trophies during the show), Linda Evans and Melanie Griffith, later went on to take home awards themselves: Evans in 1982 for Dynasty, and Griffith in 1989 for Working Girl.
3. Meryl Streep holds the record for the most individual GG acting wins, with a total of eight.
4. When Jack Nicholson was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999, he mooned the audience.
5. The only cast members of TV’s Friends to win Golden Globes: Jennifer Aniston and Matt LeBlanc.
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