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GOLDEN GLOBES GREATEST MOMENTS Check out these Hollywood highlights from nearly 80 years of the Golden Globes. By Mara Reinstein THAT WAS THE YEAR WHEN . . .

…friends and “Rat 1958 Pack” members Sammy Davis Jr., and Dean Martin stormed the stage with their whiskey glasses and cigarettes and “hijacked” the rest of the show, handing out awards and jokes.  e audience loved it.  e show wouldn’t have offi cial celebrity hosts until 1995, when John Larroquette and Janine Turner did the honors.

…Sidney Poitier accepted the Best Actor OTO; EVERETT COLLECTION; MEDIAPUNCH INC/ALAMY; 196 4 in a Motion Picture Drama award for Lilies of the Field, the fi rst African American was quite a year for entertain- winner in the history of the show. (He’d receive the Cecil 2020 ment. When the pandemic B. DeMille lifetime achievement award in 1982.) It wasn’t shut down theaters, many of us spent a lot more until 1969 that became the fi rst African time in front of the small screen. But being stuck American female winner, collecting the award for Best Actress in a Televi- at home wasn’t so bad: TV series such as Th e sion Series for Julia. Queen’s Gambit and Th e Flight Attendant reigned supreme on …Pia Zadora, then streaming services, and high-profi le 198 0 1982 28, shocked the crowd feature fi lms—from Ma Rainey’s …the youngest when she won New Star of the Year Black Bottom to Th e Prom—came Globes winner for her turn as a teen nymphet in an to us. Now it’s time for the Golden ever, 9-year-old obscure incest drama called But- Ricky Schroder, Globes, when the Hollywood For- terfl y. (Among the future stars she eign Press Association honors stars won New Star of the Year for beat were Elizabeth McGovern for and projects from both movies and The Champ. Ragtime and Kathleen Turner for Body Heat.) Insiders television on a single glittery night. whispered that the award was “bought” by her then-  ough the 78th annual ceremony (Feb. 28 on husband, billionaire businessman Meshulam Riklis. NBC) will have no live audience, Tina Fey, 50, and She denies it to this day. Amy Poehler, 49, will be returning to host, toast and roast for the fourth time, but from diff erent loca- …87-year-old composer tions: Fey in New York City and Poehler in Beverly 2 016 (who died Hills. What will the show be like? We don’t know. in July 2020) became the oldest winner, But we do know that Fey and Poehler are scathingly nabbing Best Motion Picture Score for funny, and that historically the show is wild and 2015’s The Hateful Eight. (Jessica Tandy, wacky. Here’s a look back at some highlights. age 80 when she won for Driving Miss Daisy in 1990, is the oldest winner in an acting category.) CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: DAVID LEE/NETFLIX; PICTURELUX / THE HOLLYWOOD ARCHIVE/ALAMY; MICHAEL OCHS ARCHIVES/GETTY IMAGES; AP PH ARCHIVE/ALAMY; LEE/NETFLIX; PICTURELUX / THE HOLLYWOOD DAVID CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: NETFLIX VIA GETTY IMAGES; RON GALELLA/GETTY PHIL BRAY/NETFLIX; FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP

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