Oscars Vs Golden Globes: What’s The Difference Between The Awards Shows?

Awards play is the champion clip of twelvemonth for movie and tv lovers. They get to spot A-list Hollywood stars be galore ceremonies to observe on-screen projects that came retired during the year. From the celebs connected the dazzling reddish carpets, to the fans throwing viewing parties astatine home, positive the memorable victor speeches, and the epic after-parties, awards shows are breathtaking for conscionable astir everyone.

The Golden Globe Awards and The Academy Awards, amended known arsenic The Oscars, are 2 of the biggest awards shows each year. There are immoderate notable differences betwixt the two, including the existent trophies the winners instrumentality home. The Golden Globe trophy is simply a golden handheld statue with, fittingly enough, a globe astatine the top, portion the Oscar statuette features a stylized fig of a knight holding a crusader’s sword. Find retired much astir the differences betwixt the Oscars and the Golden Globes below.

Brad Pitt astatine the Golden Globes (Photo: Jim Ruymen/UPI/Shutterstock)

History

Both the Oscars and the Golden Globes person been astir for a long time. The inaugural Academy Awards took spot connected May 16, 1929 astatine a backstage meal held astatine the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel successful L.A. The ceremonial honored the champion successful movie implicit the 2 years anterior crossed 12 categories. It lasted lone 15 minutes and was the lone Oscars not to beryllium broadcast connected vigor oregon television. Since then, the Oscars person taken spot each twelvemonth and typically person a host. The ceremonial airs connected either NBC oregon ABC.

The Golden Globes kicked disconnected connected January 20, 1944 astatine the 20th Century Fox studios successful Los Angeles, California. It honored the champion successful 1943 filmmaking. Television did not go portion of the Golden Globes until 1957. There were lone six categories for the 1st Golden Globe Awards. NBC typically airs the ceremony.

When Each Is Held

The Golden Globes usually instrumentality spot astatine the starts of awards play successful January. There’s been a fewer occasions erstwhile the ceremonial is successful February. This happened successful February 2021 owed to delays related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2023 Golden Globes took spot connected January 10. The Oscars, meanwhile, aerial astatine the extremity of awards season, which could beryllium anytime from precocious February to aboriginal April. The 2021 Oscars were delayed by COVID until April 25. The 2023 Oscars are being held March 12. Since the Golden Globes instrumentality spot months earlier the Oscars, the erstwhile lawsuit typically influences what happens astatine the second ceremony. In others words, we often spot the Golden Globe nominees and winners beryllium repeated astatine the Oscars. There’s evidently exceptions erstwhile this happens, but it tends to hap beauteous frequently.

Oscars (Photo: Danny Moloshok/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)

Who Votes

Different bodies of voters determine the nominees and winners of each ceremony. The Golden Globes are bestowed by the 105 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a nonprofit enactment of planetary journalists from 55 countries. The Oscars are decided by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, which is made up of astir 9,900 radical arsenic of 2021. The Academy is an planetary enactment and has an invite-only membership. There’s been 5 members who person been expelled from The Academy: Carmine Caridi, Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, Roman Polanski, and Adam Kimmel. There are 17 branches of The Academy, including actors, cinematographers, directors, movie editors, producers, costume designers, and more.

The Categories

The Golden Globe Awards person grown to 25 categories. 14 are for movies, portion 11 are for television. The categories are divided betwixt Drama and Musical/Comedy for some movies and TV. They observe pb acting and supporting acting performances, arsenic good arsenic idiosyncratic films and tv shows. For film, further categories see Best Original Song, Best Original Score, Best Animated Feature, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Non-English Language Film.

The Oscars, which lone deals with film, has 24 categories. Aside from the accustomed Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, and much of the regular categories, the Oscars besides draws attraction to much circumstantial movie awards. For example, The Academy celebrates Best Makeup, Best Original Story, Best Film Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Visual Effects, and more.

The Ceremonies

The Oscars decidedly borderline retired the Golden Globes for the bigger Hollywood ceremony. After all, winning an Oscar is simply a overmuch higher designation for talent. It’s portion of securing an EGOT, which Jennifer Hudson, Whoopi Goldberg, John Legend, Rita Moreno, and much person done. The Oscars are the much prestigious and fancier event, formal codification and all. Ratings are besides typically higher for the Oscars. The 2022 Academy Awards, which progressive Will Smith infamously slapping Chris Rock drew 16.6 cardinal viewers, portion the 2023 Golden Globes racked up 6.3 cardinal viewers, according to CNN. What’s accordant for some ceremonies is the glitzy reddish carpets, the star-studded attendees, the victor speeches, and, astatine times, the memorable hosts.

As the Oscars proceed on, the Golden Globes person go engulfed successful controversy. The 2022 Golden Globes didn’t aerial connected tv aft the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was slammed for a deficiency of diverseness and unethical behavior. It was revealed that the HFPA didn’t person immoderate Black members. HFPA President Helen Hoehne promised that the enactment is moving “tirelessly” to bash better. The 2023 Golden Globes
returned to tv aft the HFPA diversified its membership.

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