25th Golden Globe Awards

The 25th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1967, were held on 12 February 1968.

25th Golden Globe Awards
DateFebruary 12, 1968

Scandal resulting in FCC ban

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The FCC imposed a ban on NBC's broadcast of the Golden Globes after the February 1968 ceremony.[1] Movie critic Rex Reed, in a contemporary article about the broadcast, wrote:

NBC's telcast of the Foreign Press Association's 25th annual Golden Globe Awards had to be seen to be disbelieved. The Federal Communications Commission have sent laywers to have it investigated. But award-giving, pointless as it is, is still big business, and it also gives viewers a chance to see their favorite stars make fools of themselves in public, so the Golden Globes were back, minus some of their sponsors, who backed out at the last minute....

Just last week Newsweek reported denials from the Foreign Press Association that its members give awards to the stars who throw the biggest feeds. "We are not influenced by a glass of champagne," snapped [HFPA President Howard] Luft, "Kirk Douglas threw a party last year, and what did he win? Nothing."

This year there was even a special category called the Cecil B. DeMille Humanitarian Award. Who won? You guessed it. Kirk Douglas.[2]

The FCC was spurred to action because the public had been misled as to how the awards were actually made. Golden Globe broadcast advertisers determined Golden Globe winners and the HFPA pressured nominees to attend the award ceremony by threatening to award the Golden Globe won by a non-attendee to a losing nominee who was at the ceremony. The ban lasted until 1974.[1]

After the ban, NBC once again broadcast the awards ceremony, but it terminated its contract with the HFPA after the Pia Zadora scandal of 1982.

Winners and nominees

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Film

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Best Motion Picture
Drama Comedy or Musical
Best Performance in a Motion Picture – Drama
Actor Actress
Best Performance in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Actor Actress
Best Supporting Performance in a Motion Picture – Drama, Comedy or Musical
Supporting Actor Supporting Actress
Other
Best Director Best Screenplay
Best Original Score Best Original Song
Best Foreign Film (English Language) Best Foreign Film (Foreign Language)
New Star of the Year – Actor New Star of the Year – Actress

The following films received multiple nominations:

Nominations Title
7 Bonnie and Clyde
The Graduate
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
In the Heat of the Night
6 Camelot
5 Doctor Dolittle
Thoroughly Modern Millie
4 The Fox
3 Far from the Madding Crowd
Live for Life (Vivre pour vivre)
2 Cool Hand Luke
Elvira Madigan
L'immorale
The Taming of the Shrew
Two for the Road
Wait Until Dark
The Whisperers

The following films received multiple wins:

Wins Title
5 The Graduate
3 Camelot
In the Heat of the Night

Television

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Best Television Series
Mission: Impossible
Best Performance in a Television Series
Actor Actress
Martin Landau - Mission: Impossible as Rollin Hand Carol Burnett - The Carol Burnett Show as Various Characters

The following programs received multiple nominations:

Nominations Title
3 Mission: Impossible
2 The Carol Burnett Show
The Dean Martin Show
Garrison's Gorillas

The following programs received multiple wins:

Wins Title
2 Mission: Impossible

Kirk Douglas

World Film Favorite (Male) Paul Newman

World Film Favorite (Female) Julie Andrews

References

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  1. ^ a b "The Scandals that Nearly Ended the Golden Globes". projectcasting.com. Project Casting. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
  2. ^ Reed, Rex (1969). Conversations in the Raw (First ed.). New York: World Publishing Co. pp. 105–106.