Golden Globe Awards

'The 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards' Where: NBC When: 5 p.m. Sunday Rating: Not rated

With the two sides at loggerheads, a federal judge now must determine who controls the lucrative television rights to the Golden Globes Awards show. U.S. District Court Judge A. Howard Matz on Friday declared the end of the high-stakes, three-week trial that pitted the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., which owns the Golden Globes, against Dick Clark Productions, which has produced the annual extravaganza for nearly 30 years. A decision in the case isn't expected for weeks. "It's going to take some time before I can get back to this," Matz told the packed courtroom in downtown Los Angeles.

A legal battle over who controls the television rights to the Golden Globe Awards kicked off Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. At issue is a 2010 TV deal that Dick Clark Productions, which produces the Golden Globe Awards telecast, signed to keep the program on NBC. The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. (HFPA), which created and owns the Golden Globes, filed suit soon after that deal, alleging it was done without the group's approval. Dick Clark Productions, which has been a partner with the HFPA on the Globes since 1983, has argued it had the right to negotiate a new contract with NBC and didn't need a green light from the HFPA.

Testimony in the legal fight between the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. and Dick Clark Productions over which controls the television rights to the Golden Globes awards show wrapped up Tuesday with the judge imploring the two sides to settle. "The framework to a settlement is not difficult to envision," said U.S. District Judge A. Howard Matz, who added that both sides have taken "their best shots" and now it's time for the lawyers to go back to their respective clients and try to reach a peace agreement, ideally before closing arguments Friday.

Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton plans to get tough on medical marijuana dispensaries. So perhaps it was a good thing that the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. changed his seating arrangements at Monday's 64th annual Golden Globe Awards. Bratton had been scheduled to sit with the cast of "Weeds," the Showtime comedy starring Mary-Louise Parker about a pot-selling suburban soccer mom.

Following is a list of the winners of the 52nd Golden Globe awards: Motion Pictures Drama: "Forrest Gump." Musical comedy: "The Lion King." Actress, drama: Jessica Lange, "Blue Sky." Actor, drama: Tom Hanks, "Forrest Gump." Actress, musical-comedy: Jamie Lee Curtis, "True Lies." Actor, musical-comedy: Hugh Grant, "Four Weddings and a Funeral." Foreign language film: "Farinelli." Supporting actress, drama: Dianne Wiest, "Bullets Over Broadway." Supporting actor, drama: Martin Landau, "Ed Wood."

Cher, the dowdy widow who falls in love with the wrong man in "Moonstruck," and Robin Williams, the manic disc jockey in "Good Morning, Vietnam," won Golden Globe awards Saturday night as top stars in a movie musical or comedy. The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. gave its supporting performers awards to Olympia Dukakis, the feisty mother in "Moonstruck," and Sean Connery, the incorruptible policeman in "The Untouchables."

Awards and good deeds will keep celebrities hopping across the small screen this weekend as both the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. and the cable industry hand out their annual awards, while the United Cerebral Palsy telethon reaches out for a few million helping hands. The 45th annual Golden Globe Awards, voted by local members of the foreign press, airs tonight at 9 on Channel 9.

Awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., a small and insular and somewhat mysterious group of variously credentialed journalists, the Golden Globes are awards of minimal intrinsic, though of obvious practical, value. A perfect example of the self-fulfilling glamorization that's at Hollywood's heart, the awards are by definition important because big stars show up to receive them, and because people tune in to watch them receive them.

Writer-director Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather III" earned a leading seven nominations today for the 1991 Golden Globe Awards. The mobster drama was nominated for best dramatic motion picture and collected bids for star Al Pacino, director Coppola, co-star Andy Garcia and best screenplay, written by Coppola and Mario Puzo. It also was nominated for original score and the original song "Promise Me You'll Remember."

"The Artist," the charming film about Hollywood's transition from silent movies to talkies, and the family drama "The Descendants" were catapulted to front-runner Oscar status Sunday night with an armful of Golden Globes to their names as the awards season reaches fever pitch. There's no guarantee that a Golden Globe will lead to Oscar gold. But it can't hurt with Academy Award nominations just around the corner. (They'll be announced Jan. 24.) "The Artist" picked up three Golden Globes, for best film, musical or comedy, lead actor in a comedy or musical, and score.

The Golden Globe Awards show must go on — and it will on NBC, at least for another year. The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., creator and owner of the high-profile event; Dick Clark Productions, which produces the show; and broadcaster NBC said Friday that they had cobbled together a one-year agreement to jointly stage the annual awards fest at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Jan. 15. However, the pact does little to resolve the uncertainty surrounding...

One thing that's certain come Sunday evening at the 68th annual Golden Globe Awards ? Joel and Ethan Coen's remake of "True Grit" will not be taking home any honors because the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. snubbed the box office hit. On the other side of the coin, the HFPA did embrace two critically lambasted films that didn't exactly set the box office on fire ? "The Tourist" is nominated for best motion picture comedy or musical (as are its two stars, Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie)

The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. ? the creator and owner of the Golden Globe Awards ? has filed suit against Dick Clark Productions, alleging the TV producer sought to "steal" the rights of the awards show and secretly negotiate a low-ball renewal deal of the telecast with NBC. The suit, filed Wednesday in federal court in Los Angeles, further claims that the TV producer sought to "exploit the Golden Globe-related marks, license the digital and...

NBC and the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. announced Wednesday that the British actor-writer-comic will make his encore appearance on the Jan. 16 live broadcast. Before Gervais, the Hollywood award show had gone more than a decade without a host. —Associated Press Jessica Seinfeld gets court's nod Jerry Seinfeld's wife did not copy a cookbook author when she released her own techniques for getting children to eat vegetables, a federal appeals court concluded Wednesday.

Alexander McQueen, the fashion world's reigning provocateur who helped elevate British fashion to the international stage with his unconventional and sometimes macabre designs, was found dead Thursday at his home in London. He was 40. The police have not released an official report on the cause of death, but his press representatives at KCD Worldwide said it was an apparent suicide. As a designer, McQueen was not only a technical genius -- as comfortable cutting an Edwardian-inspired suit as draping a kimono with a 25-foot train -- but a creative genius as well.

NBC and the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. announced Wednesday that the British actor-writer-comic will make his encore appearance on the Jan. 16 live broadcast. Before Gervais, the Hollywood award show had gone more than a decade without a host. —Associated Press Jessica Seinfeld gets court's nod Jerry Seinfeld's wife did not copy a cookbook author when she released her own techniques for getting children to eat vegetables, a federal appeals court concluded Wednesday.

"Forrest Gump," the saga of a simple country boy who does amazing things, collected top honors at the Golden Globe Awards on Saturday night, scoring in the dramatic film category for actor Tom Hanks, director Robert Zemeckis and as best dramatic picture. Jessica Lange was a surprise winner of the best dramatic actress award as the angry Army wife in "Blue Sky." The film had a limited release and even the star called it "a strange and peculiar little film."

It was already feeling like a Cecil B. DeMille kind of night, long before Martin Scorsese stepped on the stage with an eloquent tribute to the legendary director's golden touch as he picked up the DeMille award for his own lifetime of achievement during Sunday's Golden Globes. If anything, the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., all 83 of them, seemed to be channeling the moviemaker who preached and practiced a fundamentalist version of the entertainment bible through four decades and 85 movies, parting the Red Sea in his final spectacle, 1956's "The Ten Commandments."