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The Golden Globes come from foreign correspondents

A small group of journalists based in Hollywood began the awards in 1944 The Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association, a group of reporters working for overseas outlets, held its first awards in 1944 and later split and reunited as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The Globes cover film and television and are decided by a membership far smaller than the Academy's. The ceremony has been run by new owners since 2023. It sits in Mondo's movies & tv collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: A small group of journalists based in Hollywood began the awards in 1944. The figure is taken from Encyclopaedia Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a movies & tv fact?: Yes. It sits on the Movies & TV shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.