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46 free Golden Globes trivia questions with answers. The Golden Globes have been Hollywood's loosest awards night since 1944: dinner tables, open bars, and a voting body of foreign journalists that spent decades being accused of taking bribes for statuettes. This quiz covers the whole story, from the founding of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to the 2022 boycott that took the show off television and the sale to Dick Clark Productions. You will be asked about record-setting films like La La Land and Nashville, memorable hosts from Ricky Gervais to Nikki Glaser, the Cecil B. DeMille and Carol Burnett lifetime awards, the odd eligibility rules that separate dramas from comedies, and famous moments such as Ving Rhames handing his trophy to Jack Lemmon and Christine Lahti being stuck in the bathroom when her name was read. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia and ceremony records, so the questions are trustworthy enough for a party or an awards-season watch night. Difficulty runs from easy warm-ups to a few only a real awards-season obsessive will get.
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Q 01Which organisation founded the Golden Globes and ran them until 2023?
Hollywood Foreign Press Association
Hollywood Foreign Press Association began in 1943 as the Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association, formed by Los Angeles journalists writing for overseas outlets; it was dissolved in 2023 when the awards passed to private owners.
Q 02In which year was the first Golden Globe Awards ceremony held?
1944
The first ceremony, honouring 1943 films, took place on January 20, 1944 at the 20th Century-Fox studios rather than a hotel ballroom.
Q 03In 1961 the Golden Globes moved to the International Ballroom of which hotel?
The Beverly Hilton
The Beverly Hilton, opened in 1955 on Wilshire Boulevard, first hosted the Globes in 1961 and became their permanent home; earlier shows used the Beverly Hills Hotel, the Hollywood Roosevelt and the Ambassador Hotel's Cocoanut Grove.
Q 04The Golden Globes split top film prizes into Drama and which other genre grouping?
Musical or Comedy
Musical or Comedy has had its own Best Picture award since the 1952 ceremony, when An American in Paris won it; the split doubles the stars in the room and let The Martian win as a comedy in 2016.
Q 05Which film holds the record for most Golden Globes won by a single movie, going seven for seven in 2017?
La La Land
La La Land took all seven of its 2017 nominations: Picture (comedy), Director, Actor, Actress, Screenplay, Score and Song, beating the record set by One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1976.
Q 06Which 1975 Robert Altman film received a record 11 Golden Globe nominations?
Nashville
Nashville earned 11 nominations at the 1976 ceremony but won only one, for Keith Carradine's 'I'm Easy', which also took the Oscar for Best Original Song.
Q 07Which performer holds the record for the most Golden Globe nominations?
Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep has more Golden Globe nominations than any other performer, eight of them converted into wins, plus the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2017; she also holds the record for Oscar nominations.
Q 08In 2010, who became the first host of the Golden Globes since 1995?
Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais hosted in 2010, returned in 2011 and 2012, and came back in 2016 and 2020, five shows in all, building a reputation for roasting the stars in the room.
Q 09Which comedy duo hosted the Golden Globes three years running from 2013 to 2015?
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted in 2013, 2014 and 2015, then returned in 2021 for a pandemic show split between New York's Rainbow Room and Beverly Hills.
Q 10Who was the second recipient, in 1953, of the Golden Globes' film lifetime achievement award?
Walt Disney
Walt Disney received the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 1953 ceremony, a year after DeMille himself accepted the first one; the award honours a lifetime of contributions to film.
Q 11Who was the youngest ever Cecil B. DeMille Award honoree, receiving it at age 39 in 1962?
Judy Garland
Judy Garland, born in June 1922, was 39 at the March 1962 ceremony and was also the first woman to receive the award; Joan Crawford followed eight years later.
Q 12In 1982, who became the first African-American recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award?
Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier, the first Black Best Actor Oscar winner (1964), received the DeMille Award in 1982; Oprah Winfrey became the first Black woman honoured 36 years later, in 2018.
Q 13Jane Fonda received the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2021, how many years after her father Henry?
41
Q 21Which comedian hosted the 2024 Golden Globes, drawing poor reviews for his monologue?
Jo Koy
Jo Koy was announced as host on December 21, 2023, just 17 days before the show; his monologue jokes about Taylor Swift and the year's big films drew groans from the room and harsh reviews.
Q 22Who became the first woman to host the Golden Globes solo, in January 2025?
Nikki Glaser
Nikki Glaser hosted the 82nd ceremony in January 2025, the first woman to do it alone; nominated the same night for her special Someday You'll Die, she lost to Ali Wong and was invited back for 2026.
Q 23Which film became the most-nominated comedy in Golden Globes history, with 10 nods in 2025?
Emilia Pérez
41 years separate the two: Henry Fonda was honoured in 1980, two years before his On Golden Pond Oscar, and Jane Fonda accepted hers at the 2021 ceremony.
Q 14The Golden Globes' TV lifetime-achievement award, created in 2019, is named after which comedian?
Carol Burnett
Carol Burnett was herself the first recipient of the Carol Burnett Award in 2019; later honorees include Ellen DeGeneres (2020), Norman Lear (2021) and Ryan Murphy (2023).
Q 15For which film did Barbra Streisand win the Golden Globe for Best Director?
Yentl
Yentl brought Streisand the 1984 Best Director Globe, the first for a woman; she wrote, produced, directed and starred, and the film also won the comedy/musical picture prize.
Q 16Who became the second woman to win the Best Director Golden Globe, for Nomadland in 2021?
Chloé Zhao
Chloé Zhao, born in Beijing, won for Nomadland at the 2021 ceremony, 37 years after Barbra Streisand's 1984 win; she went on to take the Best Director Oscar.
Q 17Which actor won the 2021 Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama posthumously?
Chadwick Boseman
Chadwick Boseman won for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom half a year after his death from colon cancer, which he had kept private; his widow Simone Ledward Boseman accepted in a tearful video speech.
Q 18Which film received the first Golden Globe for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement in 2024?
Barbie
Barbie, the year's top-grossing film, won the inaugural Cinematic and Box Office Achievement prize in 2024; eligible films must gross at least $150 million worldwide, including $100 million in the United States.
Q 19Which film led the 2024 Golden Globes with five wins, including Best Motion Picture, Drama?
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer won Picture (Drama), Director for Christopher Nolan, Actor for Cillian Murphy, Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr. and Score for Ludwig Göransson, then took seven Academy Awards including Best Picture.
Q 20Which Killers of the Flower Moon star became the first Indigenous Best Actress (Drama) Globe winner?
Lily Gladstone
Lily Gladstone, who is Blackfeet and Nez Perce, opened her 2024 acceptance speech in the Blackfeet language; weeks later she became the first Native American nominated for the Best Actress Oscar.
Emilia Pérez, Jacques Audiard's Spanish-language musical, drew 10 nominations at the 2025 ceremony and won the comedy/musical picture prize, the first non-English-language film to do so.
Q 24Flow, the 2025 Best Animated Feature winner, was the first film from which country to win a Golden Globe?
Latvia
Latvia had never won a Golden Globe before Gints Zilbalodis's Flow, a dialogue-free story of a cat surviving a flood, beat Pixar and DreamWorks; it later won the animated Oscar too.
Q 25Who is the mother of the 2025 Golden Globe Best Actress in a Drama winner for I'm Still Here?
Fernanda Montenegro
Fernanda Montenegro, mother of winner Fernanda Torres, was herself nominated for Central Station at the 1999 ceremony; both films were directed by Walter Salles.
Q 26What new category did the Golden Globes introduce at the 2026 ceremony?
Best Podcast
Best Podcast debuted at the 83rd ceremony in January 2026, with nominees drawn from a list of the 25 most-listened-to shows compiled from platform data.
Q 27The 2008 Golden Globes ceremony was cancelled and replaced by a press conference because of what?
A Writers Guild strike
A Writers Guild strike (November 2007 to February 2008) meant picket lines actors refused to cross, so the HFPA replaced the 2008 show with a half-hour press conference announcing winners.
Q 28Why was the 2022 Golden Globes ceremony held as a private, non-televised event?
A boycott by NBC and the studios over HFPA diversity
A boycott by NBC and the studios over HFPA diversity followed a February 2021 Los Angeles Times exposé revealing the group had no Black members; NBC dropped the 2022 telecast and stars stayed away.
Q 29Which actor returned his three Golden Globes in 2021 in protest at the HFPA?
Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise returned his trophies for Born on the Fourth of July, Jerry Maguire and Magnolia in May 2021, as NBC announced it would not air the 2022 show.
Q 30Which network took over the Golden Globes broadcast from NBC starting with the January 2024 ceremony?
CBS
CBS aired the 81st ceremony on January 7, 2024, its first Globes telecast since 1982, then signed a five-year deal to keep the show.