The 2017 season is upon us! The 74th Golden Globe
Awards ceremony will kick off the 2017 awards season
on Sunday night, January 8, 2017 at The Beverly Hilton in
Beverly Hills, California.
Here’s quick rundown of what to expect at the prestigious
ceremony…
Jimmy Fallon has been chosen as this year's awards host,
which means he'll be presiding over the whole evening. He'll
be joined by a number of famous faces to present the actual
awards, including Oscar winner Leonardo DiCaprio and
Kristen Wiig.
Other celebrities known to be taking part in the gong-giving
are Nicole Kidman, Viola Davis, Sylvester Stallone, Eddie
Redmayne, Jon Hamm, Brie Larson, Sofia Vergara, Zoe
Saldana, Mandy Moore, Gal Gadot, Chris Hemsworth, Carl
Weathers, Drew Barrymore, Matt Damon, Laura Dern, Goldie
Hawn, Diego Luna, Sienna Miller, Jeffrey Dean Morgan,
Timothy Olyphant, Chris Pine, Eddie Redmayne, Amy
Schumer, Justin Theroux, Milo Ventimiglia, Priyanka Chopra
and Reese Witherspoon.
Meanwhile, Sylvester Stallone's daughters – Sophia, 20,
Sistine, 18, and Scarlet, 14 – have already been announced as
the joint title-holders of Miss Golden Globe.
Following the godawful year of 2016, there's bound to be a lot
of time spent saying goodbye to a number of famous faces.
It's not known yet whether the Globes will go down the
Oscars route and pay tribute to each actor and actress who
died in the last 12 months, but if it does, expect tributes to
Cool Hand Luke's George Kennedy, comedian Garry Shandling,
Pink Panther star Burt Kwouk, Star Trek's Anton Yelchin,
R2D2 actor Kenny Baker, Willy Wonka star Gene Wilder,
Robert Vaughn, Ron Glass, Florence Henderson, Peter
Vaughan and Zsa Zsa Gabor. Carrie Fisher and Debbie
Reynolds , who died within a day of each other after
Christmas 2016, will also be given special mention, as Golden
Globes producer Barry Adelman told People magazine.
"Those things are handled really well by the Oscars and the
Screen Actors Guild, we do realise there were some special
circumstances of very recent nature that happened and we'll
be acknowledging that," he promised.
While the winners' list is kept strictly under wraps until the
ceremony itself, we do know that Meryl Streep will be
receiving a special award. She'll be presented with the Cecil B
DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award and there will be a
segment of the show dedicated to her and her rich acting
career.
