"The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is a fancy name for a group of 87 mostly freelance, often part-time scribes who, asserts Deadline Hollywood’s acerbic Nikki Finke, 'won’t grant membership to the real foreign journalists at the prestige media outlets across the world. … And even though the entire entertainment industry ridicules the awards, it props them up because they’re a useful marketing tool for the studios and networks.'"
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http://entertainment.time.com/2013/01/14...z2HxGu4jvj
According to Wikipedia, since 1991 the Oscar went to Golden Globe winners ten times:
Schindler's List,
Forrest Gump,
The English Patient,
Titanic,
American Beauty,
Gladiator,
A Beautiful Mind,
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, and
Slumdog Millionaire.
"Lincoln" Film Award Nominations & Wins
