Golden Globes History: Millenium Approaches (1980-1999)

While presenter Chevy Chase retreats from the spotlight, an euphoric Bette Midler accepts her Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Actress/Musical or Comedy for her work in Mark Rydell's The Rose, a semi-fictitious biography of a rockstar that looks a lot like Janis Joplin. That year - 1980 - Midler would also receive the award for New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture, Female.

Best New Stars  for 1981 - Nasstaja Kinksi and Timothy Hutton - were  very hot that year. She was nominated for Best Actress in a Motion Picture/ Drama for Roman Polanski's Tess, and he won Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his work in Robert Redford's Ordinary People.

In 1984  Barbra Streisand becomes our first woman filmmaker to win the Golden Globe for Best Director, for Yentl; Shirley Maclaine is our Best Actress, Drama for Terms of Endearment.

At the 1984 ceremony Cher collects the second Golden Globe of her career - Best Supporting Actress for Mike Nichols' Silkwood. Cher got her first Globe in 1974 as Best TV Actress, Musical/Comedy for her show The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour. In 1988 she would win another Globe as Best Actress, Drama for her starring role in Norman Jewison's Moonstruck.

The Best Actor and Actress in a Motion Picture/ Comedy or Musical of 1985 celebrate backstage at the Hilton: Dudley Moore for Blake Edrwards' Micki + Maude, Kathleen Turner for Robert Zemeckis' Romancing The Stone, one of 1984's biggest box office hits. Before the century was over Kathleen would win one more Golden Globe - Best Actress in a Motion Picture/ Comedy or Musical for Prizzi's Honor (1986) and receive two nominations both for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy - in 1987 for Peggy Sue Got Married and in 1990 for The War of The Roses.

A star on the rise: Brazilian actress Sonia Braga presents the Best Foreign Language category at the 1985 Golden Globes. She would go on to receive three nominations in the following years, for Kiss of the Spider Woman (1986), Moon Over Parador (1989) and The Burning Season (1995)

On TV, Miami Vice ruled: in 1986, both stars Don Johson and Edward James Olmos won Golden Globes - Best Actor in a TV Series, Drama and Best Supporting Actor in a TV Series, Drama, respectively.

With two nominatons in 1987, both in the Supporting Actor category - for David Lynch's Blue Velvet and David Anspaugh's Hoosiers - Dennis Hopper arrives at the Beverly Hilton with his date for the night, actress Maria Conchita Alonso.

Patrick Swayze and his wife, Lisa, arrive at the Beverly Hilton in 1988. Swayze had been nominated for Best Actor/Musical or Comedy for his performance in Dirty Dancing. He would be nominated again in 1991 for Ghost and one more time in 1996 for To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar.

1989's Best Actor, Comedy or Musical  - Tom Hanks, for Big - and Best Actress, Musical or Comedy  - Melanie Griffith, for Working Girl - with presenters Ally Sheedy and Eric Roberts.

1989- it's a tie! Sigourney Weaver and Jodie Foster both win Best Actress, Drama - Weaver for Gorillas in the Mist, Foster for The Accused. Dustin Hoffman is Best Actor for Rain Man.

1990: Denzel Washington wins his first Golden Globe - Best Supporting Actor for Glory.

In 1990, Julia Roberts wins the first of her three Golden Globes - Best Supporting Actress for Steel Magnolias.

A young star is born: Macaulay Culkin, a nominee for Best Actor, Comedy or Musical for Home Alone,  arrives at the Golden Globes in 1991.

Nominated in the Best Actress, Comedy/Musical category for her perfomance in Jerry Zucker's Ghost, Demi Moore arrives at the Beverly Hilton with husband Bruce Willis. One of the biggest action stars of the era, Bruce had been nominated the previous year for his work as Supporting Actor in Norman Jewison's In Country.

Nominated in the Best Actor/ Drama category for his performance in Rob Reiner's A Few Good Men, Tom Cruise arrives at the Beverly Hilton with wife Nicole Kidman, who had been nominated the year before in the Best Supporting Actress category for Billy Bathgate. Cruise had won in the Best Actor category in 1990, for Olive Stone's Born on the Fourth of July. He would win again in 1997 in the Actor, Comedy/Musical category for Cameron Crowe's  Jerry Maguire, and in 2000 as Supporting Actor for Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia.

Johnny Depp arrives at the Beverly Hilton with his girlfriend, supermodel Kate Moss, for the 1995 Golden Globes. Depp had been nominated in the Best Actor, Musical/Comedy category for his performance in Tim Burton's Ed Wood. He would be nominated five more times, and win in the Musical/Comedy category for work on another Tim Burton picture, Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

At the 1996 gala Jodie Foster presented Mel Gibson with a Golden Globe for Best Director, Braveheart. Gibson's movie had received five nominations, converting just one.

It was a Titanic year. Nominated in eight categories - including Best Actress/Drama and Best Actor/ Drama for this young duo, Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio - Titanic would receive four Golden Globes: Best Score (James Horner), Best Original Song ("My Heart Will Go On"), Best Director (James Cameron) and Best Film/ Drama.

In 1997 the truth was definitely out there: The X Files collected three Golden Globes in the TV categories, for Best Series Drama, Best Actress for Gillian Anderson and Best Actor for David Duchovny. Chris Carter's sci fi series had already won Best Series Drama in 1995 and would win again in 1998.

In a time for action heroes, a real life hero arrives at the Beverly Hilton in 1999: Christopher Reeve, accompanied by his wife, Dana. Reeve was nominated as Best Actor/Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made For TV  for his tour de force performance in the remake of Alfred Hitchock's Rear Window.