HOLLYWOOD FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES AWARDS TIMETABLE FOR 74TH ANNUAL GOLDEN GLOBE(R) AWARDS

Nominations will be Unveiled on December 12; Live Ceremony on January 8, 2017

HOLLYWOOD, CA (JUNE 16, 2016) - The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) has announced the awards timetable for the "74th Annual Golden Globe(R) Awards". The ceremony will air on NBC live coast-to-coast on Sunday, January 8, 2017 from 5:00-8:00pm/PST (8:00-11:00pm/et) from the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, CA. Nominations for "The 74th Annual Golden Globe(R) Awards" will be announced at 5:00am/PST (8:00am/et) on Monday, December 12, 2016.

Produced by dick clark productions in association with the HFPA, the Golden Globe Awards are viewed in more than 236 countries and territories worldwide and are one of the few awards ceremonies to include both motion picture and television achievements.

NBC's telecast of "The 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards" scored as the #1 entertainment telecast on the Big 4 networks for the primetime week of Jan. 4-10, according to "live plus same day" viewing figures from Nielsen Media Research, which also ranks the Golden Globe Awards #1 among non-sports programs on ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox in adults 18-34, adults 25-54 and all key adult-female demos.

Additionally, the 2016 telecast saw an upward trend in digital and social media statistics. On Twitter, beginning three hours before the live show through 10 minutes after it ended, 4.4 million Golden Globe Awards-related tweets were sent globally, resulting in a total of 1.2 billion views. On Facebook, more than 9 million users globally participated in a total of 19 million interactions on show day, which included posts, comments and likes. During the same period in 2015, 8 million users contributed to 17 million interactions. Instagram, in which 11 million users globally partook in 34 million interactions relating to the awards show, introduced the first implementation of Spotlight Compilations showing how celebrities and fans on Instagram celebrated the Golden Globe Awards.

The deadline for Motion Picture and Television submissions is Monday, October 31, 2016.

For rules, please visit http://www.goldenglobes.com/award-rules%E2%80%A2entry-forms

A timeline of upcoming events follows:

DATE DEADLINE

Monday, October 31, 2016 Deadline for submission of Golden Globe Motion Picture and Television entry forms

Friday, November 25, 2016 Deadline for nomination ballots to be mailed to all HFPA members by Ernst & Young

Monday, December 5, 2016 Final screening date for Motion Pictures

Wednesday, December 7, 2016 Final date for Motion Picture press conferences

Friday, December 9, 2016 Deadline for receipt of nomination ballots by Ernst & Young, at 10 a.m.

Monday, December 12, 2016 Announcement of nominations for the "74th Annual Golden Globe(R) Awards" at 5:00am/PST (8:00am/EST)

Monday, December 19, 2016 Final ballots mailed to all HFPA members

Wednesday, January 4, 2017 Deadline for receipt of final ballots by Ernst & Young, at 5 p.m.

Sunday, January 8, 2017 Presentation of the "74th Annual Golden Globe(R) Awards"

Timetable is also available online at https://www.goldenglobes.com/articles/hollywood-foreign-press-association-announces-awards-timetable-74th-annual-golden-globe%C2%AE

About the Hollywood Foreign Press Association:

Founded in the 1940s during World War II, the HFPA was originally comprised of a handful of L.A.-based overseas journalists who sought to bridge the international community with Hollywood, and to provide distraction from the hardships of war through film. Seventy years later, members of the HFPA represent 56 countries with a combined readership of 250 million in some of the world's most respected publications. Each year, the organization holds the third most watched awards show on television, the Golden Globe(R) Awards, which has enabled the organization to donate more than $23.9 million to entertainment related charities and scholarship programs. For more information, please visit www.GoldenGlobes.com and follow us on Twitter (@GoldenGlobes) and Facebook (www.facebook.com/GoldenGlobes).

About dick clark productions:

dick clark productions (dcp) is the world's largest producer and proprietor of televised live event entertainment programming, with the "Academy of Country Music Awards," "American Country Countdown Awards," "American Music Awards," "Billboard Music Awards," "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest," "Golden Globe Awards," "Hollywood Film Awards" and the "Streamy Awards." Weekly television programming includes "So You Think You Can Dance," from 19 Entertainment, a division of CORE Media Group and dcp. dcp also owns one of the world's most unique and extensive entertainment archive libraries, with more than 55 years of award-winning shows, historic programs, specials, performances and legendary programming. For additional information, visit www.dickclark.com.