A January evening in Beverly Hills, and a city that spends the whole month campaigning
The Golden Globes are American awards for excellence in international film and television. The ceremony has been held since 1944, normally in January, and it is a major part of the awards season that culminates each year in the Academy Awards. The eligibility period runs from 1 January to 31 December, and whether a production is entered in the film or the television categories depends on how it was first released.
The organisation behind the awards has changed. They were established and run for decades by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which presented them until 2023; since 2024 they have been presented by Dick Clark Productions, owned by Penske Media Corporation and Eldridge Industries, and broadcast on CBS and Paramount+. Two honorary awards sit outside the competitive categories: the Cecil B. DeMille Award, named for its first recipient, and the Carol Burnett Award for television.
We will be direct about this, because the alternative is to waste a client’s time. The ceremony itself is not open. The eighty-third edition was held on 11 January 2026 at the Beverly Hilton, and seats in that room are allocated to nominees, their guests, the studios, the networks, and the broadcaster. They are not sold, and anyone offering them is offering something else.
What is genuinely arrangeable is the week around it, and in Los Angeles in January that is a great deal. The city’s restaurants, hotels and private venues are running at their highest pitch of the year, the studios and production companies are hosting, and the nominations — announced in early December — determine the entire shape of the month that follows. Our work here is the city, not the room.
Tell us what you need from January in Los Angeles and we will arrange what is genuinely available
The Globes open the sequence. From January the season runs through the guild awards and the British ceremony in February to the Academy Awards, and the whole period functions as a single extended campaign rather than a series of separate evenings. A win in January changes the odds and the spending in February.
The history is less continuous than it looks. The ceremony was not televised from 1969 to 1972 or in 1979; the 2008 edition was cancelled during the Writers Guild strike, and the 2022 ceremony was reduced to a non-televised gala when it lost its broadcaster. Recent years have brought new categories — the 2026 ceremony honoured podcasts for the first time — which is a reasonable indication of how quickly the definition of the industry is moving.
Clients who follow the film calendar generally take the festivals rather than the ceremonies, because that is where access genuinely exists. We arrange Venice and Toronto in September, where premieres and screenings are open in a way that a January ceremony is not, and for those who want a ceremony week regardless, we arrange London around the BAFTA Awards in February.
The month is the city at its most interesting and its most difficult. The weather is the best of the year, the industry is entirely preoccupied, and every venue with a reputation is booked by someone with a campaign to run. For a visitor with no stake in the outcome, that combination is either fascinating or exhausting depending on how it is planned.
The practical answer is to treat the ceremony as a date on the calendar rather than a destination, and to build the week around the things that are actually open — the restaurants, the galleries, the coast, the desert two hours east. A house in the hills with a cook and a driver will produce a better week in January than any attempt to get closer to the room.
For anyone whose business genuinely is the industry, the calculation is different, and the value of being in the city in January is obvious. In that case the work is scheduling, hosting and movement, and we handle it as a corporate arrangement rather than a trip.
In January. The eighty-third ceremony was held on 11 January 2026
At the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles
No. Seats are allocated to nominees, studios, networks, and the broadcaster. The ceremony is not open to the public
Dick Clark Productions, since 2024. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association presented them until 2023
In early December, which is when the shape of the January season becomes clear
The month in Los Angeles, and the autumn festivals in Venice and Toronto, where access genuinely exists
The 84th Golden Globes ceremony is scheduled for January 2027, continuing the event’s traditional early-January slot.
Rarely, the Golden Globes ceremony January date has held since the 1960s, anchoring the start of Hollywood’s awards season.
The Golden Globes Beverly Hilton venue has hosted the ceremony almost every year since 1961, prized for its intimate ballroom seating.
As the first major awards season Los Angeles event each year, the Golden Globes sets the tone for the Oscars campaign that follows.
Nominations are typically unveiled in mid-December, roughly a month before the ceremony itself.
The month when Los Angeles is entirely about one thing, and the city is at its best
