The 25th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1967, were held on February 12, 1968.
Scandal resulting in FCC ban The FCC imposed a ban on NBC's broadcast of the Golden Globes after the February 1968 ceremony. Movie critic Rex Reed, in a contemporary article about the broadcast, wrote:
NBC's telcast of the Foreign Press Association's 25th annual Golden Globe Awards had to be seen to be disbelieved. The Federal Communications Commission have sent lawyers to have it investigated. But award-giving, pointless as it is, is still big business, and it also gives viewers a chance to see their favorite stars make fools of themselves in public, so the Golden Globes were back, minus some of their sponsors, who backed out at the last minute....
Just last week Newsweek reported denials from the Foreign Press Association that its members give awards to the stars who throw the biggest feeds. "We are not influenced by a glass of champagne," snapped [HFPA President Howard] Luft, "Kirk Douglas threw a party last year, and what did he win? Nothing."
This year there was even a special category called the Cecil B. DeMille Humanitarian Award. Who won? You guessed it. Kirk Douglas.
The FCC was spurred to action because the public had been misled as to how the awards were actually made. Golden Globe broadcast advertisers determined Golden Globe winners and the HFPA pressured nominees to attend the award ceremony by threatening to award the Golden Globe won by a non-attendee to a losing nominee who was at the ceremony. The ban lasted until 1974.
After the ban, NBC once again broadcast the awards ceremony, but it terminated its contract with the HFPA after the Pia Zadora scandal of 1982.
Winners and nominees
Film
Best Motion PictureDramaComedy or MusicalIn the Heat of the Night Bonnie and Clyde Far from the Madding Crowd Guess Who's Coming to Dinner In Cold BloodThe Graduate Camelot Doctor Dolittle The Taming of the Shrew Thoroughly Modern MillieBest Performance in a Motion Picture – DramaActorActressRod Steiger - In the Heat of the Night as Police Chief Bill Gillespie Alan Bates - Far from the Madding Crowd as Gabriel Oak Warren Beatty - Bonnie and Clyde as Clyde Barrow Paul Newman - Cool Hand Luke as Lucas "Luke" Jackson Sidney Poitier - In the Heat of the Night as Detective Virgil Tibbs Spencer Tracy - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner as Matt Drayton (posthumous)Edith Evans - The Whisperers as Maggie Ross Faye Dunaway - Bonnie and Clyde as Bonnie Parker Audrey Hepburn - Wait Until Dark as Susy Hendrix Katharine Hepburn - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner as Christina Drayton Anne Heywood - The Fox as Ellen MarchBest Performance in a Motion Picture – Comedy or MusicalActorActressRichard Harris - Camelot as King Arthur Richard Burton - The Taming of the Shrew as Petruchio Rex Harrison - Doctor Dolittle as Doctor John Dolittle Dustin Hoffman - The Graduate as Benjamin Braddock Ugo Tognazzi - The Climax as Sergio MasiniAnne Bancroft - The Graduate as Mrs. Robinson Julie Andrews - Thoroughly Modern Millie as Millie Dillmount Audrey Hepburn - Two for the Road as Joanna "Jo" Wallace Shirley MacLaine - Woman Times Seven as Paulette / Maria Teresa / Linda / Edith / Eve Minou / Marie / Jeanne Vanessa Redgrave - Camelot as GuenevereBest Supporting Performance in a Motion Picture – Drama, Comedy or MusicalSupporting ActorSupporting ActressRichard Attenborough - Doctor Dolittle as Albert Blossom John Cassavetes - The Dirty Dozen as Victor R. Franko George Kennedy - Cool Hand Luke as Clarence "Dragline" Slidell Michael J. Pollard - Bonnie and Clyde as C.W. Moss Efrem Zimbalist Jr. - Wait Until Dark as Sam HendrixCarol Channing - Thoroughly Modern Millie as Muzzy Van Hossmere Quentin Dean - In the Heat of the Night as Delores Purdy Lillian Gish - The Comedians as Mrs. Smith Lee Grant - In the Heat of the Night as Leslie Colbert Prunella Ransome - Far from the Madding Crowd as Fanny Robin Beah Richards - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner as Mrs. Prentice OtherBest DirectorBest ScreenplayMike Nichols - The Graduate Norman Jewison - In the Heat of the Night Stanley Kramer - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Arthur Penn - Bonnie and Clyde Mark Rydell - The FoxIn the Heat of the Night - Stirling SilliphantBonnie and Clyde - Robert Benton and David Newman The Fox - Lewis John Carlino and Howard Koch The Graduate - Buck Henry and Calder Willingham Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - William Rose |- !Best Original Score !Best Original Song |- | valign="top" |Camelot - Frederick LoeweDoctor Dolittle - Leslie Bricusse Live for Life (Vivre pour vivre) - Francis Lai Thoroughly Modern Millie - Elmer Bernstein Two for the Road - Henry Mancini | valign="top" |"If Ever I Would Leave You" (Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner) - Camelot "Talk to the Animals" (Leslie Bricusse) - Doctor Dolittle "Circles in the Water (Des ronds dans l'eau)" (Francis Lai, Norman Gimbel) - Live for Life (Vivre pour vivre) "Please Don't Gamble with Love" (Guy Hemric, Jerry Styner) - Ski Fever "Thoroughly Modern Millie" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn) - Thoroughly Modern MillieBest Foreign Film (English Language)Best Foreign Film (Foreign Language)The Fox (Canada) Accident (United Kingdom) The Jokers (United Kingdom) Smashing Time (United Kingdom) Ulysses (United Kingdom) The Whisperers (United Kingdom)Live for Life (Vivre pour vivre) (France)Elvira Madigan (Sweden) The Climax (France/Italy) Closely Observed Trains (Ostre sledované vlaky) (Czechoslovakia) The Stranger (Lo straniero) (France) |- !New Star of the Year – Actor !New Star of the Year – Actress |- | valign="top" |Dustin Hoffman - The Graduate as Benjamin BraddockOded Kotler - Three Days and a Child as Eli Franco Nero - Camelot as Lancelot du Lac Michael J. Pollard - Bonnie and Clyde as C.W. Moss Tommy Steele - The Happiest Millionaire as John Lawless | valign="top" |Katharine Ross - The Graduate'' as Elaine Robinson Greta Baldwin - Rogue's Gallery as Valerie York Pia Degermark - Elvira Madigan as Hedvig Jensen, "Elvira Madigan" Faye Dunaway - Hurry Sundown as Lou McDowell Katharine Houghton - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner as Joanna "Joey" Drayton Sharon Tate - Valley of the Dolls'' as Jennifer North
The following films received multiple nominations: NominationsTitle7Bonnie and ClydeThe GraduateGuess Who's Coming to DinnerIn the Heat of the Night 6Camelot5Doctor DolittleThoroughly Modern Millie 4The Fox3Far from the Madding CrowdLive for Life (Vivre pour vivre)2Cool Hand LukeElvira MadiganThe ClimaxThe Taming of the ShrewTwo for the RoadWait Until DarkThe Whisperers The following films received multiple wins: WinsTitle5The Graduate3CamelotIn the Heat of the Night
Television Best Television Series Mission: Impossible
The Carol Burnett Show The Dean Martin Show Garrison's Gorillas Rowan & Martin's Laugh-InBest Performance in a Television SeriesActorActress Martin Landau - Mission: Impossible as Rollin Hand
Brendon Boone - Garrison's Gorillas as Chief Ben Gazzara - Run for Your Life as Paul Bryan Dean Martin - The Dean Martin Show as Himself Andy Williams - The Andy Williams Show as Himself Carol Burnett - The Carol Burnett Show as Various Characters
Barbara Bain - Mission: Impossible as Cinnamon Carter Lucille Ball - The Lucy Show as Lucy Carmichael Nancy Sinatra - Movin' with Nancy as Various Characters Barbara Stanwyck - The Big Valley as Victoria Barkley
The following programs received multiple nominations: NominationsTitle 3Mission: Impossible2The Carol Burnett ShowThe Dean Martin ShowGarrison's Gorillas
The following programs received multiple wins: WinsTitle 2Mission: Impossible
Cecil B. DeMille Award Kirk Douglas
World Film Favorite (Male) Paul Newman
World Film Favorite (Female) Julie Andrews
References
IMdb 1968 Golden Globe Awards