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| Golden Globe for Best English-Language Foreign Film | |
|---|---|
 Laurence Olivier, director and producer of 1948's Hamlet , the inaugural recipient. | |
| Awarded for | Best film in English from outside of the United States |
| Location | United States |
| Presented by | Hollywood Foreign Press Association |
| Website | goldenglobes.com |
The Golden Globe Award for Best English-Language Foreign Film was a Golden Globe Award created in 1948 and discontinued after 1973.
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The award was split from Best Foreign Film, which was dedicated to films not in the English language; as the organisation behind the Golden Globes, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association when the award was first created) is based in the United States, the Best English-Language Foreign Film category was dedicated to films in English from any other country, whether they had English as an official language or not. As with other "Best Film" Golden Globe Awards, the film itself is considered the winner, with neither directors nor producers being the recipients.
Originally awarded once to 1948's Hamlet at the 6th Golden Globe Awards, the award was re-established in 1955 and awarded infrequently until the 30th Golden Globe Awards where it was won by 1972's Young Winston , after which it was discontinued. All of the winners have been British films, with the exception of 1967's The Fox , which was a Canadian production; the 1968 winner, Romeo and Juliet , was a co-production between the United Kingdom and Italy.
The Award is mostly remembered on the jubilee anniversary celebrations of when the awarded films were released. [1] It is also invariably mentioned prominently in the obituaries of a producer, a director, or an actor who was associated with the film. [2]
