The Golden Globes are ready to party again and twice as hard in order to compensate for the previous year, when the ceremony was canceled because of the writers strike, and the awards were simply announced at a news conference. But Hollywood stars are now intensively getting ready for Sunday's Golden Globes held at the Beverly Hilton

The first Golden Globe Awards were held in 1940, at the 20th Century Fox studios. It has since been held annually, at various locations throughout the next decade, notably the Beverly Hills Hotel, "? Club" and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. The Golden Globes are awarded every January, based on votes from around ninety (as of 2008) international journalists living in Hollywood and affiliated with media outside of the United States. Unlike the Academy Awards, for which the eligibility period begins January 1, the eligibility period for the Golden Globe Awards begins October 1. The ceremony has a different host every year.

As far as this year’s predictions are concerned, Heath Ledger is the fan favorite to win a posthumous Golden Globe. Moviefone.com asked its users to name their picks, and nearly 500,000 chose Ledger, who was 28, by a landslide.
Moreover, According to the poll, actors Brad Pitt and Meryl Streep should clean up at the award ceremony run by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which honors both movies and television.

Online voters gave Streep, 59, Best Actress in a Drama honors for "Doubt" and also chose her for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy for her performance in "Mamma Mia!" The movie was also picked as Best Picture - Musical or Comedy.

Pitt, 45, was chosen as Best Actor in a Drama for his role in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." The movie also got the nod for Best Picture - Drama.

But all in all we have a strong competition this year. Notorious couples such as Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, and Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz are all nominees and are expected to attend. Small-screen celebrities including Tina Fey, Kiefer Sutherland and Jeremy Piven are up for awards, too.

The films under spotlight this year are “The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button” (nominated for best motion picture, best screenplay-Eric Roth, best actor-brad Pitt, best director-David Fincher and best original score-Alexandre Desplat), “Frost/Nixon” (nominated for best motion picture, best actor-Frank Langella, best director-Ron Howard, best screenplay-Peter Morgan, best original score-Hans Zimmer ), “The Reader” (nominated for best motion picture, best director-Stephen Daldry, best screenplay-David Hare), “Revolutionary Road” (nominated for best motion picture, best actress-Kate Winslet, best actor-Leonardo DiCaprio, best director-Sam Mendes), and “Slumdog Millionaire” (nominated for best motion picture, best director-Danny Boyle, best screenplay-Simon Beaufoy, best original score-A. R. Rahman).

Sunday’s Golden Globe broadcast will begin a month’s worth of ceremonies that include the Screen Actors Guild Awards and more than a dozen others culminating in the 81st annual Academy Awards on February 22.