Theo Kingma, longtime Golden Globes voter, died at his dwelling on March 21, 2025.
Since 2017, Kingma served as CEO of Movie Expo Group, which organizes ShowEast in Miami, CineEurope in Barcelona, and CineAsia in Bangkok. He additionally continued to function a voter for the Golden Globes and was a founding member of the Golden Globe Basis. He was additionally a profitable photographer for a lot of a long time.
Kingma was born in Amsterdam to Henk and Nel Kingma on February 25, 1967. He’s survived by his mom, his sister Tessa and his niece Sveva.
Kingma started his profession as a projectionist at cinemas in Amsterdam. He adopted this to the world of movie by working as a manufacturing assistant on a number of Dutch movies after which on Robert Altman’s “Vincent & Theo,” which was filmed partially within the Netherlands. Kingma then moved to Hollywood in 1989 to additional pursue his craft.
In Hollywood, he was a correspondent for the Dutch journal Hitkrant. He joined the Hollywood International Press Affiliation in 1992 and remained lively for a few years; shortly turning into a well known photographer at movement image premieres, press conferences and different Hollywood occasions. He served on the HFPA board of administrators a number of occasions and was elected president twice, serving from 2013 to 2015.
Throughout his time as president, Kingma launched improvements to the Affiliation such because the Affiliation’s participation at Comedian-Con in San Diego and roundtable interviews with a broad vary of non-entertainment people reminiscent of Lech Walesa, Julian Assange and Niki Lauda.
Whereas he was HFPA president, France suffered the assault on the Charlie Hebdo publication in Paris simply days earlier than the 2015 Golden Globes. Throughout the Globes broadcast that 12 months, Kingma spoke out in help of freedom of speech and the safety of journalism: “The liberty of creative expression… is a beacon throughout the globe… We stand united all over the place from North Korea to Paris.”
Kingma was an lively supporter of Golden Globes’ philanthropy program and led efforts for a $2 million donation to Los Angeles Metropolis Faculty to help its Cinema and Tv program. Kingma went on to serve on the LACC Basis board of administrators for a few years.
Kingma continued to be lively as a photographer and his footage appeared recurrently in publications in The Netherlands, Germany and Australia. He organized World Press Picture contest exhibitions in Beverly Hills twice. And he beloved visiting and photographing Cuba.
Donations in his reminiscence could also be made to Pablove Shutterbugs Images Program, a company to which Kingma contributed ceaselessly, at https://www.pablove.org/shutterbugs/