I look forward to Hollywood's awards season the way some people look forward to the NFL playoffs.

And like many football fans, I sometimes need the instant replay.

While I usually watch shows like tonight's Golden Globes as they're happening, I always record them as well. When you're an awards-show superfan, there are moments you need to see from every angle.

A couple of days from now, I'll rewind my VHS tape — yes, some of us still live with one foot in the analog world — to look for nuances I may have overlooked, or revisit quirky moments I simply want to experience again.

If I hadn't taped and rewatched the 1991 Oscars telecast, I'd have missed what presenter Jessica Tandy said to Jeremy Irons, named best actor for his "Reversal of Fortune" performance as Claus von Bulow.

"Here you are, you clever man," Tandy purred in her patrician dialect, as she placed the golden statue in Irons' hands.

The Golden Globes are always worth reviewing because of the loose, anything-can-happen energy exuded by a show performed in front wine glass-clutching celebrities at dinner tables.

I get to play Hedda Hopper in my living room, replaying the commercial-break lead-ins to see which star has walked over to which table to talk intimately with whom — and who, frankly, looks a little smashed.

Wait a second, 2006 Golden Globes! Did I really just see presenter Harrison Ford make Virginia Madsen hold his cocktail glass, on stage, so his hands would be free to open the Best Screenplay envelope?

I did, and had the instant replay to prove it.

I'm a sucker for a particularly heartfelt or witty acceptance speech, which I'll rewind and rewatch to make sure I've caught every word.

David Seidler, who admired King George VI as a recovering stutterer like himself, accepted his 2011 "The King's Speech" best screenplay Oscar "on behalf of all the stutterers throughout the world. We have a voice. We have been heard thanks to you, the Academy."

It was worth listening again to "Capote" best actor Philip Seymour Hoffman pay tribute to his mother at the 2006 Oscars: "My mom … is here tonight. And I'd like if you see her tonight to congratulate her, because she brought up four kids alone, and she deserves a congratulations for that."

Shaggy-haired Luke Matheny, who opened his 2011 best live action short Oscar address with, "I should have gotten a haircut," went on to score points with moms and girlfriends everywhere. He thanked his mother for providing craft services (feeding the cast and crew) on his film set, and called his composer girlfriend his "dream come true."     

Best documentary short winner Keiko Ibi's voice trembled touchingly in 1999, as the Japanese former beauty queen thanked her mother for allowing her to come to America and pursue her dream of becoming a filmmaker.

The stopwatch police aren't always on guard at the Golden Globes the way they are at the Oscars. The Globes' acceptance-speech rules are a bit more lax, and the thoroughbreds of witty speechifying are allowed to run free.

Take Emma Thompson's peroration after she won 1996's best screenplay Globe for adapting the Jane Austen novel "Sense and Sensibility."

Thompson wrote and delivered her speech in the 19th-century author's voice, knitting her requisite thank-yous into an Austen-esque description of the awards-show audience: "There was a good deal of shouting and behavior verging on the profligate; however, people were very free with their compliments and I made several new acquaintances."

Best TV comedy actor Steve Carrell claimed his 2008 Globe acceptance was written by his comic-actress wife, Nancy Walls, as he paid tribute to "Nancy, my precious wife … who sometimes wishes I would let her know when I'm going to be home late so she can schedule her own life, which is no less important than mine."

Sometimes, a simple facial expression or gesture is worth a second viewing: the look of giggling embarrassment on the face of Oscar audience member Dame Judi Dench, as host Billy Crystal suggested she was thinking, "This thong is killing me!" Or F. Murray Abraham's kneeling at the feet of Geraldine Page as he presented her 1985 best actress Oscar for "A Trip to Bountiful."

I also love reviewing each year's opening montage at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Famous folks tell charming stories about how they found their way into show biz — Kathy Bates was once a singing waitress in the Catskills! — and state, with conviction, "I am an actor."

Years before Anne Hathaway was cast as Fantine in "Les Miserables," she told the SAG audience she was a young girl, watching her actress mom on stage, when she decided to become an actress herself. It happened, Hathaway clarified recently, as she watched her mother perform … the role of Fantine in "Les Miserables."

As you read this, I'm probably re-watching a bit of Thursday night's Critic's Choice Awards, and setting my VCR for tonight's Golden Globes and the Jan. 27 SAG Awards.

Once the Oscars are over on Feb. 24, it'll be a long wait until June's Tony Awards and September's Emmys.

But, through the magic of videotape, I'll have these moments to remember.