In the event you’re contemplating tuning into 2022’s Golden Globes award ceremony as we speak, good luck.
The 79th Golden Globe Awards — the annual ceremony that’s historically Hollywood‘s largest get together and handled as a costume rehearsal for the Oscars — continues to be going forward on the Beverly Hilton Lodge, nevertheless, there might be no viewers, no crimson carpet, no media, and no technique to watch it, because the occasion won’t be televised or live-streamed.
The lack of fanfare will not be, nevertheless, solely as a result of COVID-19. Moderately, it is largely as a result of controversy surrounding the Hollywood Overseas Press Affiliation (HFPA)’s lack of range and acceptance of presents from these vying for a nomination. This is every little thing that you must know.
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What’s the controversy surrounding the Golden Globes 2022? Has it been cancelled?
In brief, no, the Golden Globes 2022 ceremony has not been cancelled, however it’s not going forward in a business-as-usual format.
Winners of the Golden Globes 2022 are set to be introduced on Monday, January 10, 2022, from 1pm AEDT.
As for the place to observe the ceremony, that is the place it will get difficult. Final yr, broadcaster NBC introduced that it will not air the ceremony on tv because of the ongoing controversy, and an HFPA spokesperson has confirmed there might be no on-line various.
“This yr’s occasion goes to be a non-public occasion and won’t be live-streamed. We might be offering real-time updates on winners on the Golden Globes web site and our social media,” they informed The Hollywood Reporter on January 7.
The nominations for this yr’s awards, nevertheless, had been introduced by rapper Snoop Dogg — often a stream of high-profile celebrities learn the nominations — and streamed on the Golden Globes’ YouTube channel as a substitute of being televised.
Historically, the Golden Globes are second solely to the Oscars with regards to awards season, however the occasion’s organisers — the HFPA — has been accused of racism, corruption, bullying, and sexism.
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Final yr, an investigation by the Los Angeles Instances notably discovered that the HFPA — comprised of over 100 leisure writers — didn’t have a single Black member, and famous that HFPA members had been handled to a luxurious journey to Paris by producer Paramount TV for a set go to for the Netflix comedy Emily in Paris, which landed a nomination for finest comedy sequence, a lot to the shock of movie and tv buffs.
On the 2022 nomination ceremony in December, HFPA president Helen Hoehne mentioned the HFPA had mirrored and altered during the last eight months.
“For eight months we have labored tirelessly as an organisation to be higher,” Hoehne mentioned, highlighting that the HFPA had launched 21 new members — together with six Black journalists — making the membership cohort “the biggest and most various in [the HFPA’s] 79-year-old historical past.”
In a launch by the HFPA noting the Golden Globes 2022 ceremony’s particulars, the organisation highlighted {that a} chief range officer had been added, and the organisation had additionally partnered with America’s Nationwide Affiliation for the Development of Colored Folks (NAACP) for 5 years.
“Over the past eight months, the HFPA has utterly overhauled its bylaws, implementing sweeping modifications from high to backside addressing ethics and code of conduct, range, fairness and inclusion, governance, membership, and extra,” the discharge mentioned.
Though the HFPA’s new members make it the claimed most various class in its historical past, the membership base nonetheless lags behind the HFPA’s objective, beforehand said to The Hollywood Reporter, of 13 per cent Black membership by the 2022 ceremony.
Full reforms made by the HFPA are listed right here.
Are actors boycotting the Golden Globes 2022?
After the Los Angeles Instances‘ investigation was revealed, many A-listers spoke out in protest of the HFPA with the #TIMESUPGlobes hashtag, significantly about how the HFPA’s lack of range influenced the solid of nominations and winners.
On the time, director Spike Lee mentioned in a press release to Selection: “The Hollywood Overseas Press clearly has a lot work to do. Nonetheless, it has been a pleasure to observe our youngsters Satchel and Jackson function the ambassadors to the Golden Globes. I hope the HFPA understands with a view to keep related, they have to diversify their membership. Put some sistas and brothers up on that wall. Y’all buggin’ out!”
Through the Golden Globes 2021 ceremony, HFPA executives in addition to hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler addressed the controversy, and when Sacha Baron Cohen received Finest Actor, he thanked “the all-white Hollywood Overseas Press” for his award in his acceptance speech.
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Tom Cruise additionally returned his three Golden Globe trophies final yr, and several other actors together with Scarlett Johansson and Mark Ruffalo referred to as for the trade to “step again” from the Golden Globes till reforms had been put into place by the HFPA.
Though the HFPA have publicised their reforms within the time since, the trade seems to be enacting a comfortable boycott of this yr’s Golden Globes. A Vulture investigation confirmed that solely 14 actors acknowledged their nominations, however the remaining had been largely silent about what was previously thought-about a grand honour — often, actors and movie studios flood social media with their thanks.
Will there be a number?
Nobody has been named to host the Golden Globes 2022 ceremony.
The HFPA mentioned in a launch, nevertheless, that Kyle Bowser, the Senior Vice President of the NAACP Hollywood Bureau, will communicate concerning the ‘Reimagine Coalition.’
The Reimagine Coalition is known to be a part of the five-year partnership between the HFPA and the NAACP, which goals to extend fairness, range and inclusion within the leisure trade throughout the globe.
What Golden Globes 2022 nominees must you look out for?
Australian expertise cleaned up massive when it got here to the nominations for the 79th Annual Golden Globe Awards, together with Golden Globe- and Oscar-winner Nicole Kidman for her position as Lucille Ball in Being the Ricardos, and Adelaide-born Sarah Snook for Succession.
South Australian actor Kodi Smith-McPhee was additionally nominated for his position in The Energy of the Canine, which tied with Belfast for many quantity of nominations — the 2 movies acquired seven every.
Two of Netflix’s Squid Recreation solid members — Lee Jung-jae and O Yeong-su — had been nominated for his or her first Golden Globes, and the sequence as entire earned a nomination for Finest Drama Sequence.
See the complete nominations right here.
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