With out a lot glitz and glam like earlier years, the Hollywood Overseas Press Affiliation (HFPA) introduced the winners of the 2022 Golden Globes by way of their web site on Monday, with no celebrities strolling the purple carpet or in attendance.
Regardless of all of the nominees selecting to sit down out this 12 months’s occasion, solely two stars gave the impression to be concerned at this 12 months’s awards.
Jamie Lee Curtis, who has received two Golden Globes and has been nominated seven instances, spoke nearly on the occasion and mentioned the HFPA’s philanthropic work and boasted about how the organisation palms out hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in grants yearly.
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“We’re honored to have @jamieleecurtis be part of us to share a message on the significance of the HFPA’s philanthropic efforts 12 months spherical as a non-profit commerce affiliation as a 501(C)(3) Charitable group,” the official Golden Globes Twitter wrote in a press release on Sunday evening.
“I’m proud to be related to them on this enterprise,” Curtis, 63, mentioned within the video, which was additionally shared by way of Twitter.
“They achieve this at a really low key, off the report, night of giving. I have been the fortunate host of that night a few instances. And so I simply wished to honour and stand with them on this continued advocacy of nice want and nice assist that the HFPA proceed to serve and supply with their generosity.”
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Arnold Schwarzenegger additionally appeared in a video shared to the Globes’ social media pages. The 74-year-old former bodybuilder has received one Golden Globe for New Star Of The Yr in 1977 — he was additionally nominated Greatest Actor for his function in Junior in 1995.
Within the video, Schwarzenegger praised the HFPA’s assist of various voices, in addition to mirrored on successful New Star Of The Yr, which helped solidify his place in Hollywood.
“My dream of being the perfect in my class was turning into a actuality,” he mentioned. “So this recognition from the Hollywood Overseas Press Affiliation meant the world to me.
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The HFPA, which palms out the Golden Globe Awards, has been beneath fireplace within the lead as much as the 79th Annual Golden Globe Awards, following an preliminary exposé by the Los Angeles Occasions about each the small, insular organisation’s questionable monetary practices, in addition to a paltry report of range and illustration (together with a whole lack of Black members).
Final 12 months, American broadcaster NBC introduced that it could not air the ceremony on tv as a result of ongoing controversy, and an HFPA spokesperson confirmed there shall be no on-line different.
The HFPA made adjustments to their committee for the reason that exposé, putting in a brand new board of administrators made up of two-thirds of ladies and one-third of individuals of color.
“Over the past eight months, the HFPA has fully overhauled its bylaws, implementing sweeping adjustments from high to backside addressing ethics and code of conduct, range, fairness and inclusion, governance, membership and extra,” the organisation mentioned in a press launch final December.
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