Golden Globes to announce noms to a skeptical Hollywood

NEW YORK – The Hollywood Foreign Press Association volition denote nominations to the 79th Golden Globes connected Monday morning. But volition Hollywood care?

The property association, often ridiculed, adjacent by its ain hosts, this twelvemonth went from punchline to pariah. After a Los Angeles Times’ exposure elaborate immoderate of the HFPA’s unethical behaviour and revealed that its 87 voting members didn’t see 1 Black journalist, studios said they would boycott the Globes and much than 100 PR films said their clients wouldn’t enactment until the HFPA swiftly implemented “profound and lasting change.” Tom Cruise adjacent returned his 3 Globes to the group’s headquarters.

But aft 9 months of reform, reorganization and galore pledges to bash better, the HFPA is doing what it ever has this clip of year: Gathering reporters successful the aboriginal greeting astatine the Beverly Hilton to denote its movie and tv nominations. The announcement volition beryllium streamed connected the Globes' website opening astatine 9 a.m. EST.

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Critics accidental the Globes aren't yet acceptable to instrumentality to the spotlight. Most of the movie manufacture has this awards play kept the HFPA astatine arms length, oregon ignored it entirely. The bulk of studios, nationalist relations firms and A-list endowment haven’t cooperated with the group, which this twelvemonth has done distant with its accustomed request for nominees to beryllium submitted.

On Monday morning, those nominated whitethorn not beryllium celebrating. Some whitethorn adjacent accidental “No convey you.”

But the Globes, adjacent though NBC won't beryllium airing its yearly show, person declined to beryllium retired the play entirely. The property relation believes it has made the indispensable reforms. “HFPA 2.0,” precocious elected president Helen Hoehne said. Since being engulfed by backlash earlier this year, the radical has added a main diverseness officer; overhauled its board; inducted 21 caller members, including six Black journalists; brought successful the NAACP connected a five-year partnership; and updated its codification of conduct.

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Much of the Globes’ powerfulness has ever resided successful its lively telecast, regularly 1 of the most-watched non-sports broadcasts of the twelvemonth — though ratings for it, similar each grant shows, person fallen sharply successful caller years. The Globes besides usually service arsenic a utile promotional instrumentality for galore of the awards-hopefuls hitting theaters successful December.

NBC, the Globes’ longtime telecaster, successful May said it won’t aerial the 2022 Globes due to the fact that “change of this magnitude takes clip and work.”

The Globes person nevertheless acceptable a day of January 9 to sanction winners. The HFPA hasn't shared immoderate details astir what benignant of ceremonial that would be.

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