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Golden Globes & HFPA Controversy & Boycott Explained


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The Golden Globes’ 2022 NBC broadcast has been officially cancelled by the network, marking a pivotal moment in the long history of protest, criticism, and boycotts against the show and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association that runs it. For some, the cancellation may have come as a shock. But the recent boycott movement against the Golden Globe Awards is just the latest development in a decades-old string of lawsuits and callouts.

In 1943, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was founded by a small group of foreign journalists with the stated intention of facilitating more effective coverage of Hollywood for non-American markets. The Golden Globe Awards were created shortly thereafter as a method for the group to bestow its own honors on the films, performers and creatives of the day. In the eight decades since, the fame and influence of the HFPA and the Globes has grown substantially, but the organization itself has failed to evolve with it in the ways many outsiders – and some members – believe necessary.

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Though negative sentiment against the HFPA has grown substantially in recent years, the organization has been the target of controversy and criticism for decades. That pattern of questionable behavior has only been magnified with recent calls for improved diversity in the film industry at large, ultimately leading to the recent boycott movement and NBC’s cancellation of the show. Here’s what you need to know about the Golden Globes controversy.

Golden Globes & HFPA Controversy Explained

 

For decades, the HFPA and the Golden Globes have been at the root of a number of industry scandals. The show was dropped by NBC in the late ‘60s after an FCC claim that the HFPA was misleading the public about its award selection process. In 1982, it was dropped again, this time by new broadcast partner CBS, after a controversy surrounding that year’s “New Star of the Year – Actress” award being given to Pia Zadora for the critically lambasted film Butterfly. Zadora’s husband, Israeli business magnate Meshulam Riklis, had flown members of the HFPA to his resort properties in Las Vegas just weeks before voting took place. Riklis also financed the production of the film.

While the Golden Globes rebuilt something of its public reputation through the eighties, controversies continued to persist. Over the past few decades, the HFPA has repeatedly faced accusations of accepting extravagant gifts, all-expense-paid trips, and other sorts of kickbacks by studios and producers aimed at influencing the voting process. Over just the last five years, the amount of money paid yearly to the HFPA by NBC for the Golden Globes has exploded, rising from the single-digit millions range to closer to $30 million, according to official reports. That spike has been paralleled by a sharp increase in the amount of money paid out to HFPA members for various committee duties, sparking widespread accusations of inappropriate financial management, which the organization has repeatedly denied. While more funds have been allocated to charitable causes in recent years, the same concerns have remained. Even recent hosts of the Golden Globes like Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have criticized the HFPA on their own stage.

As protest against Hollywood’s lack of diversity has intensified in recent years, those past criticisms against the HFPA have only grown stronger. Because of the group’s small size – less than a hundred members as opposed to the thousands present in the Film Academy and Television Academy – questions have been raised about the process of admittance. As of earlier this year, the group’s membership included no Black journalists. That severe lack of representation has been heavily criticized, especially given the Golden Globes’ pattern of ignoring Black-centric stories in its nomination process. Such criticisms certainly aren’t new, but they recently came to a head when a large-scale studio boycott of the show began to take shape.

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Golden Globes 2022 Boycott & Cancellation

In February 2021, the Los Angeles Times published an extensive breakdown of the HFPA’s controversial history, resurfacing the old criticisms mentioned above and digging deep into the organization’s modern-day finances. That article helped reinvigorate public frustration with the HFPA leading up to the 2021 show, which itself was then riddled with further criticism for the Golden Globe nominees. Judas and the Black Messiah, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Da 5 Bloods, three highly acclaimed films from Black directors and led by Black stars, were all left out of the “Best Motion Picture – Drama” category. Minari, an American-made movie about a Korean American family, was placed in the “Best Foreign Language Film” category. And the widely panned Netflix series Emily in Paris received two nominations while Michaela Coel’s highly acclaimed series I May Destroy You was completely boxed out, following an extravagant series of Parisian set visits and exclusive press events provided to members of the HFPA.

Then near the beginning of May, Netflix and Amazon announced they would both by boycotting the 2022 Golden Globe Awards in protest of the HFPA’s failure to institute meaningful reform. The boycott was soon joined by WarnerMedia, who, in an official statement, called the HFPA out for a history of sexist, racist, and homophobic questions directed at actors and creatives at past press events. The statement also references past instances of overt sexual harassment – accusations that appear inline with Brendan Fraser’s past allegations that he was groped by former HFPA president Philip Berk at an event in 2003. The protests gained even more attention when Tom Cruise recently announced he would be returning his three Golden Globe trophies.

Finally, with industry pressure mounting, NBC announced that it was cancelling its 2022 broadcast of the annual awards show. The network has claimed that it is open to working with the HFPA again in 2023, but that it believes significant time is required to enact the necessary changes. The cancellation has been supported by many in the industry as more stars and studios have spoken out against the organization.

What The HFPA Is Doing In Response

Following the cancellation from NBC, the HFPA has put out a detailed timeline of measures it plans to take to fix the many complaints against it. Those plans include revising the organization’s bylaws and code of conduct to amend issues with studio kickbacks, hiring a chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer, and seeking out new members and new leadership over the coming months with the help of outside, nonpartisan consultation. The HFPA has vowed to add 20 new members to its ranks by August, expand membership by 50 percent over the next 18 months, and reevaluate the eligibility of current members by revised criteria as determined by the new conduct and diversity guidelines.

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Unfortunately, while all these reforms sound significant on paper, they don’t guarantee the kind of systemic change many in the industry have called for. It’s entirely possible that the revised guidelines and expanded membership could cause major improvements to the HFPA, but it’s also possible that these public-facing changes could be little more than PR maneuvers to remedy the group’s severely tarnished image, and that the core of the organization will remain the same. Only time will tell if the HFPA is truly interested in reforming itself for the better, and in that time, the Golden Globes may lose a huge portion of its cultural clout.

What Will Happen To The Golden Globes?

This is not the first time the Golden Globes have been mired in controversy. It’s not even the first time the show has been dropped by NBC. Similar circumstances failed to kill the HFPA in the ‘60s, and the ‘80s, and the mid-2000s, and it honestly seems unlikely that they’ll kill the organization now. But the path to survival this time may finally necessitate more significant overhauls of both the Golden Globe Awards and the HFPA as a whole. It’s possible that the show could go on with a different broadcast partner next year, or it could hand out awards in a less dramatic fashion. Or maybe the organization will actually take the suggested time before voting once again.

While it’s encouraging to see major studios like Netflix and WarnerMedia demand needed change from powerful groups like the HFPA, Hollywood’s issues with poor diversity are much larger than a single organization. The show’s cancellation is the latest in what will inevitably be a long campaign to reform an industry that was initially founded to celebrate some and exclude many others. The life or death of the Golden Globes, while the current flashpoint moment, is just one part of a larger whole.

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