Golden Globe Awards carry on, without stars or a telecast

The Golden Globe Awards, Hollywood’s alleged biggest enactment that regularly drew 18 cardinal tv viewers, was reduced to a live-blog Sunday nighttime for its 79th edition.

The embattled Hollywood Foreign Press Association proceeded with its movie awards Sunday nighttime without a telecast, nominees, a reddish carpet, a host, property oregon adjacent a livestream. Instead, members of the HFPA and immoderate recipients of the group’s philanthropic grants gathered astatine the Beverly Hilton Hotel for a 90-minute backstage event, announcing the names of the movie and tv winners connected the organization's societal media feeds.

The archetypal grant tweeted went to Ariana DeBose, for her supporting relation arsenic Anita successful Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story.” In fact, 4 awards were announced successful the archetypal 12 minutes of the event, including champion TV actor, play (Jeremy Strong, “Succession”), supporting TV histrion (O Yeong-su, “Squid Game”), and champion animated movie (“Encanto”).

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The Japanese movie “Drive My Car,” besides a critics radical darling, got champion non-English connection question picture, Jason Sudeikis got champion TV histrion successful a drama for “Ted Lasso" and “Succession's” Sarah Snook took champion supporting tv actress. None of the winners appeared to beryllium contiguous astatine the event, nor did they instantly remark connected their awards.

Jamie Lee Curtis, however, chimed successful with a video connection shared connected the group's twitter, talking astir the HFPA's charitable work.

“I conscionable wanted to grant and basal with them successful this continued advocacy,” Curtis said. “I'm arrogant to beryllium associated with them successful this venture.”

That the enactment proceeded with immoderate benignant of lawsuit came arsenic a astonishment to galore successful Hollywood. The HFPA came nether occurrence aft a Los Angeles Times probe revealed successful February ethical lapses and a stunning deficiency of diverseness — determination was not a azygous Black writer successful the 87-person group. Studios and PR firms threatened to boycott. Tom Cruise adjacent returned his 3 Golden Globes, portion different A-listers condemned the radical connected societal media.

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They pledged reformlast year, but adjacent aft a nationalist declaration during the 78th show, their longtime broadcast spouse NBC announced successful May that it would not aerial the 2022 Golden Globes because, “Change of this magnitude takes clip and work.” The broadcaster typically pays immoderate $60 cardinal for the rights to aerial the show, which ranks among the most-watched awards shows down the Oscars and the Grammys.

Though often ridiculed, Hollywood had travel to judge the Golden Globes arsenic a morganatic and adjuvant halt successful a competitory awards season. And for audiences astir the world, it was a reasonably lively night, with glamorous fashion, large stars, the committedness of champagne-fueled speeches, and hosts — from Tina Fey and Amy Poehler to Ricky Gervais — that regularly poked amusive astatine the HFPA.

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After the NBC blow, it was wide expected that the HFPA would simply beryllium the twelvemonth out. Hollywood studios and publicists besides mostly opted retired from engaging with the radical arsenic they had successful years past, with immoderate declining to supply screeners of films for consideration. When nominees were announced past month, fewer celebrated publicly.

This twelvemonth Kenneth Branagh’s semi-autobiographical play “Belfast,” astir increasing up during the Troubles, and Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog,” a gothic Western acceptable successful 1925 Montana with Kirsten Dunst and Benedict Cumberbatch, some received a starring 7 nominations, including champion picture. HBO’s “Succession” led the TV broadside with 5 nominations, including nods for champion drama.

The property relation claims that successful the months since its 2021 show, it has remade itself. 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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