Scarlett Johansson and Mark Ruffalo have joined a number of voices including Netflix, Times Up, GLAAD, Amazon Studios, and more calling for radical changes and reforms at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the Golden Globes.
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We’re now in the brief 364-day window when people don’t really care about the Golden Globes, but the Hollywood Foreign Press Association the organization in charge of running the Globes is nonetheless making some promises about improving things going forward. For those who don’t recall, the lead-up to this year’s Golden Globes show involved various controversies, including accusations that the HFPA exists just to get special treatment from movie and TV studios (set off by what some saw as suspicious nominations for Netflix’s
Emily In Paris, which did not end up winning anything) and the widespread realization (led by Time’s Up) that the organization has zero Black members. During the show itself, some high-ranking members of the HFPA took to the stage to acknowledge the controversies and offer vague promises to do better, but now it’s actually taking some public steps to address these shortcomings.
Screenshot: Daniel Kaluuya, NBC
This is the first Golden Globes in the pandemic. So how’s it going? Not great, Bob! This year, the Golden Globes was split between two coasts, so instead of having nominees in attendance, they’re all tuning in on Zoom from the comfort of their homes. Just like an awkward meeting that could’ve been an email, the nominees had to unmute to accept their awards. (Unlike The Emmys, they didn’t get someone in a hazmat delivering their Golden Globe.) Cue extreme awkwardness.
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The first category of the night was Best Supporting Actor In A Motion Picture, and winner Daniel Kaluuya experienced some technical difficulties when he appeared to be muted. Presenter Laura Dern clearly didn’t know what to do (Do you wave? Do you awkwardly ask him to unmute himself?). So she decided to move things along, laughing as much as we all were at home, saying, “As you can see, we have a bad connection. I apologize for that technical problem and send a