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For decades, Hollywood has brushed off the Golden Globe Awards as a kind of collective inside joke, a fun, freewheeling party holding no grand importance. “That award is, no offense, worthless,” Ricky Gervais told the assembled crowd of stars while hosting the ceremony in 2016.
But in reality, for all the criticism long directed at the group that hands out the Globes the tiny, secretive 86-member Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. the entertainment industry has become deeply invested in the awards. Millions of dollars are poured collectively into trying to win them and millions more flow from the prizes into such things as box office returns, publicists’ bonuses and boosted star salaries.
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After decades of glitzy, boozy Golden Globes affairs that kicked off awards season in style, the real story behind the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is one heck of a buzzkill.
And after Tom Cruise mailed his trophies back Monday, the HFPA may need to start clearing out its lobby for more incoming mail. The backlash to the 87-person HFPA’s glaring lack of racial diversity has been swift and decisive, from Netflix, Amazon and WarnerMedia breaking ties with the longtime organization – which doesn t have a single Black member, according to a Los Angeles Times investigation – to a strong rebuke from the movie stars it desperately loves, including Mark Ruffalo and Scarlett Johansson. However, the biggest bomb dropped Monday when NBC pulled out of airing next year s Globes.