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Goodbye to the Worst Oscar Season Ever, and Apologies to the Good Movies Stuck in It
Despite the fact that some very deserving films were honored, this pandemic season was a mess
Steve Pond | April 23, 2021 @ 12:51 PM
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AWARDS BEAT
A year ago, after a rushed season that at one point crammed five awards shows into a single night because the earliest-ever Oscars were happening on Feb. 9, Hollywood was looking forward to a nice, normal 2020-2021 awards season.
Oh, what fools we awards-watchers be.
Nice and
normal, it turns out, are not words that will ever be associated with the Oscar season that will come to a merciful end at Union Station on Sunday night. Five awards shows in one night feels like a luxury when compared to an endless season that won’t stop until April 25 (when, by the way, Emmy season is already in full swing). And an accelerated season that ended in delight when “Parasite” claimed Best Picture is def
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By Vivian KaneApr 21st, 2021, 5:45 pm
Just one week before this year’s Golden Globes ceremony, the
Los Angeles Times published the results of an investigation into the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, revealing that the organization was as corrupt as it was meaningless. The HFPA has no Black members, sells out quickly for swag and access to celebrities, and “operated as a kind of cartel, barring qualified applicants … and monopolizing all-important press access while improperly subsidizing its members’ income.”
None of this is new news but this was the year that the public finally took notice. There were a lot of reasons for that but it can’t go unmentioned that one of the final straws seemed to be the snubbing of brilliant Black-led and created shows like
Pressure grows on Golden Globes association to include Black members
A racist post shared by a long-time board member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association caused outrage. The diversity advisor has now quit after a month on the job.
The association which runs the Golden Globes has come under fire for not having any Black members in its 87-person body
A former president of Foreign Press Association, the organization that hosts the Golden Globe awards, was dropped from the group after an email was publicized in which he shared a post calling Black Lives Matter a racist hate movement.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) announced that Philip Berk, who hails from South Africa and who had served eight terms as the board s president, was officially given the boot. Effective immediately, Phil Berk is no longer a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the organization wrote in a statement on Tuesday.
Hollywood Press Members Feel Victim of Cancel Culture Even as They Oust Philip Berk Over BLM Comments
By Carly Mayberry
On 4/22/21 at 4:20 PM EDT
Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) members are supporting the recent firing of long-time member and former President Philip Berk while saying that they re struggling to do their jobs in light of the organization s recent controversies. It s unfortunate because he has been a big part of the organization he was very important in the past, but it absolutely had to be done, HFPA member Gabriel Lerman told
Newsweek. I don t think anybody will disagree with that.
Berk, 88, who is an eight-term president and 44-year member of the organization, was expelled two days after emailing an article to his fellow members this past Sunday. An HFPA member described the email as a copy and pasted text that included an article and commentary from a conservative publication hinting at alleged improprieties on the part of Black Lives Mat
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