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The traditionally glitzy event was ‘dramatically pared down’, with no celebrities in attendance

Industry experts and members of the public joined in criticising the group for shortlisting panned Netflix comedy Emily in Paris over ground-breaking shows such as Michaela Cole’s I May Destroy You. Even a writer on the former wrote an op-ed for The Guardian questioning the decision to reward “a show about a white American selling luxury whiteness”. On 21 February, a week before the Golden Globes, the Los Angeles Times revealed the findings of an investigation that showed the HFPA had no black members. The newspaper also reported that in 2019, more than 30 HFPA members had flow...

Print It appeared to be a moment of triumph in the long, tumultuous story of the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. In November, a federal judge sided with the HFPA — the tiny, 87-member group of international journalists that doles out the annual Golden Globe Awards — in dismissing a potentially damaging antitrust lawsuit. The suit was filed three months earlier by a Norwegian entertainment journalist who had been denied membership in the group. It had drawn widespread attention in Hollywood, where the HFPA wields outsize power as the arbiter of one of the entertainment industry’s most imp...