2022 Golden Globes Canceled By NBC After Scandal
After a year in which the Golden Globes were plagued with bad publicity, NBC has announced they will not air the 2022 installment of the annual Oscar precursor. The decision comes after mounting criticism of the Globes which have traditionally been a highly-rated introduction to each year’s Oscar season and their parent group, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
The Globes have always been idiosyncratic in their choices at best (see the gallery at the bottom of this post for proof of that) but in recent years, their nominees and winners, along with the near-total lack of transparency from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association regarding their membership. A recent
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Members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association took a moment at tonight s Golden Globes ceremony to address the fact that it has no Black members and has not had a single one for two decades. We must have Black journalists in our organization, representatives from the HFPA said during the televised broadcast.
In the days leading up to the ceremony, a
Los Angeles Timesinvestigation found that none of the HFPA s 87 members are Black. And in a recent report from
Variety, board chair and former president Meher Tatna confirmed that the group, which votes on Golden Globe nominees and winners, has not had a Black member since she joined in 2002.