The Golden Globes are a staple of each awards season, but it might not be that way for much longer. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which produces and votes on the Globes each year, is under fire right now for its lack of diversity.
Major Hollywood players have spoken out in criticism of the HFPA and are now boycotting everything to do with the group. So what exactly is going on and what needs to change here?
What is the HFPA?
Let’s start with the group at hand here. The HFPA is a non-profit organisation made up of entertainment journalists from around the world. The group is quite small with about 87 members, and only five new members allowed per year.
Bar Harbor native wins an Oscar
Jefferson Hobbs wins an Engineering Emmy award in 2019 for sound processing software that earns his team an Oscar in 2021.
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BAR HARBOR Mount Desert Island High School and University of Maine graduate Jefferson Hobbs is among the winners of this year’s Scientific and Engineering Award from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
The award was given to iZotope, a software company in Cambridge, Mass., where the Bar Harbor native has worked for nine years. The nod was specifically for the development of the company’s RX sound processing software.
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This article appears in the May/June 2021 issue of The American Prospect
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This week, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences celebrated Cicely Tyson during the Oscarsâ memorial tribute honoring the careers of film icons who had passed away since the last awards ceremony. It is fitting that Tyson died just two days after her memoir
Just as I Am was published in January. Perhaps even more fitting, within days the long-awaited story of her life surged to number one on best-seller lists and, ultimately, into multiple printings.Â