The awards ceremony was not aired in 2022 because the group behind it, the HFPA, was beneath hearth for its lack of variety and ethics.
After a 12 months off the air, the Golden Globe Awards might be again on NBC in 2023, a number of high-level sources briefed on the plan inform The Hollywood Reporter.
The Hollywood International Press Affiliation, the embattled group of non-American journalists and photographers behind the Golden Globes, got here beneath heavy hearth simply forward of the 2021 ceremony when a sequence of articles within the Los Angeles Occasions revealed that the HFPA at the moment included zero Black folks amongst its then 87 members and had engaged in unethical conduct and suspect monetary practices. The ensuing uproar led quite a few Hollywood constituencies, together with a big contingent of Hollywood publicists, to boycott the HFPA (Tom Cruise even returned the three Globes that he had been awarded), and prompted NBC to say no to air a Globes ceremony in 2022.
The community is zeroing in on an airdate of Tuesday, Jan. 10. The Globes have traditionally taken place on a Sunday in January, however the first Sunday in January 2023 is New Yr’s Day; the second is Jan. 8, which is the final day of the NFL’s common season, which poses a battle with NBC Sunday Evening Soccer; and the third is Jan. 15, on which the Critics Selection Awards have already staked their declare — therefore the change to a Tuesday.
Representatives of NBC and the HFPA declined to remark for this story.
The Globes returning to community TV marks a win — nevertheless controversial — for Todd Boehly, the sports activities and leisure mogul who has served as interim CEO of the HFPA since October 2021, and whose funding agency, Eldridge Industries, purchased the HFPA in July and assumed possession of Dick Clark Productions, the longtime producer of the Globes, from MRC on Aug. 5. Eldridge Industries additionally has a monetary stake in Cain Worldwide, which has an curiosity in The Beverly Hilton lodge, the venue that hosts the Globes, and in THR, which is owned by Penske Media.
Excluding final 12 months, NBC has broadcast the Globes yearly since 1996, and in 2018, by way of dad or mum firm NBCUniversal, dedicated to pay the HFPA and DCP $60 million a 12 months for the suitable to proceed to broadcast the ceremony by way of 2026. However following the LA Occasions exposé and widespread trade backlash, NBC declared in a press release on the time, “We proceed to imagine that the HFPA is dedicated to significant reform. Nonetheless, change of this magnitude takes time and work, and we really feel strongly that the HFPA wants time to do it proper.”
The HFPA rapidly started passing main reforms — amongst them, banning members from accepting presents and eradicating a cap on new member additions, which enabled it to add 21 new members, six of them Black — however roughly one quarter of its personal members voted towards the modifications, whereas a few others questioned the group’s sincerity and resigned. Furthermore, not one of the incumbent members have been weeded out of the group by the implementation of what have been marketed as stricter accreditation requirements.
The HFPA additionally rubbed many the unsuitable manner by forging forward with a 2022 Globes ceremony; ultimately, the Jan. 9 gathering wasn’t attended by any expertise or broadcast in any manner. And in March, Sunshine Sachs, the HFPA’s longtime PR agency, stop, following a D&I advisor and disaster PR advisor out the door.
Eighteen months after the LA Occasions exposé, many in Hollywood nonetheless regard the HFPA as ethically shady. Certainly, loads of eyebrows have been raised when it got here to mild that Eldridge Industries’ acqusition of the HFPA wouldn't solely outcome within the group changing right into a for-profit group (whereas making a separate non-profit entity for philanthropic efforts), but in addition that HFPA members would henceforth be paid an annual wage of $75,000, and that a group of out of doors journalists who might be invited to forged Globes ballots (to be able to improve the range of the voting pool) might be paid nothing.
However, quite a lot of on the town, together with a faction of the coalition of publicists that led the cost towards the HFPA in 2021, have softened their place and wish to get again to enterprise as ordinary. One motive, to make certain: The Globes telecast, which is often the highest-rated awards present of the movie awards season previous to the Oscars, financially boosts a lot of their Oscar-hopeful initiatives and folks.
The HFPA seized upon this divide in latest weeks by forming an advisory committee comprised of publicists who're sympathetic to the thought of a resumption of relations, whereas additionally sending the bigger group of publicists a briefing summarizing the group’s progress and intentions for the long run, during which they declared that they've “answered the decision for change” and “elevated variety, transparency and accountability.”
It stays to be seen simply who will work with the HFPA — and present up on the Globes — within the months forward.