Golden Globes announces nominations to a skeptical Hollywood

By Jake Coyle

After wide disapproval forced the enactment that puts connected the Golden Globes to suffer its televised grant amusement and overhaul its membership, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association nevertheless went up announcing nominees for movie and tv awards connected Monday contempt a skeptical amusement industry.

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Just arsenic it’s done for galore years, the HFPA gathered reporters astatine the Beverly Hilton to denote its picks for the 79th Golden Globes. But this time, determination was nary greeting amusement unrecorded spot oregon contiguous personage celebrations.

The HFPA, which usually has a fistful of movie stars marque their announcement, turned alternatively to Snoop Dogg, who work the nominees down sunglasses and a reddish hat. The bulk of studios, nationalist relations firms and A-list endowment haven’t engaged overmuch with the radical this year. Critics person said it’s excessively soon for the HFPA to instrumentality to concern arsenic usual. Some would alternatively spot the Globes beryllium gone for good.

But the property relation tried its champion to support its perch successful awards play connected Monday, spreading nominations astir to the likes of Will Smith (“King Richard”), Kristen Stewart (“Spencer”), ”West Side Story” breakthrough Rachel Zegler, Leonardo DiCaprio (“Don’t Look Up”), Denzel Washington (“The Tragedy of Macbeth”), Ben Affleck (“The Tender Bar”) and Lady Gaga (“House of Gucci”).

The nominees for champion picture, drama, went to Jane Campion’s gothic Western “The Power of the Dog,” Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic “Dune,” the household play “CODA,” Reinaldo Marcus Green’s tennis biopic “King Richard” and Kenneth Branagh’s autobiographical “Belfast.”

The drama oregon philharmonic picks for champion representation were: Adam McKay’s apocalyptic drama “Don’t Look Up,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘70s San Fernando Valley drama “Licorice Pizza,” Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story,” Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Tick, Tick … Boom!” and Joe Wright’s “Cyrano.”

“Belfast” and “The Power of the Dog” tied for the astir nominations with 7 apiece. Netflix dominated the movie nominees with 17 nods successful total.

Normally, specified honors would acceptable disconnected a flurry of delight from early-roused nominees and their studios, who would trumpet their triumphs connected societal media and successful calls with reporters. On Monday morning, nary nominee instantly celebrated — publicly, astatine least.

The property relation claims that successful the 9 months since its 2021 show, it has remade itself. “HFPA 2.0,” precocious elected president Helen Hoehne has said. The radical has added a main diverseness officer; overhauled its board; inducted 21 caller members, including six Black journalists; brought successful the NAACP connected a five-year partnership; and updated its codification of conduct.

“This has been a twelvemonth of alteration and reflection for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association,” Hoehne said Monday.

All of that came aft a Los Angeles Times’ exposure elaborate immoderate of the HFPA’s unethical behaviour and revealed that its 87 voting members didn’t see 1 Black journalist. Studios said they would boycott the Globes and much than 100 PR films said their clients wouldn’t enactment until the HFPA swiftly implemented “profound and lasting change.” Tom Cruise returned his 3 Globes to the group’s headquarters.

NBC, the Globes’ longtime telecaster, has said it won’t aerial the 2022 Globes due to the fact that “change of this magnitude takes clip and work.” The Globes person inactive acceptable a day of January 9 but haven’t shared immoderate details astir what benignant of ceremonial that would be.

Much of the Globes’ powerfulness has ever resided successful its lively telecast, regularly 1 of the most-watched non-sports broadcasts of the year. The Globes besides service arsenic a promotional instrumentality for galore of the awards-hopefuls hitting theaters successful December. But this year, fewer expect to spot ads and TV commercials trumpeting a film’s Golden Globes nominations.