{"id":181770,"date":"2023-01-09T17:21:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T17:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/golden-globes-2023-how-to-watch-hollywoods-most-chaotic-awards\/"},"modified":"2023-01-09T17:21:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T17:21:13","slug":"golden-globes-2023-how-to-watch-hollywoods-most-chaotic-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/golden-globes-2023-how-to-watch-hollywoods-most-chaotic-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Globes 2023: How to watch Hollywood’s most chaotic awards"},"content":{"rendered":"
Here’s something you probably didn’t know: The Golden Globes are this week.<\/p>\n
Wait, the Golden Globes are back?<\/strong><\/p>\n They sure are. The Golden Globes will air on NBC and stream on Peacock, beginning at 8 pm ET on Tuesday, January 10, live from the Beverly Hilton. There’s a pre-show at 6:30 pm ET if you want to hear stars and hosts make awkward conversation on the red carpet. <\/p>\n It’s been a weird few years for the Golden Globes. In 2021, the show was bicoastal; it aired simultaneously in New York and Los Angeles, was hosted by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, and felt like it made a solid case for its own irrelevance. In 2022, there were awards, but they weren’t televised. <\/p>\n Why? Was there a controversy or something?<\/strong><\/p>\n More than one! <\/p>\n It’s a long, complicated story, but to put it briefly, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) \u2014 the organization of around 90 US-based journalists who cover the business for non-US outlets \u2014 found itself under a cloud of scandals following a 2021 LA Times investigation. Here are some of the issues the Times raised:<\/p>\n All of this threats the integrity of the awards, though in truth the Globes have long been considered kind of a wink-wink award in the industry, at least for a group made up, ostensibly, of journalists. Their bizarre nominations and unpredictable awards show, fueled by an open bar, do introduce an element of zany fun into the otherwise fairly predictable awards season. And if it’s all sort of back-room dealing, eh, who cares?<\/p>\n Well, some people care because they care about awards, which can be a genuine boost to winners’ careers. Lack of diversity in a voting body leads to lopsided winners, for instance. Kickbacks and salaries tilt members’ votes. <\/p>\n But there’s also some much darker bad behavior that HFPA members have been accused of \u2014 most prominently, former eight-term president Philip Berk. <\/p>\n In 2014, Berk released a memoir entitled With Signs and Wonders: My Journey from Darkest Africa to the Bright Lights of Hollywood<\/em>. (Berk is from South Africa.) At the time, HFPA members felt he unfairly blindsided them with the book and took too much credit himself for the success of the Globes. After a lot of pressure, he was forced to take a six-month leave of absence from the group. <\/p>\n Then in 2018, actor Brendan Fraser accused Berk of sexually assaulting him in 2003. Berk denied the story and reportedly offered a private, half-hearted apology. Meanwhile, the HFPA launched an internal investigation and decided the incident was meant as a joke; the organization declined to share the investigator’s report with Fraser, but asked him to sign on to a joint statement. Fraser refused.<\/p>\n Fraser is nominated for a Globe this year, for his performance in Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale<\/em>. But long before the nominations were announced, he made it clear that he won’t be attending the ceremony. <\/p>\n Berk remained a voter in good standing with the organization until April 20, 2021. The organization, under a cloud of controversy after the LA Times investigation found a severe lack of racial diversity in the group, expelled Berk following an email he sent to members in which he called Black Lives Matter a \u201cracist hate movement.\u201d NBC, the network that pays millions of dollars to the group for the rights to air the show, issued a statement declaring that Berk should be expelled. \u201cSwift action on this front is an essential element for NBC to move forward with the HFPA and the Golden Globes,\u201d the statement read. Berk was expelled that day.<\/p>\n So the controversies associated with the Golden Globes and the HFPA have been many and varied, and if you don’t follow entertainment industry news closely, they’ve been pretty confusing, too. <\/p>\n\n