The annual Golden Globe Awards, which honor TV and movies, are under fire, as is the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the group that gives them out.
In February, the Los Angeles Times published a scorching story about problems within the group, and since then the Golden Globes, the group’s high-profile awards show, has been in the spotlight.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is a group of just 87 critics, and the LA Times report said the group has no Black voting members.
He was president of the group for eight years and a member for 44 years.
In 2019, 30 members of the group were flown to France for a luxury trip to the set of the Netflix show Emily in Paris, which later received two surprising Golden Globes nominations.
Time’s Up, a group that fights sexual harassment at work, plus a group of 100 public-relations firms, said the HFPA wasn’t moving fast enough and that the reforms weren’t specific enough.
Actor Tom Cruise is returning the three Golden Globes he’s won over the years, Deadline reported.
It’s unknown if other stars have returned their Golden Globes, but many of them do seem to favor HFPA reforms. In February, when Time’s Up tweeted an HFPA-related message saying that “a cosmetic fix isn’t enough,” more than a dozen celebrities shared the message.
And Mark Ruffalo said he didn’t feel proud of winning Golden Globes.