The Golden Globes returned to all its glory this year, one year after going on mute with no red carpet, no stars, and no television broadcast.
The 80th annual Golden Globes was an image rehabilitation of sorts. In February 2021, an investigation by the Los Angeles Times found that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association had no Black members and numerous ethical lapses.
The Globes and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which puts them on, won from the moment that NBC decided to put them back on TV, after taking a year off following the organization’s scandals over racism and corruption.
This was not the first second chance for the popular awards show. The Federal Communications Commission forced the awards off the TV in the late 1960s on charges that it had “misled the public as to how the winners were determined.” In 1982, the Globes notoriously named Pia Zadora the “new star of the year,” an honor underwritten by her billionaire husband’s lavish wining and dining of H.F.P.A. members.
Then the investigation in 2021 found there were no Black members of H.F.P.A. also detailed reports of unethical influence and of members snarfing up freebies before making rogue nominations.
Last fall, NBC skipped the show. This year, the network cited the H.F.P.A.’s “commitment to ongoing change.”
Speculation that fewer celebrities would show up this year due to the controversy surrounding the Globes proved largely unfounded, with a few exceptions.
This year included a more diverse slate of winners. It included an absent Zendaya for the second season of Euphoria; Abbott Elementary’s Quinta Brunson and Tyler James Williams; and the night’s first winner, Ke Huy Quan, for Everything Everywhere All At Once. Wakanda Forever’s Angela Bassett became the first person to win a major individual acting award for a Marvel movie.
The Fabelmans for best film drama; The Banshees of Inisherin for best film musical or comedy; House of the Dragon for Best TV series drama; Abbott Elementary for best TV series musical or comedy; White Lotus Sicily for Best limited series; Evan Peters in The Jeffrey Dahmer Story for best actor in a limited series; Amanda Seyfried in The Dropout for best actress in a limited series; Jennifer Coolidge in The White Lotus for best supporting actress in a limited series; Paul Walter Hauser in Black Bird for best supporting actor in a limited series; Martin McDonagh for best screenplay for The Banshees of Inisherin; Steven Spielberg for best director for The Fabelmans; Cate Blanchett in Tar for best actress drama; Julia Garner in Ozark for best supporting actress in a TV series; Ke Huy Quan in Everything Everywhere All at Once for best supporting actor; Angela Bassett in Black Panther for best supporting actress; Tyler James Williams in Abbott Elementary for best supporting actor in a TV series; Jeremy Allen White in The Bear for best actor in a TV series musical or comedy; Quinta Brunson in Abbott Elementary for best actress in a TV series musical or comedy; Colin Farrell in The Banshees of Inisherin for best actor musical or comedy; Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All at Once for best actress musical or comedy; Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio for best animated film; Austin Butler in Elvis for best actor drama; and Zendaya in Euphoria for best actress TV series drama.
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