These are truly insane times we live in.
The 2022 Golden Globes have been cancelled by NBC. No, really, there won’t be any Golden Globes next year. This is big news because the studios rely on the promotion from the Globes to sell movie tickets. It would only make sense now for the Oscars to move up to January as soon as they can get the date with ABC. This will be huge for the Academy which has wanted an early date for decades. .
Tom Cruise is also apparently returning his three Golden Globes trophies in protest of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s unwoke decision-making, Deadline was the first to report on the story. Cruise sent his three Globes trophies to the HFPA headquarters on May 10. Is the actor trying to trade in his three Globes statuettes for that Oscar which has eluded him for close to four decades?
This whole Globes controversy stems from the HFPA, which is in charge of voting for the Globes, being criticized in February for having no Black members among its voting body of 87 and doing nothing about it.
However, if one were to take a step back from all this hysteria they would realize that the HFPA is inclusive by nature. Once jokingly referred to as the United Nations of Hollywood, its members come from all over the world. Asian, Indian, Arab, Italian. They’re not all white. As Deydou on Hollywood Elsewhere mentioned, “the fact that there’s no black member doesn’t mean there isn’t a person of color.” The HFPA membership does not represent the american population, they are foreign journalists working in California.
Of note, the HFPA have had people of many different backgrounds and ethnicities. The current president is Ali Sar, of Turkish nationality. They've had people across the globe, that's literally the point of it, they are foreigners. It is a bit dishonest to say they aren't diverse or even worse, that they are racist, simply because they didn't have black members.
Keep in mind that this ridiculous controversy, and awards show, is happening in the middle of a pandemic, where more important issues need to be raised and an outrageous number of people have lost their jobs, and, even some, their own livelihoods, raise d’être. Being enraged by a Foreign organization not having black members is as 2020 as it gets. The depressing part is that it is 2021 and, judging by last night’s pathetic Hollywood jerk-off session, awards shows are as obsolete as they’ve ever been.