You won’t be getting any Golden Globe predictions from me this afternoon. They are too unpredictable, especially this year. They’ve also become eerily irrelevant. It’s basically a clown show at this point.
It’ll however be interesting to see if Brendan Fraser wins an acting prize tonight. He’s skipping the ceremony alleging that a former president and member of the Golden Globes had groped and assaulted him at a 2003 luncheon.
Tonight’s Golden Globes ceremony, hosted by Jerrod Carmichael, will be the usual boozy affair — maybe we’ll also get more apologies from the HFPA. It’s all very nauseating.
The Globes have been fully steeped in controversy over their lack of Black members. The HFPA voting body swears they made internal reforms to appease to the mob’s demands. The desperation to repent by the HFPA felt embarrassing and pathetic. This absolutely terrified voting body succumbed to the mob, scared to be canceled into oblivion by a torch-carrying media apparatus. Maybe their next move will be to go gender-neutral.
The changes they made came in adding 103 non-member voters this year, from around the world, including six from Nigeria. None of them were invited to the show – they couldn’t afford to come and the Globes didn’t offer help despite the organization having net assets of close to $79 million.
However, if one were to take a step back from all this hysteria they would realize that the HFPA was already 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. Just because there were no black member doesn’t mean there wasn’t any diversity. The HFPA membership does not represent the american population, they are foreign journalists.
Regardless, the Globes used to kick award season hype up a notch, but not anymore. You’ll have some folks telling you the they still do, but they don’t know the half of it. Receiving a Golden Globe in 2022 does not do anything to maximize your Oscar odds. If anything, it might be better not to win anything.
Edward Berger seems to have settled on what comes next. His Lance Armstrong biopic, starring Austin Butler, is now holding casting calls, with production eyed for January.