NBC Cuts Ties with Golden Globes

BY SCOTTIE KNOLLIN

Due to the ongoing controversy with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, NBC announced today it will not air the 2022 ceremony. The network has long been the broadcast host of one of Hollywood’s more prominent awards season events.

With NBC choosing not to air next year’s ceremony, the HFPA must now decide if it will move forward with the 2022 ceremony and, if so, how. The move on NBC’s part comes after the HFPA has dragged its feet in implementing necessary changes after the organization’s lack of diversity was brought to light during this past awards season. In advance of the 2021 awards, it was announced that not a single Black person was among the less-than-90 voting members body. The organization’s questionable financial practices were also brought to light in a Los Angeles Time exposé.

NBC did say, in its press release, that it was open to the possibility of broadcasting the 2023 ceremony if the HFPA follows up on its plans for change.

Upon the release of the exposé, NBC and Dick Clark Productions, which produces the annual awards fest, were initially in support of the HFPA’s plans, but later released a second joint statement calling it troubling that the HFPA failed to set a timeline for change. After NBC executives asked repeatedly for a calendar, which HFPA failed to produce, the network made the decision announced today.

This decision comes of the heels of Hollywood studios publicly announcing boycotts of the organization and the Golden Globes, including Netflix, Amazon Studios, and WarnerMedia, as well as Hollywood stars like Scarlett Johansson and Tom Cruise. The three-time Globes winner reportedly went as far as returning the trophies he received for “Born on the Fourth of July”, “Jerry Maguire”, and “Magnolia”.

More information, including whether or not this is the end of the HFPA and the Golden Globes, is expected to be announced soon.