This, from the Hollywood Reporter:
“Regardless of the next air date of the Golden Globes, implementing transformational changes as quickly – and as thoughtfully – as possible remains the top priority for our organization. We invite our partners in the industry to the table to work with us on the systemic reform that is long overdue, both in our organization as well as within the industry at large. Our below timeline demonstrates our commitment to achieving these goals with extreme urgency.”
You can read the timeline below.
Week of May 3
Members meet, consider, and overwhelmingly vote to approve and implement the Board’s plan for transformational changeBoard continues to meet with advocacy groups to develop initiatives to fulfill the HFPA’s commitment to add at least 20 new members by August 2021 and increase membership by 50% in 18 months
Eradicating the new member one year moratorium on voting; All new members will have all voting rights day 1.
Board and members approve hiring of Ropes & Gray to amend and restate Bylaws and other governing documents to implement member-approved plan for transformational change
Weeks of May 10 and 17
Revise and approve new Code of conduct in consultation with Publicists and studiosContinue outreach to potential new member candidates
Publish Code of Conduct and establish Hotline for reporting of violations
Engage independent third party investigator to review and respond promptly to all Hotline claims
Interview candidates and engage new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (“DEI”) consultant
Identify and recruit independent, outside professionals and non-Board members and form Accountability/Oversight Board (“Advisory Board”) to oversee HFPA Board in implementing plan for transformational change
Interview Executive Search Firms to commence search for Chief DEI/HR Officer and identification of potential CEO/CFO and other executives to lead HFPA
HFPA website to be continuously updated to show progress against plan and to list promised Member information (biographies, publications, affiliations, etc.)
Weeks of May 24 and 31
New DEI Consultant and other outside experts conduct mandatory member trainings for DEI and sexual harassmentBoard and Advisory Board continue work on identification of applicants to fulfill commitment to add at least 20 new members by August 2021
Grants Officer and subcommittee of members continue work to increase support of internship, mentorship, and scholarship programs for students from underrepresented backgrounds interested in international journalism
Identify and recruit independent, outside professionals for new Credentials Committee, which will oversee new membership application process and reaccreditation of current members based on same criteria as new members
Continue review of committee structure / compensation
First reading of Bylaw Amendments at General Membership Meeting (“GMM”)
Weeks of June 7, 14, and 21
Focus groups with members, Advisory Board, and Ropes & Gray to review amendments to Bylaws and other governing documentsBoard assesses and evaluates recommendations of Executive Search Firm for new Executive Officer team
Form new Credentials Committee
All above work streams on trainings, mentorship, and recruitment continue
Week of June 28
Second reading of Bylaw Amendments at GMMBallots for voting on Bylaw Amendments mailed to members
Implement new policies on Gifts, Travel, Conflicts of Interest, and Press Conferences
Week of July 5
Members vote on Bylaw Amendments by ballotWeeks of July 12 and 19
Approved Bylaw Amendments become effectiveNew Officer and Board elections under amended and restated Bylaws
New membership process opens per new criteria enacted in amended and restated Bylaws
All existing members required to meet same standards as new members for reaccreditation of their membership
Week of July 26
New member process continuesReaccreditation continues
Week of August 2
New members admitted to HFPANew Board elected, including independent members, in accordance with amended and restated Bylaws
New CEO/CFO and other Executive Team approved and engaged to manage HFPA
Existing Board and Officers resign upon election of New Board and hiring of Executive Team
Here a selection of tweets from Deadline:
Everything matters. Even this. The ripple effects echo through our industry, especially for Black artists and artists of color.
Kudos to all the activists, artists, publicists and executives who took a stand to make this so.
https://t.co/ng1uUiOqS4— Ava DuVernay (@ava)
May 10, 2021
Every step forward matters. So many people in front of/behind the camera, at studios/streamers & PR firms took a stand to shift a piece of the biz model that affects the economic futures of artists who are often tokenized/not included. These steps can work in any industry.
https://t.co/IasZCtZIP2— shonda rhimes (@shondarhimes)
May 10, 2021
Thank you,
@NBC
, for taking the time to do this right.
#ChangeIsGolden
https://t.co/MPONIZN9F4— Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo)
May 10, 2021
One Title: GIRLS TRIP. They didn’t even watch it. That tells you everything.
Golden Globes 2022 Canceled On NBC As HFPA Struggles To Reform To Hollywood’s Stipulations
https://t.co/FjV5jz7WFX
via
@Deadline— Malcolm D. Lee (@malcolmdlee)
May 10, 2021
Proud to be part of the
@nbc
family.👊🏽
#LaBrea
https://t.co/WhBtQioDcn— Nicholas Gonzalez (@IamNickGonzalez)
May 10, 2021
Last week, the HFPA failed to deliver. But today,
@NBCUniversal
announced that they would be withdrawing their support for the
#GoldenGlobes
in 2022, a testament to the power of our coalition. The work to
#ChangeHollywood
continues: stay tuned for more.— ColorOfChange (@ColorOfChange)
May 10, 2021
— Ollie After Life (@olliecomicstrip)
May 10, 2021
Whew. The chickens. They are roosting.
https://t.co/5SzotdvcTE— April (@ReignOfApril)
May 10, 2021
I will be replacing the Golden Globes in the NBC line up, stay tuned for more programming announcements. It WILL be an awards show, categories & criteria TBD but Peter Falk’s Columbo will be eligible regardless
— Emily Heller (@MrEmilyHeller)
May 10, 2021
This HFPA thing is fascinating. I am curious as to why this is the thing that finally got Hollywood to enact meaningful consequences.
— roxane gay (@rgay)
May 10, 2021
Reading these tweets you can see why NBC cancelled the show. You can also see why most people who might think it is an overreaction do not feel like it’s their place to say anything about it. And you can see why there is so much silence from journalists.
The question for me that will remain: what is it they’re hoping for? That if they’d watched Girls Trip it would have been nominated? I am not so sure. Look at what happened with BAFTA. They put a whole jury in place to choose actors and directors of color, who were female and in the end the same consensus picks were chosen as winners. When all is said and done, what will the Golden Globes be? What will they represent? I guess well find out.
Tom Cruise didn’t seem to have any problem with it when Scientology was accused of racism, homophobia, misogyny, child abuse and corruption.
Hollywood is hilarious. I enjoy the Globes but in the whole scheme of things, it’s an insignificant little award show whose sole purpose is to entertain. On the other hand, this selective outrage by PR-minded celebrity hypocrites and the people cheering Tom Cruise on for what (sacrificing his Globes for honor?) kind of makes me ill. Just like political frauds claiming to be victims of cancel culture who turn out to be the biggest proponents of cancel culture themselves. Hypocrites, all. Hypocrisy is a bigger problem in the world today than the bloody Globes.
tom cruise doesnt deserve crap either. cancelling on top of cancelling isalso dumb
Hypocrites always deserve to be called out.
i don’t think being a hypocrite is the worst sin ou can committ
I didn’t say it’s the worst sin in the world. Pedophilia is the worst sin in the world. That doesn’t mean pedophilia is the only sin in the world worth calling out.
I would call genocide, mass murder, murder, gang violence, rape, and treason worse than pedophilia, but that’s just me
Uhm, I hate to say this but the Golden Globes actually have a significant Latino and Asian membership. The calls for diversity is laughable to the rest of the world. Oh, yeah I forgot. In the US, diversity means more African-American members. It’s black vs white. The rest doesn’t count.
I hate to say this. But apparently you need to hear it.
Any group that has members of every race on Earth—except for Black—for 80 fucking years looks insanely bizarre.
What if the Academy had 1000s of white, Asian, and Latino members but no Black members?
Would that look okay to you?
I hate to say this. But apparently you need to hear it.
Any group that has members representing every race on Earth—except for Black—for 80 fucking years looks insanely bizarre.
What if the Academy had 1000s of white, Asian, and Latino members but no Black members?
Would that look okay to you?
Better check your facts before pushing misinformation down our throats.
oh okay.
91 million Brazilians are of African ancestry.
Over 5 million French citizens are Black.
If any one of those 96 million Black people wrote more than 5 movie reviews in 2020 then they wrote more movie reviews than most HFPA members ever write.
And that’s just two countries.
There are 4.7 million Afro-Colombians
There are 1.2 million Black Canadians
Over a million citizens of Germany identify as Afro-German
3% of British citizens are Black (1.9 million)
4.4 million Jamaicans are Black. Do you think none of them ever wrote a movie review?
yeah but its an eastern european organization
No it’s not.
Ultimately it was only a matter of time until the house of cards that was the Globes came crashing down. Why should so few people wield such power in awards season if they don’t represent what Hollywood wants or the people wants? They are the epitome of “bought awards.” Well, you can buy you’re way in unless you’re black apparently, because they wouldn’t do pressers for many black led films. Isn’t it within people’s right to take a stand against that? Maybe the “silence” you perceive from journalists is actually a sigh of relief, as we won’t have to cover their ridiculousness for a year and we too would actually like them to do better. After all, whenever I predict globes it’s all about “who is the new starlet? Which studio wined and dined them the best? Who threw a special party or invited them to their shoot?” And with those qualifications they can get a prime slot in deciding awards season? yeah they can take a chill pill and make the requisite changes. (And how did the BAFTAS follow “consensus picks” when they snubbed the likes of Carey Mulligan? Despite loving both Promising Young Woman and The Dig?)
It feels like the hubcaps of the awards season have fallen off the car and are now rolling down the street.
You know what worries me is this it not the fact that diversity is needed it universally accepted imperative importance of the membership. Of the voting system in general with awards system.. ESPECIALLY the globes. Are globes not known as ” hollywood foreign press”? It beggars belief how they created this avoidable strife but be WARNED i hqtdly put BAFTA, Academy or Guilds esp picture and director and acting sag guilds beyond reproach . Indeed this is the start of a cultural – cinema’ war’ .. significantly rightfully the traditional voter base long been foundation of the viability and public respectability of Awards season save for minority of hardcore conservative voters .thankfully albeit taken way too long there been acceptqnce of diverse racially ethnically themed films … but the mentality riyht now of having morality over the creative vision is issue people in public are having right now. Accurate interpretation of this ‘ culture cinema war’ is actually not between right and left but sociological ideology by twitterati and critical elite. Vs. Working blue collar respected and experienced moderates amongst awards season membership and in the membership who also understand respect acqdemy traditions recent past ( def. NOT outdated) esp. Globes, Academy and Bafta.
Globes simply idiotic and moronic retards for resisting all sense of reform whqt bet sadly next time they broadcast in future IF they do they go all in to misrepresent method how diversity in membership should change .
Me and my dad understand accept jeed for films to promote real world issues sometimes but surely NOT at expense of vision and some creative flair in how a story is presented ..for that the bread and butter of the academy and awards season right?
This line is biggest issue i have wirh proposed draft reforms and fqct the Globes have released their plan so so soon after revelations nbc take them off air post it inline without taking time think it through to release plan now tells me much like path odAcademy and Bafta they go hardcore woke ideology. Not measured moderate chsnge :
‘Interview candidates and engage new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (“DEI”) consultant’ this to me is big cause for alarm… what a waste of film industry money g-d! How bour fairh in common sense ? Consultants is spin. Sound to me l8oe Academy and Bafta do they spend too much fukin time trying decipher social media and elites within hollywood demands not rediscover once upon a time globes used publicly respected.
A war is brewing and sooner the Awards season comes to it senses uses common sense rather than sociological compliance to inline ideology … sooner everything work itself out for the better.
But i hold little hope for revival some sort of integrity if awards season where do consultant influences come from Globes engage ? Any bets it comes from bloody social media .
I saw ‘ A Current War ‘ and must say it easily amongst best period historic dramas i seen… lessons of that masterpiece of a film .. lord knows why didnt win best picture get nominations that year.. but key to ensuring to this day one of greatest global pre industrial tech revolutions light and electricity would endure is as happened ceasefire mutual respect from one inventor ( Westinghouse to Edison ) and vice versa… ie: Edison invented the light globe . Westinghouse won out for his current to network link electricity in most efficient way. But if some common respect between warring parties as they sort to outwit employ dirty tricks let their personal ego get in way of once in lifetime electrical collective revolution at hand … well… then u could qrgue to this day we may not had stable baseload electricity or globes as accessible as they are today.
This is perfect analogy for key to saving awards season from it self proposal traditionalists in hollywood and industry already accept moderately need for more diversity in themes films tackle and shifting demographic in voting block to reflect society and general. But the key here is ….. for thw other side sociql media and twitter elites to ditch their ego stop treating traditional foyndatioms of awards season with verbal abusive contempt. Cleqrly it sociological idealists that need to initiate a ceasefire .
In end we know by Westinghouse winning the current war.. very first industry revolution ..Edison won the light battle before that… Both in strange way shared credit for Electric Chair for execution supposedly humanely lol … and Edison conceded acknowledge Westinghouse elevating basic electricity revolution to first mass circulated network ..and enabled Edison to move on to a revolution as big in diff industry… motion pictures.. in it most basic form.
Funnily enough story lessons out of a Current War is know when to comcede whrn to stand u ground. Who knows how electricty and currents would work to this day if 2 sides ended their contribution to scientific history in tit for tat?
There was q third option… if war between 2 continued a new player would exploit the division ‘ nicola tesla’ and America u could argue would be in eternal debt to the Russians.. lord forbid then a third party tries to intervene and usurp awardw season altogether … who knows whqt hqpoen beyond that ? But i strongly advise some hardcore conservatives AND sociological idealists to Lay diwn their arms and talk ceasefire
This obsession with diversity for the sake of diversity is a cancer…..not to defend the HFPA but what more can they do?…. Most of HFPA are from Europe, Asia and Latin American countries… are they suppose to create black journalists from those countries?… Isn’t enough that they choose three black performers, including the two leads in Drama at this Golden Globe Awards?….. This is pure fascism.
Millions of Black people are born in Europe and live there
Millions of Black people are born in South America and live there.
It’s creepy that you don’t know that.
Everything that’s happening with the Golden Globes right now seem like a stunt to me. It never felt sincere especially nitpicking the HFPA. I’m not defending the organization. I mean, if proven that members had sexually harrassed before then they should be held accountable legally. But to include all members, that’s unfair and by basing inclusivity by just the color of the skin is quite problematic. If the issue is bribery then the studios could easily cut them off. It’s sad that the humanitarian and public service initiatives and efforts of the organization has been put on limbo. I really couldn’t care less about the awards show. But these people could make the organization accountable without the putting the time they have shared with them over the years seemed like ass-kissing photo ops. Or maybe it is. Still, the jokes on Hollywood.
Geez! Why such a complicated process? It’s just a group of movie critics. Just add more members. Doesn’t need to take 4 months.
For all the bitching about Ava DuVernay’s snubs for When They See Us, I don’t see her complaining about Selma getting nominated for Best Director and Best Actor when almost every other award including the Oscars snubbed them. Why don’t she start asking for the Oscars to be cancelled?
And don’t even get started about Girls Trip. The film was roundly snubbed by every award show. Just go ahead and cancel every award show out there that snubbed Girls Trip and the world will be a better place without all this self righteous nonsense about an insignificant award show. I never saw these same people show as much indignation when little Kanye was the Republican pawn for a racist President. But hey, the Globes are everything that’s wrong with the world.
And we are still waiting for NBC’s apology for cancelling the Harvey Weinstein story.
Sure, the Globes have questionable integrity; They most likely don’t deserve their non-profit company status; And some major fixes are overdue; But let’s not pretend Hollywood is a beacon of integrity; Theres a lot of “corruption” to go around if you start doing hit pieces, starting with NBC; Don’t go around shutting everything down just because it’s convenient to go along with the pack as judge and jury instead of taking this opportunity to do a self audit and clean your own house.
Finally, Tom Cruise returning his Globes sounds about right. He never deserved them in the first place, and those Globes he had were probably bought for him in the first place. His win over Daniel Day Lewis in My Left Foot was especially shameful.
I hope Tom Cruise understands that he’s not getting a refund back for those Golden Globes he returned. All sales are final!
I hope Tom Cruise understands that he’s not getting a refund back for those Golden Globes he returned. All sales are final!
I hope Tom Cruise understands that he’s not getting a refund back for those Golden Globes he returned. All sales are final!
Geez! Why such a complicated process? It’s just a group of movie critics. Just add more members. Doesn’t need to take 4 months.
Without the Globes, chances are Glenn Close wouldn’t have turned into a big thing in 2019. Without them, who knows if Hilary Swank could have won for Boys Don’t Cry (given that SAG is always friendlier to the industry).
I love it when they go their own way, especially when they go against the tide. Back in 2010, The Hurt Locker had won everything else when it lost every single Globe it up was up for. It takes balls to go your own way when everybody else is jumping a bandwagon and wants to be one of the cool kids. This is why I’ve always enjoyed the Globes. I know they’re ridiculous, but unlike most guilds, they don’t necessarily want to be sheep. (And on the Weinstein accusations: Maybe it’s true, but SAG has always been very supportive of Weinstein films, even trash like Nine.)
On another note, I’m livid about the way stars are reacting to the news. They don’t want Black voters (and by the way, the HFPA has plenty of voters who are not white, but to Americans, equality and racial injustice is always about Black people). They want to force them into voting for specific movies/performances, which is something they don’t have the right to ask. This is the witch hunt society Hollywood is turning into. It’s not about representation, it’s about forcing an outlier into the lines of sheep. And the issue were never the awards. Not the Oscars, not the Globes, not the BAFTAs. The issue are studios.
If Tom Cruise wants to see change, he’s welcome to step down from the Mission Impossible franchise and ask the studio to bring in Idris Elba or Steven Yeun. Or a fresh face. If Frances McDormand wants change, she might produce a film not for herself to star in but for Audra McDonald or Mo’Nique or Gong Li. But hey, they would never do that, because it’s so much easier to pretend as if the big issue is somewhere else, not where it actually is.
P.S. BTW, the love letters to NBC are truly heartwarming.
I think the Globes are over for good, not just for this year.
Hopefully not.
And they don’t have to be over, do they? They can just give awards as all other groups, without ceremonies. Because, you know, I’m pretty sure that most of the critics’ groups don’t have black members and somehow they give their awards every year.
When I saw the story break of Tom returning his globes I instantly eye rolled. 100% wanted attention. You never hear about him, like ever. Now all of a sudden he wants to step out and return some awards he won over 20 years ago? I ain’t smelling what he he’s selling, sorry.
Also, I get that it is weird that there isn’t a black person in their voting group, but let’s not pretend that they aren’t diverse by gender and ethnicities. Sasha has pointed out several times they have been the group to honor women and women of color, long before there was ever this incessant need to pressure people to nominate them. NO ONE HAS COMPLAINED ABOUT THIS UNTIL NOW? It’s just hypocrisy. This is one of many reasons why people have been turning away from watching awards….and personally it just devalues them and makes them irrelevant. Is there ever to be an ending to this topic? It’s just tiresome, and in the long run, this will only create more divides instead of unity.
thank you Jerm for these comments. I offered aligned sentiments on the other thread, but was criticised for my opinion; so it is good to see I am not alone in my eye rolling. 🙂
I got your back 😉 I just commented on your other thread.
thank you Jerm, you expressed it so much more effectively than I could. There is so little space it seems online for robust exchange of different ideas, without them resorting to personal and vehement reductions. We really are living in absurd times. And this is over something as trivial as an award show, but when extrapolated to other contexts, it is gobsmackingly worrying. Here’s to the discourse though. 🙂
I agree with both of you. 🙂
Globes are great and world without them will be a worse place.
Of course. ScarJo attended all the time and has always been one of their biggest favorites. She didn’t complain about them in 2004 or 2015. And I always have little patience for people like ScarJo acting like moral barometers, especially given her history of xenophobic remarks.
And Tom Cruise is hungry for attention and probably still holds onto hope that he might win an Oscar one day. But given his history of being a jerk, his rather limited acting abilities, and his view on we-all-know-what, I highly doubt that it would help him.
Well that’s the hypocrisy of it….why would they complain when they love the recognition….even when they have protested in the past they just wear a colored pin or tell everyone to wear a certain color, but they all still show up glamorous for the awards and ceremony!
It’s just now that they can get some good press and look like a defender against the very institution that they have wined and dined for recognition knowing very well who they are for years…it’s all hilarious especially since they have the most diverse winners and nominees of any group and the most gender and ethnically diverse voting body even without someone who is black—which is obviously a weird situation and should be remedied…but it’s not anything to cancel and cause all this nonsense over. It’s just nuts!
I’m surprised Hollywood’s hypocrite number one, Jessica Chastain, hasn’t spoken about the topic or returned her Globe.
I agree with this. Sadly.
Hollywood was never as pathetic as it is in the #meToo era.