A LA Occasions exposé revealed the Hollywood Overseas Press Affiliation had no Black illustration among the many HFPA’s 87-strong membership of journalists, resulting in an enormous outcry from the general public and people within the trade.
Excessive-profile celebs like Ava DuVernay and Shonda Rhimes added their voices to the allegations of racism from the HFPA. Through the years actors together with Viola Davis and Lupita Nyong’o have been noticably absent from the listing of Globes noms, regardless of getting acknowledged on the Oscars.
When Sacha Baron Cohen gained Finest Actor on the 2021 ceremony, he thanked “the all-white Hollywood Overseas Press” for his award in his acceptance speech.
Tom Cruise additionally returned his three Golden Globe trophies final yr, and a number of other actors together with Scarlett Johansson and Mark Ruffalo known as for the trade to “step again” from the Golden Globes till reforms had been put into place by the HFPA.
On the 2022 nomination ceremony in December, HFPA president Helen Hoehne mentioned the HFPA had mirrored and altered over the past eight months, introducing 21 new members – together with six Black journalists – making the membership cohort “the most important and most various in [the HFPA’s] 79-year-old historical past.”
Nevertheless, the affiliation has nonetheless not reached its previously-stated aim of 13 per cent Black membership by 2022.
