GOLDEN GLOBES 2022 Canceled On NBC Amid Growing Criticisms; Tom Cruise Returns His Three Awards

GOLDEN GLOBES 2022 Canceled On NBC Amid Growing Criticisms; Tom Cruise Returns His Three Awards

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has been coming under fire recently, and it's now reached a point where NBC has confirmed that the 2022 show will not air on its network. Find more details here...

By JoshWilding - May 10, 2021 12:05 PM EST
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Things are getting crazy in Hollywood as the organisers behind the Golden Globes, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), continue to come under fire. Earlier this week, they voted in reforms to widen its membership, but there are still criticisms over a lack of diversity and unethical practices.

Organisers are being accused of everything from discriminatory practices to accepting "freebies" that could sway their judgement. We also recently learned that there's not a single Black person in the group of 87 members who vote for the awards each year. The HFPA has vowed to be more transparent and hire diversity advisers, but that's clearly not enough. 

Black Widow star Scarlett Johansson has been particularly vocal this week, alleging "sexist questions and remarks by certain HFPA members that bordered on sexual harassment." Major studios are also distancing themselves, and Mission: Impossible's Tom Cruise has just handed back his three awards in protest (those were for Jerry Maguire, Born on the Fourth of July, and Magnolia).

To make matters worse for the HFPA, NBC has just announced that it will not air the Golden Globes ceremony in 2022, leaving the popular awards show without a home in the U.S.

"We continue to believe that the HFPA is committed to meaningful reform," the network says in a statement. "However, change of this magnitude takes time and work, and we feel strongly that the HFPA needs time to do it right.  As such, NBC will not air the 2022 Golden Globes.  Assuming the organization executes on its plan, we are hopeful we will be in a position to air the show in January 2023."

Things aren't looking good for them, and it seems likely more actors will follow in Cruise's footsteps. Whether the HFPA will be able to overcome this obviously remains to be seen. 

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noahthegrand
noahthegrand - 5/10/2021, 12:02 PM
Sucks to suck
Blergh
Blergh - 5/10/2021, 12:04 PM
Taking bribes, goodies and personal favors for awards is scummy as hell but also an open secret for the Oscars as well. Why not cancel them as well?
Nightwing1015
Nightwing1015 - 5/10/2021, 12:08 PM
@Blergh - Because the Oscars don't put Ricky Gervais on the podium to speak the truth about Hollywood lol
GhostDog
GhostDog - 5/10/2021, 12:10 PM
@Nightwing1015 -

GhostDog
GhostDog - 5/10/2021, 12:09 PM
They acting like this is new. Most of these award associations do shit like this, but I doubt they'll keep the same energy for them too.

These awards shows should be closed-door at this point. They've become so bad.
dracula
dracula - 5/10/2021, 12:10 PM


seriously there are so many of these ego stroking award shows. (Seriously just have 1 for each medium, film, tv, music, whatever else there is)
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 5/10/2021, 12:19 PM
@dracula - Who gets to decide what that one award is, though? The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is just a bunch of jaggoffs in America, while the Golden Globes are international jaggoffs, and the BAFTAs are British jaggoffs. Whose to say which group is authoritative? Who gets jurisdiction?

Plus, you have some niche awards that are targeted toward genres that always get overlooked by those uppity jaggoffs, like the Saturn Awards (even if they are a buncha nerdy jaggoffs).

Awards are dumb (though the award shows can be sometimes entertaining). Nobody should take them seriously whether there is one or a thousand. But sadly, because people do take them seriously, you get corruption and disparities and terribleness.
marvel72
marvel72 - 5/10/2021, 12:16 PM
Here we go again,look at how well received the Oscars were this year,it lost 13,000,000 viewers from the previous year.

People don't want to be preached to, its all doom and gloom with the movies nominated. It's called the entertainment industry for a reason, people want to be entertained.

I work 6 days a week and when I come I want to be able to watch something without being lectured to,it's called escapism from the real world.

If want to know how shit the world is I'll put on the news.
Origame
Origame - 5/10/2021, 12:26 PM
@marvel72 - yet of course when you bring that up you're suddenly racist.
marvel72
marvel72 - 5/10/2021, 12:40 PM
@Origame - Yup,the racist card is thrown around way to easy these days.

You don't get a job or say a movie role its because you're black.

Don't want a black Superman your racist.

Disagree with a white person perfectly fine but disagree with a black person who asked the same question your racist.
1AboveAll
1AboveAll - 5/10/2021, 12:18 PM
The only disappointing aspect of this is that Ricky Gervais won’t be on stage to tell them all exactly as it is yet again
GarthRanzz
GarthRanzz - 5/10/2021, 12:18 PM
In other news, Snyder revealed had he made Man of Steel 2, the villains would have been Brainiac and Luthor.
Superspecialawesomeguy
Superspecialawesomeguy - 5/10/2021, 12:31 PM
@GarthRanzz - Really? he was saying Metallo in earlier interviews.
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