Golden Globes to go ahead despite TV axeing

The award show will go ahead despite NBC’s decision not to broadcast it over concerns about its record on diversity and transparency.

Scarlett Johansson has slammed the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Picture: AFP

The Golden Globes will go ahead despite NBC’s decision not to broadcast the Hollywood award ceremony over concerns about its record on diversity and transparency.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association – which votes on the Globes and has been under fire due to allegations of racism, sexism, bullying and corruption – said winners of the annual film and television awards will be ­announced on January 9.

There were no details of how the awards will be announced, or if there will be any ceremony.

The Globes ceremony usually kicks off Hollywood’s glitzy award season, and draws a who’s who of Tinseltown A-listers to a lavish and champagne-soaked ceremony. But NBC pulled the plug on the party in May, after major Hollywood studios suspended their ­involvements with the press association, and stars such as Tom Cruise and Scarlett Johansson slammed the group.

At the time, Netflix and ­Amazon Studios said they would not work with the group until more “meaningful” and “significant” reforms were made to its ranks.

The controversy stemmed from a report in February that the association had no black members, although discontent with the group had been simmering in Hollywood for years.

This month, the group admitted 21 new members in what it dubbed “the largest and most ­diverse” new class in its 78-year history.

AFP