For decades, Hollywood has brushed off the Golden Globe Awards as a kind of collective inside joke, a fun, freewheeling party holding no grand importance. But in reality, for all the criticism long directed at the group that hands out the Globes — the tiny, secretive 86-member Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. “I’m hard-pressed to envision any winners as a result of the Golden Globes’ demise,” said veteran publicist Tony Angellotti, who has worked on numerous Globes campaigns as an awards consultant for decades. AdvertisementNBCOnce a cascade of studios and stars began declaring they wouldn’t work with the HFPA, NBC had few options but to cancel the 2022 Globes. With the Globes gone, the trickle-down effects will hit everyone who draws income from putting on the show.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 14, 2021 14:02 UTC