Carmichael kicks off Globes, plunging straight into scandal - The Associated Press

The Golden Globes returned to the aerial Tuesday with a red carpet flush with celebrities and comedian Jerrod Carmichael arsenic emcee, arsenic the beleaguered grant amusement sought to rekindle its pre-pandemic and pre-scandal glamour.

Carmichael kicked disconnected the 80th Golden Globes from the Beverly Hilton successful Beverly Hills, California, with small of the fanfare that usually opens specified glitzy ceremonies, diving consecutive into the issues that drove the Globes disconnected the aerial and led overmuch of the amusement manufacture to boycott the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. He opened by asking the assemblage to “be a small quiescent here.

“Welcome to the 80th yearly Golden Globe awards. I americium your big Jerrod Carmichael,” said the comedian, who won an Emmy past twelvemonth for his HBO peculiar “Rothaniel.” “And I’ll archer you wherefore I’m here. I’m present due to the fact that I’m Black.

“I won’t accidental they were a racist organization,” helium continued earlier sitting connected the stage. “But they didn’t person a azygous Black subordinate until George Floyd died. So bash with that accusation what you will.”

Carmichael said helium declined to conscionable with HFPA president Helen Hoehne up of hosting. Instead, helium said helium took the occupation for the money, and to grant the movie and TV industry.

The night’s archetypal grant went to Ke Huy Quan, the erstwhile kid star of “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” for champion supporting histrion successful “Everything Everywhere All astatine Once.” A intelligibly affectional Quan, who had near acting years earlier directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert formed him successful their multiverse tale, thanked them for his 2nd act.

“Thankfully, much than 30 years later, 2 guys thought of me,” said Quan. “They remembered that kid. And they gave maine the accidental to effort again.”

Angela Bassett won champion supporting histrion for her show successful “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”

“Weeping whitethorn travel successful the evening, but joyousness comes successful the morning,” Bassett said, referencing the nonaccomplishment of “Black Panther” prima Chadwick Boseman.

The reddish carpet (colored grey this year) was conscionable arsenic crammed with decked-out stars arsenic ever up of the ceremonial Tuesday, including Bassett successful glittering metallic and Lily James successful a long-flowing reddish formal . Whether viewers were besides returning, too, remains to beryllium seen. The Globes traditionally person been a looser, much uninhibited appetizer to the Academy Awards, but this year, tempest clouds situation the grant show.

Stars and studios boycotted last year’s ceremony, which NBC opted not to televise, saying the Hollywood Foreign Press Association needed clip to marque “meaningful reform” aft reports revealed the group’s deficiency of diverseness and a litany of ethical indiscretions. A twelvemonth later, overmuch — though not each — of Hollywood appeared acceptable to party, again.

The Globes besides unfolded against the backdrop of dense rains that person lashed Southern California and caused flooding up and down coastal areas and successful the mountains extracurricular Los Angeles. Prolonged rainfall, exceeding a ft since Sunday successful immoderate regions, caused flooding, mudslides and evacuations.

The broadcast from the Beverly Hilton successful Beverly Hills, California, for the archetypal clip was livestreamed, connected NBCUniversal’s Peacock, successful summation to airing connected NBC. When the Globes were connected the brink, NBC reworked its woody with the HFPA, putting the awards connected a one-year declaration and moving the amusement to Tuesday from its regular Sunday nighttime spot.

That meant the Globes were fundamentally enactment connected a one-year audition to recapture its awards-season perch and relevancy to a Hollywood that seemed acceptable to wantonness them for good.

But overmuch of the manufacture turned retired Tuesday. Eddie Murphy and Ryan Murphy were acceptable to person tributes. Presenters were to see Ana de Armas (a nominee for “Blonde”), Jenna Ortega (nominated for “Wednesday”), Billy Porter, Tracy Morgan, Jennifer Coolidge (nominated for “White Lotus”) and Quentin Tarantino. Sean Penn was besides acceptable to present a connection from Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The Globes were plunged into chaos soon earlier a mostly distant pandemic 2021 awards show erstwhile a Los Angeles Times report revealed that the HFPA, past numbering 87 members, had nary Black members. A abstracted New York Times report showed that the radical — an often ridiculed postulation of little-known overseas journalists based successful Los Angeles — paid its members immoderate $3 cardinal successful yearly salaries, and elaborate a litany of ethical lapses successful however the enactment regularly interacted with imaginable nominees.

Under mounting pressure, the HFPA pledged to reform, diversified its rank and changed immoderate of the ways it operates. It present has 96 members, including six Black members, on with 103 nonmember voters. Billionaire Todd Boehly purchased the Globes done his Eldridge Industries, and has begun turning the nonprofit radical into a for-profit company.

Reaction to the Globe nominations past period was muted, with fewer stars publically celebrating. But lone 1 nominee has stated emphatically that helium volition not attend: Brendan Fraser. Though nominated for champion histrion for his show successful “The Whale,” Fraser said helium would not enactment successful the Globes. In 2018, Fraser said helium was groped successful 2003 by longtime Hollywood Foreign Press Association subordinate Philip Berk. Berk, who is nary longer an HFPA member, denied it.

Not expected to be was Tom Cruise, whose “Top Gun: Maverick” was nominated for champion picture, drama. Cruise famously returned his 3 Golden Globe awards aft the HFPA revelations.

As it has for astir grant shows, viewership to the Globes telecast has cratered. After the 2020 awards were watched by 18.4 million, the 2021 variation managed conscionable 6.9 million, according to Nielsen. Still, the Globes stay a invaluable selling instrumentality for awards contenders, propping up ads for films successful the agelong long betwixt the holidays and the Oscars, which aerial March 12. Some of this season’s apical contenders, including Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans” and Todd Fields’ “Tár,” person struggled to pull ample audiences.

Martin McDonagh’s feuding friends communicative “The Banshees of Inisherin” came successful with a starring 8 nominations, including nods for actors Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon and Barry Keoghan. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s existential enactment drama “Everything Everywhere each astatine Once” is up for six awards, including nods for Michelle Yeoh, Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis, who mislaid to Bassett.

Several of the past year’s biggest box-office hits are besides successful the mix. Along with “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Tár” and “The Fabelmans,” the nominees for champion picture, drama, see James Cameron’s “Avatar: The Way of Water” and Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis.”

On the TV side, the nationalist schoolhouse sitcom “Abbott Elementary” leads with 5 nominations, including a motion for Quinta Brunson’s pb performance. “The White Lotus,” “Dahmer,” “The Crown,” “Pam & Tommy” and “Only Murders successful the Building” each scored 4 nominations each.

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