Golden Globes: Will Hollywood stars return after controversy? - BBC

The Golden Globe Awards instrumentality spot successful Los Angeles later, but it is uncertain however galore nominees volition attend.

The organisation down the ceremonial hopes to reconstruct the presumption of the Globes, arsenic good arsenic its ain reputation, aft a arguable 2 years.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) was accused of ethical lapses and a deficiency of diverseness successful 2021.

As a result, immoderate stars denounced the Globes, but others are alert of the awards momentum a triumph determination tin bring.

The HFPA announced a bid of reforms successful an effort to reconstruct religion pursuing a drawstring of damaging allegations. While the 2022 Globes ceremonial was pared down and not televised, this twelvemonth they are attempting a comeback.

The Banshees of Inisherin and Everything Everywhere All At Once pb the 2023 nominations astatine the movie and TV awards, followed by Babylon and The Fabelmans.

There was important Hollywood fallout to a scathing exposé of the HFPA published successful the LA Times successful February 2021, which recovered determination were nary achromatic members successful the 87-strong voting body, and that comparatively fewer members worked full-time for notable overseas publications.

The newspaper's probe besides alleged the radical often accepted "freebies" from studios and PR agencies who were campaigning for nominations, on with different ethical failings.

The exposure led NBC to cancel its broadcast of the 2022 ceremony, which ended up taking spot down closed doors with fewer stars successful attendance.

Meanwhile, the HFPA announced a bid of reforms, specified arsenic expanding and diversifying the membership, and a prohibition connected accepting promotional items from movie and TV studios.

All eyes volition present beryllium connected Tuesday's ceremonial astatine the Beverly Hilton edifice to spot whether the Globes person been fto retired of Hollywood's canine house.

There person been a drawstring of tv adverts trailing up to the Globes, portion billboards astir Los Angeles proclaim "Hollywood's biggest enactment is back". But that volition lone beryllium the lawsuit if Hollywood really shows up.

We cognize 4 stars who volition definitely beryllium there - manager Quentin Tarantino and actors Billy Porter, Jamie Lee Curtis and Ana de Armas.

The second 2 are besides nominees - Curtis for champion supporting histrion for her show successful Everything Everywhere All At Once, and de Armas for champion starring play histrion for her portrayal of Marilyn Monroe successful Blonde.

The HFPA volition anticipation that announcing specified large names successful beforehand volition promote others to amusement up.

But immoderate volition beryllium notable by their absence. Brendan Fraser, who is nominated for champion histrion for The Whale, has said helium volition not be the ceremony aft accusing erstwhile HFPA president Philip Berk of groping him successful 2003.

The HFPA recovered that Mr Berk "inappropriately touched" Fraser, but that it "was intended to beryllium taken arsenic a gag and not arsenic a intersexual advance".

Another large prima astir definite to skip the ceremonial is Tom Cruise. In 2021 he handed backmost his 3 Golden Globes successful airy of the contention engulfing the HFPA.

He is not nominated for champion actor, but his movie Top Gun: Maverick was 1 of the biggest movies of past twelvemonth and is nominated for champion play picture.

Scarlett Johansson antecedently encouraged others successful the movie manufacture to "step back" from the organisation, portion her Avengers co-star Mark Ruffalo wrote past twelvemonth that the HFPA's reforms were "discouraging".

However, a tweet from the authoritative Globes account connected Tuesday suggested Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Selena Gomez, MJ Rodriguez, Jennifer Coolidge, Jenna Ortega and Rihanna volition beryllium attending the ceremony.

Prior to the controversy, the Golden Globes were 1 of the much fashionable awards ceremonies with viewers. One crushed for the ceremony's precocious amusement worth was the often shrewd prime of presenter.

Normally, an acerbic big specified arsenic Ricky Gervais, Seth Myers oregon the pairing of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler would marque amusive of the A-listers successful the assemblage and Hollywood successful general, successful a mode that would not hap astatine the much ceremonial Oscars.

This year, US comedian Jerrod Carmichael volition instrumentality connected hosting duties. While not a household sanction successful the UK, Carmichael is simply a well-known fig connected the US drama circuit.

In 2022, helium won an Emmy for penning his stand-up peculiar Rothaniel and was nominated for impermanent hosting Saturday Night Live that aforesaid year.

Taking spot successful aboriginal January, astir celebrities are usually connected bully signifier astatine the Globes, acknowledgment to the Christmas interruption they've conscionable enjoyed, coupled with plentifulness of complimentary drinks.

"Traditionally, it was ever considered the astir amusive [of the awards] to beryllium at," Gervais told the Telegraph earlier this week. "Tables heaped with escaped booze, [when] different awards are theatre seating and wholly dry.

"Of course, what's amended for the assemblage isn't ever large for the performer. As audiences get drunker, you person to enactment harder to get their attention. I rapidly recovered that the menace of proceeding thing atrocious astir themselves made them listen."

The Banshees of Inisherin, a acheronian drama starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, leads the battalion astatine the Globes with 8 nominations.

Inventive multiverse comedy-drama Everything Everywhere All astatine Once, starring Michelle Yeoh, follows with six.

Babylon, Damien Chazelle's reflection connected 1920s Hollywood, has 5 nominations, arsenic does Steven Spielberg's autobiographical The Fabelmans.

Baz Luhrmann's Elvis Presley biopic, Guillermo del Toro's stop-motion animation Pinocchio, and Todd Field's fantabulous play Tár, starring Cate Blanchett arsenic a disgraced orchestra conductor, each person three.

On the tv side, school-based drama Abbott Elementary leads with 5 nominations, portion their are 4 apiece for The Crown, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, Only Murders successful the Building, Pam & Tommy and The White Lotus.

While a triumph astatine the Globes is not a warrant of Oscars success, it tin often beryllium adjuvant successful raising the illustration of a movie oregon histrion and springiness them a momentum boost.

This is mostly down to the important information that the Globes ceremonial is televised. A well-received code tin enactment them connected the radar of the ample fig of Academy voters who ticker the Globes.

The Golden Globes are besides peculiarly bully astatine recognising caller talent. Rachel Zegler, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Ariana DeBose, Emma Corrin, Richard Madden, Awkwafina and Taron Egerton person each won trophies erstwhile their stars were connected the ascent.

Austin Butler, Diego Calva and Barry Keoghan are among the younger nominees this year. But determination are besides titans of the large surface successful contention for large prizes - specified arsenic Cate Blanchett, Olivia Colman and Daniel Craig.