{"id":218457,"date":"2022-01-07T01:20:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T19:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.bullfrag.com\/whats-going-on-with-the-golden-globes-and-the-possible-boycott\/"},"modified":"2022-01-07T01:20:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T19:50:32","slug":"whats-going-on-with-the-golden-globes-and-the-possible-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/whats-going-on-with-the-golden-globes-and-the-possible-boycott\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s going on with the Golden Globes and the possible boycott?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With January comes the award season of the film industry. The normal thing is that it is a moment in which the stars of the big screen and television abound, the red carpet is filled with television cameras and the photographers do not stop operating their equipment to have the best angle of the actors and actresses present . However, for the next edition of the Golden Globes on January 9, this may change significantly due to various questions about the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.<\/p>\n

Contrary to what you might think at first, with COVID-19 and its different variants affecting public health and generating new outbreaks, the crisis at the Golden Globes has to do with other factors. These have put tension between the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA, for its acronym in English), the different production companies and the actors, to the point that they speak in terms of a \u201cboycott\u201d against the next edition. <\/p>\n

But all this began last year, as a result of an investigation published almost a year ago by the newspaper Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/strong>. At work the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was questioned. Although that publication seems distant in times of immediacy and new flows of information, the industry does not forget the doubts that exist about the HFPA.<\/p>\n

We review what is happening.<\/p>\n

The investigation of Los Angeles Times<\/em>
about the Hollywood Foreign Press Association<\/h2>\n

The newspaper Los Angeles Times<\/em> published a series of investigations in connection with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. One of them, Posted on Feb 21, 2021<\/a>, carried the following title: \u201cWho really gives out the Golden Globes? A tiny group full of quirky characters – and no Black members \u201d. In Spanish, a possible translation is the following: \u201cWho really delivers the Golden Globes? A small group full of quirky characters and no black members. “<\/p>\n