Following two years of criticism for its lack of various membership, the Golden Globes has introduced that it is added new members, changing into one of the ethnically various amongst main award reveals.
There at the moment are 300 journalists in complete that function voting members.
The expanded voting physique consists of voters from nations around the globe, together with Guatemala, Costa Rica, Cameroon and extra.
“The new breakdown is 47% female, and 60% racially and ethnically diverse, with 26.3% Latinx, 13.3% Asian, 11% Black, 9% Middle Eastern,” a press launch mentioned on Monday.
The 81st Golden Globe Awards will happen on Sunday, January 7, 2024.
The Golden Globe Awards earlier this yr had been bought to a brand new proprietor that shut down the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), following claims of moral lapses and a scarcity of variety inside the group.
Eldridge Industries bought the Golden Globe belongings with Dick Clark Productions (DCP), which is able to proceed to handle the awards telecast and give attention to increasing the Globes’ viewership around the globe, a press launch mentioned. DCP is co-owned by Eldridge and Penske Media.
Host and comic Jerrod Carmichael opened his monologue at this yr’s January ceremony with a blunt evaluation: that he was there as a result of “I’m Black”.
“This present, the Golden Globe Awards, didn’t air final yr as a result of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association – which I will not say that they had been a racist group – however they did not have a single Black member till George Floyd died,” Carmichael mentioned.
He was referring to the homicide of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020, which sparked nationwide Black Lives Matter protests in opposition to police killings and different violence in opposition to Black folks. The watershed occasion impressed many organizations to create or reformulate anti-racist and inclusivity insurance policies.
A Los Angeles Times investigation in 2021 revealed the affiliation, or HFPA, had no Black journalists in its ranks. Some members had been accused of creating sexist and racist remarks and soliciting favors from celebrities and film studios.
This announcement additionally follows the historic Hollywood writers’ and actors’ work stoppages this yr.
The Writers Guild of America (WGA), which went on strike May 2 and reached a tentative take care of studios final month.
However, SAG-AFTRA actors’ haven’t made a take care of Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), which represents Walt Disney, Netflix and different studios after being on strike since July.
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