One of the curious things about this year’s awards season is that as the Golden Globe Awards arrive right on the heels of the new year, Hollywood is essentially acting as if the show is business as usual.
The show, once run by the nonprofit Hollywood Foreign Press Association, has been privatized and turned into a for-profit enterprise by an ownership group with its fingers in lots of showbiz pies, from the company that produces the show to the hotel where it takes place to the trade publications that cover it. (Not this trade publication.) There have been mutterings about conflicts of interest, and legal filings by HFPA members who think they’ve been dealt with unfairly by the new ownership, but the Globes are back on the air with a new network contract and a distinct lack of squawking from the publicists and studios that forced the overhaul with a boycott a few years ago.