Actors kept thanking a non-existent body at the Golden Globes
Robert Downey Jr. thanked the newly-minted Golden Globes Journalists for "changing your game, therefore changing your name," but most people didn't get the memo
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A whole lot of things went wrong for the Golden Globes Journalists last night. They messed up the seating chart. Comedian Jo Koy made a queasy bid for Worst Awards Show Host Of All Time. They scared the hell out of Elizabeth Debicki and even flubbed what should have been an easy ace with a hollow Suits reunion. On top of all that, a bunch of award winners couldn’t even get their name right.
Earlier this year, as a response to their years-long track record of racism, corruption, and general popular disfavor, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association dissolved and rebranded as a new, for-profit organization owned by Penske Media. The new, 300 person voting body is now known as the “Golden Globes Journalists,” although the only people who actually seemed to know that were Beef creator Lee Sung Jin and Robert Downey Jr., who thanked them for “changing their game, therefore changing their name” in his acceptance speech for Supporting Male Actor in a Motion Picture for his performance in Oppenheimer last night.
Other actors did not get the memo. Da’Vine Joy Randolph thanked the Hollywood Foreign Press for her award for Supporting Female Actor in a Motion Picture for her The Holdovers performance early in the night, as did The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri and Oppenheimer composer Ludwig Göransson.
All in all, this is a pretty neat metaphor for the lingering status of this dumb yearly tradition. Despite Downey’s praise, did anything really change? The broadcast still lionized money and power with new awards for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement in Motion Pictures and “Best Stand-Up Comedian on Television. Celebrities’ faces throughout the night still screamed “my agent forced me to be here.” The Golden Globes Journalists may be more diverse than their progenitors but last night definitively proved that their shiny, new hedge fund-owned status certainly can’t erase the past. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
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No one even wanted to host the Golden Globes. Last night, more than ever, it was obvious that being an actor in Hollywood is an optics game. They’re not there because they want to be there. They’re there because they have to be there to play the game.
A neat little reminder that even if you’re a famous & popular movie star, there are still a handful of business executives that determine your financial future.
What do you mean “no one”? I was totally game and was planning on doing a “You talkin’ to me?” bit on DeNiro, maybe a dick joke related to The Crying Game, and maybe something about boob jobs. It could have been edgy and fresh!
Just like‘s boob job!
Oh man, have I got an “I’m king of the world!” joke for you!
And now, a moment of silence for those souls lost aboard Challenger.
I had some controversial opinions about the Irish I was willing to do a bit about as host as well
They’re not there because they want to be there. They’re there because they have to be there to play the game.This has been true since like, the Oscars were invented.
So. Fucking. What.
I can’t imagine Streep is too happy to show up to a low rated dull program where she LOST.
Imagine Susan Lucci losing 21 times at the Daytime Emmy Awards. Everyone knew she was the queen of daytime. That’s moxy.
Earlier this year, as a response to their years-long track record of racism, corruption, and general popular disfavor, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association dissolved and rebranded as a new, for-profit organization owned by Penske Media.Oh yes, famously this is the solution to racism and corruption. Becoming for profit.
In fairness, being a non-profit was just a tax dodge for the HFPA so at least they’re not trying to pretend otherwise now.
All these awards show are highly commercialized. Penske media is for-profit and owned by a right-wing family. They own various Hollywood news outlets too. There was never a “solution” here. Its just this potentially has a less worse outcome than the old HFPA which was socially regressive and I believe was revealed to not have any black members a few years ago. On top of other controversies.Penske is hot garbage but they know what lines not to cross (generally), especially post Dominion v Fox.
Ok, but Ayo Edebri also thanked her managers’ and agents’ assistants for answering her emails in her speech so she knows who the real heroes are.
i thought this was a article on people thanking God in their speeches. Everytime Beyonce thanks God, i’m like “no, thank yourself and not God”.
And I thought the article was about God.
“Actors kept thanking a non-existent body at the Golden Globes”Yeah, I hate it when actors mention God in their acceptance speeches too HEEEYYYOOOOOOO
Everyone and their mother need to quiet down on the God rap. I care not for you religious’ view, accept the dang award and scram.
At least mix it up and don’t just go to the generic Abrahamic God. Thank Marduk or Baal
They’re actors. They could at least thank someone appropriate. Thank Ishtar, Dionysus or Ame-no-Uzume. Somebody that actually goes to bat for you as an artist, you know?
Marduk rules!
He totally knows that already. Now eat some more pills, pill-head.
Yes. Thank Dog!
“like most of America’s cultural elite, I worship Pan, the goat god.”
Are pigeons attracted to the sound of your voice?
Team Quetzalcoatl all day!
Zeus
Zeus, like Thor, is the Pumpkin Spice Latte of gods. Only for basic bitches
Right after my Bills won their last game of the season, our boneheaded head coach’s first words in the post game interview “well first of all, glory to god, without him this wouldn’t be possible”Piss off you insufferable loon.
Indeed, most professional athlete sound moronic and even more so when they’re thanking their invisible deity. We all know they’re going to say, “It’s not a personal accomplishment but an entire team effort, blah, blah, blah.” “Shout out to assorted Religious Deity, their blessings made this all possible, blah, blah, blaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh.”
I can pretty much assure you: MY mother will NOT be quieting down about the whole God Rap.
Damn, you beat me to it!!!
God loves you anyway. The time will come when you’ll need Him. Just call out to Him and He will answer you. Then you’ll know He is not non-existent ♥️
I guess I could read the wiki about it, but why do the Globes even exist…they primarily seem to function as a tool for handicapping the Emmys and Oscars. The one aspect of them that appeals is the unpredictability that comes with letting everyone get drunk during the proceedings.
Because EGOT is a better acronym than EOT.
That G is for Grammy.(The extra G is for EGGOT.)
Hey, Leggot my eggot!
GOT EGGs?
Golden Globe isn’t an EGOT qualifier.
I never watch the Golden globes, but from the highlights it looked like even the audience was miserable. Whatever though, they can keep peddling their recreational outrage and their false sense of entitlement.
“Whatever though, they can keep peddling their recreational outrage and their false sense of entitlement.”Self-awareness: catch the fever!No seriously… catch it. You need some.
…the Hollywood Foreign Press Association dissolved and rebranded as a new, for-profit organization owned by Penske Media.This won’t ever have any negative outcomes.
For all the talk about how the golden globes is only for the benefit of the organizers is it any worse than the American Music Awards? The AMA’s were literally invented by Dick Clark so that ABC could have a music awards show after they lost the rights to televise the Grammy’s. So that ABC could make money.
That’s what you think. It was actually part of a ritual that kept Dick Clark from visibly aging (well up until his last decade or so). The real question now is what did Paul Rudd do to inherit this effect?
The Grammy’s what?
And now it’ owned by the same parent company, Penske Media. And that’s the reason why the Golden Globes still gets so much coverage too, because Penske owns the three biggest industry publications Variety, The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline.
Wow nice work Costanza.
Meanwhile, at Penske Media:
Every time Da’Vine Joy Randolph leaned into the mic, I thought there was going to be a Booba’lanche. She should thank her designer as well. lol She’s great in Only Murders in the Building as Detective Williams.
I didn’t know this at all and I work in TV :,) Thanks for clearing up, because I thought the people saying “Golden Globes Journalists” were wrong hahaha
Man, Actors are stupid.