The Golden Globe Awards took a year off the air, but it has been announced, via The Hollywood Reporter, that the show will go on once again on NBC in 2023.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which is the organization of non-American journalists and photographers that are over the ceremony, became the subject of bad headlines ahead of the 2021 ceremony when a series of articles in the Los Angeles Times made it known that the HFPA contained zero Black people among its then 87 members. They also alleged that the HFPA had engaged in unethical conduct and suspect financial practices.
Things got so bad for the organization that several Hollywood constituencies, including many Hollywood publicists, began to boycott the HFPA. Arguably the biggest movie star currently working today, Tom Cruise, even returned the three Golden Globes he had been previously awarded. This bad press made NBC decide not to air the ceremony in 2022.
It would appear that the HFPA made the appropriate changes to make NBC want to bring the ceremony back on the air. The organization quickly passed significant reforms, including banning members from accepting gifts and removing a cap on new member additions. This allowed the HFPA to add 21 new members, six of whom were Black. Oddly enough, one-quarter of the organization’s members voted against the changes, and a couple even questioned the sincerity of the new moves and resigned.
It became clear that a faction of the coalition of publicists once so vocal against the HFPA began to soften on them a bit. Many of them want things to go back to normal because the Golden Globes telecast is usually the highest-rated awards show of the film awards season before the Oscars, and they financially boost many of their Oscar-hopeful projects. The HFPA, in recent weeks, also formed an advisory committee comprised of publicists who are sympathetic to the idea of playing nice with the organization again. The publicists were also sent a briefing that summarized their progress and intentions for the future. They declare that they have “answered the call for change” and “increased diversity, transparency, and accountability.”
Some remain weary of the organization, and it will be interesting to see how many more minds they can change leading up to the ceremony. When they forged ahead with the 2022 Golden Globe Awards ceremony, which wasn’t aired on television, the show wasn’t attended by any talent whatsoever. It will take some work to return the ceremony to a return to form. As of now, NBC is eyeing an airdate of January 10, 2023, a Tuesday. The ceremony typically aired on Sunday, but the first Sunday of the year is New Year’s Day, and the second is January 8, which is the last of the NFL’s regular season. January 15, the third Sunday of the new year, has already been claimed by the Critics Choice Awards, so NBC has to hope that the new night will bring big ratings.
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