Simply two years in the past, the Golden Globes had been Hollywood’s most boisterous annual occasion. Booze flowed freely as the most important A-list names got here collectively at hand out and obtain awards.
The ceremony was proven stay on air yearly for many years by NBC which paid as much as $31 million a yr to the organizers, the Hollywood International Press Affiliation (HFPA), to air the extravaganza.
However now the occasion’s over. Sunday’s awards could have no celeb hosts. There will likely be no TV viewers as NBC has pulled out. It gained’t even be livestreamed.
As a substitute winners will likely be introduced on the HFPA’s web site.
Tinseltown’s love affair with the customarily sycophantic international press group is finished.
Tom Cruise has returned his three awards. Scarlett Johansson has refused to participate in any extra HFPA occasions citing ‘sexist questions’ from members that ‘bordered on sexual harassment’ and Avengers costar Mark Ruffalo has mentioned he’s not ‘proud or comfortable’ to have acquired a nomination.
Netflix and Amazon refuse to take care of the affiliation till it’s overhauled.
Snoop Dogg introduced the nominees for this yr’s Golden Globes in December. Now the ceremony itself won’t be proven both on TV or livestreamed after controversies engulfed the Hollywood International Press Affiliation
Co-hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler through the 2021 awards present held later than regular on February 28 attributable to COVID
Rosamund Pike acquired the very best actress award through video in 2021 , however this yr the present won’t have visitors and the winners will likely be introduced on-line
The 2021 present was hit by COVID restrictions that means award winners accepted through video. Laura Dern nearly introduced Daniel Kaluuya with the very best supporting actor award for his function in Judas and the Black Messiah
The precipitous fall from grace for the Hollywood commerce group got here amid a sequence of scandals over its lack of range, alleged sexual misconduct amongst its management, and accusations of an endemic tradition of presents for gongs.
In 2018, actor Brendan Fraser got here ahead to assert that former HFPA president Philip Berk, 88, assaulted him at an HFPA luncheon in 2003 by grabbing his buttocks. Berk referred to as the story ‘a complete fabrication.’
In 2019 the nonprofit was slammed for failing to appoint any feminine administrators for awards regardless of the crucial and field workplace success of Lorene Scafaria’s Hustlers and Greta Gerwig’s Little Ladies.
In 2020 a Norwegian journalist sued the HFPA for a ‘tradition of corruption’ with members accepting ‘1000’s of {dollars} in emoluments’ from the identical studios to which they awarded gongs. A federal choose dismissed the case ruling the plaintiff Kjersti Flaa didn’t undergo damages.
Final yr the LA Occasions revealed not one of the HFPA’s 87 members had been black, prompting it to recruit 21 new members. Six of the brand new recruits are black, 10 are girls, six are Latinx, 5 are Asian and 4 are Center Japanese or North African, in response to the Globes.
The Globes have all the time been recognized for his or her laidback ambiance because the free drink flowed. Right here the Invictus desk cheers on its nomination in 2010
Tom Cruise (pictured with Michelle Pfeiffer) handed again the Greatest Dramatic Actor Golden Globe he gained in 1990 fo his function in Born on the Fourth of July
Cruise additionally returned the Globes he gained for Jerry Maguire in 1997 (left) and Magnolia in 2000
Pushing the boat out: A large bottle of champagne sits heart desk because the Titanic solid celebrated the film’s 4 Golden Globes in 1998
Berk was additionally again within the highlight in April, expelled from the group for allegedly calling Black Lives Matter a ‘racist hate motion’ in an e mail.
The next month Scarlett Johansson declared she wouldn’t attend any HFPA occasions attributable to ‘sexist questions and remarks by sure HFPA members that bordered on sexual harassment’.
Among the many kickbacks highlighted within the LA Occasions investigation final February was a 2019 journey by 30 HFPA members to Paris with two nights at a $1,400-a-night lodge offered by the Paramount Community, the producers of Netflix’s Emily in Paris.
The present acquired two Golden Globes nominations.
Greater than 100 publicity companies signed an open letter in March threatening to disclaim HFPA entry to their shoppers with out substantial reforms.
The Hollywood International Press Affiliation (HFPA) – the nonprofit behind the Golden Globes – raised $32million in a single yr and grew its coffers by $15million however gave simply $5.9million to charitable causes
A spokesman for the affiliation instructed DailyMail.com it overhauled its ethics insurance policies this yr, banning members from accepting presents from studios, asking them to declare conflicts of curiosity, imposing time period limits on its board, and operating range and anti-harassment coaching as typically as as soon as each two months.
However the adjustments weren’t sufficient for Netflix who additionally pulled the plug on their relationship with the International Press Affiliation in Might.
‘We do not imagine these proposed new insurance policies — notably across the measurement and pace of membership development — will deal with the HFPA’s systemic range and inclusion challenges, or the shortage of clear requirements for the way your members ought to function,’ Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos wrote to the HFPA board in a letter obtained by leisure information website Deadline.
Now DailyMail.com can reveal that the embattled group, a nonprofit that trumpets its charitable grants, has been sitting on a $62million money pile and gave out lower than 10% in grants in response to its most up-to-date filings.
The HFPA raised $32million in a single yr and grew its coffers by $15million however gave simply $5.9million to charitable causes, 2019 paperwork filed with the IRS reveal.
The nonprofit spent virtually as a lot in salaries, spending $3.4million for paying its employees.
The HFPA mentioned it’s a nonprofit commerce group not a charity so it’s not required to make donations, although it chooses to present hundreds of thousands to charitable causes.
Its newest accounts filed with the IRS for the yr to June 2019 present that the 2018 Globes hosted by Seth Meyers introduced in over $31million for the group.
The IRS paperwork present that the nonprofit had $16.5million of bills, leaving it with a $15.6million revenue.
Nevertheless, as a substitute of donating the bumper yr’s proceeds to charitable organizations and tasks, it squirreled away $9.7million of its income and spent simply $5,891,320 on grants for good causes.
By the top of June 2019 the group listed $54,970,637 in financial savings and momentary money investments, incomes six figures curiosity yearly and their complete belongings had been valued at over $62m.
Its present money pile in response to its newest accounts is now bigger than the entire the nonprofit has given to good causes previously quarter century.
Mark Ruffalo mentioned he was ‘neither proud nor comfortable’ that he had been nominated for a Globe in 2015 for Infinitely Polar Bear
Brendan Fraser (left) claimed former HFPA chairman Philip Berk assaulted him at an HFPA luncheon in 2003 by grabbing his buttocks. Berk referred to as the story ‘a complete fabrication
Scarlett Johansson declared she wouldn’t attend any HFPA occasions attributable to ‘sexist questions and remarks by sure HFPA members that bordered on sexual harassment’
‘Over the previous 25 years, the HFPA has donated $50 million to greater than 70 entertainment-related charities, movie restoration, scholarship packages and humanitarian efforts,’ its web site claims.
A spokesman for the HFPA mentioned it’s a ‘nonprofit commerce affiliation’ reasonably than a charity, that means that it’s not obliged to make grants for charitable causes – however added that it commonly makes donations to good causes anyway.
HFPA rep James Lee mentioned the nonprofit provides out more cash to charity than different Hollywood commerce associations such because the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences, the group behind the Oscars.
‘Regardless that we’re a commerce affiliation and never a charitable group we nonetheless give the next proportion of our web proceeds than some other comparable commerce affiliation,’ Lee instructed DailyMail.com
The HFPA mentioned there may be ‘nothing incorrect’ with its cash administration and that it has stored ‘a specific amount [of cash] in reserve’ to cowl surprising prices, its plans to construct a brand new workplace, and contingency in case they lose their important income: promoting broadcast rights for the televised Golden Globes, as occurred when NBC dropped the present this yr.
Amongst HFPA’s charitable grants for 2018-19, was $120,815 for a 4K restoration of Fellini’s Roma, a 1972 comedy-drama set in Rome.
The HFPA gave $215,575 in grants for different movie restorations and mentioned it gave $500,000 to ‘assist refugees’.
San Antonio, Texas-based charity the Refugee and Immigrant Heart for Schooling and Authorized Providers acquired $250,000 and environmental journalism charity Misplaced Mild Tasks Inc in Brooklyn, New York acquired $500,000.
One other $10,000 was given to progressive authorized group the ACLU and $5,000 for Los Angeles animal charity Actors and Different Animals, whereas $10,000 went to John Travolta’s Jett Basis.
A few of its largest bills that yr had been charges associated to jet-setting and partying.
One line merchandise labelled ‘banquet’ value the nonprofit $1,329,540, and is probably going the catering prices for the Globes 2018 evening the place alcohol is free for its star-studded visitors.
The drink was flowing even again in 1965 when Julie Andrew gained Greatest Actress in a comedy or musical for Mary Poppins
Amongst HFPA’s grants for 2018-19, was $120,815 for a 4K restoration of Federico Fellini’s 1972 basic Roma
Final yr’s Globes had been pared again due to COVID as Salma Hayek and Sterling Okay. Brown demonstrated. This yr’s will likely be much more demure
Tax paperwork obtained by DailyMail.com confirmed the HFPA spent $323.237 on ‘hospitality providers’ from one firm in 2018
It additionally spent $323,237 on ‘hospitality providers’ from Cosmo Leisure LLC. The corporate’s web site says it organized an official Globes viewing and after occasion.
HFPA paid $1,369,173 in unspecified journey payments and $529,855 for ‘conferences, conventions, and conferences’.
Lee mentioned the half million was spent on catering on the ‘a whole bunch’ of press conferences held by the HFPA every year, including that HFPA’s journey payments got here from ‘paying for members to do journey to permit them to do their jobs.’
‘We’ve all the time paid for members of the HFPA to attend press junkets and festivals and different actions that enable them to write down their tales,’ he mentioned.
Authorized charges totaled $1,507,018, together with about $1,267,342 to Latham & Watkins and $239,676 to Rodriguez, Horii, Choi & Cafferata, a legislation agency specializing in charity taxes and ‘tax controversy and planning’.
The HFPA mentioned it confronted elevated authorized payments that yr because it was renegotiating its contract with NBC.
The 2018-19 accounts confirmed employees prices totaled $3,436,322. The COO Gregory Goeckner was paid $250,866 and monetary supervisor Zoya Malinskata $114,307.
Late chairman Lorenzo Soria earned $73,000 for 23 hours weekly, and then-HFPA president Meher Tatna’s wage was $175,000 for a 19 hour work week, equating to $177 an hour.
The HFPA handed on $1,934,000 to its sister group, the HFPA Charitable Belief, which paid out virtually all the grant in scholarships and different charitable disbursements.
The group’s IRS filings say its mission is to ‘set up favorable relations and cultural ties between international international locations and the USA by the dissemination of knowledge regarding the American tradition.’
Though the HFPA is taken into account a worldwide nonprofit, most of their cash is spent within the US. Over 70 % of charities and causes it funds are inside 75 miles of LA, the place most of its members are primarily based.