This yr's Golden Globes can have an in-person ceremony, albeit one with out celebrities or press.
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If an awards present occurs with none press, viewers or A-listers parading down a pink carpet, did it even occur in any respect?
The 2022 Golden Globes will go on, simply with a sliver of its common attendees, the Hollywood International Press Affiliation stated Tuesday.
Because of the COVID-19 Omicron variant surge, the affiliation can be modifying their in-person ceremony. Now, neither press nor celebrities are invited to the 79th annual awards ceremony, which is able to happen with out an viewers.
The announcement comes simply days earlier than the present’s scheduled date, Jan. 9, 2022.
Solely “choose members and grantees” can be allowed at this yr’s Globes, and various extra restrictions can be required of them, together with proof of vaccination, a booster shot and a damaging PCR check taken inside 48 hours of the occasion.
And, “there can be no pink carpet,” the affiliation introduced. All company should be masked and socially distanced “always whereas contained in the ballroom,” in line with a press launch.
The discharge makes no point out of a livestream or different digital approach to tune-in.
Additionally lacking from Sunday’s ceremony can be movie star presenters, though their omission just isn't COVID-related: Sources inform Selection that no stars have agreed to participate within the Globes, probably because of the HFPA’s current variety controversy. NBC cancelled its annual telecast of the awards after the HFPA was lambasted for corruption-related allegations and for having no black members.
In response, the discharge famous that “the HFPA has utterly overhauled its bylaws, implementing sweeping modifications from prime to backside addressing ethics and code of conduct, variety, fairness and inclusion, governance, membership and extra. In October, the HFPA admitted its largest and most various class up to now with 21 new journalists, all of whom had been first-time Golden Globe voters.”
Throughout this weekend’s program, the discharge provides, the Nationwide Affiliation for the Development of Coloured Individuals Hollywood Bureau senior vp Kyle Bowser will talk about a five-year variety initiative known as the “Reimagine Coalition.” The mission is a collaborative effort between the HFPA and the NAACP to fund and assist “tasks from artists of various racial and ethnic backgrounds.”
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