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The Golden Globe Awards have had 81 years to get it right, but they still can’t figure out how to pull off a successful show. Just when we thought things couldn’t get any worse, they did. The show Sunday night was boring, sloppy and poorly executed in every way. After being rejected by several celebrities that refused to host the show, the Golden Globes landed on Jo Koy, who opted to berate the celebrity-studded audience instead of entertain them. The producers also seemed to think it would be fun to create a maze by crowding the stars into the room...

Gillian Anderson, who is best known for her role in Sex Education and The X-Files, graced the red carpet in a gown embroidered with vaginas to protest ‘restrictions to female rights.’ “My dress is designed by Gabriela Hearst and it has vaginas on it,” Gillian Anderson said to a reporter on the red carpet. “So, female anatomy? Ok, why did you choose this?” the reporter asked. “For so many reasons. For so many reasons,” she said. WATCH:

Transgender male-to-female actor Michaela Jaé (“MJ”) Rodriguez received a standing ovation at the 80th Golden Globe Awards on Sunday in belated recognition for winning the Golden Globe for lead actress in a drama series last year for FX’s Pose. MJ Rodriguez was recognized by her Pose producer Ryan Murphy during his acceptance speech for the Carol Burnett Award. In his speech, Murphy praised Rodriguez for “making history” for being the “first transgender actress ever to win a Golden Globe.” “Let’s give her the ovation she deserves to hear,” Murphy said. As Breitbart News reported, Rodriguez’s win at last year’s (non-televised)...

Hollywood’s unconditional love for Zelensky is as strong as ever. This year’s Golden Globes ceremony, which will air Tuesday on NBC at 8 p.m., will feature an appearance by Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, who will deliver a “special message of peace.” Naturally, actor Sean Penn will be on hand to introduce Zelensky during the live telecast. In its announcement Monday, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association didn’t say if Zelensky will appear in person at the ceremony in Beverly Hills or will address viewers remotely.

Brendan Fraser is a frontrunner to land an Oscar nomination for best actor thanks to his acclaimed performance in Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale.” But you rarely get to an Oscar nomination without stops at other major precursory awards first, including the Golden Globes, which will be back in full force on NBC in 2023. Fraser confirmed to GQ magazine that he will not participate in the Globes if he is nominated for “The Whale” due to his accusation that Philip Berk, former president and member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, groped him at a 2003 luncheon at the Beverly...

Michaela Jaé “Mj” Rodriguez, a guy who identifies as a woman, won a Best Actress Golden Globe Sunday night for a lead role in a television drama. So a guy walked in and robbed an actual actress, not only from winning a Golden Globe but from being nominated for a Golden Globe.

At a time when parents are waking up to the threat of critical race theory in schools, Hollywood is doubling down on it. In fact, they’re eating their own. Just read the primary criticism of the latest work of Lin-Manuel Miranda—a man who literally cast black and Hispanic actors as America’s founding fathers in Hamilton: the actors playing Dominican characters aren’t dark enough. After catering to a smaller and smaller group of coastal elites, La-La Land is finally collapsing into itself under the weight of the political left’s own contradictions. It’s not enough for the left to set the agenda....

Hollywood appears to be canceling itself. Identity politics has fueled cannibalism in Tinseltown with the Golden Globes being a major target for the political correctness agenda. Tom Cruise has even returned his three Golden Globes. And, Ricky Gervais has the perfect response to all of this.

Tom Cruise has returned his three Golden Globes statues amid the ongoing controversy surrounding the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Cruise won the best actor honor in 1990 for Born on the Fourth of July and in 1997 for Jerry Maguire, as well as a best supporting actor award in 2000 for Magnolia. Earlier today, NBC announced that it would not be airing the 2022 iteration of the Golden Globes. Said the network in a statement: “We continue to believe that the HFPA is committed to meaningful reform. However, change of this magnitude takes time and work, and we feel strongly...

NBC will not air next year's Golden Globes, according to a statement from the network.

There will be no Golden Globes in 2022 on NBC, as the besieged HFPA continues to falter in reforming itself to the satisfaction of Hollywood studios and stakeholders. “We continue to believe that the HFPA is committed to meaningful reform,” said the Comcast-owned network this morning. “However, change of this magnitude takes time and work, and we feel strongly that the HFPA needs time to do it right. As such, NBC will not air the 2022 Golden Globes. Assuming the organization executes on its plan, we are hopeful we will be in a position to air the show in January...

iberals celebrate Tom Hanks as the nicest guy in Hollywood. The left celebrated Hanks, even more, when he ridiculed Trump back in 2016. Hanks said that Donald Trump will be president “when spaceships come down filled with dinosaurs in red capes.” Speaking to Sky News on the red carpet at the London premiere of his movie, A Hologram for the King, Hanks also took issue with Trump’s central campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again.” He was and still is a hero for the liberals and even some conservatives call him Mr.Nice Guy. But it seems that he does have a...

Just 8.8 million people tuned into the Grammy Awards on CBS this year, a new all-time low for the music awards show, according to near-final Nielsen ratings. Why it matters: In a sign of how much the pandemic has sped up ratings declines for award shows, the Grammy's ratings were still the highest for any major award show in the past year. The Golden Globes were viewed by just 6.9 million people this year, a record low. Viewership of the Emmys last September dropped 11% year-over-year to just 6.1 million viewers, another record low. Prior to Sunday, 2006 was the...

I just put myself through something I don’t recommend to anyone: I watched the Golden Globes. I don’t recommend it, especially if you’re prone to eye rolling or vomiting which have been known to be exacerbated by prolonged exposure to self-righteous Hollywood leftists, but I am a trained professional so, with Visine and a bucket at the ready, I was able to survive it to tell my tale. And the only takeaway from the night is the fact that liberals are awful people who hate themselves, each other, and the country. Right from the start it was clear this was...

Winners notwithstanding, the obvious shortcomings of the 78th annual Golden Globes on-screen last night were reflected in the ratings for the NBC broadcast ceremony today. Though the Comcast-owned network doesn’t plan to release final numbers from Nielsen until tomorrow, semi-adjusted fast nationals reveal the Tina Fey and Amy Poehler bicoastal hosted show took a hit from last year. A big hit. And we don’t just mean the worthy whack the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has been taking from some of Tinseltown’s heaviest hitters over the 87-member group’s total lack of Black members. Coming in with a 1.2 rating among adults...

Who cares? I'm only posting this because of one of their "Best" Moments Best: Jane Fonda While the mid-ceremony montages and career-achievement award presentations can often feel like filler, this year’s Jane Fonda tribute and career montage hit the perfect note — as did her speech when she was presented with the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award. “Art has always been not just in step with history, but has led the way — so let’s be leaders,” she said. With a newly silver coif (joining the likes of Ben Stiller), she also showed up in person; a welcome sight...

"There's a story we've been afraid to see and hear about ourselves in this industry," Jane Fonda said at the Golden Globes on Sunday night. "A story about which voices we respect and elevate and which we tune out, a story about who's offered a seat at the table and who is kept out of the rooms where decisions are made." An actress, producer and documentarian — as well as an entrepreneur, activist and author — Fonda, 83, has spent six decades in Hollywood, winning two Oscars and seven Golden Globes, among countless other awards. She's has been arrested many...

...The Globes, normally a loose-and-boozy party that serves as the kickoff for Hollywood’s awards season, has been beset with problems...They include a revelation in the Los Angeles Times that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which gives out the awards, has no Black voting members in the group. ...the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times reported that the HFPA’s membership of 87 journalists includes no Black voters

On Sunday evening the delayed Golden Globes Awards will be staged on NBC, the 78th presentation that honors excellence in both motion pictures and television. As usual there is a gauzy importance surrounding the affair, though it will be well attended by top-flight celebrity talent. Also as usual, there are some logic-defying selections seen in the nominees, a product of the dysfunction built into the process. Pop star Sian released a film she spent years in the making, entitled ‘’Music.’’ It is meant to address the issue of autism but it has been widely panned as both an inept cinematic...