How a Revamped Golden Globes Could Impact Awards Season
variety.comTodd Longwell The Golden Globes have always been a boozy, intimate good time, valued by studios for the promotional boost they provided movies in the run-up to the Academy Awards.
But few in the industry outside of the membership of its parent organization the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. seemed to take them seriously, particularly five-time host Ricky Gervais, who during one telecast joked that you couldn’t “officially” buy a Golden Globe, “but if you were to buy one, the man to see would be [then-HFPA head] Philip Berk.” That all changed this year when the Globes organization received a glossy corporate makeover.
It got new owners (a partnership of Dick Clark Prods. and Todd Boehly’s Eldridge), a new boss (longtime Variety editor Tim Gray), a new broadcast home for 2024 (CBS) and a vastly expanded membership. (Earlier this year, Variety’s parent company, Penske Media, acquired Dick Clark Prods.
in a joint venture with Eldridge.) To top it off, the scandal-ridden HPFA was unceremoniously disbanded. How the behind-the-scenes changes will affect the awards telecast people see on Jan.
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