Golden Globes So White

what percentage of hollywood actors are white and what percentage of them are black or other ethnicities? supposedly the black population makes up only 13% of the total u.s. population, i would think it's even LESS in hollyweird.

It's been known for years that the Globes are paid for, even more so than any other awards show. Anyone who thinks they're based on merit is kidding themselves.

Karens rule the world.

I'm pretty sure Emily in Paris (which, yes I watched but would never call GOOD TV) getting multiple nominations was the nail in the coffin for the Globes.

See also Pia Zadora and Lady Gaga.

Tons of Brits though.

They're better actors and produce better quality offerings R5.

Who fucking cares? This isn't an American award, which has to have minority ( read black) representation. It's the foreign press and they aren't bound by the SJW rules that US ceremonies must reflect.

12.5% of the nominees are visibly POC, Blacks make up 13.4% of the US population. What’s the issue again?

I wonder how many people in the general population give a fuck about awards anymore.

R9 dramatic homosexuals, movie industry employees and theatre Fraus... so 1.5% of the population.

R8 there is no issue

The percentages versus population are correct. Is it just that SJWs are annoying AND bad at math?

So the reverse racism here is that they’re basically asserting: “We’re more talented than whites and deserve to have 50% or more of the nominations and to win all the awards.”

Math is racist, R12.

If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a million times...

12% Population, 99% Representation! NOW!

R13 whatchu mean “they”?!?!?

Great. I might actually watch.

Are just the female Golden Globes nominee "so white"?

R18 yeah it came in 1% under so they use it but they won’t use the ones that don’t prove their point

Awards shows were over when Moonlight won Best Picture over the equally shitty LaLaLand. Neither deserved it.

The poorly kept secret of the Golden Globes is that they can be bought.

Voted on by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the awards are famous for the lengths to which studios will go to woo the group's membership — which usually numbers around 90. The most famous incident involved young actress Pia Zadora, who won an award in 1982 amid accusations that her husband had paid for it with an elaborate promotional campaign.

In accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award for career achievement during Sunday's ceremony, Denzel Washington told a terrific story about something he'd been told by Freddie Fields, the producer of Glory, for which Washington won his first Golden Globe (and his first Oscar):

Some of you may know Freddie Fields. He invited me to the first Hollywood Foreign Press luncheon. He said they are gonna watch the movie. We are gonna feed them. They are gonna come over. You gonna take pictures with everybody. You are gonna hold the magazines, take the pictures, and you're gonna win the award.

[Audience laughter.]

I won that year.

As Washington's later Oscar win for Glory shows, the Globes are often important Oscar precursors, setting the conversation for who the "frontrunners" are, leading to either an Oscar coronation or some sort of backlash.

That has become less true in recent years, as the Oscars have moved up their airdate to avoid influence. The two used to air two months (or more) apart, but now air closer to six weeks apart. Oscar nominations also used to be heavily influenced by Globe winners — but Oscar ballots have already been turned in and, thus, can't be swayed by the Globes' winners. But this system isn't foolproof.

That explains why studios work the HFPA so much. It's a much easier organization to woo than the 6,291-member-strong Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which votes on the Oscars. (AMPAS also has stricter rules about campaigning.)

As my colleague Caroline Framke points out in this piece on the HFPA's role within awards season, the organization's small membership gives it enormous, outsized importance.

Movies and especially television series that lie outside the safe or more obvious choices have a better shot at earning awards recognition if they appeal to the 90-member HFPA, as opposed to the larger governing bodies behind the Emmys and the Oscars. In any case, because so few make up its ranks, each member of the HFPA carries considerable power, at least as far as Golden Globe winners are concerned. Cumulative votes matter, of course, but one vote out of 90 carries much more weight than one vote out of 7,000 — which is what makes the HFPA so powerful, and sometimes, so utterly random.

R21 indeed

It's the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Foreigners hate blacks.

[quote]So the reverse racism here is that they’re basically asserting: “We’re more talented than whites and deserve to have 50% or more of the nominations and to win all the awards.”

I think it’s more like “We’ve bee underrepresented for so long that overrepresentation is needed to balance the scales.”

[quote]So the reverse racism here is that they’re basically asserting: “We’re more talented than whites and deserve to have 50% or more of the nominations and to win all the awards.”

"Reverse racism" isn't a thing.

R25 you’re right it’s just “racism”

I'm more concerned that it's so cis.

They aren't the Ebony Globes, Dear.

Kate Hudson is KKK and untalented.

They should start their own awards

White with dirty dyed blonde hair.

Why are there no stars?

OP is so right.

Persons of colored colors obviously make up 190^% of the US population and 1000% of the "celebrities most at risk for making only $10 million this year."

Reparations BLACKWOMANDATORY!

Forty percent of employee sick days take place on Fridays and Mondays! This is unacceptable!

It's Black History month, forever