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Golden Globes 2022 Will Still Go Ahead, Will Not Air on NBC

Earlier in May, the HFPA had an approved plan for reform that would include increasing its number of people of color, as well as new restrictions on gifts that members could receive.

I feel like all of these awards are a joke now.

Is this about increasing PoC representation of nominees or of the people voting? I definitely support enforcing the latter, but I feel the former needs to come about naturally as parts of the flawed system are fixed. Like apparently gifts... why was that ever allowed... I'd also love to see some more transparent voting both here and with the Academy Awards like maybe requiring 100 words of justification for every vote along with a disclosure of which nominated works the person watched (as I don't believe there is a requirement to watch all of them).

I feel like all of these awards are a joke now.

The latter IIRC. Which makes way more sense, if you want a diverse opinion, you need diverse groups actually rendering the opinions on who wins and who loses.

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Earlier in May, the HFPA had an approved plan for reform that would include increasing its number of people of color, as well as new restrictions on gifts that members could receive.

Is this about increasing PoC representation of nominees or of the people voting? I definitely support enforcing the latter.

Award shows have always kind of been bought and sold. It's just a lot more transparent now. But yeah, when it just openly comes down to caring more about skin color, sex, or orientation then it does pretty much throw all pretense of meritocracy out the window and make them just status symbols.

SilverTalon01 wrote:

Quote: Earlier in May, the HFPA had an approved plan for reform that would include increasing its number of people of color, as well as new restrictions on gifts that members could receive. Is this about increasing PoC representation of nominees or of the people voting? I definitely support enforcing the latter.

It's the latter, though in this particular case the usage of PoC is the "Asians and Hispanics don't count" one (possibly because the Hispanics in question have a fair amount of European descent.) It is a odd little group of people who pick this particular award. They are people who nominally write for the foreign press, but many of them don't do much.[/url]

The main issue with the Golden Globes was not representation got in the way of meritocracy, but unfair rules and favoritism got in the way of meritocracy.

Until this year, the Golden Globes rules specifically forbade non-English films and animated films from the Best Picture category. That means no Japanese film (and most other languages) was even allowed to compete for the top awards, and no anime was even allowed to compete.

That's the opposite of representation getting in the way of meritocracy.

animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=5289327#5289327

https://variety.com/2020/film/news/minari-foreign-language-film-golden-globes-1234874332/

https://www.goldenglobes.com/sites/default/files/golden_globe_awards_eligibility_descriptions_2020_revisions_approved_3-19-20conformed_5-27-20.pdf

The good news is that they changed the rules in May to level the playing field:

https://www.goldenglobes.com/sites/default/files/2021-07/golden-globe-awards-eligibility-descriptions-2021-revisions-approved-5-25-21.pdf

Anime and foreign films might get slightly better treatment under these new enforcements, but this looks no real different than than that new Oscar rule that requires films to pass certain diversity tests before they can be considered for awards. . Any affect on anime is going to be secondary when the focus is clearly more on pushing for more dversity in the domestic industry.

The original complaints spoke specifically about the lack of black members and black film nominations.

If anything, it'd put foreign films and anime in an even tighter spot since they have those even less than American films do.