LOS ANGELES — Before dawn Monday, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced its nominations for the first televised Golden Globe Awards in two years, since a 2021 Los Angeles Times investigation exposed a lack of diversity in the organization's membership and raised concerns about its ethics and financial practices.
Hollywood's response? A collective out-of-office message.
In years past, studios and publicists greeted the nominations with a flurry of press releases, lining up interviews with nominees to share their breathlessly excited reactions. But in the wake of two years of scandal and tumult surrounding the Globes, the response was decidedly muted, as the industry reconsiders its relationship with what had long been one of Hollywood's most coveted, if often mocked, awards.
