By now somebody in my position, which is to say those who analyze popular culture for a living, should know better than to write off the Golden Globes. Admittedly my bias is a product of viewing them from the TV side of the gift bag, in that those nominations factor less, if at all, into Emmys races. The Globes mean more to moviegoers with an eye toward the Oscars – an audience segment that isn’t what it used to be.
Or that was the case before last year’s batch of industry glitter fests, kicked off by one of the Globes’ worst telecasts earning it its biggest live audience since 2020 with more than 10 million viewers. (Adding in streams, that number swelled to 16 million, according to GoldenGlobes.com.)
