While the event is virtual for the first time ever this year, the stars were asked to glam up for the evening with many attending the live broadcasts from split locations in Los Angeles and New York.
Amy Poehler and Tina Fey are hosting the ceremony, which kicked off at midday on Fox Arena.
Australian actress Margot Robbie, who is presenting an award, looked positively luminous in black and white Chanel.
Best Actress nominee for The Flight Attendant Kaley Cuoco having her Cinderella moment in a strapless Oscar de la Renta creation.
Amanda Seyfried, who is up for the Best Supporting Actress gong for Mank, is pretty in peach with an abundant flower neckline and exposed back. Another Oscar de la Renta masterpiece.
Host Tina Fey looking like she’s on her way to her boring marketing job in downtown Chicago.
Co-host Amy Poehler will be joining her later for after work drinks.
Laura Dern is their boss.
Salma Hayek is divine in red, though we’re underwhelmed by the fit of this frock.
Isla Fisher in hot pink, with her signature red hair, is the colour combination of dreams.
Fisher and her husband Sacha Baron Cohen are Zooming in live from Australia. Ya’ll, we made it to the Globes!
Nicole Kidman, who is nominated for The Undoing, gave fans a glimpse of her unique Louis Vuitton gown fit with chain details.
Cynthia Erivo brings a much-needed burst of colour to the red carpet in this structured green frock, adding a touch of Hollywood glam with long white gloves.
Modern Family actress Sarah Hyland is ravishing in scarlet red.
Disney star Sofia Carson walked the red carpet in a grandiose burgundy and white gown.
I can hear Tiffany Haddish’s dress making clinking noises from Australia.
US entertainment reporter Zuri Hall telling us to do an ab workout without actually saying it.
Elle Fanning is attending the event remotely in custom Gucci.
And Kate Hudson is also a virtual attendee in a low-cut, corset Louis Vuitton dress.
We adore Maya Rudolph, but this is probably more barbecue than black tie.
Schitt’s Creek treasure Dan Levy commanding the spotlight (what’s new) in an eye-popping green suit with sparkling turtle neck and statement shoes.
R&B singer Andra Day shines in a modern princess-style gown teamed with an old Hollywood red lip.
Jane Levy - of Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist fame - triggering people with trypophobia (fear of closely packed holes).
Audrey Grace Marshall, from The Flight Attendant, has gone ultra feminine in powder pink and red slippers.
English actor Josh O’Connor’s choice of photoshoot location is equally as impressive as his relaxed black and white suit.
Schitt’s wins, and saves the Globes from an awkward Emily in Paris moment
By Michael Idato
Catherine O’Hara’s win for best actress, television series, musical or comedy for Schitt’s Creek is not only deserved, it saves the HFPA from a potentially awkward moment had the controversial Emily in Paris nominee, Lily Collins, won the award.
There has been a lot of focus this year on the nomination of Emily in Paris, a fairly lightweight Netflix series whose fortunes and fate were sealed, according to The Los Angeles Times, when the Globes-voting Hollywood Foreign Press Association were taken on a junket to the show’s set in Paris, France.
Lily Collins in Emily in Paris.
Compounding the problem, the HFPA seemed to overlook Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You which is considered one of the year’s most impactful titles. Those line calls are not backed by the numbers either: the critical aggregator Rotten Tomatoes lists Emily in Paris at 63 per cent and I May Destroy You at 98 per cent.
What is worse ... they’re not out of the woods yet. Emily in Paris has another nomination coming up.
But where are you really from...?
By Karl Quinn
What a bitter irony it is that a year after Korean film Parasite made history by winning both best picture and best international (formerly foreign language) picture at the Oscars, we have American film Minari consigned to the best foreign language picture category at the Globes because more than 50 per cent of its dialogue is Korean.
Another Round and Minari are both strong contenders for best picture, foreign language.Credit:
I mean, sure, but this is such an American story – a beautiful, moving, utterly honest tale about immigrants struggling to make a go of it in a new land, sacrificing so much so that their kids can have a shot at a better life. American-born writer-director Lee Isaac Chung – the son of Korean immigrants who lived in a railway car and farmed tough land in Arkansas, just like the film’s Jacob (Steven Yeun) and Monica (Yeri Han) – insists it’s not exactly his family’s story, but gee it comes close. In a recent interview he talked about the moment his father first saw it, turned to him with tears in his eyes and said “Good movie”, and hugged him – a first.
Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round is probably Minari’s strongest competition here, and it’s a great film – a social allegory about alcohol abuse, in which four middle-aged male teachers embark on a madcap experiment to stay permanently inebriated, in the name of science. Mads Mikkelsen is always mesmerising, but teh final scene, in which he dances with wild abandon on the Copenhagen waterfront, is just wonderful. (Mikkelsen is a one-time professional dancer, and Vinterberg has admitted that seeing him strut his stuff was a major reason for his wanting to make the film.)
There’s also the tragic backstory, in which the director’s daughter died in a car crash a week into production (the film is dedicated to her), and that might lend some sentimental weight to its chances. But in terms of the bigger picture, a win for Minari would be a win for diversity, and hopefully the jolt the Globes need to fix a silly rule that put the film into this category in the first place.
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Jane Fonda: 68th Cecil B. DeMille winner, but only the 16th female recipient
By Michael Idato
This year’s Cecil B. DeMille award recipient is actress Jane Fonda. The honorary award is bestowed for outstanding contribution to the world of entertainment and its first recipient was, obviously, legendary director Cecil B. DeMille, who was awarded it in 1952.
Cecille B. DeMille award recipient Jane Fonda.Credit:Brook Mitchell
Other iconic recipients include Walt Disney, Fox studio founder Darryl F. Zanuck, legendary entertainers Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra and Bob Hope, actors Gregory Peck, Kirk Douglas, Charlton Heston and Joan Crawford, and director Alfred Hitchcock.
Last year’s recipient was actor Tom Hanks. The award has been handed out 67 times previously, but to women only on 15 of those occasions. Fonda will be the 16th female recipient.
Whatever happened to the 45-second rule?
By Karl Quinn
Mark Ruffalo’s speech was pretty much a repeat performance of the one he gave at the Emmys, a long, rambling, impassioned plea for love and decency and diversity. He’s followed by Aaron Sorkin, who rattles off his words with all the speed you’d expect, though sadly there’s no walkin’ and talkin’ from Sorkin.
That’s followed by a sketch in which Kenan Thompson and Maya Rudolph play a pair of award winners whose speech wanders hopelessly off the rails, thanks in no small part due the the fact she’s taken a “vodka epidural” beforehand. It’s a cute parody, though if they hadn’t framed it as such I wonder how many people would have realised it wasn’t just another self-indulgent acceptance speech.
Aaron Sorkin picks up award for best screenplay, motion picture
The category: Best screenplay – motion picture
The nominees: Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman Jack Fincher, Mank Aaron Sorkin, The Trial of the Chicago 7 Christopher Hampton and Floran Zeller, The Father Chloe Zhao, Nomadland
Winner: Aaron Sorkin, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Mark Ruffalo wins best actor in a limited series
The category: best performance by an actor in a limited series, anthology series or a motion picture made for television
The nominees: Bryan Cranston, Your Honor Jeff Daniels, The Comey Rule Hugh Grant, The Undoing Ethan Hawke, The Good Lord Bird Mark Ruffalo, I Know This Much is True
Winner: Mark Ruffalo, I Know This Much is True
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Sorry, did someone say sorry?
By Karl Quinn
Three journalists from the HFPA take to the stage to acknowledge the fact there is not a single black person among their 87 current members. They are German, Indian and Turkish, and they talk about the need to do better. And then we cut to an ad break. Truly bizarre.
The crows have ayes
By Karl Quinn
Judging by the cheers, Catherine O’Hara is a very popular winner. There’s a weird background noise as she thanks the Levy family for creating a role in which she got to “wear a hundred wigs and speak like an alien”, but the noise just keeps getting louder, and eventually it becomes obvious that it’s the phone in the hand of Bo Welch, her production designer husband. Well, it’s obvious to everyone but him. “Seriously,” she says, scowling at him. He’s oblivious. She talks louder, and eventually starts singing her speech. Still he has no idea what’s going on. The crows have eyes, but the husband has no ears. Hilarious.
How can you even pick a winner in this field?
By Karl Quinn
As is often the way, the best actress category makes for one of the strongest fields of this event. And that means those of a parochial bent are in for disappointment today because Australia’s perennial awards contenders Cate Blanchett and Nicole Kidman are both up for the same category, best actress in a limited series.
Blanchett is up for Mrs America, the period feminist drama in which she plays conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly. It’s her 11th nomination (she’s won three times previously), and if the strength of the performance is any indication she’s a strong contender.
Kidman is up for The Undoing, in which she plays a po-faced psychotherapist whose husband (Hugh Grant) may or may not be a murderer. It’s her 14th nomination – the first coming way back in 1992 for Billy Bathgate – and if she wins (frankly, I think it’s a long shot) it would be the fifth time.
This is a seriously strong field though, with all three other nominees having a good claim to the Globe. Anya Taylor-Joy for The Queen’s Gambit would make for a very popular choice, but I’m going to suggest Shira Haas might sneak this for her superb performance in Unorthodox, in which she plays a woman who flees her strict Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn to pursue her musical dream in Berlin (as you do). That said, Daisy Edgar-Jones is terrific in Normal People too.
OMG, it’s just so hard to pick. Who do you think should win this one? And who do you think actually will?
Pixar movie full of heart wins best animated motion picture
The category: best motion picture – animated
The nominees: The Croods: A New Age Onward Over the Moon Soul Wolfwalker
Judging by the cheers, Catherine O’Hara is a very popular winner. There’s a weird background noise as she thanks the Levy family for creating a role in which she got to “wear a hundred wigs and speak like an alien”, but the noise just keeps getting louder, and eventually it becomes obvious that it’s the phone in the hand of Bo Welch, her production designer husband. Well, it’s obvious to everyone but him. “Seriously,” she says, scowling at him. He’s oblivious. She talks louder, and eventually starts singing her speech. Still he has no idea what’s going on. The crows have eyes, but the husband has no ears. Hilarious.
How can you even pick a winner in this field?
By Karl Quinn
As is often the way, the best actress category makes for one of the strongest fields of this event. And that means those of a parochial bent are in for disappointment today because the only Australians nominated are perennial awards contenders Cate Blanchett and Nicole Kidman – and they’re both up for the same category, best actress in a limited series.
Blanchett is up for Mrs America, the period feminist drama in which she plays conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly. It’s her 11th nomination (she’s won three times previously), and if the strength of the performance is any indication she’s a strong contender.
Kidman is up for The Undoing, in which she plays a po-faced psychotherapist whose husband (Hugh Grant) may or may not be a murderer. It’s her 14th nomination – the first coming way back in 1992 for Billy Bathgate – and if she wins (frankly, I think it’s a long shot) it would be the fifth time.
This is a seriously strong field though, with all three other nominees having a good claim to the Globe. Anya Taylor-Joy for The Queen’s Gambit would make for a very popular choice, but I’m going to suggest Shira Haas might sneak this for her superb performance in Unorthodox, in which she plays a woman who flees her strict Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn to pursue her musical dream in Berlin (as you do). That said, Daisy Edgar-Jones is terrific in Normal People too.
OMG, it’s just so hard to pick. Who do you think should win this one? And who do you think actually will?
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Pixar movie full of heart wins best animated motion picture
The category: best motion picture – animated
The nominees:
The Croods: A New Age Onward Over the Moon Soul olfwalker
Winner: Soul
Well, that went well...
Daniel Kaluuya wins best supporting actor for his lead role in Judas and the Black Messiah, in which so much of the performance revolves around the passionate public speaking of Black Panther Fred Hampton. And his microphone isn’t working! Presenter Laura Dern makes her apologies, congratulates him, leaves the stage ... and then Daniel’s microphone IS working! It’s crazy, but we’ve all been there, right?
Another win for Schitt’s Creek’s Catherine O’Hara
The award: best performance by an actress in a television series - musical or comedy
The nominees:
Lily Collins, Emily in Paris Kaley Cuoco, The Flight Attendant Elle Fanning, The Great Jane Levy, Zooey’s Extraordinary Playlist Catherine O’Hara, Schitt’s Creek
The winner: Catherine O’Hara, Schitt’s Creek
Oh, Emily. We love you, really
By Karl Quinn
Early contender for zinger of the night. “Emily in Paris is nominated for best TV series musical or comedy, and I for one can’t wait to find out which it is,” says Fey. And Music is up for “best international flopperoonie”, she adds.
“Look, a lot of flashy garbage got nominated,” says Poehler. Awards shows are “all a scam invented by Big Red Carpet”, she confides. “To sell more carpet,” adds Fey.
Seriously, I love these two.
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“You’re on mute”
On top of several jokes about the lack of black members in the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and how they overlooked a batch of deserving black-led productions at Golden Globes this year, the first two awards have gone to two black British actors: Daniel Kaluuya for Judas and the Black Messiah (who was still on mute for his first attempt at a speech) and John Boyega for Small Axe. Will it be enough to restore the somewhat tarnished reputation of the association? The early announcement of a $US2 million donation for COVID-19 relief was a gesture towards that end, no doubt. L
Daniel Kaluuya as young Black Panther leader Fred Hampton in Judas and the Black Messiah.Credit:Warner Bros
John Boyega picks up a Golden Globe
The category for best performance by an actor in a television supporting role was a tough one, but the award ultimately went to a very shocked John Boyega.
John Boyega, Small Axe Brendan Gleeson, The Comey Rule Daniel Levy, Schitt’s Creek Jim Parsons, Hollywood Donald Sutherland, The Undoing
Winner: John Boyega, Small Axe
And here’s Tina Fey ... and there’s Amy Poehler. Together, only not
By Karl Quinn
A lovely sight gag to kick things off, as hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler try to convince us that we’d never know they were co-presenting from opposite coasts (Fey in New York, Poehler in LA). Fey puts her left arm out across the split screen, and an arm – clearly not her – strokes Poehler’s hair.
Here comes the first dig at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association - which comprises “around 90 international no-black journalists who attend movie junkets each year in search of a better life”. And we’re off.
An arm that spans the width of North America: Golden Globes hosts Tina Fey (in New York) and Amy Poehler (in LA). Credit:AP
They’re offering a handy guide to the distinction between movies and TV, a distinction that for many of us has become a little blurry recently. “TV is the one I watch five hours straight, but a movie is the one I don’t watch because they go for two hours,” says Poehler. “I want to watch TV for one hour, five times straight.”
Fey: “If their fake teeth look real it’s a movie, if their real teeth look fake that’s TV.”
“If it stars Matthew McConaughey as a poetic drifter,” adds Poehler. “That’s a car commercial.”
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is under fire right now. Here's why
A report last week by the Los Angeles Times revealed just how much money the HFPA was earning from TV network NBC and, despite it being a tax-exempt, not-for-profit group, how much it was paying its members.
Unlike the film and television academies behind the Oscars or the Emmys that have up to tens of thousands of voting members, the HFPA is only made up of 87 people.
The LA Times spoke to some of those members who even accused the HFPA of self dealing and ethical lapses, including $2 million in annual payments to members.
Here's an excerpt from that report:
"Last fiscal year, the organization pulled in $27.4 million from the network [NBC] up from $3.64 million in fiscal 2016-2017, according to a budget document. As of the end of October, the HFPA had just over $50 million in cash on hand, internal financial documents show."
The association has been paying members hefty fees for things like archival work, travel allowances and pandemic payments.
And this bit is particularly interesting...
The article also mentioned situations where the HFPA would nominate a production after being lavished by the studio behind that production.
Supplied: Netflix
About that Emily in Paris nomination, the article said:
"In 2019, more than 30 HFPA members flew to France to visit the set of the new series "Emily in Paris." While there, Paramount Network treated the group to a two-night stay at the five-star Peninsula Paris hotel, where rooms currently start at about $1,400 a night, and a news conference and lunch at the Musee des Arts Forains, a private museum filled with amusement rides dating to 1850 where the show was shooting."
To summarise, the LA times article, citing various media reports, said:
"In the years since, HFPA members have frequently been portrayed as celebrity-obsessed freeloaders, exchanging votes for perks and access and undermining any notion of journalistic credibility."
Kyle and Jackie O have revealed why they were banned from the Golden Globes red carpet for five years.
The KIIS FM hosts explained on air this morning that several years ago they were in LA for the awards show and had accreditation to stand on the red carpet in the media section to interview stars on their way into the ceremony.
“We went up to an old lady and said, ‘Excuse me, we’re not sure where to go,’” Kyle said. “We were supposed to go to the media pit, but we looked that good that day that the lady goes, ‘Oh, come with me.’
“She rushed us through a door and pushed us out and all of a sudden we’re there next to Mary Hart of Entertainment Tonight. We were on the red carpet!”
Kyle continued: “Jackie looked at me and I said, ‘Just run with it.’ It was hard though because we had about 300 metres of microphone cable and a microphone each.”
It didn’t take long for someone to realise Kyle and Jackie O were media and did not belong on the actual red carpet.
As Jackie recalled, a female Golden Globes official approached them and yelled at them on the carpet.
“Jesus, we got berated. I’ve never felt so small in all my life,” Jackie said.
After the telling off, Kyle and Jackie O thought they’d be sent back to the media pit where they were supposed to be initially, but the Globes official sent them somewhere else.
“She pushed us to the end where the photographers were,” Jackie said. “We were in the photographers pit. No one is actually going to go up and talk to a photographer, are they, so we didn’t get one damn person.”
As a result of the mix up, Kyle said he and his radio offsider were banned from attending the Globes for the next five years.
While the event is virtual for the first time ever this year, the stars have still been asked to glam up for the evening with many attending the live broadcasts from split locations in Los Angeles and New York.
Amy Poehler and Tina Fey are hosting the ceremony, which kicks off at midday AEDT on Fox Arena.
Australian actress Margot Robbie, who is presenting an award tonight, looks positively luminous in black and white Chanel.
Best Actress nominee for The Flight Attendant Kaley Cuoco posed from her LA home in a strapless Oscar de la Renta creation.
Amanda Seyfried, who is up for the Best Supporting Actress gong for Mank, is pretty in peach with an abundant flower neckline and exposed back. Another Oscar de la Renta masterpiece.
Modern Family actress Sarah Hyland is ravishing in scarlet red.
Elle Fanning is attending the event remotely in custom Gucci.
Audrey Grace Marshall, from The Flight Attendant, has gone ultra feminine in powder pink and red slippers.
English actor Josh O’Connor’s choice of photoshoot location is equally as impressive as his relaxed black and white suit.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is under fire right now. Here's why
A report last week by the Los Angeles Times revealed just how much money the HFPA was earning from TV network NBC and, despite it being a tax-exempt, not-for-profit group, how much it was paying its members.
Unlike the film and television academies behind the Oscars or the Emmys that have up to tens of thousands of voting members, the HFPA is only made up of 87 people.
The LA Times spoke to some of those members who even accused the HFPA of self dealing and ethical lapses, including $2 million in annual payments to members.
Here's an excerpt from that report:
"Last fiscal year, the organization pulled in $27.4 million from the network [NBC] up from $3.64 million in fiscal 2016-2017, according to a budget document. As of the end of October, the HFPA had just over $50 million in cash on hand, internal financial documents show."
The association has been paying members hefty fees for things like archival work, travel allowances and pandemic payments.
And this bit is particularly interesting...
The article also mentioned situations where the HFPA would nominate a production after being lavished by the studio behind that production.
Supplied: Netflix
About that Emily in Paris nomination, the article said:
"In 2019, more than 30 HFPA members flew to France to visit the set of the new series "Emily in Paris." While there, Paramount Network treated the group to a two-night stay at the five-star Peninsula Paris hotel, where rooms currently start at about $1,400 a night, and a news conference and lunch at the Musee des Arts Forains, a private museum filled with amusement rides dating to 1850 where the show was shooting."
To summarise, the LA times article, citing various media reports, said:
"In the years since, HFPA members have frequently been portrayed as celebrity-obsessed freeloaders, exchanging votes for perks and access and undermining any notion of journalistic credibility."
Stars like Sterling K. Brown, Amber Tamblyn and Ellen Pompeo are speaking up about the lack of diversity in the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's ranks, namely the fact that the organisation does not currently have a single Black member.
This wave of criticism comes ahead of today's 78th Annual Golden Globes ceremony. HFPA board chair Meher Tatna told Variety Friday that the organisation of international journalists has not had any Black members in at least 20 years.
On Friday afternoon, #TimesUp posted an image of a cracked Golden Globe statue to social media, featuring the message, "Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Not a single Black member out of 87." The organisation captioned the post, "A cosmetic fix isn't enough," and the added hashtag "#TimesUpGlobes."
Kerry Washington, Jurnee Smollett, Amy Schumer, Sean Hayes, Simon Pegg, DeVon Franklin, America Ferrera, Mark Duplass, Courtney Kemp, Tom Verica, Busy Phillips, Dakota Johnson, Patton Oswalt, Laura Dern and Alyssa Milano were among the celebs to repost the image and caption. Ellen Barkin asked, "What price HFPA?" in her post. Rashida Jones took to her Instagram story, adding, "Representation Matters. A cosmetic fix isn't gonna cut it."
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants actor Tamblyn wrote in her Instagram post: "The complete exclusion of Black women and Black people in general from the entire membership of the HFPA which votes for The Golden Globes is unacceptable. We call on one of our country's biggest and brightest award show ceremonies to ensure the future of the Golden Globes' leadership represents the content, culture, and creative work of women of ALL kinds, not just white women, and of Black voices in general, both as nominees and as members instrumental in the nominating process. A cosmetic fix just isn't enough. The world is watching."
On Saturday evening, Pompeo went one step further, penning an open letter to the HFPA and white Hollywood, emphasizing that the responsibility to create change not be on Black people or other communities of color and asking her white colleagues to "to pull up, show up and get this issue resolved."
"I think we can all agree that the governing body of the Golden Globe awards the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has a membership equity issue that is unacceptable," Pompeo's post began.
"This is a very solvable problem. This is Hollywood, we are master problem solvers. There is a solution here and I have faith we can find it," she continued. "What we can not do...is leave this problem up to the black community and all our communities of colour to fix. This is not their problem, it's ours."
Pompeo concluded: "I would kindly ask all my white colleagues, an industry that we love and has granted us enormous privilege.... to pull up, show up and get this issue resolved. Let's show our black colleagues that we care and are willing to do the work to right the wrongs we have created. Now is not the time to be silent. We have a real action item here let's get it done."
Don't Worry Darling director Olivia Wilde chimed in on Instagram, saying: "Truly absurd. I support and celebrate all the GG nominees, and their hard work for their craft, but when it comes to this institution, it's time for the HFPA to commit to some deep, structural evolution."
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay, who became the first Black woman nominated for Best Director by the HFPA in 2015, captioned her post, "Old news. New energy." DuVernay also retweeted a 2017 post from Jada Pinkett Smith, who had posted, "I have so much to say on why [her 'Girls Trip' co-star] Tiffany Haddish was not nominated for a Globe...but I won't."
Viola Davis, who is nominated for a Golden Globe this year for her performance in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, shared a quote from author Shannon L. Adler with her post: "Telling the world you're trying is not doing."
"The journey of a Black artist is littered with obstacles in creating, developing and being acknowledged for our work," Davis added. "If we continue to keep silent, the younger generation of artists will have the exact same load to carry. No more excuses."
Other prolific creators speaking up include Damon Lindelof, J.J. Abrams (and his Bad Robot company) and Shonda Rhimes, who wrote, Enough is enough in her post. Judd Apatow added, "So many crazy things about the @goldenglobes and the Hollywood Foreign press but this is awful."
Sterling K. Brown won Best Performance by an actor for 'This Is Us' in 2018. (WireImage)
Love & Basketball and The Old Guard filmmaker Gina Prince-Bythewood reposted the image with additional sentiment, writing, "No excuses (there are none). No apologies (we don't believe you). No empty gestures (cosmetic fixes are not enough). Change the game."
Natasha Lyonne called the situation, "Flagrant and unacceptable. It's a wrap on all of this. Deeply transparent omissions to the incredible work on display this season. And many, many seasons past. Enough of this."
Never Have I Ever star Poorna Jagannathan pointed out the fact that HBO's I May Destroy You didn't receive any nominations in her post.
"If you, like me, found it incomprehensible that @imaydestroyyou wasn't nominated for a single Globe, now you know why," Jagannathan wrote. "I've lost so much respect for #hfpa and until they change drastically, they hold zero credibility."
Brown, a Golden Globe winner and two-time nominee, posted a different photo to Instagram, writing a lengthy and thoughtful caption.
"To be nominated for a Golden Globe is a tremendous honor. To win one is a dream come true. It can affect the trajectory of an individual's career...it certainly has with mine," Brown began.
"I'm presenting at the telecast this weekend to honor all the storytellers, especially those of color, who have achieved this extraordinary moment in their careers...AND I have my criticisms of the #HFPA," he continued. "87 people wield a tremendous amount of power. For any governing body of a current Hollywood award show to have such a lack of voting representation illustrates a level of irresponsibility that should not be ignored."
"With the power you have HFPA, you simultaneously hold a responsibility to ensure your constituency is fully reflective of the world in which we live," the actor concluded. "When you know better, you must do better. And having a multitude of Black presenters does not absolve you of your lack of diversity. This is your moment to do the right thing. It is my hope that you will.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association posted a statement in response to the criticism: "We are fully committed to ensuring our membership is reflective of the communities around the world who love film, tv, and the artists inspiring and educating them. We understand that we need to bring in Black members as well as members from other underrepresented backgrounds, and we will immediately work to implement an action plan to achieve these goals as soon as possible."
The HFPA added that the matter would be addressed in Sunday's broadcast.
Lady Gaga has been reunited with her two French bulldogs thanks to an anonymous Good Samaritan who found them in Los Angeles.
The performer’s dog walker, Ryan Fischer, was shot once as he walked three of the singer’s dogs in Hollywood.
Video showed a white sedan pulling up and two men jumping out. They struggled with the dog walker before one pulled a gun and fired a single shot before fleeing with two of the dogs. The third escaped and has since been reunited with Lady Gaga’s representatives.
On Saturday, the LAPD confirmed that a woman brought the dogs to its Olympic Community Police station around 6pm. Because the singer is currently in Rome, her representatives joined detectives at the station and confirmed that the woman did indeed have the two dogs with her.
Captain Jonathan Tippet, commanding officer of the department’s elite Robbery-Homicide Division noted that the woman, whose identity is being kept a secret as the investigation into the crime continues, does not appear to be involved in the crime or associated with the criminals in any way.
“The woman found the dogs and reached out to Lady Gaga’s staff to return them. The woman’s identity and the location the dogs were found will remain confidential due to the active criminal investigation and for her safety,” a post on the LAPD’s Facebook page reads.
TMZ reports that the woman found the dogs unharmed and tied to a pole in an alley several kilometres from where they were initially snatched in Hollywood. Once she discovered the dogs, she reached out to an email address provided by police for tips and then co-ordinated to bring them into the station.
Gaga previously offered a $US500,000 reward for the safe return of her dogs, whose names are Koji and Gustav. It’s unclear if the woman who found them has accepted the offer but TMZ reports that a source says the singer and actress will “gladly” shell out the money as soon as she can.
Representatives for Gaga did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment.
Earlier on Saturday, the Born This Way singer’s father, Joe Germanotta, shared his relief in the dogs’ safe return. However, he still demands justice and is hoping the police will nab the two suspects, one of which authorities say shot Gaga’s dog walker.
“I want them apprehended so that they are tried for assault and/or attempted murder,” Joe Germanotta told us Saturday morning.
The dog walker, whom Gaga has named in a tweet, but that the LAPD has not publicly identified yet, was transported to a local hospital after the incident. He’s since been listed in stable condition after the shooting and his injuries are being described as non-life threatening.
This article originally appeared on Fox News and was reproduced with permission
Armie Hammer shocked neighbours by moving out of his Los Angeles home in the dead of the night this week, Page Six is told.
As we revealed this month, Hammer, 34, and his estranged wife, Elizabeth Chambers, finally found a buyer for their $6.4 million home in the swanky Hancock Park neighbourhood.
The offer came in nearly two months after the former couple slashed the price of their three-storey English Tudor home by $1.03 million.
The Call Me By Your Name star — who has been accused of abuse and cannibal fantasies by a string of former lovers — organised his movers “under the cover of night”.
Although he wasn’t seen by neighbours at the gated property, one told us: “Trucks and a gaggle of movers descended on the property, working well after midnight and lit only by flashlights.
“We like to keep drama to the minimum in the neighbourhood, but it was already weird that the house sat on the market for months while other houses around here sold like hot cakes.”
The seven-bedroom, six-bathroom property first hit the market in September for $7.5 million after Hammer and Chambers, 38, announced their split following 10 years of marriage.
A month later, they reduced the price to $6.8 million and then decreased it again in December.
Amid the allegations over his behaviour, Hammer has been dropped by his talent agency, WME, and has left a slew of upcoming projects.
We have reached out to Hammer reps for comment.
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She never set out to be famous. She was just being herself. Conspicuously, arrestingly, unmistakably herself. It's just that being Jeanne Little involved wigs, extravagantly false eyelashes and a wardrobe that was aiming for Hollywood glamour but somehow came out as high camp.
Jeanne had a personality like no other.(AAP: Tracey Nearmy)
She was loud. She was flamboyant. There was no-one else like Jeanne.
"It was almost as if she came from another planet," says friend and entertainment reporter Craig Bennett.
And she was like that all the time, says her only child Katie Little. "You try being woken up by Jeanne Little at seven o'clock in the morning to go to school and see how you like it," she says.
For Jeanne, life was, literally, a cabaret. Until it wasn't.
Until the loudest person in the room was struck silent. Until a person who never stopped talking was rendered mute. Until the laughter died and the vivid brightness faded into the illness of Alzheimer's. And it wasn't funny anymore. Then the world became a little bit more ordinary.
Mum-to-be to golden girl in two years
Jeanne's descent was as swift and unpredictable as her ascent had been.
With not much more than a sewing machine and an outrageously infectious personality, she went from minding her own business making outfits for society ladies and drag queens in a dress shop in Sydney's Paddington, to the highest-paid woman in television.
She crashed into television when she was eight months pregnant at the age of 36. Finding maternity clothes too boring, she had made her own far more fabulous frocks.
Jeanne didn't have time for "bland" maternity clothes so she got creative in her sewing room.(Supplied: Katie Little)
In 1974, a guest had dropped out of the top-rating daytime TV program The Mike Walsh Show. A panicking producer had spotted a photograph of outrageously dressed Jeanne in the Daily Telegraph and sent a taxi. From the first "hello daaarliiiings" she was a sensation.
"The country fell in love with the whole Jeanne Little catastrophe," Katie says.
Two years later, she caused a show business upset when, in a cyclone of blue feathers, she won a Gold Logie, ultimately becoming, at $1,000 a week, the highest-paid woman on Australian television.
But like all great comediennes, she was never as ditzy as she pretended to be. It is harder than you might think to be that silly. That kind of shtick requires planning, control, timing.
"Mum was coming up with the ideas for the spots and the segments," Katie says. "She was coming up with the questions that she'd give Mike Walsh to ask her when she was out there."
Radio personality and comedian Wendy Harmer agrees.
"It took a lot of determination and ingenuity and cleverness to forge her way in the male-dominated world of comedy in the 70s. There was method to the madness," she says.
"She didn't just rock up and blather about anything. Jeanne would absolutely keep her eye on the issues of the day."
Jeanne holds her Gold Logie beside fellow recipient Don Lane and presenters Burt Lancaster and Bert Newton.(Supplied: Katie Little)
Jeanne's raucous voice, which by her own admission could strip paint, was not an affectation. It was the result of a crippling childhood stutter.
"The way she overcame that was learning to elongate her words, like daaarling," Katie explains.
"She really tried hard to get over that and to try to pronounce stuff and overcome her stutter, she put a lot of work into being able to speak. I think she even went to a psychiatrist at one point."
It paid off.
"People would just stop in the street and turn around, they knew instantly it was Mum's voice," Katie says.
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Making fashion from sausages, milk bottles, garbage bags
Jeanne had grown up the youngest of seven children with a Glaswegian single mother, Catherine, who was a tailor.
"It was a poor household," Katie says. Jeanne would make summer outfits out of tea towels. "Mum loved fashion and always wanted to look fabulous."
But in those early years on The Mike Walsh Show, she was only being paid $25 a week.
"She'd rip photos of Hollywood movie sirens out of Vogue magazines and stick them on the wall," Katie remembers.
"And she'd figure out how to do something similar on a shoestring budget."
Katie says her mum looked for inspiration wherever she went — using clean industrial waste, balloons or garbage bags.
"I remember my father and I sitting there for two weeks flattening milk bottle caps," Katie says. "Mum hand-stitched them onto this kind of tube dress and ended up looking like a beautiful mermaid. Things that you thought were rubbish or nothing at all she'd turn into a fabulous outfit.
"If we went to the supermarket she would go, 'Can I keep that piecrust? I'll fry them up and turn it into a fabulous hat'."
Katie grew up backstage with her mum on The Mike Walsh Show.(Supplied: Katie Little)
Jeanne was known for her edible hats, as Ita Buttrose, a fellow panellist on the daytime show Beauty and the Beast recalls.
"She always made it seem like they were easy to do. But when you looked at them and all the intricate details, and the way she attached sausages, you realised a lot of hard work had gone into it," she says.
Jeanne had been a dedicated party girl in Paddington, then a bohemian community, when she met her husband Barry Little, a larger-than-life personality himself. He had been a model, photographed by Helmut Newton.
Jeanne was wearing a clear plastic dress with plastic flowers stuck on it. As the champagne flowed and the party became hot and steamy the flowers melted off the dress and Cinderella was forced to do a hasty departure from her prince.
But Barry found her to be a "complete individual". He knew a rare thing when he saw it.
"He took me for dinner," Jeanne said in a 2006 episode of ABC's Talking Heads program. "And I didn't really ever like anyone else. I had always thought of Barry as being the only person I really adored. And it was just a mad, mad wedding."
Jeanne skyrocketed to fame and nationwide popularity.(Supplied: Katie Little)
The Little household was like being in a sitcom for their daughter.
"I do really feel like I grew up in almost a theatrical production. I grew up in this big, tall terrace house and my bedroom was on the top floor with my mother's sewing room. And down in the basement was my father's interior design business. So we lived in this big crazy creative mess."
A surprising 'secret' revealed
After her father died in July 2019 at the age of 89, Katie came across a box of love letters he had written. It slowly dawned on her that they were not to her mother but to a male lover, someone she had known as Uncle Colin, who had worked in the interior design business in the basement.
Barry had met Jeanne soon after they had broken up.
"I remember Barry saying to me that the whole reason he went from being a gay man to a straight man was because of the magic of Jeanne," her good friend and entertainment reporter Craig Bennett says.
It had not been a secret; Jeanne had joked about it — "He saved me from being an alcoholic and I saved him from being gay" — but no-one had told Katie.
Katie on her 13th birthday with her mum Jeanne Little, "Uncle" Colin (left) and dad Barry (right).(Supplied: Katie Little)
Katie says the revelation made her "rethink her whole family" and the world in which she grew up.
"It's like my whole childhood and history is like this puzzle," she says.
"But people have sat me down and said he never turned his eye to anyone else [after they met]."
Barry and Jeanne though understood each other perfectly.
"Barry so adored and protected Jeanne, and Jeanne adored and protected Barry. A more genuine, deep and astonishing love you'd be hard-pressed to find," Craig says.
Alzheimer's steals a star
Around 2010, when Jeanne was still doing her cabaret show, Katie started getting concerned phone calls from people. Jeanne was forgetting her lines on television, she was making wildly inappropriate comments
"I remember in those last years of Beauty and the Beast that she would say some really odd things, she'd say frankly offensive and crazy things, and that was not like Jeanne Little," Bennett says.
Jeanne was still smiling, walking, talking, working, but she was losing her mind.
After she died, Katie would find notes in her handbags with little pieces of paper with names on them.
"We had people over for dinner and Mum was off in another room, maybe scribbling pieces of paper with people's names," Katie says. "She couldn't remember our closest friends."
She came to visit Katie and couldn't find the front door. "You've been to my house on numerous occasions. How could you not know where the front door is?" Or she would walk out the front door, leave it open, and Katie's young children would follow her.
Ita Buttrose — who is an ambassador for Dementia Australia — noticed that Jeanne would forget where she was. "But she was quite clever at hiding this."
Stan Zemanek and the panellists of Beauty and the Beast: Jeanne Little, Ita Buttrose and Carlotta.(Supplied: News Ltd / Newspix)
Jeanne was diagnosed with Alzheimer's at age 68 at the Royal Prince of Wales Hospital. Her specialist Tony Broe warned she would continue to deteriorate; she would have to retire and she would need to go into care. Barry said, "But we've booked shows into the New Year, we are going on a cruise."
In denial, Barry protected her, as he always had. He didn't want anyone to know, he didn't want her to go into care.
At a dinner when Katie broached the subject. "It was like a bomb went off. I remember Mum sitting at the end of the table after I'd served dinner and everyone pretending things were normal. And watching my mother looking at a plate and finally picking up a piece of lettuce with her hand and thinking, 'Mum doesn't know how to use cutlery'."
With a baby and a young child to look after, Katie had to cut herself off from her father and his friends for three months.
Barry wanted to keep Jeanne at home as long as possible but it became impossible.
"She was just walking around the dining room table all day," recalls Craig.
"There were fears that she could set the apartment alight and there were fears for her own safety with knives.
"A coterie of very close friends stepped in and said, 'Barry, this is what needs to happen'. It totally broke his heart. They had not been apart in all those years of marriage."
Barry was protective of Jeanne and kept her home as long as he could as her Alzheimer's took hold.(Getty Images: Fairfax Media Archives)
In care, Jeanne deteriorated so quickly, says Craig, "it made your head spin".
Within three months she didn't recognise her daughter.
"Barry would sit there, he'd hold his Jeanne's hand, he'd sing to her, he'd talk to her, but even that became too much for him," Craig says.
"He just couldn't bear the heartache of seeing his once beautiful, vivacious, outrageous, amazing wife just reduced to someone lying in a bed in a nursing home staring at the ceiling."
For Katie there was guilt, her mother didn't know who she was, who anyone was. The fabulous Jeanne Little wasn't there anymore. She was in a bed mute and immobile.
"There was a lot of guilt associated in those last few years. In retrospect don't think I behaved terribly well. I'd pop in and see mum but I didn't spend a lot of time there," she says.
When Barry died, she went to tell Jeanne but there was no response. "I didn't expect one".
Within three months of diagnosis Jeanne no longer recognised Katie.(Supplied: Katie Little)
Jeanne lay in that hospital bed staring at the ceiling for 11 more years.
In the end, the woman who had brought so much joy to so many people was robbed of everything. Her voice, her personality, her daughter, her grandchildren, her family.
Katie wants her mother to be remembered as she was before she got sick.
"I am on a mission now to get mum the recognition I feel that she's entitled to as one of Australia's first female comedians, and I'm not going to rest until I get that done," she says.
Katie is proud of her mother's legacy as a pioneer of women in comedy.(Australian Story: Megan Mackander)
At her memorial service, Wendy Harmer placed her firmly among the greats.
"I do think Jeanne deserves her place in the comedy pantheon in Australia with people like Norman Gunston. She was unique, she was remarkable, she owns her place, she deserves her place," she said.
"Thank you, Jeanne, for being a trailblazer in women's comedy."
Watch Australian Story's I Dream of Jeanne, 8:00pm (AEDT), on ABCTV and iview.
