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Everything You Need to Know About the 78th Golden Globe Awards
What are the Golden Globes?
The Golden Globe Awards is an annual awards ceremony that honors the year’s best in film and television. This year’s ceremony will be held at 8pm ET/5pm PT on Sunday, February 28th and air live on NBC. There are 25 categories, with 14 for film and 11 for television. The voting body is the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), a collection of 87 journalists and photographers who cover the U.S. entertainment industry for foreign publications. The HFPA recently came under fire (again) for a number of questionable practices, including receiving lavish gifts from potential nominees, delivering outsized financial handouts to its members, and not having a single black member.
Do the Golden Globes generally matter in awards season?
The fact that the Golden Globes are not voted on by film industry insiders, film critics, or film fans make them a very curious awards show. Nevertheless, they hold weight for four key reasons. First, they have been around a very long time (since 1943). Second, they are traditionally the first major ceremony of awards season. Third, they throw a great party. They have a history of well-selected hosts, the pace is usually significantly snappier than the Oscars, and with an overwhelming number of acting categories spanning film and…
