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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association was dissolved in 2023, but it's still popping up in Golden Globes acceptance speeches.
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The HFPA is dead, long live the HFPA.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has not existed for two years, but that hasn't stopped it from popping up in acceptance speeches. During Sunday night's Golden Globe Awards, writer-director Jacques Audiard became the latest to thank the now-defunct organization.
Audiard, who won the award for Best Non-English Language Film for Emilia Pérez, focused his speech on sisterhood, a primary theme of his film. He included the HFPA in that, saying, "I want to thank all our sisters at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association."
The HFPA was a small collection of international journalists who served as the voting body for the Golden Globes for many years. However, the HFPA was dissolved in 2023 when the Golden Globes was acquired by Dick Clark Productions following two years of restructuring in the aftermath of a racial exclusion scandal that rocked the HFPA in 2021.
Audiard isn't the first to make this error. At the 2024 ceremony, Swedish composer Ludwig Göransson also thanked the HFPA during his acceptance speech for Best Original Score for his work on Oppenheimer.
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It was the HFPA and a scandal surrounding the inclusivity of their membership that gave the award show a tarnished image, leading them to skip the 2022 ceremony altogether. A 2021 Los Angeles Times exposé unveiled a scathing report indicating there were no Black journalists among the HFPA's 87-person membership.
In the months after, numerous celebrities and publicity agencies distanced themselves from the HFPA and it was NBC, the Globes' longtime network partner, who pulled the plug on the 2022 broadcast. The show did return to NBC in 2023, having supposedly implemented new reforms and measures within the membership.
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However, that same year, Dick Clark Productions acquired the Golden Globes, and the broadcast moved to CBS amidst the dissolution of the HFPA.
The 2024 Golden Globe Awards marked a new direction for the broadcast, bringing two new categories — one for box office success, one for TV stand-up comedy specials —to the ceremony, as well as a significant overhaul to the rules, inclusion standards, and the voting body behind the awards.
But perhaps Audiard missed all that somewhere along the way.
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