The 80th annual Golden Globes Awards are scheduled to be held on January 10th, 2023. Image Source: USA Today
Female directors are once again excluded from Golden Globe nominations.
The 80th annual Golden Globes Awards will be held on January 10th, 2023, at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, and it will be broadcast live on NBC and Peacock in the United States. On December 12th, Mayan Lopez and Selenis Leyva revealed the nominees on NBC Live.
The viewer was quick to recognize that, despite of having widely praised films in 2022, female directors like Gina Prince-Bythewood, Sarah Polley, and Chinonye Chukwu were not selected.
The Daniels for "Everything Everywhere All at Once," James Cameron for "Avatar: The Way of Water," Baz Luhrmann for "Elvis," Steven Spielberg for "The Fabelmans" , and Martin McDonagh for "The Banshees of Inisherin," are the directors nominated for the 80th annual Golden Globe Awards. Furthermore, no woman directed any of the Globes' ten Best Picture nominees in either the drama or musical/comedy categories.
Women Talking and The Woman King, on the other hand, received nominations in other categories. The former received nominations for Sarah Polley's screenplay and Hildur Gunadóttir's score, while the latter earned Viola Davis a nomination under the category of lead actress.
An expose by the Los Angeles Times in 2021 disclosed that the group had no black voters and a structure of accounting mismanagement. The revelations urged studios and talent to boycott the HFPA, and NBC, the organization's longtime broadcast associate, to decline to air a Golden Globes ceremony in 2022.
The group's reform efforts have now included inviting 21 new members—U.S.-based reporters operating for channels abroad—and 103 new, worldwide voters to generate a voter pool that is 52 percent female and 51.5 percent ethnically and racially diverse. The HFPA has also forbidden gifts and founded a helpline for taking appropriate actions.
HFPA president Helen Hoehne did disclose during a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter that they're the only major award show that is voted on by a majority of women and a large number of people who self-identify as ethically diverse, trying to add that there are also a lot of voters who self-identify as LGBTQIA+. The executive producer of the show Jesse Collins shared with ET Online in terms of last year's situation that he thinks in a way people will get that but the ceremony will also celebrate that past in the sense that it is the 80th Globes adding that they will manage to do it all. Jesse Collins added that in terms of changing in the wake of the nomination process and membership conversion they think it's about acknowledging the work that's been done and acknowledging that more work needs to be done.
More than anything, though, the 2023 show will be about celebrating the people who did incredible work this year. Given that, Jesse Collins said that 2023 is coming in hot with a feeling of celebration. He lastly added that they want to focus on celebrating the incredible nominees and want to have a sense of community. The Golden Globes team wants to test the limits of how much champagne one can drink on network television and just generally have fun.
Audience was quick to point out that in the 80-years history of the annual Golden Globe awards, only nine women have been nominated for directing, with three of them actually winning the award including Jane Campion for "The Power of the Dog" in 2020, Barbra Streisand for "Yentl" in 1983, and Chloé Zhao for "Nomadland" in 2020. The other female directors that were nominated for their work in the past include Sofia Coppola for "Lost in Translation", Jane Campion for "The Piano", Kathryn Bigelow for "Zero Dark Thirty" and "The Hurt Locker", Ava DuVernay for "Selma", Emerald Fennell for "Promising Young Woman" in 2020, Regina King for "One Night in Miami", and Maggie Gyllenhaal for "The Lost Daughter".
After presenting the award to Guillermo del Toro for "The Shape of Water" at the 2018 Golden Globes, presenter Natalie Portman made a point of actually commenting on the "all-male nominees." Notably, Greta Gerwig was not cast in "Lady Bird" that year.
