“Backstage, I found these three Golden Globe awards that Tom Cruise returned,” he said. Tom Cruise returned his previous awards to the organization, and was snubbed this year for best actor for Top Gun: Maverick (but the movie was nominated for best drama).Ĭarmichael later took aim at Cruise for returning the awards by making a joke about his link to Scientology. Major studios like Amazon, Netflix and WarnerMedia likewise declared they would boycott the organization. NBC refused to air the show last year, saying that the HFPA needed to make meaningful changes to its organization. While the organization pushed back on the lawsuit, skepticism increased when the news broke that dozens of HFPA members were flown to Paris to visit the set of Netflix’s Emily in Paris and then the modestly reviewed series received two Globes nominations, including best comedy series (while more critically acclaimed shows in its category, presumably ones that didn’t offer luxurious trips, were snubbed). The Globes also came under fire after a reporter filed a lawsuit accusing the Hollywood Foreign Press Association members of accepting thousands of dollars in payoffs from industry awards campaigners. ![]() Some members resigned due to the scandal, calling the organization “toxic.” In 2021, the HFPA received considerable criticism over its lack of diversity, with the organization having zero Black members as of early 2021 - and reportedly hadn’t had any since 2002. The monologue is certainly rather unusual in the history of awards shows and it basically represented the host spending the bulk of his opening defending why he agreed to do the show in the first place. And I think this industry deserves evenings like these. And regardless of whatever the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s past may be, this is an evening where we get to celebrate. People that I’m jealous of, and people that are actually really incredible artists. “I’m here, truly, because I look out into this room and I see a lot of talented people. “I heard they got six new black members, congrats for them, whatever, sure,” he said. I took this job assuming they hadn’t changed at all.” “‘Helen really just wants to educate you on the changes that the organization has made in regards to diversity.’ And I’ll be totally honest with everyone here tonight: I don’t really need to hear it. “And it came back again, a third time,” he continued. I said, ‘No thanks, I know when I hear a trap.’ Then they came back like, ‘Well, they’re not really asking, they’re insisting that you take the meeting.’ And I’m like, ‘Or what?! They’re gonna fire me?!’ Then haven’t had a Black host for 79 years and they’re gonna fire first one? I’m unfire-able.” (Just for accuracy, we should point out here that Louis Gossett Jr. was one of three hosts of the show in 1993). ![]() Black informants for the FBI in the ’60s, I bet their families were still proud of them.”Ĭontinued Carmichael: “I was really proud of that decision, until I got an email from a publicist saying that Helen, the president of the HFPA, wanted to have a one-on-one sit down with me. And she was like, ‘Well, how much are they paying you?’ And I said, ‘It’s not about the money, honestly, it’s about the moral question…’ She said, ‘How much are they paying you?’ And I said, ‘$500,000.’ And she said, ‘Boy, if you don’t put on a good suit and take them white people money…’ And I kind of forget that where I’m from, we all live by a strict take the money mentality. And I said, ‘You know, what should I do?’ And she said, ‘Oh, I’m so proud of you’ … and I told her about how last year it didn’t air because of the no Black people thing. “I call my homegirl Avery, who for the sake of this monologue represents every Black person in America. “So I did what I do when I have a moral racial dilemma,” he continued. You’re being asked to host this show because you’re charming … But Stephens’ Black, so what does he know?” You are being asked to host this show because you are talented. But I’m only being asked to host this because I’m Black.’ And Stephen said, ‘Let me stop you right there. Life comes at you pretty fast, you know? So I said Stephen, ‘I’ll be honest with you, I’m a little torn because you know, one, it’s a great opportunity. “One minute you’re making mint tea at home, the next minute you’re invited to be the Black face of an embattled organization. Tom Stoppard on Delving Into His Family History for 'Leopoldstadt' and What's Next: "I Feel That I'm Getting Into Something New"Ĭarmichael recounted being called by Globes producer MRC’s executive vp of creative, Stephen Hill, and being asked to host the show.
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