(ANSA) - NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 26 - Will "Mank" or "Nomadland" win?
"Promising Young Woman", "The Father" or "The Trial of theChicago 7"?
With Amy Pohler and Tina Fay doing the honors (Amy in Los Angeles and Tina from the Rainbow Room in New York) and Spike Lee's children as "ambassadors", the Golden Globes will air Sunday night on NBC with a format hybrid, virtual and "live".
Two weeks in advance of the announcement on March 15 of Oscar nominations, the awards for Best Picture and Best TV awarded annually by members of the Hollywood Foreign Press, they have long been considered the more frivolous cousins of the Academy Awards - or as the comedian. British Ricky Gervaisdisse at the 2012 ceremony: "What Kim Kardashianis compared to Kate Middleton".
There has been no lack of controversy in the past.
This year there is not only the pandemic to overshadow the evening with an expected audience of 18-20 million spectators: in addition to mourning the disappearance of President Lorenzo Soria, killed by cancer last summer, the Hfpa has to deal with accusations by the Los Angeles Times of being a "caste" easily influenced by studies and ready to bestow lavish rewards to its members beard the organization's nonprofit status.
It is not the only controversy raised by the newspaper that points out that among the 87 members of the HFPA there is not a single African American.
The anachronism is a counterpoint to the fact that none of the potential Oscar nominees for best drama with a black cast have entered the five: among the excluded, Regina King's "One Night in Miami" (which has trenominations in other categories) "and "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" (two), while Lee's "Da 5 Bloods" was totally cut out. Practically discounted instead a Golden Globe to Chadwick Boseman for "Ma Rainey", his latest interpretation: it would be the posthumous first prize after that to Peter Finch for "QuintoPotere". Globes 2021 still made history under the banner of inclusion. With Chloe Zhao ("Nomadland") and Emerald Fennell ("Promising Young Woman"), King is one of three women nominated: already a record in itself, and if one of them were to win it would win a first time. (ANSA).
