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NBC, the U.S. television network, has announced that it will cancel the broadcast of the Golden Globes event in 2022, following a Hollywood reaction to the group’s ethics over the annual film and television awards and lack of diversity.

Actor Tom Cruise joined the revolt led by streaming platforms and studios, and returned the three Golden Globes he won for his roles in Jerry Maguire, Magnolia and Born on July 4, Variety and Deadline Hollywood media reported.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) also announced NBC’s decision on Monday. distribute prizesThey agreed to hire more Black members and make other changes over the next 18 months. The network initially welcomed the plan, but later said it would wait to see if the reforms worked.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has been on fire for months after allegations of racism, sexism, harassment and corruption spread.

HFPA members have also been accused of asking for favors from celebrities and studios.

“Changing that size takes time and work, and we believe the HFPA needs time to do well. That way, NBC won’t be launching the 2022 Golden Globes,” NBC said in a statement.

“Assuming the organization complies with its plan, we expect to be in a position to deliver the show in January 2023,” the network added.

Following NBC’s announcement, the HFPA said implementing “transformational change” was an urgent priority “regardless of the next air date for the Golden Globes.”

In a statement, the HFPA reaffirmed the planned reforms and provided a detailed timetable.

He said he would hire a new CEO in August 2021, add 20 new members, adopt a new code of conduct, and provide training for diversity and sexual harassment, among other steps.

Last week, the group approved a set of reforms to achieve a “comprehensive” framework for being “more inclusive and diverse,” with the goal of drawing a line under negative publicity for a few months.

But critics, including stars Scarlett Johansson and Mark Ruffalo, said the changes didn’t go far enough and didn’t address some of the industry’s key complaints.

Potential fatal blow

The annual Golden Globe event, attended by A-list stars and industry executives, has become one of the biggest Hollywood awards at the Oscars.

But it has been scrutinized after a study published by the Los Angeles Times in February showed a team of 87 journalists who appear in major international publications as bona fide reporters and half-retired and obscure people who rarely work. the mainstream media, they had no black members.

NBC’s cancellation could be a deadly blow to awards and the organization, which is based on Globes TV’s rights to its funding, and Netflix and Amazon Studios said a few days later that they would not work with HFPA until it was “more significant”. “Significant” changes were made.

Johansson, the star of the Lost in Translation and Marvel superhero franchise, said at the weekend that he had “refused to participate” in HFPA press conferences over the years because of sexist questions and remarks that “limited sexual harassment”.

The Globes have been pressured by an investigation into the HFPA by the Los Angeles Times that found no black members [File: Valerie Macon/ AFP]

Ruffalo recently said he “can’t feel proud or happy” from a group that continues to “face the change required of them” by a group with a “culture of secrecy and exclusion” that recently won the Golden Globe.

The group has also been condemned by the National Association of Black Journalists, a group of more than 100 Hollywood publicists, various film unions, Time’s Up, and the GLAAD LGBTQ charity.

The WarnerMedia cable, which includes HBO and the Warner Bros. film studio, said in a letter to HFPA that it was concerned about being “racially insensitive, sexist and homophobic” at press conferences and Golden Globe nomination and awards processes and events.

“Too long, requests for benefits, special benefits and non-professional requests have been made to our teams and others across the industry,” WarnerMedia said in the letter.