by Nathaniel R
If you missed the kerfluffle last night, it went like this: Scott Feinberg at The Hollywood Reporter announced that the Globes were returning to NBC for the upcoming awards season, probably on January 10th, 2023. Just two hours later Deadline was like, "hold your horses, it's "not a done deal" and as a result Vanity Fair was all "so is it happening or not?". We have no inside intel to add but a return does seem likely and Feinberg is well connected so we know at least that there's conversations going on about that return to air. When this becomes official (this season or next) it's a very safe prediction that there will be many thinkpieces and many voices online proclaiming that Hollywood won't show up in protest. But Hollywood will...
As we noted when all of this went down in the spring of 2021, Hollywood waited until after the awards season of 2020/2021 to get moralistic and fingerpointing about the Globes even though that much-discussed expose about their lack of diversity and their ethics problems had happened well before the 2021 ceremony. In short: Hollywood and its agents and awards strategists and stars do not turn down the chance to be in the spotlight and collect golden trophies to fuel the Oscar campaigns and also to sell movie tickets and streaming subscriptions. There's a reason it's called show business.
And, anyway, the Globes were always a fun party and probably will be again since they've had a year to work out some kinks and make some corrections. What's more -- though the internet definitely likes to pretend otherwise because it fits the narrative better -- occasionally they make better choices than the Oscars because, unlike the bulk of precursors these days, they're not too concerned with "predicting" Oscar's taste when they express their own (You know how we feel about this -- if your votes are not reflective of your own taste but merely a prediction of someone else's you're doing it terribly wrong!).
You don't get Best Picture prizes for Moulin Rouge!, Lady Bird, and Brokeback Mountain without the Globes. Super deserving goddesses like Michelle Pfeiffer, Angela Bassett, Isabelle Huppert, Annette Bening, Saoirse Ronan, Amy Adams, Sigourney Weaver, Kathleen Turner, and Glenn Close are Best Actress Globe winners but not Oscar winners so before you join the chorus wishing they'd go away for good... be careful what you wish for. 