The Golden Globes returned to the air with a pink carpet flush with celebrities and comic Jerrod Carmichael as emcee, because the beleaguered award present sought to rekindle its pre-pandemic and pre-scandal glamour. Carmichael kicked off the eightieth Golden Globes from the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, with little of the fanfare that normally opens such glitzy ceremonies, diving straight into the problems that drove the Globes off the air and led a lot of the leisure trade to boycott the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

He opened by asking the gang to ”be somewhat quiet right here”.

”Welcome to the eightieth annual Golden Globe awards. I’m your host Jerrod Carmichael,” mentioned the comic, who gained an Emmy final yr for his HBO particular ”Rothaniel”. ”And I’ll let you know why I’m right here. I’m right here as a result of I’m Black.” ”I will not say they have been a racist organisation,” he continued earlier than sitting on the stage. ”But they did not have a single Black member till George Floyd died. So do with that info what you’ll.” Carmichael mentioned he declined to fulfill with HFPA president Helen Hoehne forward of internet hosting. Instead, he mentioned he took the job for the cash, and to honour the movie and TV trade. The evening’s first award went to Ke Huy Quan, the previous baby star of ”Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” for finest supporting actor in ”Everything Everywhere All at Once.” A clearly emotional Quan, who had left appearing years earlier than administrators Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert solid him of their multiverse story, thanked them for his second act.

”Thankfully, greater than 30 years later, two guys considered me,” mentioned Quan. ”They remembered that child. And they gave me the chance to attempt once more.” Angela Bassett gained finest supporting actress for her efficiency in ”Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” ”Weeping could come within the night, however pleasure comes within the morning,” Bassett mentioned, referencing the lack of ”Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman.

The pink carpet (colored grey this yr) was simply as filled with decked-out stars as ever forward of the ceremony Tuesday, together with Bassett in glittering silver and Lily James in a long-flowing pink gown. Whether viewers have been additionally returning, too, stays to be seen.

The Globes historically have been a looser, extra uninhibited appetiser to the Academy Awards, however this yr, storm clouds encompass the award present. Stars and studios boycotted final yr’s ceremony, which NBC opted to not televise, saying the Hollywood Foreign Press Association wanted time to make ”significant reform” after reviews revealed the group’s lack of range and a litany of moral indiscretions.

A yr later, a lot — although not all — of Hollywood appeared able to occasion, once more.

The Globes additionally unfolded in opposition to the backdrop of heavy rains which have lashed Southern California and brought on flooding up and down coastal areas and within the mountains outdoors Los Angeles. Prolonged rainfall, exceeding a foot since Sunday in some areas, brought on flooding, mudslides and evacuations. The broadcast from the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, for the primary time was livestreamed, on NBCUniversal’s Peacock, along with airing on NBC.

When the Globes have been on the brink, NBC reworked its cope with the HFPA, placing the awards on a one-year contract and shifting the present to Tuesday from its common Sunday evening spot.

That meant the Globes have been basically placed on a one-year audition to recapture its awards-season perch and relevancy to a Hollywood that appeared able to abandon them for good. But a lot of the trade turned out Tuesday.

Eddie Murphy and Ryan Murphy have been set to obtain tributes. Presenters have been to incorporate Ana de Armas (a nominee for ”Blonde”), Jenna Ortega (nominated for ”Wednesday”), Billy Porter, Tracy Morgan, Jennifer Coolidge (nominated for ”White Lotus”) and Quentin Tarantino.

Sean Penn was additionally set to introduce a message from Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The Globes have been plunged into chaos shortly earlier than a largely distant pandemic 2021 awards present when a Los Angeles Times report revealed that the HFPA, then numbering 87 members, had no Black members.

A separate New York Times report confirmed that the group — an usually ridiculed assortment of little-known overseas journalists primarily based in Los Angeles — paid its members some $3 million in annual salaries, and detailed a litany of moral lapses in how the group usually interacted with potential nominees.

Under mounting stress, the HFPA pledged to reform, diversified its membership and altered among the methods it operates. It now has 96 members, together with six Black members, together with 103 nonmember voters. Billionaire Todd Boehly bought the Globes by means of his Eldridge Industries, and has begun turning the nonprofit group right into a for-profit firm.

Reaction to the Globe nominations final month was muted, with few stars publicly celebrating. But just one nominee has said emphatically that he is not going to attend: Brendan Fraser. Though nominated for finest actor for his efficiency in ”The Whale,” Fraser mentioned he wouldn’t take part within the Globes.

In 2018, Fraser mentioned he was groped in 2003 by longtime Hollywood Foreign Press Association member Philip Berk. Berk, who’s not an HFPA member, denied it.

Not anticipated to attend was Tom Cruise, whose ”Top Gun: Maverick” was nominated for finest image, drama. Cruise famously returned his three Golden Globe awards after the HFPA revelations.

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