British ready to storm ‘silent’ Golden Globes
THE GOLDEN Globes will launch Hollywood’s awards season tomorrow with Sir Kenneth Branagh’s semi-autobiographical story of his childhood in Belfast tipped to have a big night.
But the awards ceremony, in Los Angeles, will go ahead without a TV or online audience because of a star and broadcaster boycott.
It means, for the first time, film and TV fans won’t be able to watch the awards, put together by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, after American TV network NBC said it would not broadcast the show due to “diversity issues” with the organiser.
Stars have joined the boycott, so the awards will still be announced at the event then released to the public online.
“We will be providing real-time updates on winners on the Golden Globes website and our social media,” said a Globes spokeswoman.
The boycott is a major blow to the event, which normally draws huge audiences, with previous hosts including Ricky Gervais,tina Fey andamy Poehler.
Meanwhile, Branagh, 61, is poised for a successful year. Along with directing the highly fancied Belfast, his second Poirot movie, Death On The Nile, is due for release.
He is also set to play Boris Johnson in a new Sky drama about the Covid outbreak titled This Sceptred Isle.
Belfast, released last year, is described as his “most personal film”, starring Jamie Dornan, Ciaran Hinds, Colin Morgan and Judi Dench.
It has tied with another film, The Power Of The Dog, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, with seven nominations each at the Golden Globes.
Britons are featured in many other award categories. Most interesting is the Best Actor battle between two stars from HBO drama Succession, Scots-born Brian Cox and US star Jeremy Strong.