Tarnished prize: how the Golden Globes got cancelled

When a Norwegian reporter was blocked from becoming a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a scandal blew up which ultimately resulted in this year’s Golden Globes ceremony being canned

An ad for the 2016 Golden Globe Awards presented by Ricky Gervais: NBC had successfully marketed the Golden Globes as the irreverent upstart awards ceremony. Picture: Getty

It’s got all the elements of a Hollywood drama – the sort that might even rack up a few golden gongs of its own. There’s treachery, secrecy, duplicity. And there’s a masterclass in Hollywood hypocrisy and virtue-signalling to boot.

The story behind the Golden Globes implosion is the stuff of an insider movie that would rival Robert Altman’s The Player. A made-for-satire drama starring a scrappy band of foreign reporters that Hollywood loves to hate ...