Explained: The Process Of Choosing The Golden Globe Awards Winners

At the 80th Golden Globe Awards, the RR song Naatu Naatu won Best Song. The Indian film "RRR" has also been nominated twice for Best Original Song and Best Non-English Language Film.

The Golden Globe Awards are awarded each year to recognize excellence in film and television. With six nominations, the multiverse adventure "Everything Everywhere All at Once" comes in second place. "The Banshees of Inisherin," a dark comedy about the end of a friendship, directed by Martin McDonagh, leads this year with eight nominations.

The Golden Globe Awards are considered less serious and more casual. While the lists of winners and nominees are made public each year. It is less clear how these actors, actresses, writers, and others are selected. Let's take a look that how nominees and winners are selected:

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What is Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA)?

The awards are sponsored by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association or HFPA. The non-profit HFPA is made up of entertainment-focused journalists and photographers who work in newspapers, magazines, books, radio, and television broadcasting in the United States. The majority of HFPA members are not citizens of the United States. Presently,1HFPA consists of 105 members from 55 countries.

HFPA has been accused of racism, coteries that prevent journalists from leaving the "circle," bribery from studios in exchange for awards, and a lack of transparency. After a Los Angeles Times expose in February 2021, a week before the Golden Globes were broadcast that year, detailed these accusations and focused on a lack of diversity and transparency. According to the report, the organization then had 87 members, all of whom were people of colour but none were black.

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How HFPA selects winners and nominations?

A ballot and a list of eligible films sent by the studios are sent to each member of the organisation. The films must have been released in the United States during the time the awards will be given out in order to be eligible. The members assign it a score between 1 and 5. Similar to how PricewaterhouseCoopers does the same thing for the Oscars, the ballots are tallied by the accounting firm Ernst & Young, according to the WION report.

The procedure gets easier once the nominations come in. Films are shown to HFPA members at screenings all year long. Members vote for their favourite films privately.

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Difference between Golden Globes and the Oscars

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, also known as the Academy, is responsible for awarding the Oscars. The Academy has between 8000 and 9,000 members, which is significantly more than the Globes.

Additionally, in contrast to the Globes, which are essentially bestowed by HFPA journalists, the Academy is made up of individuals who are actively involved in the film industry: writers, actors, directors, editors, production designers, and photographers, among others