The HFPA is back to its discriminatory ways, and audiences are not having it at all. The recent release of the nominee list for the Golden Globes 2022 received heavy backlash after not featuring any female directors in the Best Director category.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s recent 2021 scandal, where the awards list did not feature any big name from the Black community, apparently didn’t teach them any lessons.
Actresses Selenis Leyva and Mayan Lopez first announced the list on Monday morning. It didn’t take fans too long to start a negative trend, bashing the awards for not recognizing the stunning work of female directors this year. Here are some tweets we found that capture the viewers’ exact emotions after seeing the list:
The nomination list lauded James Cameron, Martin McDonough, Steven Spielberg, The Daniels, and Baz Lurhmann for Avatar 2, The Banshees of Inisherin, Everything Everywhere All at Once, the Fabelmans, and Elvis respectively.
While these nominees deserve their names on the list, viewers couldn’t help missing out on the fact of the all-male nominations and passing up some remarkable films released this year directed by women.
2022 gave us some other notable films by female directors who the HFPA couldn’t be bothered to show recognition in any of the Best Picture nominations spanning across the genres.
Fans have marked out Gina Prince-Bythewood’s The Woman King, Sarah Polley’s Women Talking, Chinonye Chukwu’s Till, and Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun as some of the overlooked names in the nomination list.
Even though the above films or filmmakers didn’t get any recognition in the major award categories, Women Talking did get a nomination for its score, and Viola Davis scored a nomination for her performance in The Woman King.
In 2021, the HFPA was careful to include women in their night of success, like Promising Young Women’s Emerald Fennell, One Night in Miami’s Regina King, and the winner of the Best Director category, Nomadland’s Chloé Zhao. But it looks like the diversity and inclusion memo went unread this year.
Last year’s scandal led to the cancellation of the award show’s televising, but 2022’s event will premiere on MBC on January 10, 2023, hosted by comedian Jerrod Carmichael.
What do you make of the HFPA’s move in the Golden Globes 2022?
Source: EW
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