–The 2018 Golden Globe Awards will take place on Sunday, January 7 2018

–2018 will be the 75th Golden Globe Awards
–The award winners are chosen by members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association(HFPA)
Since this website is called’Sports Betting Pros’ I try to use sports metaphors as frequently as you can, even on’non-sport’ betting events. For the entertainment sector the Academy Awards is the’Super Bowl’ of awards show. Obviously, this means that the movie industry enjoys a greater amount of status than their television counterparts (although the gap is closing fast ). The significant TV awards are the Emmy Awards which don’t take place until September. Because of this, we will concentrate more on the dynamic of the film awards because the Golden Globe awards kick off the season of smaller movie awards from a variety of critics groups and specialist trade associations. These are much like the Kentucky Derby Qualifying races and helpful to watch just to have a sense of that contenders are legit.
If we were to use the football metaphor about the Golden Globe Awards it would strictly be a more entertaining version of a preseason game. A more proper description–it’s a watered down version of these great’Celebrity Roasts’ which Dean Martin used to do in the 1970’s only with awards handed out. Or at least that’s how it was previously. It’ll be interesting to see the’mood of the area’ and the American movie industry in general in the aftermath of the Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment fiasco. Can the Golden Globes be back to their company of boozy fun as usual? Will it still be a party only with everybody keeping their hands to themselves? Or has the entire power dynamic in Hollywood change forever and also the Golden Globes will adopt the self important and holier than thou smugness of the Academy Awards?
REALLY, DO THE GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS MATTER?
Do these awards even matter? Yes and no. ‘The Industry’ likes them because it’s a great way to promote a film. An otherwise overlooked movie could gain from a marketing effort chortling around’5′ Golden Globe Nominations’ above the title. At one stage, the Golden Globes have been regarded as a predictive index for several of those Academy Award categories though that’s never actually been the situation. In past years, the Golden Globes has helped to set the front runner that is a dubious honor. As we seen last year with’La La Land’ several months between now and the Academy Awards is plenty of time for the media to’flip’ on a film and lead a sizable proportion of Academy voters with them. The main gripe about the Golden Globe Awards is they’re chosen by a small, insular group of approximately 90 entertainment business journalists based in Southern California. They pick the nominees and the winners and awarded the homogeneous nature of the Republicans and the’small sample size’ it does not really do anything to approximate what the Academy Awards voters may do.
This is where the fun begins. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) bequeaths the Golden Globe Awards and they have been accused of a bias toward large stars. This is for purely selfish, although admittedly practical reasons–it will help get more’A Listers’ to attend the awards and they enjoy hanging out with actors. To be honest, I have a hard time questioning that logic given the position they are in. To their credit, the Academy Awards has ever tried to concentrate on the performance and not the’star power’ of the nominees. That is why 80 year old Jessica Tandy won’Best Actress’ for’Driving Miss Daisy’ and Kathy Bates won for’Misery’. With all due respect to the considerable abilities of these two girls if I am voting for a person to party with I’ll proceed with Natalie Portman.
BOOZY FUN FOR THE WHOLE SHOW BIZ FAMILY
Historically, the crux of the Golden Globes’ appeal for TV audiences, actors, journalists, business forms, has been it’s light hearted (ie: drunken) character. It is only a whole lot more fun than many awards shows. Back when actors and the general public knew their function, celebrities were expected to appear to any awards show drunk or strung out on drugs. At the 70’s everyone was on drugs. The’old school’ stars that your parents liked were heavy drinkers. That continued into the 80’s but today it’s considered an affront to the gravitas of the entertainment market. It has reached the stage that being drunk at the Grammy Awards gets a great deal of judgmental whispers and gossip posing as concern. It wasn’t long ago that every musician from Frank Sinatra to Stevie Wonder could show up under the influence of medication and drinks like they were Slash and Duff McKagan of Guns’n’Roses in the American Music Awards back from the’Appetite For Destruction’ era. Now, it’s all boring corporate drivel with the sort of decadent behavior you’d expect at a multilevel marketing conference from the San Fernando Valley. Even MTV has combined the’no fun’ fray–when Pink gave a rambling, drunken acceptance speech at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards she was criticized and castigated by MTV on air’talent’, the press and her peers.
Historically, all of Hollywood and the entertainment websites were in on this and enjoyed the fact that the vibe wasn’t as uptight and the booze flowed freely. USA TODAY known as the Golden Globes”the award season’s booziest night of stars and approval speeches”. They proceeded to explain the difference between the Academy Awards and the Golden Globe awards:”The Academy Awards is the most prestigious of these awards shows. The three-hour Golden Globes, on the other hand, is a place where celebrities can test fashion, sample components of addresses and, frankly, get drunk.” The Daily Beast called it’the Oscars drunk, tainted cousin” Even a reasonably significant actress like Cate Blanchett confessed she had been drunk throughout her Golden Globes acceptance speech.