IN HARD WEATHER: This photo was taken during the distribution in 2019. Photo: ROBYN BECK / AFP
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The American Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) is in bad weather at the moment. They are accused of racism and sexism, among other things. Tom Cruise is now said to have returned his three statuettes.
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It reports the industry website Deadline.
NCB announced earlier Monday that they will not be sending this year’s awards ceremony. However, the TV channel reports that they will give the HFPA time to reform and that they hope to run the Golden Globe broadcast in 2022.
Scarlett Johansson is among those who have asked the Hollywood industry to distance itself from the HFPA after sexism. Netflix and Amazon have also attacked the organization.
It has previously been revealed that the organization, despite its articles of association, has no black members. The organization then said that they committed to admit at least 13 percent of black members a year.
Defendant HFPA
VG has previously written the journalist Kjersti Flaa went to lawsuit against the Golden Globe organizer. It was rejected by the federal court in California.
—-DISPUTE: The Norwegian freelance journalist Kjersti Flaa claims that the press organization HFPA operates as a cartel, and went to court last year. Photo: Magnus Sundholm
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The organization had then rejected her application for membership in 2019, without giving any special reason, according to Flaa.
– The way they treat new applicants, ie their journalist colleagues, is completely reprehensible. The fear of competition is so great that some members are willing to go so far as to send threatening letters home in the mail to applicants, which happened to me, to her to VG then.
After it became known that Cruise will have returned his statuettes, Flaa thinks more in Hollywood will follow:
– But am I shocked that it had to go so far. When Tom Cruise returns his statuettes, surely more will do so. Now everything has changed, she says to VG.
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