THB #182: Should The Globes Exist?

just before the chocolate starts coming out of the fountain

There are many who think that all awards are just silly. Indulgent, self-congratulatory, unnecessary.

This column is not for you today. You’ve already decided.

The Academy Awards were built on self-promotion of movies all those years ago, an exclusive private club of people who already had money and power, congratulating themselves, celebrating themselves, and selling their wares to a public that wouldn’t see behind the curtain of glamour.

Fair enough.

The Academy, in its fearful wisdom, no longer promotes theatrical movies as the central notion of the organization’s existence.

That’s another conversation.

There has been a wave of pro-HFPA promotion in the media lately, mostly by Penske-owned outlets with both a step-separated financial interest in the continuation of the Golden Globes (ad revenue) and a direct financial interest in the continuati…