BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Michelle Yeoh, Will Ferrell, Angela Bassett and Amanda Seyfried will be among the presenters at Sunday's Golden Globe Awards.
The show announced its first group of presenters on Wednesday. Others taking the stage will be Julia Garner, George Lopez and Justin Hartley.
Yeoh returns to the Globes a year after winning best actress in a drama film for “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” delivering a poignant thank you speech (and a semi-serious threat to beat up the pianist who started cutting him off).
Wednesday's announcement is the latest indicator that stars are likely to return to the show as it continues to attempt to return to form after several years tarnished by scandal. The show is known for its boozy celebration of film and television and as an early stop for awards season contenders. The scandals have led to a membership overhaul and the arrival of a new broadcaster for the January 7 show, but a key question remains: will viewers tune in?
Here's more information about the 81st Golden Globe Awards.
How can I watch the Golden Globes?
U.S. viewers can watch the ceremony, broadcast live from the Beverly Hilton Hotel, starting at 8 p.m. Eastern Time. It will air from 5 p.m. on the west coast.
The three-hour show will have a strong lead-in as CBS airs an NFL game right before the Globes.
CBS says the show will stream on its app and stream on Paramount+, but there's one important caveat. Only Paramount+ subscribers with the Showtime add-on will be able to watch the show live. Otherwise, it will be available on the streaming platform on Monday.
What's new with the Golden Globes?
The 81st Golden Globe Awards will be the first major broadcast of the awards season, with a new broadcast on CBS. And while, to the public eye, it may seem similar on the surface, the years that followed were tumultuous behind the scenes following an explosive report in the Los Angeles Times. The 2021 report found that there were no black members to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which voted on the awards.
Stars and studios boycotted the Globes, and so NBC refused to air it in 2022. After the group added journalists of color to its ranks and instituted other reforms to address ethical concerns, the show returned in January 2023 as part of a one-year probationary agreement with NBC. The network did not choose to renew.
In June, billionaire Todd Boehly won approval to dissolve the HFPA and reinvent the Golden Globes as a for-profit organization. Its assets were acquired by Boehly's Eldridge Industries, as well as Dick Clark Productions, a group owned by Penske Media whose assets also include Variety, Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter, Rolling Stone and Billboard.
The show also added a new award for stand-up, with Chris Rock, Amy Schumer and former Globes host Ricky Gervais among the nominees.
Who hosts the Globes?
Comedian Jo Koy, who has headlined several Netflix specials and starred in last year's comedy film “Easter Sunday,” will host the Globes.
Organizers cited his “infectious energy and relatable humor” in announcing Koy would headline the event.
Hosting the Globes usually requires serving a mix of biting humor to audiences of movie and TV stars and keeping the ceremony from becoming too sloppy.
Previous hosts include Ricky Gervais, whose jokes were particularly caustic, the duo of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, and last year's host Jerrod Carmichael.
And “60 Minutes”?
Globes and New Year's celebrations prevent '60 Minutes' from airing for two weeks.
CBS aired “New Year's Eve Live: Nashville's Big Bash” on Sunday.
CBS announces that “60 Minutes” will resume on January 14.
Golden Globe nominees
“Barbie” is the top contender this year, followed closely by “Oppenheimer.”
The films reflect a unique aspect of the Globes: They divide the best winning films into two categories. With Greta Gerwig's “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan's “Oppenheimer” leading the way, this gives the show a chance to capitalize on the Barbenheimer craze that has boosted theaters in 2023.
Films nominated for best drama include “Oppenheimer,” Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro,” Celine Song’s “Past Lives,” Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall” and The Zone of a Fall” by Jonathan Glazer. Interest.”
In the best musical or comedy film category, “Barbie” was joined by Ben Affleck's “Air,” Cord Jefferson's “American Fiction,” Alexander Payne's “The Holdovers,” Todd Haynes' “May December” and ” Poor Things” by Yorgos Lanthimos. .”
“Succession” was TV's most nominated program, with nine nominations, including series stars Brian Cox, Jeremy Strong, Sarah Snook and Kieran Culkin, followed by Hulu's “The Bear.”
What are the Globes known for?
The Golden Globe Awards have long been one of the most high-profile awards season broadcasts, second only to the Oscars.
The show was billed as a high-profile night whose hosts often adopted a more irreverent tone than their Academy counterparts. It also only honored the flashiest cinematic categories – among them film, director and actors – meaning there are no lengthy speeches from visual effects supervisors or short film directors. little-known films.
But the voting body was a small group of about 87 members who wielded incredible influence in the industry and often accepted lavish gifts and trips from studios and awards publicists eager to court favor and win votes.
In some years, the HFPA has been pilloried for nominating poorly rated films featuring big talent in hopes of getting them to the series — the most infamous being “The Tourist,” starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp. Over the past decade, they have often coincided with the Oscars. The show also acknowledges television.
However, before the revelation and PR crisis, no one in the industry took much offense to who voted for the awards. The series has become an important part of the Hollywood awards ecosystem, a platform for Oscar contenders and was, until recently, a reliable audience draw. In 2019, the show still attracted nearly 19 million viewers. In 2023, the Tuesday night show on NBC recorded its smallest audience ever for a traditional show, with 6.3 million viewers.
Who votes at the Globes?
The group that nominates and votes for the awards is now made up of a more diverse group of more than 300 people from around the world.