On Friday, the advocacy organization Time's Up launched the #TIMESUPGlobes alongside a graphic that reads, "Hollywood Foreign Press Association: Not a Single Black Member Out of 87." And many Hollywood personalities shared the protest on social media, including Shonda Rhimes, Ava DuVernay, Judd Apatow and Sterling K. Brown. "Having a multitude of Black presenters does not absolve you of your lack of diversity,” Brown said Saturday on Instagram. “This is your moment to do the right thing. It is my hope that you will.”
It's hard to imagine Fey and Poehler won't take aim at the issue in their opening monologue. Meanwhile, the HFPA has said it will address the controversy during Sunday's awards broadcast.
Usually, at least one actor runs the table at the Globes, Screen Actors Guild and Oscars, and 2021 could be it for Boseman, who died last year at age 43 of colon cancer. His nominated role for "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" is a highlight in a career cut short early and he's favorite at Sunday's Globes. Only two other actors have posthumous Academy Awards – Peter Finch in 1977 for "Network" and Heath Ledger in 2009 for "The Dark Knight" – and both also took home Globes that same year.
Globes hosts and presenters will be live, winners are at home
Due to COVID, this year's show will look very different than usual. The hosts will be bicoastal – Fey at the Rainbow Room in New York City, Poehler at the Los Angeles' Beverly Hilton – as will the bevy of presenters. That group includes Awkwafina, Kevin Bacon, Michael Douglas, Tiffany Haddish, Kate Hudson, Joaquin Phoenix, Margot Robbie, Kristen Wiig, Renee Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
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