Golden Globes will be 'a private event,' not live-streamed, as diversity protests continue

The 2022 Golden Globes will not be streamed, but turned into a completely private event, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced Thursday.

All winners will instead be announced in real-time during the 90-minute ceremony on the Golden Globes website and the official Twitter account.

The awards show is scheduled for Jan. 9 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. Anyone invited must have proof of full vaccination, plus a booster, along with a negative COVID-19 test within the past 48 hours. Masks and social distancing will be required.

“This year's event is going to be a private event and will not be livestreamed. We will be providing real-time updates on winners on the Golden Globes website and our social media,” the HFPA said in a statement.

The Globes had already announced Tuesday it would be going ahead without an audience, celebrities or red carpet after year-long protests from actors due to the lack of diversity and inclusion in the HFPA, including superstars like Scarlett Johansson and Tom Cruise.

Last March, former president Philip Berk was expelled for forwarding an email dubbing Black Lives Matter a “hate movement.” It was also revealed that none of the HFPA’s 90 members were black.

Johansson and Mark Ruffalo led calls for a boycott, with Johansson saying she had faced “sexist questions and remarks by certain HFPA members that bordered on sexual harassment” while promoting films before the HFPA.

Cruise has returned his three Golden Globes.

NBC even announced last May that it would not air the 2022 Golden Globe awards as criticism of the HFPA reached a fevered pitch and critics highlighted the organization’s track record of overlooking black- and minority-led films.

The HFPA plans to use the Jan. 9 event to showcase its philanthropic work of the HFPA.