Golden Globe 2022 nominations address HFPA diversity issue head-on as many wonder if they're ready

Hit films like “Dune” and “King Richard” were nominated for Golden Globes alongside television shows like “Ted Lasso” and “Only Murders in the Building” on Monday as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association tried to reclaim its reputation after a year of strife.

The press association, often ridiculed, even by its own hosts, this year went from punchline to pariah. After an Los Angeles Times’ expose detailed some of the HFPA’s unethical behavior and revealed that its 87 voting members didn’t include one Black journalist, studios said they would boycott the Globes and more than 100 PR films said their clients wouldn’t participate until the HFPA swiftly implemented "profound and lasting change." Tom Cruise even returned his three Globes to the group’s headquarters.

Since being engulfed by backlash earlier this year, the group has added a chief diversity officer; overhauled its board; inducted 21 new members, including six Black journalists; brought in the NAACP on a five-year partnership; and updated its code of conduct. After nine months of reform, reorganization and many pledges to do better, the HFPA took the stage at the Beverly Hilton to announce its film and television nominations for the 2022 show.