Sunday’s Golden Globes ceremony will be unprecedented in more ways than one. The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that there will be no livestream available for the event after NBC, which retains rights to the broadcast, blocked the organization from mounting its own digital telecast.
A rep for HFPA said in a statement, “This year’s event is going to be a private event and will not be live-streamed. We will be providing real-time updates on winners on the Golden Globes website and our social media.”
The news comes on the heels of Tuesday’s reveal that the ceremony would not feature a red carpet, celebrity guests, or the typical hoopla and bustling afterparty scene inside the Beverly Hilton Hotel that has come to define the Golden Globes for years. The 79th Golden Globe Awards instead will highlight the philanthropic efforts of the organization, which THR has previously written about, with winners announced intermittently throughout a 90-minute gathering at the Beverly Hilton, the HFPA confirmed.
Nominees for this year’s show were announced on Dec. 13 by celebrity presenter Snoop Dogg along with HFPA president Helen Hoehne who reiterated that morning that her peers had done “the work” in overhauling the organization and instituting reforms and inclusion and diversity initiatives after an industry outcry and boycott spurred by a Los Angeles Times investigation. They still had yet to confirm plans for the show which finds itself up against record cases of COVID-19 in L.A. amid the omicron variant.
This was originally published by The Hollywood Reporter.
