The Golden Globe Awards made their feelings toward President-elect Donald Trump and his supporters abundantly clear on Monday, with the group formerly known as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association awarding the controversial Trump biopic. apprentice Actors Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong were two surprise nominees.
Golden Globe nominations were announced Monday morning, with Sebastian Stan playing a young Donald Trump in the film. apprenticewas nominated for Best Actor in a Dramatic Motion Picture, and Jeremy Strong, who plays Roy Cohn, was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
The two nominations were a surprise to Hollywood. apprentice ' was a huge flop at the box office and was not expected to perform well during awards season.
apprentice It dramatizes the early years of Donald Trump's career as a real estate mogul and focuses on his rise to fame from the '70s to the early '80s. Since it premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, the film has been controversial, particularly for the scene in which Trump rapes his first wife, the late Ivana Trump.
Ivana Trump has denied that Donald Trump raped her.
movie written by vanity fair Secretary Gabriel Sherman has flopped at the domestic box office, opening just a month before the presidential election, and forced most movie theaters to remain empty despite heavy publicity from pro-establishment news media. did.
Unlike the Academy Awards, which are voted on by thousands of members, the Golden Globe Awards are decided by an organization formerly known as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and now called the Golden Globe Foundation. This organization is affiliated with a small cabal of entertainment media denizens. An obscure foreign outlet.
The scandal-plagued group has been the butt of public jokes in Hollywood for decades, facing accusations of ethics violations and shady dealings, including accepting bribes at studios. In the wake of the diversity scandal two years ago, the association set out to clean up its act with new ethical guidelines and diversity obligations.
The 82nd Golden Globe Awards will be broadcast on CBS on January 5th and will be hosted by comedian Nikki Glazer.
Like other Hollywood awards shows, the Globes have suffered from low ratings in recent years, with last year's broadcast drawing 9.4 million viewers, still a significant drop from just a few years ago. .
For most of its recent history, this annual show reliably brought in around 20 million viewers.
But viewers began to tune out when the broadcast featured woke politics, with celebrities lecturing ordinary Americans about abortion, diversity and other unpopular topics.
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