Transgender people will play key roles at this year's Golden Globe Awards ceremony on Sunday, making them front-runners for Best Picture. Emilia Perez and conclave Both feature gender mismatch as a major plot point.
The 82nd Golden Globe Awards, broadcast live Sunday on CBS, face an uphill battle with ratings, but tens of millions of Americans are trying to avoid woke sermons from wealthy celebrities. Viewership ratings have declined in recent years as people choose not to watch the show.
Last year's broadcast drew just 9.4 million viewers, far less than the pre-pandemic audience that drew twice as many viewers. As of 2020, approximately 18.4 million people watched the awards ceremony.
This year's broadcast may be backed by host Nikki Glazer, a comedian known for her roast-style stand-up routines.
Netflix Emilia Perez Which has the most nominations with 10?, expected to dominate the evening. The film's breakout star, Carla Sofia Gascon, who identifies as a woman, is widely expected to win Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy.
The French-produced musical, performed primarily in Spanish, tells the story of a Mexican cartel boss (Gascon) who attempts to get out of the drug trade by undergoing sex change surgery and becoming a woman. There is. Candidates Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez will also be there.
As Breitbart News reported, Gascón became the first transgender performer to win the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival, where Emilia Perez premiered earlier this year. Gascón received the award along with his co-stars Saldaña, Gomez and Adriana Paz.
Gascón's Golden Globe win is not the first time the show has honored a transgender cast member.
Two years ago, transgender star MJ Rodriguez (who is also a man who identifies as a woman) won Best Actress in a Drama Series for FX. pose.
conclave It is a leading candidate for the best video work in the drama category.
The “Focus Feature” release dramatizes the Vatican's power struggle over the election of a new pope. In a plot twist, the new pope is revealed to be intersex, a “male” with female genitalia.
CBS tried to reboot the Globes last year by taking over from NBC, turning the annual party into a new and revamped version of the pseudo- and ethically questionable awards season ritual that became Hollywood's black sheep just two years ago. I tried to rebrand it as a version.
The organization behind the Globes (formerly the Hollywood Foreign Press Association) has long been a public joke in Hollywood, with members routinely accepting bribes from studios in the form of all-expenses-paid trips and other junkets.
Corporate news media has gone along with this travesty for decades, no doubt motivated by the revenue they receive in the form of consideration advertising. However, as ratings began to decline, the media began to criticize the Globes, exposing its ethical failings and lack of diversity. Both have been well known for many years.
Globe organizers have since said they have cleaned up their act and set ethical standards.
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