Though they still won’t be broadcast on NBC, where millions of people have historically tuned in, the Golden Globe Awards may very well still happen in 2022. According to a recent report in Deadline, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association— including the 21 new members announced earlier this month— intends to move forward with the 79th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the films of 2021. This comes after a year of seemingly endless bad press for the organization, and a general sense that awards season would move on without it, with the Critics Choice Awards eagerly jumping into the early-January broadcast spot the Globes once occupied.
So if a Golden Globe is handed out in a forest and nobody is there to see it, does it build awards buzz? That’s the question pondered on this week’s Little Gold Men podcast, with David Canfield, Rebecca Ford, Richard Lawson, and Katey Rich looking at the Deadline report and wondering what a Golden Globes comeback would even look like at this point. They also look at other recent awards season news, including the report that Caitriona Balfe and Jamie Dornan will be submitted as supporting players for Belfast, and how that might significantly boost their chances of nominations. And with a potential IATSE strike looming in Hollywood, they discuss the harrowing stories that have been shared by union members thus far, and what this large-scale strike might mean for the industry.
Finally, the episode ends with an enthusiastic love letter to Bergman Island, the latest film from director Mia Hansen-Løve, which combines art and life and truth and fiction in such a gentle, straightforward way you almost don’t realize you’re watching a masterpiece. Part of that, too, comes from the natural and incredibly charming lead performance from Vicky Krieps, who talks to Richard Lawson in the final segment of the show.
Read more about Vicky Krieps and an edited transcript of the interview here. You can subscribe to Little Gold Men on Apple Podcasts or anywhere else you get your podcasts, and you can sign up to text with us at Subtext— we’d love to hear from you.
— The Power of Passing: An Exclusive Trailer for Rebecca Hall’s Directorial Debut
— Ann Dowd Does It From the Heart—And May Soon Earn Her First Oscar Nom
— Golden Globes Overhaul Membership After Diversity Firestorm
— Riz Ahmed on New Film Mogul Mowgli and Fearing His Own Name
— The “Emotional Scuba Diving” Behind Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter
— Sign up for the “Awards Insider” newsletter for must-read industry and awards coverage.