“Honey Boy” director Alma Har’el has an idea for how to revamp the Golden Globes voting selection process. Her proposal, to create gendered categories as a way to reach parity, comes after the news that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association failed to nominate a single female director or screenwriter for a Golden Globe.
“Unless we have a new category for women directors — the same way we have [separate] actor and actress categories — we won’t see any changes,” Har’el told Variety Monday after nominations were unveiled.
In its 77-year history, the Golden Globes have only nominated five female directors — Barbra Streisand, Jane Campion, Sofia Coppola, Kathryn Bigelow and Ava DuVernay. Only Streisand, for 1984’s “Yentl,” has ever gone home with the prize. The Globes are handed out by approximately 100 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a voting body Har’el openly calls “out of touch.”
“It’s obvious they have no awareness at all,...
“Unless we have a new category for women directors — the same way we have [separate] actor and actress categories — we won’t see any changes,” Har’el told Variety Monday after nominations were unveiled.
In its 77-year history, the Golden Globes have only nominated five female directors — Barbra Streisand, Jane Campion, Sofia Coppola, Kathryn Bigelow and Ava DuVernay. Only Streisand, for 1984’s “Yentl,” has ever gone home with the prize. The Globes are handed out by approximately 100 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a voting body Har’el openly calls “out of touch.”
“It’s obvious they have no awareness at all,...
- 12/9/2019
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
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