Source: http://www.crazydaysandnights.net

Hooking up a bunch of voters with “actresses” is super easy for this banished director.

He made sure those guys were not going to vote for a certain female director.

He has a personal grudge at this point.

This would not work for most awards, but these guys are easy to bribe and pay off.

Banished director: Brett Ratner

Group: Golden Globes

Director: Greta Gerwig

Movie: Lady Bird

As Hollywood struggles with inclusion and sexism, the Golden Globes are being parsed with Oscar-like intensity

There was a time when the Golden Globes nominations were taken seriously only as potential Oscar indicators.

If the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. decided to give a corny, crowd-pleasing musical like “The Greatest Showman” more nominations than a culturally relevant satire like “Get Out,” or ignore female directors in the middle of the #MeToo moment, it would be seen as just another quirky misstep by a group known more for taking selfies with stars than its taste-making abilities.

But not this year. After two years of #OscarsSoWhite, and as prominent men step down amid sexual misconduct allegations from all levels of the entertainment industry, nomination slates are being parsed not just for the names but inclusion and cultural messaging.

The exclusion of Jordan Peele and Greta Gerwig from the director category sparked the loudest reaction, both from social and mainstream media, especially since one of the slots was occupied by Ridley Scott.

Globes voters may have indeed loved Scott’s thriller “All the Money in the World” and the fact that Scott managed to replace Kevin Spacey with Christopher Plummer in his already finished movie and still made his Christmas release date. Or perhaps they loved the fact that they are the only voting group to see the movie.

But if the group is merely saluting the effort Scott made in excising Spacey following multiple allegations of sexual misconduct against the actor, then it came at the expense of Gerwig, an awards season front-runner for the lovely “Lady Bird,” the rare movie love story centered on a mother and daughter.

The decision also could have come at the expense of Dee Rees, director of the acclaimed “Mudbound,” a nuanced social drama about prejudice in the Mississippi Delta, or Patty Jenkins, whose dazzling “Wonder Woman” upended the superhero genre in several important ways. – Source


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