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Here’s Why You Missed This Year’s Golden Globes

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Here’s Why You Missed This Year’s Golden Globes

By Movieguide® Contributor

What Golden Globes?

With no broadcast, no audience, and no celebrity faces, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association had a hard time drumming up enthusiasm for their ceremony. 

After many accused the HFPA of not being inclusive, NBC – the award show’s longtime broadcaster – dropped the show, leaving them without their at-home audience. NBC summed it up in their statement: “Change of this magnitude takes time and work, and we feel strongly that the HFPA needs time to do it right.”

Sure. Except the Golden Globes ratings have been falling for years.

As Movieguide® previously noted in 2019: “Ratings for the Golden Globes were down from last year, even though the ceremony benefited from viewers watching the NFL Wild Card playoff game between the Eagles and Bears right before the ceremony. As of this morning, Deadline reports that the show was down 2% in total viewers from 2018.”

Much of the decline could be due to the HFPA’s disconnect to what American moviegoers really want.

Movieguide® Founder and Publisher Dr. Ted Baehr previously said of the Globes:

There was very little that was “golden” at the Golden Globes Awards last night.

Tasteless sex jokes and insults flowed freely. And, some of the big winners were movies with graphic sexual content. …

Three of the big winners, THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT, BURLESQUE and BLACK SWAN, contained pornographic sex scenes in them, resulting in very poor performances at the box office.

Two of the bright spots last night were TOY STORY 3 winning Best Animated Movie and Colin Firth of THE KING’S SPEECH winning Best Actor. This is fine and dandy, but why didn’t TOY STORY 3, the best reviewed and most popular movie of the year, also get nominated for Best Comedy or Musical Movie?

At the very end of the show, the host smarmily thanked God for “making me an atheist.” The last time we checked, 82% of Americans say they believe in God and the world has 2.3 billion Christians and 1.5 billion Muslims who believe in one God.

The fact is, as statistics with our Annual Report to the Entertainment Industry confirm, uplifting movies and home videos marketed to families, including those with spiritual values that acknowledge God, make the most money. And, movies with graphic sexual content like BLACK SWAN, THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT and BURLESQUE bomb at the box office.

Maybe the career of Ricky Gervais would do much better if he cleaned up his act! …

Moviegoers want to see good triumph over evil, justice to prevail over injustice and purity to reign over impurity. Don’t you?

As much as people want to blame the pandemic for this year’s quiet Globes, the truth is that television viewers are just not interested in seeing movies that had no redemptive values like BEING THE RICARDOS or WEST SIDE STORY take home awards.

Instead, today’s media consumers want to see redemptive redemptive content on the screen that inspires, like SING 2 or SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME. SING 2 has brought in $190 million, nearly quadruple the box office of WEST SIDE STORY at $53 million.

The Globes would see a larger uptick in both viewers and engagements if they actually honored the movies people enjoy.

Now more than ever we’re bombarded by darkness in media, movies, and TV. Movieguide® has fought back for almost 40 years, working within Hollywood to propel uplifting and positive content. We’re proud to say we’ve collaborated with some of the top industry players to influence and redeem entertainment for Jesus. Still, the most influential person in Hollywood is you. The viewer.

What you listen to, watch, and read has power. Movieguide® wants to give you the resources to empower the good and the beautiful. But we can’t do it alone. We need your support.

You can make a difference with as little as $7. It takes only a moment. If you can, consider supporting our ministry with a monthly gift. Thank you.

Movieguide® is a 501c3 and all donations are tax deductible.


Now more than ever we’re bombarded by darkness in media, movies, and TV. Movieguide® has fought back for almost 40 years, working within Hollywood to propel uplifting and positive content. We’re proud to say we’ve collaborated with some of the top industry players to influence and redeem entertainment for Jesus. Still, the most influential person in Hollywood is you. The viewer.

What you listen to, watch, and read has power. Movieguide® wants to give you the resources to empower the good and the beautiful. But we can’t do it alone. We need your support.

You can make a difference with as little as $7. It takes only a moment. If you can, consider supporting our ministry with a monthly gift. Thank you.

Movieguide® is a 501c3 and all donations are tax deductible.