The Golden Globes organization announced Friday it would no longer pay the $75,000 annual salary awarded to former Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) members, the group who votes on the yearly film and TV award winners TheWrap has learned.
Golden Globes president Helen Hoehne shared the news in a special Zoom meeting on Friday, Feb. 28 to some 50 voting members. The move came as a shock to the former members of the HFPA who signed a five-year contract in June of 2023 with Penske Media Eldridge, the organization’s new owners, which guaranteed a base salary of $75,000 annually. The salary was specifically for voters who were grandfathered into the new organizational structure from the HFPA which was the previous Golden Globes voting body.