Golden Globes Analysis: If an Awards Show Announces Nominations But Nobody Cares, Have They Really Voted?

The Hollywood Foreign Press took time out from their self-improvement push to release nominations that aren’t likely to have any impact on this awards season

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If you’re wondering what this year’s Golden Globe Awards nominations mean, here’s one answer: Voters from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for the most part stuck with the usual suspects, picking high-profile contenders throughout the categories without any of the big shocks or embarrassing choices that sometimes litter the disgraced group’s nominations.  

But the real question to ask about Monday’s nominations announcement, which was conspicuously missing the kind of stars who normally deliver the news, is this: Will anybody in Hollywood care? And is the scandal-mired HFPA an organization with which studios, networks and stars want to associate in 2021?

The answer to those questions appears to be no.

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