Since then, a publicly contrite HFPA has proposed and passed a number of reforms, including expanding the number and make-up of its membership, in a desire to get back in Hollywood’s good graces and on the awards season calendar. Oddly, even though NBC isn’t broadcasting a Golden Globes next year and not paying the $60 million fee for the show, the HFPA have declared there will be a Globes on January 6 – and we hear it won’t just be a press release like back during the Writers’ strike of 2007.
Amidst all that, Aspen Institute Education Entrepreneurship Fellow Phillips has been on board for just over a month now. He spoke with me about what his role is, what he sees as the real goals of the HFPA, the upcoming Globes and reaching out.
Honestly, when I look across our country and see what diversity, equity, and inclusion is demanding of organizations across the country, there’s so much of how the HFPA has been approaching this that I think is really wonderful. I mean this is an organization that got called out because of missteps, transgression, and deservedly so. They should have been and then they have responded.