Honey Boy director Alma Har’el has come out against the Golden Globes’ choice to only nominate men for the best director category.
The Golden Globe nominations have come under fire after only male directors were nominated for the award. Honey Boy director Alma Har’el has spoken out against the Globes shut out of female directors.
In an interview with Variety, Har’el didn’t hold back when expressing her frustration with major Hollywood awards habitually overlooking female filmmakers and filmmakers of color. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association failed to nominate a single woman for this year’s Golden Globes for best director or best screenwriter, and according to Har’el, that’s not going to change anytime soon.
As Har’el called the organization “out of touch” and said to Variety, “It’s obvious they [The Hollywood Foreign Press] have no awareness at all. They’re immersed in this perpetuated activity of basking in male excellence and overseeing this whole new world we’re trying to build with new voices of women and people of color being part of the conversation.”
Har’el also said that she doesn’t see the disparity in nominations changing any time soon without structural changes to the awards that would force the HFPA to look at filmmakers other than male, white filmmakers. “Unless we have a new category for women directors — the same way we have [separate] actor and actress categories — we won’t see any changes.”
And this year was full of amazing movies that came to audiences thanks to amazing women and people of color. The Farewell, Little Women, Late Night, Booksmart, Hustlers, and Honey Boy are just a few of the movies that connected with audiences and came from women and people of color that were overlooked by the HFPA this year.
Har’El, who also works with her non-profit Free the Work as an advocate for directors of underrepresented groups, tweeted out her frustration with the Golden Globe nominations on Twitter, saying that organizations like the Hollywood Foreign Press Association didn’t represent anyone who wasn’t a straight, white man. However, she also offered some hope, saying those movies that buck the system are creating a new world.
Good morning to everyone that’s writing me about the #goldenglobes
I feel you but know this.
I was on the inside for the first time this year. These are not our people and they do not represent us.
Do not look for justice in the awards system.We are building a new world. https://t.co/IK7YNy5J5S
— Alma Har'el🌪 (@Almaharel) December 9, 2019
She went on to list women who made movies from this year that both impacted audiences but were also overlooked by the Globes.
Lulu Wang
Mati Diop
Greta Gerwig
Olivia Wilde
Lorene Scafaria
Marielle Heller
Melina Matsoukas
Chinonye Chukwu
Céline SciammaMade films this year that reached people and touched them.
That’s our awards.
No one can take that away.— Alma Har'el🌪 (@Almaharel) December 9, 2019
While the Hollywood Foreign Press has come out to say they only pick nominees based on achievement rather than gender or race, the continued snub of people of color and women in major awards speaks differently. However, as filmmakers, actors, and moviegoers continue to speak out, the tide can begin to turn.
Source: Variety
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