Tom Cruise Mails Back His Golden Globes

As controversy around Hollywood Foreign Press Association grows
By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff
Posted May 11, 2021 1:30 AM CDT
Tom Cruise Reportedly Mails Back All His Golden Globes
Actor Tom Cruise waves to onlookers as he walks to the set of his latest project, which is filming in the sidings of the railway station in the village of Levisham in the North York Moors, England, Tuesday, April 20, 2021.   (Danny Lawson/PA via AP)

A total lack of Black voting members, a racist former president, actors calling it out, NBC dropping its awards show as Netflix, Amazon, and Warner Media boycott ... the Hollywood Foreign Press Association appears to be in serious trouble. The latest blow: Sources tell Deadline and CNN that Tom Cruise has returned his three Golden Globes, the awards handed out each year by the HFPA. Cruise had snagged trophies for Jerry Maguire, Born on the Fourth of July, and Magnolia. The actor reportedly sent them back to HFPA headquarters.

Between NBC dropping the 2022 Golden Globes and this news about Cruise, along with the increasing criticism from other big Hollywood names, Kevin Polowy at Yahoo News thinks the awards show may be "gutted." "The Globes banks on A-list stars and its national broadcast, and with those stars—and the studios, networks and publicists who support them—abandoning ship and NBC cutting the cord, the HFPA needs to reboot to survive." But at the New York Post, Maureen Callahan writes a scathing takedown of the "hypocritical woke chorus" protesting the Globes after decades of support. (More Tom Cruise stories.)

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