Golden Globes Will No Longer Pay Voting Members a $75,000 Wage

• The Golden Globes will not pay a $75,000 wage to its voting members.
• A Golden Globes spokesperson stated it made the change to forestall the notion of bias.
• Different main awards just like the Oscars and Emmys don’t pay voters a wage.

The voters who determined which movies and tv reveals would obtain a Golden Globe had been for years paid for his or her service.

Not anymore.

Golden Globes President Helen Hoehne instructed the 50 members affected by the choice in a Zoom name on Friday that they’d not obtain their $75,000 annual wage, The Los Angeles Instances reported.

A Golden Globes spokesperson confirmed the choice to Enterprise Insider. “The Golden Globes describes the change in coverage as an acknowledgment that persevering with to pay members might add to a notion of bias in voting,” the spokesperson stated.

The 50 voting members who had been receiving wage funds had been former members of the Hollywood International Press Affiliation, the nonprofit group of leisure journalists that constructed the Golden Globes into a significant awards powerhouse, rivaling even the Oscars.

Nonetheless, after a sequence of scandals in 2021 rocked the HFPA, inflicting NBC to drag the Golden Globes from the air, Hollywood media agency Penske Media Eldridge acquired the group and turned the Golden Globes right into a for-profit entity. This system returned to tv in 2023.

The spokesperson stated that the voting physique for the Golden Globes now numbers 300 and is made up of leisure journalists from 85 international locations.

Different standard Hollywood awards reveals, just like the Academy Awards, the Emmys, and the Grammy, don’t pay their voting members a wage.