EXCLUSIVE: Scandal-plagued Golden Globes is rocked again as tickets to the invite-only ceremony are being sold by events company online for $25,000 EACH. Brendan Fraser boycotts and Daniel Craig and Olivia Colman are expected to skip the event
- DailyMail.com can reveal that tickets to the Golden Globes award ceremony on January 10 are being sold online for $24,500
- Those willing to pay will get full access including ‘dinner and Awards show, seated with the celebrities,’ despite invites being reserved for nominees
- A Globes source said, ‘We are aware that tickets are offered sometimes but believe that it may simply be a scam’
- Scandals have rocked the award show over its lack of diversity, alleged sexual misconduct among its leadership, and accusations of a culture of gifts for gongs
- Brendan Fraser, who is in the running for Best Actor for his performance in The Whale, has said that he will not attend January’s ceremony if invited
- There was a complete celebrity boycott of the 2022 Globes, and the ceremony went ahead untelevised
Tickets for the invite-only Golden Globe awards are available online for purchase for more than $25,000 after the last ceremony was boycotted and went untelevised.
In yet another blow for the scandal-hit Globes, DailyMail.com can reveal that a British concierge service is offering the tickets for sale to the general public.
It’s not clear who has put them up there, but the events company Cornucopia says it has ‘very limited’ tickets available for £19,999 – $24,500 – for the ceremony on January 10.
Those willing to pay will get full access including ‘dinner and Awards show, seated with the celebrities,’ despite tickets being strictly reserved for nominees, their guests and members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), which sponsors the event.
The HFPA has already come under fire for a series of scandals over its lack of diversity, alleged sexual misconduct among its leadership, and accusations of an endemic culture of gifts for gongs.
Best Actor shoo-in Brendan Fraser has announced he will boycott the event and sources tell DailyMail.com that stars Daniel Craig and Olivia Colman will be skipping out as well.
DailyMail.com can reveal that tickets to the Golden Globes ceremony on January 10 are being sold online for £19,999 – $24,500
Members of the HFPA allegedly took ‘bribes’ in the form of freebie trips, with 30 out of the then 87 members spending two nights at a $1,400-a-night hotel in Paris at the expense of the makers of the show Emily In Paris. The 2022 award show is pictured
Brendan Fraser, who is in the running for Best Actor for his performance in The Whale, has said that he will not attend January’s ceremony if invited
A Globes source tells DailyMail.com: ‘Buyer beware because it is extremely unlikely that tickets can be bought and sold. There are very few tickets and they are given to named and nominated individuals and you can’t come in if you are not that person. We are aware that tickets are offered sometimes but believe that it may simply be a scam.’
Brendan Fraser claimed former HFPA chairman Philip Berk (pictured) assaulted him at an HFPA luncheon in 2003 by grabbing his buttocks. Berk called the story ‘a total fabrication’
Members of the HFPA allegedly took ‘bribes’ in the form of freebie trips, with 30 out of the then 87 members spending two nights at a $1,400-a-night hotel in Paris at the expense of the makers of the show Emily In Paris.
The show received two Golden Globes nominations.
More than 100 talent agencies signed an open letter threatening to deny HFPA access to their clients without substantial reforms.
An investigation by the LA Times last year found that the HFPA regularly paid its members $1million-plus a year for serving on various committees.
It also emerged that the organization did not have a single black member. This has since been addressed by a huge membership drive focusing on ‘under-represented groups’.
A Globes source said that the total Golden Globe Awards voting body is now 52% female; and 51.5% ‘racially and ethnically diverse’ with 19.5% Latinx, 12$ Asian, 10% Black and 10% Middle Eastern membership, making it ‘the most diverse major award in Hollywood’.
The total number of voters now stands at 200, and includes individuals who self-identify as LGBTQIA+.
In addition, the HFPA has announced a program of reforms and new policies aimed at eliminating ‘ethical conflicts’. All members must now sign up to a code of conduct.
Which might please actress Scarlett Johansson, who complained last year that she had been subjected to ‘sexist questions and remarks’ by HFPA members.
There was a complete celebrity boycott of the 2022 Globes, and the ceremony went ahead untelevised with rapper Snoop Dogg hosting – to mixed reviews.
And already, Brendan Fraser, who is in the running for Best Actor for his performance in The Whale, has said that he will not attend January’s ceremony if invited.
The actor has accused former HFPA president Philip Berk of groping him in 2003. Berk has denied the allegations and dismissed Fraser’s version of the story as a ‘total fabrication’.
In an interview with GQ last month, Fraser declared he ‘will not participate’ in the Golden Globes in January. ‘I have more history with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association than I have respect for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.’
He attributed his decision to ‘the history that I have with them. And my mother didn’t raise a hypocrite. You can call me a lot of things, but not that.’
Berk was expelled from the organization for allegedly calling Black Lives Matter a ‘racist hate movement’ in an email.
Tom Cruise has returned his three awards and Avengers star Mark Ruffalo has said he is not ‘proud or happy’ to have received a nomination.
Tom Cruise returned the Globes he won for Jerry Maguire in 1997 and Magnolia in 2000
In 2019 the nonprofit was slammed for failing to nominate any female directors for awards despite the critical and box office success of Lorene Scafaria’s Hustlers and Greta Gerwig’s Little Women.
In 2020 a Norwegian journalist sued the HFPA for a ‘culture of corruption’ with members accepting ‘thousands of dollars in emoluments’ from the same studios to which they awarded gongs. A federal judge dismissed the case ruling the plaintiff Kjersti Flaa did not suffer damages.
To add to the Globes’ woes, the announcement of a host, which is usually made in September, appears to have been delayed.
One Hollywood insider says: ‘I hear they are having trouble finding anyone to front it.’
The Golden Globes is seen as a barometer for the Academy Awards which follow.
The HFPA will announce its nominations on December 12.
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