Golden Globes 2022 won’t have a red carpet

Sunday’s 2022 Golden Globes are a go, but without the usual glitz and glamour.

While the Hollywood Foreign Press Association will still recognize the year’s best in film and television on January 9, there won’t be a red carpet on the big night, Page Six Style has confirmed.

When nominations were announced back in December, HFPA president Helen Hoehne suggested the event might skip the traditional star-studded step and repeat.

“I think we all know that it’s not going to be a celebrity-driven event that it has been in the past — no red carpet and nothing flashy,” she told the Hollywood Reporter at the time.

The lack of glamorous designer dresses won’t be the only way this year’s Globes look different; NBC, the show’s longtime home, announced last May that it wouldn’t air the awards in 2022, citing the HFPA’s need for “meaningful reform.”

“Change of this magnitude takes time and work, and we feel strongly that the HFPA needs time to do it right,” the network said in a statement at the time. “Assuming the organization executes on its plan, we are hopeful we will be in a position to air the show in January 2023.”

The HFPA came under fire early last February, after an LA Times report revealed that the then-87-person group included no black members. In another exposé, it accused the org of creating a “culture of corruption” rife with “ethical lapses,” such as self-dealing and “exchanging votes for perks and access.”

Five-time Globe nominee Scarlett Johansson (among others) promptly called for a boycott, while Tom Cruise returned his three statuettes from the HFPA in protest.

Since then, the HFPA has worked to rectify its diversity issues, installing a new board of directors comprised two-thirds of women and one-third of people of color. In October, it also admitted 21 new members, six of whom are black.

“Over the last eight months, the HFPA has completely overhauled its bylaws, implementing sweeping changes from top to bottom addressing ethics and code of conduct, diversity, equity and inclusion, governance, membership and more,” the org said in a December press release.

It remains to be seen whether such measures are enough to convince Hollywood stars (and their publicists) to walk the Globes carpet come 2023 — if there is one at all.