With this Sunday’s Golden Globes having been reduced from a glitzy, opulent bash in a vast Hollywood ampitheatre to a list of names being read out in the back room of the Dog & Duck, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has moved one of its few non-time specific awards back by a year, so that the winner can actually pick up his gong when people are watching.
Yes, Steven Spielberg was due to receive the honorary Cecil B. DeMille Award – essentially the Globes’ Lifetime Achievement trophy - on Sunday, but it’s now been pushed back to next year and the 66th Awards – presuming, of course, that the Writers’ Strike (and the forthcoming Directors and Actors Strikes) is over by then.
In related news, Seann William Scott has asked the HFPA to push his DeMille Award back to 2047, to mark the release of Dude, Where’s My Catheter?