The 78th Annual Golden Globe Award is going well. Presenters Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, returning to lead the ceremony for the first time since 2015, will not be in the same room together: Instead, Fey will be broadcasting live from The Rainbow Room (on top of Rockefeller Center) in New York City, while Poehler will host the Globes’ usual venue within the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.
This marks the first time that the Golden Globe has been broadcast from various locations in its 78-year history, but not the first time that an award has been held simultaneously in New York and Los Angeles, as the Oscar did for several years in the middle of 1950s. The decision to place Fey on the East Coast and Poehler on the West Coast was made as Dick Clark Prods of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, NBC and the producers of Globes. continue to set up plans for this year’s awards and adjust to the realities of mounting such a transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Among the details to be revealed: Whether presenters and nominees will be invited to participate in person, by remote means or through a mixture of both (which is what Primetime Emmys did last September). Because it has two production bases on both coasts, this could allow for more opportunities to include talents working on the East Coast or in Europe who would otherwise not be able to travel to Los Angeles. Presumably, it also allows Fey to remain at his base, New York.
The ceremony will air live on Sunday, February 28, at 5 pm PT / 8 pm ET on NBC – delayed almost two months after normal due to the pandemic. Television nomination ballots were due on January 12, while film nomination ballots were due on January 30. Final ballots will be sent to all HFPA members by Ernst & Young on February 10, and will be due by 5 pm
As previously announced, Satchel and Jackson Lee, sons of filmmaker and three-time Golden Globe nominee Spike Lee, and producer / philanthropist Tonya Lewis Lee, were chosen to serve as 2021 Golden Globe Ambassadors.
The news from this year’s Bicastal Globe arrives on the eve of the announcement of the nominations on Wednesday morning. Sarah Jessica Parker and Taraji P. Henson will announce the nominees for the main category for the 78th Annual Golden Globes Award on Wednesday at 5:35 am PT / 8:35 am ET, live on NBC’s “Today” program. Dick Clark Prods. President Amy Thurlow and Barry Adelman, executive vice president of TV, are executive producers of the broadcast. Ali Sar is president of HFPA.
Ricky Gervais hosted last year’s 77th Golden Globe Awards, one of the most watched network broadcasts of the year, averaging 19.2 million viewers on January 5, 2020.