Actor Tom Cruise returned his three Golden Globe awards as the intense backlash against the committee behind the awards ceremony continues. Deadline
Actor Tom Cruise returned his three Golden Globe awards as the intense backlash against the committee behind the awards ceremony continues. Deadline reported that it “hears” the actor has sent his three awards to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s (HFPA) headquarters: The Best Actor award he won in 1990 for ‘Born on the Fourth of July,” the Best Actor award he won in 1997 for “Jerry Maguire,” and the Best Supporting Actor prize he won in 2000 for “Magnolia.” “Sources” told Deadline that the awards were sent very recently. Cruise’s apparent protest comes as the HFPA, which oversees the Golden Globes, finds itself embroiled in controversy over allegations of ethical violations and its lack of diversity. As The Daily Wire’s Charlotte Pence Bond reported in late February, the HFPA faced allegations that it provided payments to its own members that could violate IRS guidelines. An investigation by The Los Angeles Times found “that the nonprofit HFPA regularly issues substantial payments to its own members in ways that some experts say could run afoul of Internal Revenue Service guidelines.
