Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel took a swipe on the Golden Globes in a brand new interview with Rolling Stone — and the Hollywood International Press Affiliation hit again.
Kimmel, 55, was requested concerning the “no-holds-barred roast” method to internet hosting award reveals — popularized by Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes — and if it’s “consultant of a rising hostility towards celeb.”
“I feel there’s all the time been hostility towards celebrities,” Kimmel declared within the dialog revealed Wednesday.
“To start with, the Golden Globes will not be an actual awards present. Let’s be trustworthy. I don’t suppose any of them are essentially legitimate, but when there’s one that’s legitimate, it’s the Oscars and those the place you’re voted on by your friends, just like the SAG Awards, the Author’s Guild Awards, and the Director’s Guild Awards.”
He continued: “However the Globes are some international bike messengers who realized they’d get some free dinners in the event that they determined to type this group. I don’t know why it took so lengthy for the world to determine that out! I feel maybe the world didn’t wish to determine that out. We additionally know that in case you have a trophy made, someone’s gonna go as much as take it.”
“Trophies are like catnip for celebrities. We would like them,” Kimmel claimed to Rolling Stone. “I’m unsure why we would like them! Artwork as a contest doesn’t appear proper and doesn’t appear within the spirit of any of it, however what Ricky did was largely acceptable for the awards he was handing out, which had been nonsense.”
In a press release Wednesday to The Publish, a spokesperson for the Hollywood International Press Affiliation, which oversees the Golden Globes, known as Kimmel’s remarks “beneath the dignity of somebody who has been chosen to host a present as essential because the Academy Awards.”
“We’re disillusioned that Mr. Kimmel has determined to denigrate the contributions made by a various group of worldwide leisure journalists who symbolize 62 international locations,” the assertion learn.
“The Golden Globes’ voting physique is 52% feminine and 51.8% racially and ethnically various, a singular achievement in Hollywood immediately. Thousands and thousands of followers world wide help the Golden Globes, which have highlighted the very best in movie and tv for 80 years.”
The Publish has contacted reps for Kimmel, Gervais and the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences, which presents the Oscars.
The HFPA was based in 1943 by a bunch of LA-based leisure journalists. Members and non-member voters can choose the Golden Globe nominees and winners.
NBC determined not to broadcast the 2022 Golden Globes amid criticism the HFPA lacked diversity.
The telecast returned this year after the HFPA addressed issues by including 103 new voters. This 12 months’s Golden Globes aired in January — to historically low ratings.
In the meantime, some 9,500 members of the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences — starting from cinematographers to writers to make-up artists and hairstylists — are eligible to forged a poll to find out Oscar winners.
Sunday will likely be Kimmel’s third time internet hosting the Oscars. Earlier this week, he promised to “beat the s- -t” out of anybody who makes an attempt a Will Smith-inspired slap — except that particular person is Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
The Oscars are set to air Sunday, March 12, at 8 p.m. EST.
