On Sunday, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association will be handing out the 75th annual Golden Globes, which have become a star-studded event and a bigger-than-necessary harbinger of the awards that really matter: the Academy Awards.
The Academy Awards won’t be handed out until March 4, and a pop-culture columnist could go long on the ridiculousness of a governing body taking two months for its voting process in the age of the internet. The same columnist imagines his readers’ eyes glazing over at the prospect of such a screed and thinks better of it.
This weekend is a milestone in the Oscars’ long march, because Friday is the first day Academy members can send in their ballots for nominations.